[agents] IJARAS: Abstract of issue 4(1) and Call for papers

[Vincenzo De Florio]

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Dear Sirs,
dear Madams,

 

Society is currently experiencing the increasing
population of “things,” able to autonomously link with each other and enact
complex strategies to achieve tasks. The emergence of the Semantic Web, the
Internet-of-Things, Ambient Intelligence, and cyber-physical societies make it
impossible to capture the intricacies of the future highly dynamic and
turbulent networks of interrelated computer-based and hybrid components. As
such, it is important that systems are designed to self-adapt to changes
without diverging from their intended functions as prescribed in their
specifications. The mission of the International Journal of Adaptive,
Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) is to offer awareness and
visibility to novel techniques and methods to achieve self-adaptability and
self-resilience when systems and organizations are deployed in environments
where change is the rule rather than the exception. IJARAS is also a tool to
enhance the awareness of the key role played by said techniques and methods:
engineering self-adaptive and self-resilient systems and organizations is an
urgent necessity to keep society resilient in the face of the technology that
sustains it. The journal pursues its mission by addressing researchers,
practitioners, engineers, educators, and professionals and by publishing novel
results on each of the diverse components of such a complex and
multi-disciplinary research problem.



We invite you
to follow the example of many a renowned researcher and submit your papers to
IJARAS by following the guidelines here: 
http://win.ua.ac.be/~vincenz/ijaras/

 

The contents
of the volumes of IJARAS issued since 2010 may be browsed at http://www.igi-global.com/journal-contents/international-journal-adaptive-resilient-autonomic/1154

 

Please find
herein the abstract of the latest issue, IJARAS 4(1).

 

All inquiries
and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief:
Vincenzo De Florio at vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com; vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be

Thank you for
your attention,

 

kind regards,

Vincenzo De
Florio.

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Adaptive,
Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

Official
Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 4,
Issue 1, January - March 2013

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN:
1947-9220 EISSN: 1947-9239

Published
by IGI Publishing,
Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijaras

 

Editor-in-Chief:
Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium

 

 

PAPER ONE

 

An Approach to Adaptive
Dependability Assessment in Dynamic and Evolving Connected Systems

 

Felicita Di Giandomenico (Istituto
di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo”, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy), Antonia Bertolino (Istituto di Scienza
e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche, Pisa, Italy), Antonello Calabrò (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa,
Italy) and Nicola Nostro (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
“Alessandro Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy)

 

Complexity, heterogeneity,
interdependency and, especially, evolution of system/services specifications,
related operating environments and user needs, are more and more highly
relevant characteristics of modern and future software applications. Taking
advantage of the experience gained in the context of the European project
Connect, which addresses the challenging and ambitious topic of eternally
functioning distributed and heterogeneous systems, this paper presents a
framework to analyse and assess dependability and performance properties in
dynamic and evolving contexts. The goal is to develop an adaptive approach by
coupling stochastic model-based analysis, performed at design time to support
the definition and implementation of software products complying with their
stated dependability and performance requirements, with run-time monitoring to
re-calibrate and enhance the dependability and performance prediction along
evolution. The proposed framework for adaptive assessment is described and
illustrated through a case study. To simplify the description while making more
concrete the approach under study, the authors adopted the setting and
terminology of the Connect project.

 

To obtain a
copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/approach-adaptive-dependability-assessment-dynamic/75547

 

To read a PDF
sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=75547&ptid=71352&t=an+approach+to+adaptive+dependability+assessment+in+dynamic+and+evolving+connected+systems

 

PAPER TWO



Applying
Probabilistic Adaptation to Improve the Efficiency of Intra-Query Load
Balancing

 

Daniel M. Yellin (IBM Israel
Software Lab, Jerusalem, Israel) and Jorge Buenabad-Chávez (Departmento de
Computación, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico
Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico)





In the context of adaptive
query processing (AQP), several techniques have been proposed for dynamically
adapting/redistributing processor load assignments throughout a computation to
take account of varying resource capabilities. The effectiveness of these
techniques depends heavily on when and to what they adapt processor load
assignments, particularly in the presence of varying load imbalance. Most
existing approaches to this problem use heuristics based only upon the current
machine load levels. The authors provide an algorithm, prAdapt that
probabilistically predicts the future load on processors, based upon the recent
history. It uses this prediction to evaluate the expected performance of
different alternative solutions, taking into account the cost of the adaptation
itself. If it finds a better solution than the current load distribution
policy, it adapts to that distribution. Using a simulation based evaluation;
they compare prAdapt to other approaches for AQP reported in the literature.
The authors’ simulation results indicate that prAdapt often outperforms these
other approaches.

 

To obtain a
copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/applying-probabilistic-adaptation-improve-efficiency/75548

 

To read a PDF
sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=75548&ptid=71352&t=applying+probabilistic+adaptation+to+improve+the+efficiency+of+intra-query+load+balancing

 

PAPER THREE

 

Multichannel Modality in Displaying Information

Elisa Benetti (Research & Development Division, Lepida S.p.A.,
Bologna, Italy) and Gianluca Mazzini (Research & Development Division,
Lepida S.p.A., Bologna, & University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)

Computer science and
telecommunications are increasingly important in society and this leads also
public administrations to take advantage of ICT, in order to communicate with
citizens in a more rapid and simpler way than the complex and paper-based
bureaucracy of the past. While on the one hand the use of these technologies
responds to the duty of any public institution to involve the largest number of
addressees, on the other hand, society must also consider the limitations of
these technologies. Firstly not everybody is so familiar in their use.
Moreover, the digital administration thus becomes virtual, accessible only
through technological devices and not present in a physical location, and is
therefore essential to ensure full coverage of the territory, which is
currently not always possible. The main novelty of this paper is the
implementation of an automated system capable of adapting different types of
government services to multiple communication media. The joint exploitation of
multiple technologies allows to use the strengths of one of them when are found
the limits of another, making this multichannel modality the solution to the
requirement of ICT in public administration.

To obtain a
copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/multichannel-modality-displaying-information/75549

 

To read a PDF
sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=75549&ptid=71352&t=multichannel+modality+in+displaying+information

 

PAPER FOUR

 

A Fully Reconfigurable Approach to Emergency
Management

 

Daniele Tarchi (Department of Electrical, Electronic
and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Valeria
Petrini (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering,
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) and Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
(Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, University
of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

 

Emergency management is one
of the most important areas where technology innovation has direct impact on
social well-being and sustainability. In the past few years, Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) has proved to be instrumental to improve
emergency management with particular focus on resilience, rapidity of response,
adaptability to situations. To these ends, joint optimization of communication
and computing is a promising cross-layer approach. Indeed, this paper is
focused on the consideration of both cognitive and autonomic networking approaches
when deploying an emergency management system. The cognitive approach was
initially considered specifically for wireless communications, while the
autonomic approach was initially introduced for managing complex computing
systems; however, they share several similarities in dealing with fully
reconfigurable systems. The future trend is to expand their influence toward
the global optimization of the ICT infrastructure, as the authors show in this
paper for the specific case of emergency management systems.

 

To obtain a
copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/fully-reconfigurable-approach-emergency-management/75550

 

To read a PDF
sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=75550&ptid=71352&t=a+fully+reconfigurable+approach+to+emergency+management

 

PAPER FIVE

 

Mobility Management in Publish/Subscribe Middleware

 

Fatma Abdennadher (ReDCAD Research Unit, National
School of Engineers of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia) and Maher Ben
Jemaa (ReDCAD Research Unit, National School of Engineers of Sfax, University
of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia)

 

In this research work, a
survey on Mobility issues in Publish/Subscribe (P/S) Middleware and their
applications was carried out. Publish/subscribe is appearing as a communication
paradigm matching well with highly dynamic distributed applications
characterized by reconfigurability, flexibility, and scalability. Nevertheless,
very few efforts tackle dynamic modifications in the topology of the P/S
distributed dispatching infrastructure despite such events represent a basic
confrontation in mobile computing scenarios. In this paper, the authors clarify
the mobility’s issues in the context of publish-subscribe middleware and survey
solutions and protocols suggested by several research groups.

 

To obtain a
copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/mobility-management-publish-subscribe-middleware/75551

 

To read a PDF
sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=75551&ptid=71352&t=mobility+management+in+publish%2fsubscribe+middleware

 

 

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