CFP Annals of Telecommunications -- Special Issue on Software Components - The Fractal Initiative

[Thierry COUPAYE <thierry.coupaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Annals of Telecommunications
Journal edited by Lavoisier

Special Issue on
Software Components - The Fractal Initiative

Guest Editors:
- Thierry Coupaye - France Telecom
- Jean-Bernard Stefani - INRIA
- Gordon Blair - U. Lancaster

Publication Schedule:
- Article submission deadline :  July 30th 2007
- Notification of acceptance : November 30th 2007
- Publication : Spring 2008


Component-based software architectures have naturally emerged as a  
key focus in a large variety of areas of contemporary computing  
including Software Engineering, Middleware, Operating and Embedded  
Systems, and User Interfaces. In particular, Component-Based Software  
Engineering (CBSE) is generally recognized as one of the best ways to  
develop, deploy and administer increasingly complex software to  
attain desirable (or indeed essential) properties such as  
adaptability, reliability and scalability - not to mention lower  
development costs and faster time-to-market through software reuse  
and productivity improvements.

Fractal is one of a number of leading contributions to this  
increasingly important field, as an advanced component model with  
increasingly sophisticated programming and management support. The  
Fractal initiative, which targets the development of a reflective  
component technology for the construction of highly adaptable and  
reconfigurable distributed systems, is a cornerstone of the ObjectWeb  
open source middleware consortium.

As a follow-up to 5 successful workshops devoted to Fractal  
components held in the period January 2003 to date, we are hereby  
soliciting papers for publication in a special issue of the Annals of  
Telecommunications journal (http://www.annales-des- 
telecommunications.com). This is an open call building on these  
workshops and we are seeking papers on all topics related to Fractal  
CBSE including, but not limited to:

-	Implementations in different programming languages and associated  
conformance test suites,
-	Extensions, languages and tools for architecture design,  
description, reconfiguration, verification, management, self- 
adaptation, security, QoS management, etc.
-	Practical usage and feedback, use cases in middleware, embedded  
systems, sensor networks, grids, etc.
-	Comparison and positioning with other component infrastructures  
e.g. OpenCom, SOFA, Koala, ArchJava, K-Components, OSGi, EJB, CCM,  
CCA, etc.

Papers are expected to be in English and 15-25 pages each (including  
abstract, all figures and tables, and references). They will be  
evaluated by 3 reviewers. Reviewers will be selected both inside and  
outside the Fractal initiative (including reviewers from the Annals  
of Telecommunications scientific committee). Papers are expected to  
be of high scientific quality especially in terms of awareness of  
related work and also maturity, e.g. through scientific evaluation.  
Papers should be submitted in PDF format to redaction@annales-des- 
telecommunications.com. Authors are expected to follow the associated  
author's instructions and sign a GET copyright transfer form before  
publication (both available from : http://www.annales-des- 
telecommunications.com/contenu.php?page=eng_publier).

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PS: Post-proceedings of the last Fractal workshop at ECOOP 2006 based  
only on a selection of material presented during this workshop was  
not compliant with the practises of journals we contacted including  
Annals of Telecoms (hence the delay, sorry about that). This special  
issue of the Annals of Telecom is thus to be considered as the post- 
proceedings of all Fractal workshops and beyond. We encourage all of  
you to submit a paper to this special issue of the Annals of  
Telecommunications journal - including of course those who  
participate to the Fractal workshop at ECOOP 2006.  Now, in addition,  
some participants to the Fractal workshop at ECOOP ask for a online  
publication of papers beside the available 11 talks (http:// 
fractal.objectweb.org/doc/ecoop06/index.html) so they could be  
referenced.  People interested by this online publication could sent  
their (possibly revised) paper to Jean-Bernard and I (and not the  
Annals of Telecom of course) with let's say the same deadline (end of  
July).