DECOR'04 conference

[Belkhatir <Noureddine.Belkhatir@xxxxxxx>]

Dear All

We inform you about this coming conference: 
						DECOR'04

		1st Francophone Conference On Software Deployment and (Re)Configuration
				october 28-29, 2004 in Grenoble, France
			Maison Jean Kunzman (Campus Universitaire de Saint Martin d'Hères)
		conference web site :  http://decor.imag.fr
				(submission deadline : june 15,  2004)
You are invited to submit a paper. All submissions should be written in French
 or  English. Hereafter is the call for papers

Best regards

On behalf the organisation committee
Noureddine Belkhatir 



Call for papers -   - DECOR'04


Presentation
Software deployment deals with all the activities related to
installation, update,
reconfiguration, activation, deactivation, and removal of the software
components.
Large-scale software deployment requires effectiveness and coordination.
The ubiquity of the Internet effectively eliminates the gap between
software
producers and consumers, mandating the need to deploy an application onto
consumer hosts directly from the producer. Since the number of machines
for a given
producer is potentially large, automated support is necessary to
identify and deploy
the right software product for the consumer's needs. Consequently, it is
necessary to
take into account the organizational aspects of the producer's company,
which
makes it possible to define potential deployment strategies. It is also
important to
take into account the characteristics of each target machine (both
hardware and
software) and the technical aspects related to the deployment process
support.
Software deployment is becoming a hot topic in software engineering due,
in large
part, to the emerging popularity of component-based approaches. Although
several
approaches for deployment exist right now, the principles and concepts
that underlie
them are not completely investigated.
The goal of DECOR' 2004 is to offer the researchers, teachers,
engineers, industry
members, and students an opportunity to discuss and assess the state of
art in
practice and research in the field of deployment and dynamic
reconfiguration of
software. For the deployment, the goal is to understand how automated
support
large-scale deployment can be achieved. This relates to the deployment
of any form
of software: legacy software, COTS, and component-based software. For
reconfiguration, the goal is to understand what is the best way to
extend component-
based software systems to make them more amenable to dynamic
reconfiguration.
The topic of the conference is intended to be broad to attract
participants from many
communities. The objective is to offer participants the possibility to
discover works-in-
progress and to position their own work within this community.
Submissions covering
research, case studies, success stories with industrial experiments, and
applications
are welcome. Only original and non-published submissions will be
considered. The
authors of accepted publications will sign a copyright disclaimer before
publication.
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
    - Language and configurations tools,
    - Deployment and component-based software engineering,
    - Deployment applied to legacy systems,
    - Models and design patterns for deployment,
    - Assembly, packaging, and distribution,
    - Performances and safety aspects,
    - Case studies, successful stories, experiments, and
    - Dynamic reconfiguration/Adaptation.

Paper submission
Two types of submissions are possible:
    - Long papers (15 maximum pages) presenting the work led in the
field; these will receive long presentations (30 minutes).
    - Short papers (5 maximum pages) presenting works-in-progress for
which the results  are not yet validated and that require a little more
experimentation; these will receive  short presentations (10 minutes).
All submissions should be written in English or  French. Send your
submission
following the instructions on the conference web page: http://decor.imag.fr/
An international program committee will review the submissions. We plan
to publish
an extended version of the best papers in a special issue of a
francophone journal.

Important Dates
    - Abstract due:         June 8,2004
    - Paper due:             June 15, 2004
    - Notification:            July 15, 2004
    - Final papers due:     September 1st 2004

Organization :
LSR-IMAG laboratory in collaboration with others partners of ITEA OSMOSE
project and of  the ObjectWeb consortium.


Organisation Comittee:
    - Noureddine Belkhatir , Université Grenoble 2, LSR/ADELE - France
    - Didier Donsez , Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE - France
    - Sébastien Jean, Université Grenoble 2, LSR/SARDES, INRIA
Rhône-Alpes, France
    - Vivien Quema  Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble,
LSR/SARDES, INRIA - France

For any information please contact decor04@xxxxxxx