The Second International Conference on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS 2011) April 16, 2011

The global complexity of distributed communication systems makes their full life cycle, including the design, development, deployment and management processes, quite difficult to be understood and mastered. In particular, the knowledge of all concepts, objects, components, properties, their relationships and collaborations, needs to be very well defined. This knowledge must also be openly shared between the actors involved in the architecture design, in order to provide clear semantics, full interoperability and automatic deployment of protocols and services. Indeed, the diversity of standards, of languages, of software and hardware components, often leads to inefficiency or incompatibility issues when designing and developing protocols, services and architectures for communication systems. Moreover, the structural coherence and the behavioral coordination resulting from the composition of the different elementary components deployed at MAC, network, transport, and middleware layers also need adequate, valid and efficient multi-layer solutions. Furthermore, user and community requirements and preferences are currently not easily taken into account when defining, configuring and instantiating present multilevel communications systems.

Recent advances in ontology-based technologies, and particularly in expressing knowledge and supporting reasoning provided by these semantic frameworks, are being largely used in the new web and other important domains.

As this work is just beginning in the area of communications systems, MOPAS 2011, The Second International Conference on Models and Ontologies-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services proposes a new context for presenting achievements, surveys and perspectives in the areas of design, architecture and implementation based on ontologies and related models.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Tracks:

MOT: Models and Ontology-driven Technologies (for the communications system design)

MDA Model-Driven Architecture

MDE Model-Driven Engineering

MDD Model-Driven Development

CIM Computer Independent Models

PIM Platform Independent Models

PSM Platform Specific Models

ODA Ontology Driven Models

Global Models

Modeling methodologies

Fundamentals in theory

Multi-layered models

Models and Ontologies relationships

Multi-models coherences

MOCS: Models and Ontology-based Communications Services and Protocols

Semantics of Services and Service modeling

Protocol Models and Semantics

Services-to-Services mappings

Services-to-Protocols transformations and translations

Application and Quality of Experience Semantics

MAC Layer Services

Network Layer Services

Transport Layer Services

Middleware Services

Monitoring Services

Adaptive Services

Services and Protocols components

Services and Protocols implementations

MOCA: Models and Ontology-based Cross-layer Services and Architectures Design

Service Design for networks and communicating system architectures

Models and Ontologies based Architectures

Models and Ontologies based Software Frameworks

Composition of Services and Composability rules

Cross-layering services models, components and implementations

Autonomic communications

Multimedia and multicast communications

Delay-tolerant communications

Wireless sensor and ad hoc networks

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