Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware

Abstract

Currently available middleware systems are required to support enhanced levels of flexibility in order to adapt and tailor their behavior and properties to tolerate and adjust to the increasing dynamism of new models of computation and new classes of applications. These usually include: • networked applications that must operate under resource constraints and intermittent network connections, • cyber-physical systems with a tight integration among computation, physical devices and interaction with the physical world, • open systems with long operation lives able to accept new components, remove existing components, and adapt to new situations, • next generation networked interactive applications driven by the availability of devices such as smartphones and tablets, and many others. All these systems require the capability to adapt and this is clearly visible as the papers accepted in this edition of the Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware workshop cover a broad range of systems: from web/wiki caching to map reduce workload management, from policy-driven cloud computing to distributed interoperability. In all the solutions presented, the support for adaptability is achieved by different means addressing the complete life-cycle of highly adaptive middleware platforms.