The 8th MiNEMA Workshop is a joint organization between the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) and the Distributed Systems Group (GSD) of the INESC-ID research lab in Portugal. The workshop will take place in Turin, Italy on September 24-25 2008 and is co-located with the Autonomics 2008 conference.

MiNEMA is an European Science Foundation (ESF) Scientific Programme aiming to bring together European groups from different communities working on middleware for mobile environment. The programme intends to foster the definition and implementation of widely recognized middleware abstractions for new and emerging mobile applications.

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Location

The workshop will take place in the auditorium of the Telecom Italia labs in Turin Italy.

Please refer to the Autonomics 2008 website here for more information on travelling and the location of the conference and workshops.

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Program

Wednesday 24 [16h30 - 18h30]

• 16h30: Tracking and Tracing Containers through Distributed Sensor Middleware
  Klaas Thoelen, Sam Michiels and Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
• 17h00: Building Multicast Trees in Ad-hoc Networks
  Raphaël Kummer, Peter Kropf and Pascal Felber (Université de Neuchâtel)
• 17h30: Engineering Complex Adaptations in Highly Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
  Paul Grace, Gordon S. Blair, Carlos Flores Cortes and Nelly Bencomo (Lancaster University)
• 18h00: Energy-efficient Gossiping in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Denis Rochat, Marco Tomassini and Benoît Garbinato (University of Lausanne)

Thursday 25 [14h00 - 15h30]

• 14h00: Improving Scalability of Autonomic Systems: The Frequency-Aware Search Approach
  Pedro Fonseca and Hugo Miranda (University of Lisboa)
• 14h30: Strategies for Repeated Games with Subsystem Takeovers
  Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Elad M. Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology), Paul G. Spirakis (University of Patras) and Philippas Tsigas (Chalmers University of Technology)
• 15h00: Collaborative Microdrones: Applications and Research Challanges
  Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner, Christian Bettstetter, Gerhard Friedrich, Hermann Hellwagner, Emil Stojanovski (University of Klagenfurt), Michael Hofbaur (Graz University of Technology) and Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida)