[Announcements] CFP: First workshop on Mashups of Things and APIs (MoTA)

[Dave Eyers]

CFP: First workshop on Mashups of Things and APIs (MoTA)
http://www.mota.ws/
MoTA is co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016
December 13, 2016 - Trento, Italy

In this workshop we solicit research papers and experience reports on mashups of things and APIs (MoTAs). MoTAs are applications - often rapidly prototyped or end-user-created - that use things, i.e., IoT sensors and devices, and web APIs to offer new functionality. In contrast to traditional web mashups, MoTAs are not always created by end users and typically not in a fully declarative way (e.g., through drag & drop); however, they still retain a certain focus on ease of integration through declarative and/or policy-driven middleware components instead of hardcoding individual connections.

This workshop focuses on actual implementations of such mashups (ranging from prototype to production system) as well as on the tools and systems that enable these implementations. In that spirit, this workshop tries to address multiple questions: what are desirable characteristics of MoTAs, and how can these characteristics be achieved? How can MoTAs be developed effectively and efficiently by different types of users? What are lessons learned and experiences from building MoTAs, and what are pain points to be addressed?

Topics of interest include:

- Speed of prototyping and ease of deployment of user programmable content
- Design and specification of APIs as well as suitable abstractions for sensors and devices
- Unified views/abstractions for web APIs and IoT sensors and devices
- Middleware concepts enabling end users to interconnect devices and APIs
- Stream processing and distributed event-based systems
- Security and privacy aspects, especially access control across entities
- Systems spanning multiple administrative domains
- Integration of IoT devices and cloud resources as well as interaction patterns
- Cloud-based applications using both things and web resources.
- Architectural concerns (e.g., for communication of physical and logical components)
- (Cloud-based) Development methodologies and tools, specifically for mashups

--- Submissions ---

MoTA seeks two kinds of paper submissions:

+ 6-page research papers. They should clearly demonstrate how a concrete research challenge is solved in a novel way.

+ 4-page experience reports. They should report on practical experiences gained through actual mashups of things and APIs as well as clearly identify concrete research challenges that were encountered while developing and operating mashups.

Please indicate the respective paper type on the title page of your submission, and submit a PDF file via:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mota2016

All papers should follow ACM formatting instructions. Along with the paper, you are encouraged to submit additional material (e.g., a link to a YouTube video) on a separate page which will not be published as part of the proceedings. We will later add the link to the submission site.

--- Important Dates ---

Paper submission deadline:	September 4th 2016
Notification deadline:	October 3rd 2016
Camera-ready deadline:	October 15th 2016
Workshop date:	December 13th 2016