[ecoop-info] CFP SEAMS 2008, ICSE Workshop, May 12-13, Leipzig, Germany

[Holger Giese]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2008)

A two-day ACM/IEEE ICSE Workshop
May 12-13, 2008, Leipzig, Germany
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/giese/seams2008

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: January 28, 2008
Author notification: February 11, 2008
Camera ready copy: February 21, 2008

THEME
An increasingly important requirement for software-intensive systems is
the ability to self-manage by adapting at run time to handle such things
as resource variability, changing user needs, and system intrusions or
faults. Such a system must configure and reconfigure itself, continually
tune and optimize itself, protect and recover itself, while keeping its
complexity hidden from the user.

The topic of self-adaptive and self-managing systems has been studied in
a large number of specific application areas, including autonomic
computing, robotics, control systems, programming languages, software
architectures, fault-tolerant computing, and biological computing. The
goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from many of these diverse areas to discuss the
fundamental principles, state of the art, and critical challenges of
self-adaptive and self-managing systems. Specifically, we intend to
focus on the software engineering aspects, including the methods,
architectures, algorithms, techniques and tools that can be used to
support dynamic adaptive and self-managing behavior.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all
topics related to this important area. These topics include, but are not
limited to:
-design and architectural language support for the self-adaptation of
software;
-algorithms for software self-management;
-integration mechanisms for self-adaptive and self-managing systems;
-formal notations for modeling and analysis of software self-adaptation;
-architecture patterns for supporting self-adaptation;
-verification and validation of self-managing software;
-methods for engineering user-trust of self-managing systems;
-methods to instrument existing systems to observe self-managing
behaviour over long periods of time;
-adaptive components;
-evaluation and assurance for self-adaptive systems;
-decision algorithms for self-adaptive systems.

The following application areas are of particular interest: autonomic
computing; logging and diagnostics; mobile computing; dependable
computing; autonomous robotics; adaptable user interfaces;
service-oriented architectures.

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS
We are soliciting both research papers and experience reports that
concisely describe ongoing work, new ideas, experiences, etc. All
submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee
members. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently
submitted elsewhere. For submission instruction, check the workshop web
site: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/giese/seams2008. The accepted papers
will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries and in formal
SEAMS 2008 proceedings. The submissions must conform to the ICSE 2008
Format and Submission Guidelines
<http://icse08.upb.de//calls/fsguidelines.html> and should not be longer
than 8 pages."

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
Richard Taylor, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Anthony Finkelstein, UCL, UK
Cristina Gacek, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
Hassan Gomma, George Mason University, USA
Ethan Hadar, CA, USA
Paola Inverardi, University of Aquila, Italy
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
Pat Martin, Queen’s University, Canada
Neno Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada and University of Trento,
Italy
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA
Dennis Smith, SEI, USA
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
John Strassner, Motorola Research Labs, USA
Richard Taylor, University of California, Irvine, USA