[ecoop-info] CfP: Software for Organic Computing (SE4OC) at SE2007

[Frank Ortmeier]

                       Call for Papers

  Workshop "Software Engineering for Organic Computing (SE4OC)"
                             at

               Software Engineering 2007 (SE2007),
    the annual conference on software engineering of the German
             Gesellschaft für Informatik
            http://www.organic-computing.de/se4oc

          
Software Engineering for Organic Computing:

Organic Computing systems are characterised by their ability to perform
autonomously on given tasks. This is accomplished by using their self-x
properties, e.g. self-adaption, self-optimisation and self-healing to
adapt dynamically to changing requirements, modified tasks or occurring
component failures. Due to ever increasing complexity of requirements,
these paradigms will be of great interest for future industrial
applications as they can render these requirements manageable.

The key innovation of such systems lies within intelligent control 
algorithms and adaptive software design. Therefore state-of-the-art 
software engineering is not only recommendable but mandatory for
developing verifiable and controllable self-* systems.

The goal of this full-day workshop on Organic Computing at SE 2007 
conference is to bring together Organic Computing scientists and 
Software Engineering researchers, to discuss engineering solutions for 
design, development and control of organic computing systems; and to 
investigate the interest of the concepts of organic computing for 
designing distributed systems.  

Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  - Modelling self-x properties
  - Description methods and tools for organic computing systems
  - Software design methodology for adaptive systems
  - Analysis and verification techniques
  - Practical experience reports
  - Qualitative and quantitative measurements
  - (Self-)Optimisation techniques for distributed systems
  - Emergent behaviour and emergent computing systems
  - Model-driven system development for OC-systems
  - Cognitive- Collaborative learning algorithms

The workshop topics include theoretical papers, experience results and case
studies as well as tools/frameworks and software design approaches for
organic computing systems. Further information can be found at
http://www.organic-computing.de/se4oc


Workshop Organisers:
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Frank Ortmeier                  (University of Augsburg)
Wolfgang Reif                   (University of Augsburg)
Hartmut Schmeck                 (University of Karlsruhe)
Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo     (University of London)



Deadlines:
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Full paper:                    Friday,   Feb 2nd,  2007
Notification:                  Friday,   Feb 23rd, 2007
Final version:                 Monday,   Mar 2nd,  2007
Workshop:                      Thursday, Mar 29th, 2007


Submission and Registration is carried out at the SE 2007
web-site http://www.se2007.de/conftool/htdocs

All accepted papers will be published as conference workshop proceedings
as part of 'Lecture notes in Informatics' (LNI) series.  Submitted
manuscripts have to be in English and should be no longer than 12 pages in
LNI format. The full submission guideline can be found under:
http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/

We are looking forward to your contribution!





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Dr. Frank Ortmeier
Lehrstuhl f. Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen
Universität Augsburg

Tel:    ++49 821 598 2176
Fax:   ++49 821 598 2175
Mail:  ortmeier at informatik.uni-augsburg.de