[ecoop-info] Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems 2007, co-located with ESEC/FSE 2007

Mon Mar 26 13:37:33 CEST 2007

Dear colleagues,

authors, participants or just interested on the series of events on 

Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems (EFTS).

It is our pleasure to inform you that our workshop proposal has been
recently accepted, 

and the EFTS 2007 workshop will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on September
4, 

and co-located with  ESEC/FSE 2007 (the 6th joint meeting of the European
Software Engineering Conference and the 

ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering).

The complete call for paper is attached below.

In summary:

DEADLINES:  June 20, 2007 (submission), July 8, 2007 (notification),  July
25, 2007 (camera ready), September 4, 2007 (workshop)

PUBLICATION: 6 pages in ACM Digital Librabry, contacts are ongoing for a
Special Issue in a Journal

LOCATION: Dubrovnik, Croatia, co-located with ESEC/FSE 2007

WEBSITE: http://efts2007.uni.lu

Best Regards,

Nicolas Guelfi, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione and Alexander
Romanovsky.

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                       2nd International Workshop on 

                    Engineering Fault Tolerant Systems 

                                (EFTS 2007)

           at ESEC/FSE 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia; September 4, 2007

                          http://efts2007.uni.lu <http://efts2007.uni.lu/> 

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PURPOSE

Software and hardware systems have become increasingly used in many
industrial sectors, such as manufacturing, energy supply, aerospace,
transportation, communication and healthcare. Failures due to software or
hardware malfunctions, users' mistakes and malicious intentions can have
serious economics consequences, and can also endanger human life. Fault
tolerance prevents system failures and is intended to ensure that it
delivers the required service in spite of faults and errors which it might
encounter and as such it is crucial for meeting high reliability and
availability requirements. 

Fault tolerance engineering during the entire life cycle has been advocated
by some researchers as one of the main approaches to ensuring the overall
system dependability. In particular, different classes of faults, errors and
failures must be identified and dealt with at each phase of software
development, depending on the abstraction level used in modelling the
software system under development. A number of studies have been conducted
so far in these areas, but understanding where and how fault-tolerance
should be integrated in the software life-cycle still requires major
research efforts. This international workshop builds on this trend and aims
at investigating how fault tolerance mechanisms can be taken into account
when engineering complex software systems. To address the new problems the
system developers are facing nowadays (such as identifying the places where
fault tolerance means must be applied and the degree of fault tolerance that
must be achieved) we need novel models to be applied at different
abstraction levels (requirement, architecture and design models for fault
tolerance, together with new implementation schemes), innovative
technologies (tools and frameworks for implementing distributed fault
tolerant systems) and advanced verification environments (to assess the
achieved level of fault tolerance and to evaluate the dependability
properties of the systems). Recently there has been growing interest in the
areas directly related and overlapping with fault tolerance, such as system
self-healing, resilience, self-adaptation and self-management. The topics
related to engineering of systems with such properties are in the scope of
the workshop as the intention is to improve the current understanding of how
fault tolerance engineering can benefit from research on these areas. EFTS
2007 is the appropriate venue to reflect on the achievements of the
researchers and practitioners in the fields of software engineering and
fault tolerance, bringing together people from these two communities.

SCOPE

The following constitute the core list of the topics that form the focal
point of the workshop. However, this list should not be considered as closed
or technically restrictive for paper

submissions:

- Software architecture and fault tolerance;

- UML/MDA modelling of fault tolerance;

- OO frameworks and design patterns for fault tolerance;

- Error handling and fault handling in the software lifecycle;

- Re-engineering fault tolerance;

- Component-based development and fault-tolerance;

- Fault tolerant software development processes;

- Error recovery through exception handling in the software life-cycle;

- Design and implementation of fault tolerant distributed systems;

- Atomic actions in the software life-cycle;

- Intelligent and adaptive approaches to engineering fault-tolerant systems

- Engineering of self-healing autonomic systems

- Rigorous approach to fault-tolerance programming;

- Dynamic reconfiguration for fault-tolerance;

- Run-time management of fault tolerance requirements

- Verification and validation of fault tolerant systems

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions will be evaluated by the EFTS international committee.

All submissions must be in English, should not exceed 6 pages in ACM format,
and should be submitted in PDF format. Paper submissions will be made
electronically via the Web.

Accepted papers will be published in ACM Digital Library.

Contacts are ongoing for a special issue of the Journal of Systems and
Software on Engineering Fault Tolerance Systems

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: June 20, 2007

Notification Deadline: July 8, 2007

Camera Ready Deadline: July 25, 2007

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Nicolas Guelfi (Univ. Luxembourg)

Henry Muccini (Univ. L’Aquila– Italy)

Patrizio Pelliccione (Univ. L’Aquila– Italy)

Alexander Romanovsky (Univ. Newcastle—UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bondavalli Andrea (U. of Florence, Italy)

Canfora Gerardo (U. Sannio, Italy)

Castor Filho Fernando (State University of Campinas. Brazil)

Coleman Joey (Newcastle University. UK)

Cortellessa Vittorio (U. of L'Aquila, Italy)

de Lemos Rogerio (Kent U., UK)

Di Giandomenico Felicita (CNR, Italy),

Di Marzo Giovanna (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

Ebnenasir Ali (Michigan State University, USA)

Garcia Alessandro (Lancaster University. UK)

Gnesi Stefania (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Goeschka Karl (TU Vienna,Austria)

Grassi Vincenzo (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata,Italy)

Inverardi Paola (U. L'Aquila, Italy)

Kaaniche Mohamed (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Kienzle Joerg (Mc Gill U., Canada)

Maibaum Tom (Mc Master U., Canada)

Majzik Istvan (BUTE, Hungary)

Mirandola Raffaela (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Nadjm - Tehrani Simin (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Linköping
university, Sweden)

Pataricza Andras (BUTE, Hungary)

Patiño Marta (TU Madrid,Spain)

Punnekkat Sasikumar (Malardalen U.,Sweden)

Ruiz Juan Carlos (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. España)

Tam Francis (Nokia Research, Finland)

van Moorsel Aad (Newcastle U., UK)

Zorzo Avelino (Ponthifical Catholic U. of RS, Brazil)

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Upcoming Events:
ROSATEA 2007> The Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis [
<http://www.di.univaq.it/Rosatea2007/> http://www.di.univaq.it/Rosatea2007/]

WISE 07> Widened Software Engineering ESEC/FSE 07 Track
[http://www.idt.mdh.se/esec-fse-2007/]
SEFT 07> Software Engineering and Fault Tolerance Book

[http://seft2006book.uni.lu]

DR HENRY MUCCINI
PhD in Computer Science
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università dell’Aquila, Italy
phone: +39 0862 433721
office:  A1/10, Coppito II
e-mail: muccini at di.univaq.it
Web:    <BLOCKED::blocked::http://www.henrymuccini.com/>
http://www.HenryMuccini.com

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