[ecoop-info] cfp Symposium on Quality Engineering for Embedded Systems

[Alexander Romanovsky]

Intern. Symposium on Quality Engineering for Embedded Systems
                In conjunction with the ECMDA 2008
                                 June 13, 2008
                                Berlin, Germany

                                 Call for papers

Embedded systems (electronics and software) are 
of widespread use in safety-critical
domains such as aerospace, automotive, and industrial automation and in
business-critical domains such as communications and consumer electronics.
Stringent quality requirements go together with the demand for low costs and
low maintenance needs, but high safety and security levels, high dependability,
high reliability and short time-to-market. This 
symposium will put the emphasis on
quality engineering of these systems.

The best contributions will be selected for 
post-symposium publication in the Springer
journal "Software Tools for Technology Transfer" 
(STTT, sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de).

This International Symposium on Quality Engineering of Embeddded Systems is
an affiliated event of the 4th European 
Conference on Model Driven Architectures
(ECMDA2008, www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ecmda2008).

It is supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
(www.krupp-stiftung.de) - a foundation that supports research in various areas
of sciences and in particular in the field of 
quality engineering of embedded systems.


SCOPE:
The following constitutes a non-exclusive list of 
topics that the symposium will focus on:

     * Modelling of quality in terms of 
dependability, reliability, resilience, etc. 
properties;
     * Modelling of embedded, hybrid systems and of their environments;
     * Quality-oriented implementation/conformance relations;
     * Quality support of component platforms for embedded systesm;
     * Design and test patterns for embedded systems;
     * Quality frameworks and tools for embedded systems
     * Fault modelling and handling in the embedded system life-cycle;
     * Model-driven engineering for embedded 
systems addressing heterogeneity of models and 
views;
     * Variant, configuration and version management for embedded systems;
     * Architecture-driven development of embedded systems;
     * Model-based testing;
     * System development processes;
     * Autonomic approaches for embedded systems;
     * Dynamic reconfiguration for quality;
     * Models at runtime;
     * Requirement engineering processes;
     * Verification and validation approaches;
     * Case studies and applications in 
automotive, medical, avionics, telecommunication, 
etc.


TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION:
Technical papers: Original work addressing the 
topics targeted by the symposium can be
submitted as technical papers. Such papers may 
describe basic or applied research and
advanced "work in progress" papers might also be considered.

WELCOME NOTE: Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer 
FOKUS / Techn. Univ. Berlin, Germany
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Werner Damm, Oldenburg, Germany


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due by: April 20, 2008 (extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2008
Camera-Ready for Symposium Proceedings: May 15, 2008
Symposium:  June 13, 2008
Camera-Ready for STTT: August 31, 2008


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All submissions are to be submitted 
electronically via the symposium web site at
www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/qees2008.

The preferred format is LaTeX, but PostScript or PDF are also accepted.

Authors who prepare their papers with LaTeX are encouraged to use
the Springer-Verlag's macropackage svjour.
It is available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svjour/sttt/.

Papers must be written in English. Authors whose 
mother tongue is not English are
advised to seek the assistance of a native English speaker who is familiar with
the topic of the paper.

The page limit for technical papers is sixteen (16) pages.

All submissions must be received electronically. 
One of the authors of each accepted
paper is to present the paper at the symposium.

LOCATION:
The symposium will be held at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
(www.fokus.fraunhofer.de)

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Techn. Univ. Berlin, Germany)
Nicolas Guelfi (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle Univ., UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative):
Essameddin Badreddin, University of Mannheim, Germany
Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Sami Beydeda, ZIVIT, Germany
Ana R. Cavalli, INT, France
Y. C. Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Hakan Coskun, TU Berlin, Germany
Tibor Farkas, FOKUS, Germany
Roland Groz, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK
Ferhat Khendek, Concordia U, Canada
Kane Kim, University of California, USA
Yves Le Traon, ENST, France
Tiziana Margaria, Univ. Potsdam, Germany
Aditya Mathur, Purdue, USA
Brian Nielsen, U of Aalborg, Denmark
Manuel Núñez, UC de Madrid, Spain
Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, USA
Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, Canada
Alexander Pretschner, ETHZ, Switzerland
Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy
Kenji Suzuki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
M. Ümit Uyar, City U of New York, USA
Thomas Weigert, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Eric Wong, University Of Texas At Dallas, USA
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


CONTACT DETAILS
For more information, or to be placed on our 
mailing list, please use the contact
details below, referring explicitly to QEES 2008:
Tel:      +49 30 3463 7241
Fax:      +49 30 3463 8241
E-mail:   ina.schieferdecker at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Web Site: www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/qees2008