[ecoop-info] SEAMS 2011 Call for Papers

[Basil Becker]

                        CALL FOR PAPERS


     6th International Symposium on Software Engineering for
         Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2011)

            (Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE)

                       Waikiki, Honolulu, USA
                        23-24 May 2011


                http://2011.seams-symposia.org/


THEME

An increasingly important requirement for a software-based system is
the ability to self-manage by adapting itself at run time to handle
changing user needs, system intrusions or faults, a changing
operational environment, and resource variability. Such a system must
configure and reconfigure itself, augment its functionality,
continually optimize itself, protect itself, 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 areas, including software architectures,
fault-tolerant computing, robotics, control systems, programming
languages, and biologically-inspired computing.

The objective of this symposium is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from many of these diverse areas to engage in
stimulating dialogue regarding 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 behavior that
includes self-adaptive, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing,
and self-configuring, and autonomic software.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on
all topics related to this important area. These include, but are not
limited to:

- formal notations for modeling and analyzing software self-adaptation
- programming language support for self-adaptation
- reuse support for self-adaptive systems (e.g., patterns, designs,
   code, etc.)
- design and architectural support for the self-adaptation of software
- algorithms for software self-adaptation
- integration mechanisms for self-adaptive systems
- evaluation and assurance for self-* systems (e.g., run-time
   verification)
- modeling and analysis of adaptive systems (e.g., run-time models,
   cost-benefit analysis, architectural styles and patterns,
   requirements)
- decision-making strategies for self-adaptive and self-organizing
   systems
- support for run-time monitoring (for requirements, design,
   performance, etc.)
- model problems and exemplars

The following application areas are of particular interest:
     - mobile computing
     - dependable computing
     - autonomous robotics
     - adaptable user interfaces
     - service-oriented systems
     - autonomic computing

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

We are soliciting three types of papers: research papers and
experience reports (up to 10 pages, ACM SIG Proceedings Format) and
position papers for new ideas (up to 6 pages, ACM SIG Proceedings
Format). Research papers should clearly describe the technical
contribution and how the work has been validated. Experience reports
should describe how an existing technique has been applied to
real-world examples, including lessons learned from the
experience. New idea papers provide an opportunity to describe novel
and promising ideas and/or techniques that might not have been fully
validated. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three
program committee members. Papers must not have been previously
published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. The accepted papers
will appear in the symposium proceedings that will be published as ACM
conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 12th December 2010
Author notification: 15th February 2011
Camera ready copy:   1st  March    2011	


SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

* General Chair
Holger Giese, HPI/Univ. of Potsdam, Germany

* Program Chair
Betty H.C. Cheng, Michigan State University, USA

* Publicity Chairs
Basil Becker, HPI/Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Vogel, HPI/Univ. of Potsdam, Germany

* Program Committee
Colin Atkinson             University of Mannheim, Germany
Robert Baillargeon         Panasonic Automotive, USA
Luciano Baresi             Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nelly Bencomo              University of Lancaster, UK
Yuriy Brun                 University of Washington, USA
Vinny Cahill               Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Shang-Wen Cheng            Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Simon Dobson               University of St. Andrews, UK
Gregor Engels              University of Paderborn, Germany
Cristina Gacek             City University, UK
David Garlan               Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kurt Geihs                 University of Kassel, Germany
Carlo Ghezzi               Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Svein Hallsteinsen         SINTEF, Norway
Paola Inverardi            University of L'Aquila, Italy
Jean-Marc Jezequel	   IRISA-INRIA, France
Gabor Karsai               Vanderbilt University, USA
Jeff Magee		   Imperial College London, UK
Nenad Medvidovic           University of Southern California, USA
John Mylopoulos            University of Trento, Italy
Hausi Müller               University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Sooyong Park               University of Sogang, S. Korea
Anna Perini                FBK-IRST, Center for Information
                            Technology, Italy
Masoud Sadjadi             Florida International University, USA
Onn Shehory                IBM-Haifa Research, Israel
Roy Sterritt               University of Ulster, UK
Danny Weyns                Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Zisman              City University, UK

* Steering Committee
Betty H.C. Cheng           Michigan State University, USA
Rogério de Lemos           University of Kent, UK
David Garlan               Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Holger Giese               HPI/Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Marin Litiou               York University, Canada
Jeff Magee                 Imperial College London, UK
Hausi Müller               University of Victoria, Canada
Mauro Pezzè                University of Lugano, Switzerland, and
                            University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Richard Taylor             University of California, Irvine, USA

FURTHER INFORMATION

Symposia-related email should be addressed to: seams2011 #at# seams- 
symposia.org
Symposium home page:      http://2011.seams-symposia.org/

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Dipl.-Inform. Basil Becker

Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH
Professor-Doktor-Helmertstr. 2-3
14482 Potsdam
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room:    A-2.7
phone:   +49 331 5509 365
e-mail:  basil.becker #at# hpi.uni-potsdam.de
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Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184
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