[ecoop-info] Call for Papers: Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-adaptive and Autonomous Systems (RESA)

[Raúl Mazo Peña]

*Call for Papers*

*1st Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-adaptive and Autonomous
Systems (RESA) to be held on April 7th 2014 in conjunction with REFSQ 2014
(April 07-10), in Essen, Germany*

https://sites.google.com/site/resaworkshop/home



The RESA workshop will look at the research issues related to software
systems that are aware and even reason about their requirements and goals
at runtime. Such capabilities would bring benefits not just for the case of
self-adaptive and autonomous systems but would also help in the development
of self-explaining systems, and in testing and debugging. In particular,
the workshop aims to:


   - Combine research ideas from requirements engineering, requirements
   monitoring, computational reflection, model-driven engineering, and
   self-adaptive, autonomic, and self-aware systems.
   - Provide a "state-of-the-research" assessment expressed in terms of
   research issues, challenges, and achievements. This assessment can be used
   to guide research in the area for both academia and industry.
   - Build a network of researchers in RE for Self-adaptive Systems.
   - Plan and promote further events on this emerging area.



RESA'14 will be held in Essen, Germany, as one of the workshops of the 20th
International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation
for Software Quality (REFSQ  2014).



*Important Dates*



Submission deadline:                   January 15, 2014

Author Notification:                      February 15, 2014

Camera Ready Copy:                   March 12, 2014

Workshop:                                   April 7th, 2014



*List of topics*



The research topics we will aim to discuss include:

-      Representation of Runtime Requirements (RR) for self-adaptive and
autonomous systems

-      Reasoning over runtime requirements

-      Requirements-awareness

-      The role of uncertainty

-      Computational reflection and runtime requirements

-      The relationships between requirements models at different phases of
the SE lifecycle

-      The relationship of RR to other SE phases
(architecture/design/testing)

-      Runtime requirements’ traceability

-      Methodologies incorporating requirements-awareness and RR

-      Requirements monitoring

-      Diagnosis of railed requirements (including self-explaining systems)



*Publications and Format of Papers*



The RESA 2014 proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS (www.ceur-ws.org).

Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and formatted in LNCS style.
See Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors for details (notice that for
the submission, only the instructions about the layout of the paper itself
are relevant – the copyright form etc. is only needed for the camera-ready
version, in the event of your paper’s acceptance).

We invite original submissions as either full papers (13-15 pages) and
short/position/vision papers (6-8 pages).



*Submissions*



Papers should be submitted using EasyChair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=resa2014



*Selection process*



The selection of papers will be based on their relevance to the workshop,
research rigour, innovation, potential for industrial applicability, and
quality of writing. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three (3)
reviewers, and authors will be notified about acceptance before the REFSQ
2014 early registration deadline.

The workshop co-chairs will not submit papers of their own.



*Workshop Co-chairs:*



Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK, nelly at acm.org

Raúl Mazo, Panthéon Sorbonne University, France, raul.mazo at univ-paris1.fr

Peter Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK, sawyer at comp.lancs.ac.uk



*Programme Committee *



Luciano Baresi                   Politecnico di Milano

Nelly Bencomo                   Aston University

Dan Berry                          University of Waterloo

Jaelson Castro                   Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Stephen Fickas                  University of Oregon

Jennifer Horkoff                  University of Trento

Emmanuel Letier                University College London

Raul Mazo                         Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne

Liliana Pasquale                 Lero-Irish Software Engineering Research
Centre

Anna Perini                        Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Peter Sawyer                     Lancaster University

Vitor E. Silva Souza           Federal University of Espírito Santo

Alistair Sutcliffe                 University of Manchester

Ladan Tahvildari                University of Waterloo

Gabriel Tamura                 Universidad ICESI

Axel Van Lamsweerde       Université Catholique de Louvain

Happy New Year! ... and see you in Essen!
-- 
Raúl MAZO
https://sites.google.com/site/raulmazo/
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