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CALL FOR PAPERS

Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self=E2=80=90Managing Systems
(SEAMS 2009)

A two-day ACM/IEEE ICSE Workshop:
Mon/Tue, May 18=E2=80=9019, 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.seams2009.cs.uvic.ca

THEME

With the rapid growth of web services and the continuous
evolution from software=E2=80=90intensive systems to socio=E2=80=90technic=
al
ecosystems, the management complexity of these modern,
decentralized, distributed computing systems presents
significant challenges for businesses and often exceeds the
capabilities of human operators. End=E2=80=90users increasingly demand
from business that they provide software systems that are
versatile, resilient, dependable, robust, service=E2=80=90oriented,
mashable, inter=E2=80=90operable, continuously available,
decentralized, self=E2=80=90healing, configurable, or self=E2=80=90optimiz=
ing.
One of the most promising approaches to achieving some of
these properties is to equip software systems with feedback
control to address the management of inherent system
dynamics. The resulting self=E2=80=90adapting and self=E2=80=90managing
computing systems are better able to cope with and even
accommodate changing environments, shifting requirements, and
computing=E2=80=90on=E2=80=90demand needs.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers
and practitioners from many of these diverse areas to
discuss the fundamental principles, state of the art, and critical
challenges of self=E2=80=90adaptive and self=E2=80=90managing systems.
Specifically, we intend to focus on the software engineering
aspects, including the concepts, methods, architecture,
feedback control, and tools that can be used to support
dynamical adaptive and self=E2=80=90managing behaviour. Moreover, in =
this 4th
workshop, we will look at results achieved in self=E2=80=90adaptability
and focus on experimental systems by including a
demonstration session. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to: feedback control and architecture patterns for self=E2=80=90=

adaptation and self=E2=80=90management; models and algorithms for =
software
self=E2=80=90management; integration mechanisms for self=E2=80=90adaptive =
and
self=E2=80=90managing systems; formal notations for modeling and
analyzing software self=E2=80=90adaptation; methods for engineering
user=E2=80=90trust of self=E2=80=90adaptive and self=E2=80=90managing =
systems;
methods to instrument existing systems to observe self=E2=80=90
managing behaviour over long periods of time; dynamical
verification and validation of self=E2=80=90managing software;
evaluation and assurance for self=E2=80=90adaptive systems; decision
algorithms for self=E2=80=90adaptive systems; and exemplars for
benchmarking. The following application areas are of
particular interest: autonomic computing; problem determination
including logging, analysis and diagnostics; mobile computing;
dependable computing; autonomous robotics; adaptable user
interfaces; service=E2=80=90oriented applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite (1) position papers and progress reports describing
ongoing work or new ideas, (2) research papers and
experience reports describing validated research results, and
(3) survey papers=E2=80"all within the scope of the workshop.
Papers should be between 5=E2=80=9010 pages long and must not have
been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Accepted
papers will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital
Libraries under SEAMS 2009 Workshop Proceedings as part of
the ICSE 2009 Workshop publications. Please submit papers for
SEAMS 2009 electronically using SEAMS 2009 electronic
submission web site which is powered by CyberChairPROv7. Please
follow the ICSE 2009 paper format instructions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Saturday, January 26, 2009
Author notification: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Camera ready copy: Thursday, February 19, 2009

ORGANIZATION

General Chair
Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, Canada
Program Chair
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
Program Committee
Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, U. of London, UK
Anthony Finkelstein, UCL, UK
Cristina Gacek, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Ethan Hadar, CA, Israel
Paola Inverardi, University of Aquila, Italy
Holger Kienle, University of Victoria, Canada
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Marin Litoiu, York University and IBM, Canada
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
Serge Mankovski, CA Canada Inc.
Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada
Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, Canada
John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
Sooyong Park, University of Sogang, South Korea
Anna Perini, FBK=E2=80=90IRST, Trento, Italy
Mauro Pezze', University of Lugano, Switzerland
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Int. University, USA
Mary Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dennis Smith, SEI, USA
Richard Taylor, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
Danny Weyns, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium