C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S 
Software Engineering for Adaptive  and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2008) 
                
A two-day ACM/IEEE ICSE Workshop 
May 12-13, 2008, Leipzig, Germany 
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/giese/seams2008 
        
  
THEME 
An increasingly important requirement for software-intensive systems is the ability to self-manage by adapting at run time to handle such things as resource variability, changing user needs, and system intrusions or faults. Such a system must configure and reconfigure itself, continually tune and optimize itself, protect 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 application areas, including autonomic computing, robotics, control systems, programming languages, software architectures, fault-tolerant computing, and biological computing. 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-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 and self-managing behavior. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 
We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to this important area. These topics include, but are not limited to: 
-design and architectural language support for the self-adaptation of software; 
-algorithms for software self-management; 
-integration mechanisms for self-adaptive and self-managing systems; 
-formal notations for modeling and analysis of software self-adaptation; 
-architecture patterns for supporting self-adaptation; 
-verification and validation of self-managing software; 
-methods for engineering user-trust of self-managing systems; 
-methods to instrument existing systems to observe self-managing behaviour over long periods of time; 
-adaptive components; 
-evaluation and assurance for self-adaptive systems;   
-decision algorithms for self-adaptive systems. 

The following application areas are of particular interest: autonomic computing; logging and diagnostics; mobile computing; dependable computing; autonomous robotics; adaptable user interfaces; service-oriented architectures. 

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS 
We are soliciting both research papers and experience reports that concisely describe ongoing work, new ideas, experiences, etc. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. For submission instruction, check the workshop web site: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/giese/seams2008. The accepted papers will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries and in formal SEAMS 2008 proceedings. Please see ICSE 2008 workshop guidelines for length and format of papers. 


IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission deadline:         January 28, 2008 
Author notification:        February 11, 2008 
Camera ready copy:         February 21, 2008 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA 
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK 
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany 
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada 
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK 
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada 
Richard Taylor, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA 
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK 
Anthony Finkelstein, UCL, UK 
Cristina Gacek, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany 
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Hassan Gomma, George Mason University, USA 
Ethan Hadar, CA, Israel 
Paola Inverardi, University of Aquila, Italy 
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA 
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada 
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK 
Pat Martin, Queen’s University, Canada 
Neno Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA 
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada 
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada and University of Trento, Italy 
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA 
Dennis Smith, SEI, USA 
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK 
John Strassner, Motorola Research Labs, USA 
Richard Taylor, University of California, Irvine, USA