Workshop objective

The ICSE 2007 SEAMS workshop is a continuation of an effort, which started with SEAMS 2006 at ICSE 2006, to integrate a number of successful workshops in the area of self-managing systems held at ICSE and FSE in recent years, including the FSE 2002 and 2004 Workshops on Self-Healing (Self-Managed) Systems (WOSS), ICSE 2005 Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS), ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) and the ICSE 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 Workshops on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS). The organizers of this workshop are attempting to consolidate interest in the ICSE and FSE software engineering communities on autonomic, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-configuring, and self-adaptive systems through this integrated SEAMS workshop. We hope this will be the second of several workshops to identify progress and challenges in this important area of software engineering. There are other related conferences and workshops including IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC); Autonomic Computing Workshop (AMS); and Conference on Human Impact and Application of Autonomic Computing Systems (CHIACS).

Workshop 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 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; and decision algorithms for self-adaptive systems. The following application areas are of particular interest: system management; problem determination including logging, analysis and diagnostics; mobile computing; dependable computing; autonomous robotics; adaptable user interfaces; service-oriented applications.

Workshop participation, selection process, format, and registration

The workshop is intended for researchers, designers and users who are involved with or have an interest in autonomic, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-configuring, and self-adaptive software. We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to this important area.

This two-day workshop will be run in a highly interactive style during the ICSE 2007 week, May 20-26, 2007 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm at the Admission to the workshop will be based on a submitted extended abstract, work-in-progress report or position paper. The length and the format of the submissions will have to adhere to the ICSE 2007 workshop guidelines. The authors are expected to explain the contribution to the field and the novelty of their work and articulating the current status of the work. The submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

ICSE 2007 conference venue. SEAMS 2007 will include invited talks and short position statements. Participants should come to the workshop prepared to engage in lively discussion sessions.

All workshops participants shall register for the SEAMS 2007 workshop with ICSE 2007, including workshop organizers, chairs, and any special guests or distinguished speakers.

ICSE 2007 will make available AV projection equipment and the workshop organizers will provide a laptop for projection. Speakers please upload your presentation before your session starts.

Paper submission

We invite (1) position papers and progress reports that describe ongoing work or new ideas, (2) short research papers and experience reports that describe validated research results, and (3) survey papers --- all within the scope of the workshop. Papers should be between 4-7 pages long and must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Here is the call for papers in pdf form.

Please submit papers for SEAMS 2007 electronically using SEAMS 2007 electronic submission web site which is powered by CyberChairPROv7. Please follow the ICSE 2007 paper format instructions.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital libraries under SEAMS 2007 workshop proceedings as part of the ICSE 2007 workshop publications. ICSE will make the formal proceedings available on an ICSE CD. No formal proceedings will be printed by ICSE, although unofficial proceedings will be made available for download to workshop participants.