Workshop Goals

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 concepts, methods, architecture, feedback control, and tools that can be used to support dynamical adaptive and self-managing behaviour. Moreover, in this fourth workshop, we will be looking at the results that have been achieved in self-adaptability in recent years and focus on implementations as well as experimental systems by including a demonstration session. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: feedback control and architecture patterns for self-adaptation and self-management; models and algorithms for software self-management; integration mechanisms for self-adaptive and self-managing systems; formal notations for modeling and analyzing software self-adaptation; methods for engineering user-trust of self-adaptive and self-managing systems; methods to instrument existing systems to observe self-managing behaviour over long periods of time; dynamical verification and validation of self-managing software; evaluation and assurance for self-adaptive systems; decision algorithms for self-adaptive 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-oriented applications.

Workshop History

The ICSE 2009 SEAMS Workshop is a continuation of a number of successful workshops in the area of self-managing systems held at ICSE and FSE in recent years, including ICSE 2008, 2007, 2006 SEAMS Workshops, the ICSE 2005 Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS), and the FSE 2004, 2002 Workshops on Self-Healing Systems (WOSS). The organizers of the SEAMS workshop series 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. The SEAMS workshop series will hopefully continue to discuss progress and challenges in this important area of software engineering. There are several related conferences and workshops including IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC); ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems (Autonomics); IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO); IBM CASCON Workshop Series on Engineering Autonomic Systems; and Dagstuhl workshops.

Paper Submissions

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 --- all within the scope of the workshop. Papers should be between 5-10 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 2009 electronically using SEAMS 2009 electronic submission web site (to be announced) which is powered by CyberChairPROv7. Please follow the ICSE 2009 paper format instructions. 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. ICSE will make the formal proceedings available on an ICSE memory stick. No formal proceedings will be printed by ICSE, although unofficial proceedings will be made available for download to workshop participants.

Workshop Participation, Registration and Format

Workshop Participation: The workshop is intended for researchers, practitioners and users, who are involved with or have an interest in adaptive, autonomic, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-configuring, and self-adaptive software. We are interested in participants from both industry and academia.

Workshop Registration: All workshops participants shall register for the SEAMS 2009 workshop with ICSE 2009, including workshop chairs, organizers, keynote speakers, and participants.

Workshop format: This two-day workshop will be run in a highly interactive style during the ICSE 2009 week: May 18-19, 2009 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. SEAMS 2009 will include invited talks, paper presentations, discussions, and demos. Participants should come to the workshop prepared to engage in lively discussion sessions. ICSE 2009 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.