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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICSE 2002 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems

Buenos Aires, Argentina
25 May, 2002

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Architectural representations of systems have shown to be effective in
assisting the understanding of broader system concerns by abstracting away
from details of the system. The dependability of systems is defined as the
reliance that can justifiably be placed on the service the system delivers.
Dependability has become an important aspect of computer systems since
everyday life increasingly depends on software. Although there is a large
body of research in dependability, architectural level reasoning about
dependability is only just emerging as an important theme in software
engineering. This is due to the fact that dependability concerns are usually
left until too late in the process of development. In addition, the
complexity of emerging applications and the trend of building trustworthy
systems from existing, untrustworthy components are urging dependability
concerns be considered at the architectural level. Hence the questions that
the software architecture and dependability communities are currently
facing: what are the architectural principles involved in building
dependable systems? How should these architectures be evaluated?

By bringing together researchers from both the software architectures and
the dependability communities, this workshop will make contributions from
dependability more visible within the software engineering community and
vice-versa, thus helping to build strong collaboration possibilities among
the participants. The workshop will provide software engineers with
systematic and disciplined approaches for building dependable systems, as
well as allow further dissemination of the state of the art methods and
techniques.


OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities of software
architectures and dependability to discuss the state of research and
practice when dealing with dependability issues at the architecture level,
and to jointly formulate an agenda for future research in this emerging
area. We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on
all topics related to software architectures for dependable systems. These
include, but are not limited to:

* dependability modeling in software architectures;
* verification and validation of dependable software architectures;
* adaptable architectures for achieving dependability;
* run-time checks of dependable architectural model;
* dependability evaluation in software architectures;
* architectural patterns for dependable systems;
* exception handling for software architectures;
* redundancy and diversity at the level of architectures.


PARTICIPATION AND SELECTION PROCESS

The workshop is open to all researchers, system developers and users who are
involved with or have an interest in dependability at the architecture
level. All prospective participants should submit an extended abstract,
work-in-progress report or position paper. The submissions should be between
4 and 5 pages. They should explain the contribution to the field and the
novelty of the work, making clear the current status of the work. Workshop
paper submissions should be sent electronically (preferably in PDF format),
by the submission date, to [log in to unmask]

The number of participants will be between 20 and 30, and it will be
restricted to authors of accepted papers and to a few invited guests.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 March 2002
Author notification: 1 April 2002


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Cristina Gacek, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrea Bondavalli (Italy), Jan Bosch (The Netherlands), José Fiadeiro
(Portugal), David Garlan (USA), Valérie Issarny (France), Marc-Olivier
Killijian (France), John Knight (USA), Nenad Medvidovic (USA), Dewayne E.
Perry (USA), Cecília Rubira (Brazil), Lui Sha (USA), Francis Tam (Finland),
Richard Taylor (USA), Frank van der Linden (The Netherlands).