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                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                   The ACM SIGSOFT
         Workshop on Self-Managed Systems (WOSS'04)
                www.cs.cmu.edu/~garlan/woss04/

                 October 31 - November 1, 2004
                    Newport Beach, CA USA

         As part of SIGSOFT 2004 in conjunction with
              and immediately preceding FSE-12;

              SUBMISSIONS DUE BY: July 30, 2004
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SCOPE and TOPICS of INTEREST

An increasingly important requirement for software-based systems is the
ability to adapt themselves at run time to handle such things as resource
variability, changing user needs, and system faults. In the past, systems
that supported self-management were rare, confined mostly to domains like
telecommunications switches or deep space control software, where taking a
system down for upgrades was not an option, and where human intervention was
not always feasible. However, today more and more systems have this
requirement, including e-commerce systems and mobile embedded systems.

The topic of self-managed systems has been studied in a large number of
specific areas, including robotics planning software, control systems,
programming language design, software architecture, fault-tolerant
computing, and neural networks. The goal of this workshop 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-managed systems. Specifically, we intend to focus on the
software engineering aspects, including the software languages, techniques
and mechanisms that can be used to support dynamic adaptive behavior.

Topics of interest include:

  * programming language support for self-adaptation
  * software architectures that support self-management
  * algorithms for system adaptation
  * artificial intelligence (including autonomous robotics)
  * software solutions to fault-tolerance
  * mobile computing
  * adaptive components
  * constraint-based approaches to adaptation and self-organizing systems

FURTHER DETAILS

Details on conference format, proceedings, and paper submission can be found
on the Workshop web site: www.cs.cmu.edu/~garlan/woss04/

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

  * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University ([log in to unmask])
  * Jeff Kramer, Imperial College ([log in to unmask])
  * Alexander Wolf, University of Colorado ([log in to unmask])

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  * Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
  * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  * Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
  * Jeff Kephart, IBM, USA
  * Jeff Kramer, Imperial College, UK
  * Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
  * Neno Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
  * Michel Wermelinger, New Univ of Lisbon, Portugal & Open Univ, UK
  * Alexander Wolf, University of Colorado


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