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C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S   S E A M S  2 0 0 7
Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2007)
http://www.seams2007.cs.uvic.ca

Two-Day Workshop at the end of ICSE Week 
May 26-27, 2007 Minneapolis, USA 

co-located with ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission deadline:       	Mon, Feb 5, 2007 
Acceptance notification:  	Tue, Feb 20, 2007 
Camera ready copy:       	Mon, Mar 5, 2007 

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 
   
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the different communities in
software engineering to discuss the state of research and practice of
self-managing and self-adaptive software. We are interested in submissions
from both industry and academia on all topics related to this important
area. These 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 architectures.


PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS 

We are soliciting papers (length and format as per ICSE 2007 workshop
guidelines), 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.
Submission instructions at http://www.seams2007.cs.uvic.ca/ The accepted
papers will be published in the SEAMS 2007 proceedings.


SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
 
Organizing Committee

Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA 	
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon, USA	
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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

Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon, USA
Cristina Gacek, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mike Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada	
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF, Norway
Mike Hinchey, NASA Goddard, USA
Arno Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada	
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK 	
Pat Martin, Queen’s University, Canada
Neno Medvidovic, USC, USA 
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
and University of Trento, Italy
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International Univ., USA
Gabby Silberman, CA Labs, USA
Dennis Smith, SEI, USA
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK 
John Strassner, Motorola Research Labs, USA
Kenny Wong, University of Alberta, Canada


For more information refer to the SEAMS 2007 web site
http://www.seams2007.cs.uvic.ca/