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
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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/