[clean-list] Call for Papers: SINTER 2009 - workshop on Software INTegration and Evolution @ Runtime

[Jan Tretmans]

CALL FOR PAPERS


SINTER 2009:  workshop on Software INTegration and Evolution @ Runtime


Amsterdam, August 25, 2009
http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Sinter

Satellite workshop of the 7th joint meeting of
the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC), and the
ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE),
August 24-28 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

WORKSHOP THEME

Modern ICT solutions are often highly distributed and dynamic
systems-of-systems (SoS). They provide critical backbone infrastructure
for organizations, and are, therefore, increasingly subjected to
stringent availability and dependability requirements. Availability
implies that SoS must be reconfigured, updated, and otherwise
maintained during runtime while retaining their overall operational
integrity. This requires that much of the adaptation, integration,
configuration, and testing activities typically performed offline
during development time, now have to be done on-line, during runtime.

Current component-based runtime platforms such as Service Oriented
Architectures, realize the technological foundations for runtime
reconfiguration and evolution. However, software engineering
methodology has not kept pace with the rapid leap forward in platform
technology, so that adequate methods, techniques, and tools for
managing runtime integration and evolution are not yet available.
Such methodology comprises component adaptation, reconfiguration,
integration and acceptance testing, health monitoring, fault diagnosis,
and reliability assessment for the running system. This workshop is
intended to discuss and address the challenges and pitfalls that are
raised through runtime integration and evolution and associated
methods, techniques, and tools, required to build and maintain highly
distributed, dynamic, and adaptable ICT infrastructures.

SCOPE

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers from academia and
practitioners from industry together, who are interested in the domain
of runtime software integration and evolution. Papers in the following
topics are solicited for this workshop:

* Runtime Software/Component Adaptation and Updating
* Runtime Software/Component Replacement and Reconfiguration
* Runtime/Built-in Component Integration and Acceptance Testing
* Runtime Software/System Debugging
* Runtime Software/System Fault Diagnosis and Health Monitoring
* Runtime Software/System Reliability Engineering
* Runtime Software/System Security Engineering
* Tool support for Runtime Integration and Evolution
* Middleware support (SOA, Component Platforms, Publish/Subscribe, etc.)
for Runtime Integration and Evolution
* Methods, techniques, tools, and middleware support for Runtime
Integration and Evolution
* Case studies from industry where Runtime Integration and Evolution is
relevant
* Problem statements from industry on the aforementioned topics

Emphasis is on performing all these integration and evolution
techniques during runtime. Submissions must clearly motivate why the
techniques proposed can only be applied during runtime.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION

Three types of papers are solicited

* Long paper: 8 page (max) papers presenting ongoing research on the
topics of interest
* Short paper: 4 page (max) position paper presenting preliminary work,
or demonstrations of tools and platform support for runtime integration
and evolution
* Industry Challenges paper: 4 page (max) problem statement from the
relevant domains; at least one author should have an affiliation with
industry

All contributions will be published with copyright in the ACM Digital
Library. The content of the contributions must be original. Any portion
of the contribution submitted to this workshop must not have been
previously published or accepted for publication, nor can it be under
consideration for publication elsewhere during the review period.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format in the ESEC/FSE
proceedings format (ACM format), without any author names or
affiliations, using the Easychair submission system. Papers will be
blind-reviewed by at least three members of the international program
committee.

At least one of the authors of each accepted paper has to register and
present the paper at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission deadline: May 22nd, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: June 19th, 2009
* Camera ready deadline: June 26th, 2009
* Workshop date: August 25th, 2009

CONTACT

* http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Sinter

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Hans-Gerhard Gross, Delft University of Technology
* Jan Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute/Radboud University Nijmegen
* Marco Lormans, Logica

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim
* Franck Barbier, University of Pau
* Michael Borth, Embedded Systems Institute
* Jean-Michel Bruel, University of Toulouse
* Christian Bunse, International University of Germany
* Michel Chaudron, University of Leiden
* Arjan van Gemund, Delft University of Technology
* Maurice Glandrup, Thales Netherlands
* Hans-Gerhard Gross, Delft University of Technology
* Jozef Hooman, Embedded Systems Institute/Radboud University Nijmegen
* Marco Lormans, Logica
* Arjan Mooij, Eindhoven University of Technology
* Rob van Ommering, Philips Research
* Jan Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute/Radboud University Nijmegen
* Eric Piel, Delft University of Technology
* Marc Voorhoeve, Eindhoven University of Technology

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