[clean-list] Call for Papers: SINTER 2009 - extended deadline June 3rd

[Jan Tretmans]

CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline June 3rd, 2009)

   Workshop on Software Integration and Evolution @ Runtime SINTER 2009

   Amsterdam, August 25, 2009

   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:  June 3rd, 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
  * 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
  * Marco Lormans, Logica
  * Arjan Mooij, Eindhoven University of Technology
  * Rob van Ommering, Philips Research
  * Jan Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute, Radboud University
  * Eric Piel, Delft University of Technology
  * Marc Voorhoeve, Eindhoven University of Technology