[agents] CFP: Self-Organizing ARchitectures (SOAR) @ WICSA/ECSA 2009

[Danny Weyns]

                   CALL FOR PAPERS


              International Workshop on
        SELF-ORGANIZING ARCHITECTURES (SOAR'09)

   http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/soar/2009/
          soar [at] cs [dot] kuleuven [dot] be

                 To be held at the
 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
 European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA'09)

                http://www.wicsa.net/

         14-17 September 2006, Cambridge, UK



Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline : August 14, 2009
Notification of acceptance : August 28, 2009
Camera ready paper : September 7, 2009
Workshop : September 14, 2009


INTRODUCTION

Self-adaptability has been proposed as an effective
approach to automate the complexity associated with the
management of modern-day software systems. Self-adaptability
endows a software system with the capability to adapt itself
at runtime to deal with changing operating conditions or
user requirements. With the term "Self-Organizing
ARchitectures" (SOAR) we refer to an engineering approach
for self-adaptive systems that combines architectural
approaches for self-adaptability with principles and
techniques from self-organization. Research works on
self-adaptive systems mostly take an architecture-centric
approach for developing top-down solutions, while research
works on self-organizing systems mostly take an
algorithmic/organizational approach for developing bottom-up
solutions. Whereas both lines of research have been successful
at alleviating some of the associated challenges of constructing
self-adaptive systems, persistent challenges remain, in
particular for building complex distributed self-adaptive
systems. The awareness grows that for building complex
distributed self-adaptive systems, principles from both
self-adaptive and self-organizing communities have to be
combined.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Engineering such complex systems puts forward questions such as:
What kind of bottom-up mechanisms can be exploited in order to
deal with uncertainty but at the same time provide the required
assurances? How to derive and exploit tactics, architectural
patterns, and reference architectures to realize robust,
scalable, and long-lived solutions? The general goal of SOAR is
to provide a middle ground that combines the architectural
perspective of self-adaptive systems with the algorithmic
perspective of self-organizing systems. Concretely, the workshop
aims to identify the critical challenges and advance state of
the art in:

- Software architecture (reference architectures, patterns,
tactics, etc.) for complex self-adaptive systems that integrate
principles from both self-adaptability and self-organization.
- Design (modeling, analysis, synthesis) of self-adaptive
systems that exploit principles of self-organization to deal
with uncertainty and large scale.
- Construction (frameworks, middleware, applications, etc.) of
software systems based on self-organizing architectures in
practice.


Topics of interest to SOAR include, but are not limited to:
- Architectural patterns and tactics for self-adaptive systems
- Reflective architectures for self-adaptive systems
- Self-representations in decentralized systems
- Decentralized control in dynamic software architecture
- Dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems
- Multi-agent system architectures for self-adaptation
- Control of emergent properties in self-adaptive systems
- Quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems
- Resilience of self-adaptive systems
- Self-adaptation and software product lines
- Application of principles from biology, sociology and physics
to engineer self-adaptive systems
- Applications of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems
- (Ultra) large-scale self-adaptive systems


SUBMISSION

SOAR welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological as well as application papers which focus on
the topics outlined above. Papers may report on completed
work, descriptions of work-in-progress, or discussion topics.

Submissions can be either regular or short papers:
- Regular papers should be between 6 and 8 pages, including the
text, figures, and references.
- Short papers should be between 2 and 4 pages, including the
text, figures, and references.

The submissions must be formatted according to the IEEE CS
proceedings format. Templates and instructions can be downloaded
from www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html

Papers can be submitted via EasyChair 'SOAR 2009'
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=3Dsoar09


PUBLICATION

Workshop notes with the accepted papers will be distributed at
the workshop. Accepted papers will also be made available in
electronic format on the workshop website before the workshop
starts.

All authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a
revised and extended version of their paper for the post-
proceedings that are planned to be published as a volume in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science of Springer. The papers will
undergo an additional review.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Rogerio de Lemos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jesper Andersson, Vaxjo University, Sweden


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK
Yuriy Brun, University of Southern California, USA
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Holger Giese, University of Postdam, Germany
Jorge J. Gomez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Mark Klein, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Marco Mamei, DISMI, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
Flavio Oquendo, Universite de Bretagne-Sud, France
Van Parunak, Vector Research Center, TTGSI, Ann Arbor, USA
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Mirko Viroli, Universite di Bologna, Italy

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