[agents] CfP: Workshop on "Quality Assurance for Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems" (QA4SASO15)

[Benedikt Eberhardinger]

Dear subscribers of the Agent mailing list,

please find attached a CfP for the Second Workshop on "Quality Assurance for Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems" (QA4SASO) to be held at SASO'15 in Cambridge, MA, USA. The deadline for submissions is July, 11th. Further details are given in the CfP.

Best regards,
Wolfgang Reif, Franz Wotawa, and Benedikt Eberhardinger.

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Second Edition of the Workshop on Quality Assurance for  Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems
at the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
QA4SASO 2015, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 21, 2015

Call for Papers
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Developing self-adaptive, self-organising systems (SASO) that fulfil the requirements of different stakeholders
is no simple matter. Quality assurance is required at each phase of the entire development process, starting
from requirements elicitation, system architecture design, agent design, and finally in the implementation
of the system. The quality of the artefacts from each development phase affects the rest of the system, since
all parts are closely related to each other. Furthermore, the shift of adaption decisions from design-time to
run-time - necessitated by the need of the systems to adapt to changing circumstances - makes it difficult, but
even more essential, to assure high quality standards in these kind of systems. Accordingly, the analysis and
evaluation of these self-* systems has to take into account the specific operational context to achieve high quality standards.

The necessity to investigate this field has already been recognized and addressed in different
communities but there exists so far no platform to bring all these communities together.
Therefore, the workshop will provide an open stage for discussions about the different aspects
of quality assurance for self-adaptive, self-organising systems. Examples for topics of interest are:

Modelling and verification
* formal models and modelling languages such as automata, state machines, process algebras, logics, HOL, Markov-chains, UML
* run-time verification and validation in SASO systems empirical evaluation

empirical evaluation
* measurement and evaluation of resilience, security, performance, reliability, and cost in SASO systems
* benchmarking of SASO systems

test-centred development
* test derivation, test selection, test coverage, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracles, test management, and monitoring
* automated support of any of the testing activities, rigid testing processes, test driven development

case studies, industrial applications, and experience reports

Important Dates
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Paper submission: July 11, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 31, 2015
Camera-ready version: August 10, 2015
Workshop: September 21, 2015

Website
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More information can be found at http://qa4saso.isse.de


Submissions
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The workshop organisers solicit original research papers, position papers, as well as experience reports
on the topics outlined in the description with a maximum length of 6 pages. At least three members of
the program committee will review each paper in a single-blind process. The decision will be based on the
motivation of the topic, the clarity of the claims of the contribution, the relevance of the research,
its evaluation, and the thoroughness of the related work comparison. Submitted papers must not have been
previously published or submitted elsewhere.

Publication
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The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a bundle with the main conference proceedings, presumably by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Paper Format
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Maximum of 6 pages, formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide


Workshop Organization
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Wolfgang Reif Augsburg University, Germany Institute for Software & Systems Engineering reif at isse.de<mailto:reif at isse.de>

Franz Wotawa Technical University of Graz, Austria Institute for Software Technology wotawa at ist.tugraz.at<mailto:wotawa at ist.tugraz.at>

Benedikt Eberhardinger Augsburg University, Germany Institute for Software & Systems Engineering eberhardinger at isse.de<mailto:eberhardinger at isse.de>


Program Committee
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Jacob Beal (BBN Technologies, USA)
Radu Calinescu (University of York, UK)
Schahram Dustdar (Technical University Wien, AUT)
Holger Giese (Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, GER)
Sebastian Götz (Technical University Dresden, GER)
Helmut Götz (Siemens AG, GER)
Paola Inverardi (University of L'Aquila, ITA)
Alexander Knapp (University of Augsburg, GER)
Cu D. Nguyen (University of Luxembourg, LUX)
Hella Seebach (University of Augsburg, GER)
To be completed.