[agents] SEAMS 2018 - Deadline Extended (Jan 29)

[Ingrid Nunes]

Both the abstract and paper submission deadlines are extended to January 29.
This new deadline is strict and applies to all solicited types of papers.

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SEAMS 2018 - Call for Papers
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The 13th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive
and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018

http://2018.seams-symposia.org

Co-located with the 40th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE 2018)


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission: 12 January 2018 (AoE) -- extended to 29 January 2018 (AoE)
Paper Submission: 19 January 2018 (AoE) -- extended to 29 January 2018 (AoE)
Notification: 19 February 2018
Camera Ready: 2 March 2018


**PLEASE NOTE:**

Both the abstract and paper submission deadlines are extended to
January 29. This new deadline is strict and applies to all solicited
types of papers.

Follow SEAMS2018
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SEAMSconf
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/seams2018


SCOPE

Modern and emerging software systems, such as industrial Internet of
Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, cloud and mobile computing, have to
operate without interruption. Self-adaptation and self-management
enable these systems to adapt themselves at runtime to preserve and
optimize their operation and quality in the presence of uncertain
changes in their operating environment, resource variability, new user
needs, attacks, intrusions, and faults.

Approaches to complement software-based systems with self-managing and
self-adaptive capabilities are an important area of research and
development, offering solutions that leverage advances in fields such
as software architecture, fault-tolerant computing, programming
languages, run-time program analysis and verification, robotics, among
others. Additionally, research in this field is informed by related
areas such as control systems, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, agent-based systems, and biologically inspired
computing. The SEAMS symposium focuses on applying software
engineering to these approaches, including methods, techniques,
processes and tools that can be used to support self-* properties like
self-protection, self-healing, self-optimization, and
self-configuration.

The objective of SEAMS is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse areas to investigate, discuss, and examine
the fundamental principles, the state of the art, and critical
challenges of engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

All topics related to engineering self-adaptive and self-managing
systems, including:

Foundational Concepts
* Understanding and taming uncertainty
* Runtime models and variability
* Online analysis and planning
* Consistent change of systems in operation
* Mixed-initiative and human-in-the-loop systems

Adaptation Objectives
* Self-* properties
* Automatic configuration, openness
* Security and privacy (SEAMS'18 will devote a special session on this topic)

Engineering Strategies
* Architecture and model-driven approaches
* Control theory
* Automatic synthesis techniques
* Search-based techniques and learning

Engineering Activities
* Requirements elicitation techniques
* Architecture and design techniques
* Systematic reuse (e.g., patterns, viewpoints, reference architectures, code)
* Instrumentation of legacy systems (probing and effecting)
* Processes and methodologies
* Adaptation in the context of DevOps
* Real-world demonstrators
* Controlled experiments, case studies, replication studies, surveys

Analytical Methods
* Runtime decision-making (multi-objective, multi-layered, distributed)
* Analysis and testing frameworks
* Verification and validation
* Simulation

Languages
* Formal notations for modeling and analyzing self-* properties
* Domain-specific language support for self-adaptation
* Programming language support for self-adaptation

Application Areas
* Industrial internet of things
* Cyber-physical systems
* Cloud and edge computing
* Robotics
* Smart environments
* Smart user interfaces

Artifacts
* Model problems and exemplars
* Resources including data sets, metrics, and software useful to
compare self-adaptive approaches


PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

SEAMS solicits different types of papers:

* Long papers (10 pages main text, inclusive of figures, tables,
appendices, etc.; plus references up to two additional pages). Long
papers should: (1) clearly describe innovative and original research,
or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field, or (3)
explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world
case.

* Comparative study papers (10 pages main text, plus references up to
two additional pages). Comparative study papers should clearly
describe a research problem and the artifact that is used to evaluate
and compare at least two different solutions to the problem. The
artifact used in a comparative study can be any artifact that is
formally published, within or outside the SEAMS community. Comparative
study papers are regular research papers, as long papers.

* Short papers (6 pages + 1 page references). Short papers should
describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an
early stage of development. To that end, short papers will be reviewed
with dedicated review guidelines.

* Extended abstracts on "security and adaptivity" (2 pages including
references). SEAMS 2018 will organize a session devoted to "security
and adaptivity" led by David Garlan. Besides other types of
submissions, interested authors are invited to submit an extended
abstract in which they provide an argumentation either in favor or
against the statement "security is not just another quality attribute
in self-adaptive systems."

* Artifact papers (6 pages + 1 page references). Artifact papers
should describe a model problem, an exemplar, or useful set of
resources for the broader community. A model problem provides a
description of a problem that poses and highlights fundamental or
characteristic challenges in the area of self-adaptive systems that
should be addressed. An exemplar is an implementation of a system that
can be used with multiple self-adaptive approaches. A data repository
provides data (e.g., logging data, system traces, survey raw data)
useful in other studies. A framework offers tools and services
illustrating new approaches to self-adaptation that could be used by
other researchers in different contexts.

* Doctoral project papers (4 pages + 1 page references). A doctoral
project paper should describe the dissertation research of a PhD
student in the field of self-adaptive and self-managing systems. This
paper has to be authored by the student only. A suggestion for
structuring the paper is as follows:
 - The problem to be solved in your thesis (justify why this problem
is important and make clear that previous research has not yet solved
that problem).
 - Your research hypothesis (claim).
 - The expected contributions of your dissertation research.
 - How you plan to evaluate your results and to present credible
evidence of your results to the community.
 - A description of the results achieved so far and a planned timeline
for completion.
Students of accepted papers will have a short time slot to introduce
their research and interact with the audience during a poster session.
Instructions for formatting posters will be provided after the
notification. We encourage submissions from PhD students at any stage
of their research.


Please note that SEAMS 2018 will not use double blind reviewing. It
will continue using single blind reviewing.

All submitted papers and artifacts will be reviewed by at least three
members of the program committee. Papers must not have been previously
published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers must conform to
ACM formatting guidelines (see ICSE 2018 style guidelines), and
submitted via EasyChair. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium
proceedings that will be published in the ACM and IEEE digital
libraries. The official publication date of an accepted paper will be
the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital
Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of
ICSE2018. The official publication date affects the deadline for any
patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional
pages in the proceedings is not allowed.

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seams2018

Accepted artifact papers will also be archived on the Dagstuhl
Artifacts Series (DARTS).

Symposia-related email should be addressed to:
  seams-2018-org at cs.kuleuven.be


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Program Chair: Danny Weyns, KU Leuven, Belgium / Linnaeus Univ., Sweden
Artifact Chair: Tomas Bures, Charles University, Czech Republic
Doctoral Projects Chair: Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano,Italy
Security & Adaptivity Session Chair: David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Publicity Chairs: Ingrid Nunes, Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
                  Thomas Vogel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Web Chair: Thomas Vogel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Proceedings Chair: Gabriel A. Moreno, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Local Chair: Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden


STEERING COMMITTEE

Jesper Andersson, Sweden
Nelly Bencomo, UK
Gregor Engels, Germany
Rogerio de Lemos, UK
David Garlan, USA
Carlo Ghezzi, Italy
Paola Inverardi, Italy
Marin Litoiu (Chair), Canada
Sam Malek, USA
Hausi A. Müller, Canada
John Mylopoulos, Italy
Bashar Nuseibeh, UK & Ireland
Bradley Schmerl, USA
Danny Weyns, Belgium & Sweden
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Dr. Ingrid Nunes
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Understanding Application-Level Caching in Web Applications: A
Comprehensive Introduction and Survey of State-of-the-Art Approaches,
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