[AISWorld] CfP SEAMS 2020: The 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems

[Simos Gerasimou]

[Apologies for any cross-posting]

# SEAMS 2020 - Call for Papers
The 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and
Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Seoul, South Korea, May 25-26, 2020
https://conf.researchr.org/home/seams-2020
Co-located with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2020)

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IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission: Friday 10 January 2020
* Paper submission: Friday 17 January 2020
* Notification: Monday 2 March 2020
* Camera-ready submission: Monday 16 March 2020

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

Foundational Concepts
* Self-* properties
* Understanding and taming uncertainty
* Runtime models and variability
* Consistent change of systems in operation
* Mixed-initiative and human-in-the-loop systems
* Situational awareness
* Ethical challenges of self-adaptive systems

Engineering Strategies
* Architecture and model-driven approaches
* Control theory
* Online analysis and planning
* Decentralized control
* Automatic synthesis techniques
* AI techniques (machine learning, game theory, etc.)
* Search-based techniques and learning
* Simulation
* Mechanisms to ensure security and privacy in self-adaptive loops

Engineering Activities
* Domain/environment analysis techniques
* Requirements elicitation techniques
* Architecture and design techniques
* Verification and validation activities & frameworks
* Systematic reuse (patterns, viewpoints, reference architectures, code,
etc.)
* Instrumentation of legacy systems (probing and effecting)
* Processes and methodologies
* Impact of DevOps on self-* systems

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, fog and edge computing
* Bioengineering
* Robotics
* Smart environments
* Smart user interfaces
* Privacy and security

 Artifacts & Evaluation
* Model problems and exemplars
* Resources including data sets, metrics, and software useful to
compare self-adaptive approaches
* Real-world demonstrators
* Controlled experiments, case studies, replication studies, surveys

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SUBMISSION SITES
* For Research, NIER, Experience, Demo, Doctoral Project, and Special
Session papers:
   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seams2020
* For Artifact papers:
   http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seams2020artifact


Best regards,
Simos

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Simos P. Gerasimou
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science | University of York | UK
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/simos
<http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~simos/>
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