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WORKSHOP Models@run.time
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/bencomo/MRT
At the ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems MODELS'08, 28 September - 3 October, Toulouse, France ********************************************************************** Important Dates:
Submission deadline: Wednesday August 13th
Notification of acceptance: September 7th (or before early registration deadline at MODELS08)
Workshop at MODELS: Tuesday 30th September
Program Committee
Betty Cheng Michigan State University, USA Fabio M. Costa Federal University of Goias, Brazil Anthony Finkelstein UCL, UK Jeff Gray UAB, USA Oystein Haugen SINTEF, Norway Jozef Hooman ESI, The Netherlands Gang Huang Peking University, China Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila P.F.Linington University of Kent, UK Jean-Marc Jezequel Triskell Team,IRISA, France Rui Silva Moreira UFP, INESC Porto, Portugal Andrey Nechypurenko Siemens, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz University of Berne Eugenio Scalise UCV, Venezuela Arnor Solberg SINTEF, Norway Thaís Vasconcelos Batista UFRN, Brazil Steffen Zschaler T.U. Dresden, Germany
Organizing Committee Nelly Bencomo(main contact), Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Freddy Munoz, INRIA, France
Goal The goal of this workshop is to look at issues related to developing appropriate model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing the execution of systems. This is the first workshop to address this theme and its treatment requires the bringing together of a variety of communities including researchers working on model-driven software development, software architectures, reflection (including for example architectural reflection), and autonomic and self healing systems. Discussions in the workshop will address questions such as: What should a runtime model look like? How can the models be maintained at runtime? What are the best approaches to follow when developing runtime models?
Workshop Format
The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience and ideas related to this new and emerging field. You are invited to apply for attendance by sending a full-paper (8-10 pages) or a short paper (2-4 pages) in PDF or PS The paper must conform to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs (it is the same format of the Conference, see conference website for more information). Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the MoDELS 2008 early registration deadline. Candidates for best papers can be just taken from the category of full-papers. A primary deliverable of the workshop is a report that clearly outlines (1) the research issues and challenges in terms of specific research problems in the area, and (2) a synopsis of existing model- based solutions that target some well-defined aspect of monitoring and managing the execution of systems. Potential attendees are strongly encouraged to submit position papers that clearly identify research issues and challenges, present techniques that address well-defined problems in the area, and are supported by small demos. The first part of the workshop will focus on identifying the research issues and challenges and framing an initial set of research questions. The second part of the workshop will focus on discussing approaches for tackling the problems; in particular, the integration of runtime models with model-driven development approaches will be discussed.
The workshop aims to: - Integrate and combine research ideas from the areas cited above. - Provide a "state-of-the-research" assessment expressed in terms of research issues, challenges, and accomplishments. This assessment can be used to guide research in the area. - Continue to build a network of researchers in this area, building on the initial event help last year. - Plan and promote further events on these topics. We strongly encourage authors to address the following topics. Labelled research topics with (*) are crucially important: - What a runtime model looks like and how does it evolve? (*) - How can runtime models be maintained? (*) - How can runtime models be validated? - What abstractions over runtime phenomena are useful? - How are the abstractions tied to the types of adaptations supported? (*) - How do these abstractions evolve over time? (*) - Are new abstractions created during runtime? (*) - How are the causal relationships with executing code realized? (*) - What is the role of reflection in maintaining the causal connection between models and run-time system? - The relevance and suitability of different model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing systems during runtime - Examples of how models can be used to validate and verify the behaviour of the system at runtime (*) - Compatibility (or tension) between different model-driven approaches - How do models at other phases of the software engineering lifecycle relate to the corresponding run-time models? - Small demos and tools that support the use of models@run.time (*)
-- Per Ardua Ad Astra -- Freddy Oersted Mun~oz Ramirez Phone: +33 299 847 298 Ph.D. in Computer Science student e-mail: freddy.munoz@irisa.fr IRISA Rennes cedex, France web: http://freddy.cellcore.org