<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear all,<br>I am co-organizing a workshop for The EternalS Coordination Action (<a href="https://www.eternals.eu/taskforces">https://www.eternals.eu/</a>). </div><div>This project provides a platform for communication and cross-fertilization among different research communities</div><div>for the development of futuristic technologies for very long-living systems.</div><div>Natural Language Processing is one of the four broad areas involved in the project.</div><div><br>You are now given the opportunity of voicing your ideas at the workshop that is being organized in May 2011. </div><div>The First International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS'11) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on May 3</div><div> -- the day before the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11).<br><br>Especially if you are going to FET11, you should definitely consider submitting your work and/or attending the event. </div><div>Not only the workshop will provide formal proceedings, but also the outcome of the workshop will be included in the </div><div>roadmap that the EternalS coordination action is preparing for the European Community. </div><div>The roadmap will influence the definition of the Work Programme of 2013, a clear opportunity for you to make your </div><div>opinion matter. For this purpose, the workshop will sport short papers presenting position statements and research </div><div>roadmaps.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alessandro </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>=========================</div><div><br></div><div>1st International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS-WS 11)</div><div><br></div><div>May 3, 2011 - Budapest, Hungary</div><div><a href="https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/">https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Co-located with the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11) <a href="http://www.fet11.eu">http://www.fet11.eu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sponsored by the European Coordination Action EternalS:</div><div>Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SCOPE</div><div><br></div><div>Methods making systems capable of adapting to changes in user requirements and application domains are key research</div><div>ICT areas. Adaptation and evolution depend on several dimensions, e.g., time, location, and security conditions, </div><div>expressing the diversity of the context in which systems operate. A design based on effective modeling of these dimensions </div><div>constitutes a meaningful step towards the realization of Trustworthy Eternal Systems.</div><div>The first Eternal Systems workshop aims at creating the conditions for mutual awareness and cross-fertilization among</div><div>broad ICT areas such as: Learning Systems for Knowledge Management and Representation, Software Systems, </div><div>Networked Systems and Secure Systems. These share similar objectives such as adaptation, evolvability and flexibility</div><div>for the development of long living and versatile systems. The global analysis of the above features result in interesting </div><div>cross-cutting research topics as for example automatic learning of systems capable of analyzing knowledge and diversity</div><div>with respect to their complex semantic interactions and evolution over time. Also interesting is the exploitation of formal methods</div><div>for the design and networking of adaptive and evolving software systems. Security policies and fully connected environment</div><div> are other fundamental directions of effective present and future systems.</div><div><br></div><div>The workshop aims at bringing together experts and stakeholders of the above technology. To promote discussion and </div><div>collaborations among stakeholders paper submissions to the workshop are welcomed. Contributions that present cross-area</div><div>work are particular interesting, such as: (i) diversity awareness & management, (ii) time awareness & management, and </div><div>(iii) self-adaptation & evolution by automatic learning.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>VOICE YOUR IDEAS</div><div><br></div><div>The contributions and the outcome of the discussion will be considered for inclusion in the roadmap that the EternalS </div><div>coordination action is designing for the European community: <a href="https://www.eternals.eu/">https://www.eternals.eu/</a></div><div>The roadmap will be an input to the European Community for the definition of the Work Programme of 2013.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS</div><div><br></div><div>The organizers solicit original submissions from both industry and academic experts. The topics of interest include, but are</div><div>not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>(i) Learning Systems for Knowledge/Information Management and Representation</div><div>This area concerns with research for the development of machine learning models with applications mainly in the domain of </div><div>natural language processing.</div><div>* Practical and theoretical machine learning approaches and architectures</div><div>* Knowledge Representation</div><div>* Information Extraction</div><div>* Information Retrieval</div><div>* Data Mining</div><div>* Semantic Web</div><div>* Speech Processing</div><div>* Image processing</div><div>* Human Computer Interaction</div><div><br></div><div>(ii) Software Systems</div><div>* Modeling languages</div><div>* Feature description languages</div><div>* Software product lines</div><div>* Feature-oriented programming</div><div>* Delta-oriented programming</div><div>* Architectural models of diversity</div><div>* Formal Methods</div><div>* Software evolution</div><div>* Component-based systems</div><div><br></div><div>(iii) Networked Systems</div><div>This area deals with the connection of networked systems over time, hence addressing eternal interoperability. </div><div>Related topics include but are not limited to:</div><div>* Connector theory</div><div>* Models@runtime</div><div>* Protocol learning</div><div>* Protocol synthesis</div><div>* Runtime verification & validation</div><div>* Model-based monitoring</div><div>* Interoperable security, privacy & trust</div><div><br></div><div>(iv) Secure Systems</div><div>This topic area deals with supporting the supervised evolution of secure systems from the development, deployment, </div><div>and operation perspectives. Research in the context of the so-called Future Internet is particularly welcome. </div><div>Topics include, but are not limited to:</div><div>* Requirements engineering and risk assessment for secure and evolvable systems</div><div>* Software architectures for secure and evolvable systems</div><div>* Modeling techniques for secure and evolvable systems</div><div>* Model-based security techniques for secure and evolvable systems</div><div>* Secure programming</div><div>* Verification and testing</div><div>* Software engineering processes for secure and evolvable systems</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline for paper submission: April 10, 2011</div><div>Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2011</div><div>Submission of camera-ready: April 27, 2011</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION</div><div><br></div><div>To promote discussion and the topics of the workshop, scientific articles are invited in two different format contributions:</div><div>1. full papers of max. 10 pages including references, pictures and tables, presenting novel research results;</div><div>2. short papers of max. 4 pages including references, pictures and tables, presenting initial ideas and position statements.</div><div><br></div><div>The contributions will be peer reviewed by the Program Committee (single-blind review process) and accepted papers will </div><div>be published in the post-proceedings. The selected contributions will appear in the ACM International Conference Proceedings</div><div>(ICP) Series (approval pending). For further details, see <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/icp_series">http://www.acm.org/publications/icp_series</a></div><div><br></div><div>Submissions must follow the format provided at the following link: <a href="https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/submission.php">https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/submission.php</a></div><div>They must be sent in PDF by email to <a href="mailto:eternals-ws-2011@cs.kuleuven.be">eternals-ws-2011@cs.kuleuven.be</a>. Further, submissions should clearly indicate the </div><div>type of contribution (full/short paper) and the topic area, i.e., (i) Learning Systems for Knowledge Management and Representation,</div><div>(ii) Software Systems, (iii) Networked Systems, (iv) Secure Systems or (v) Interdisciplinary.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PARTICIPATION</div><div><br></div><div>Anybody interested can participate to the workshop. There is no participation fee but the attendees should register at the following</div><div>link: <a href="https://www.eternals.eu//workshop-2011/registration.php">https://www.eternals.eu//workshop-2011/registration.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>Participants to the FET11 conference are very welcome. Further, attendants to the EternalS workshop are warmly invited to prolong </div><div>their stay in Budapest and participate to the FET11 conference.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANIZATION</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy</div><div>Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee (provisional: to be extended)</div><div><br></div><div>Roberto Basili, University of Rome Tor Vergara</div><div>James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland</div><div>Anna Corazza, University of Naples Federico II, Italy</div><div>Sergio Di Martino, University of Naples Federico II, Italy</div><div>Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria</div><div>Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento</div><div>Reiner Hähnle, Chalmers University, Sweden</div><div>Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France</div><div>Richard Johansson, University of Trento, Italy</div><div>Paul Lewis, University of Southampton, UK</div><div>Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S - University of Hannover, Germany</div><div>Claudia Niederee, L3S Research Centre, Germany</div><div>Julien Masanès, European Archive, France</div><div>Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy</div><div>Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary University of London, UK</div><div>Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium</div><div>Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig, Germany</div><div>Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany</div><div>Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany</div><div><br></div><br><br></body></html>