Appel: The First International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS'11)

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:25:28 -0700
From: Alessandro Moschitti <moschitti at disi.unitn.it>
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Dear all,

I am co-organizing a workshop for The EternalS Coordination Action
(https://www.eternals.eu/ ).

This project provides a platform for communication and cross-
fertilization among different research communities for the development
of futuristic technologies for very long-living systems.

Learning Systems for Knowledge/Information Management and
Representation is one of the four broad areas involved in the project.

You are now given the opportunity of voicing your ideas at the
workshop that is being organized in May 2011.

The First International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS'11) will
be held in Budapest, Hungary, on May 3 -- the day before the European
Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11).

Especially if you are going to FET11, you should definitely consider
submitting your work and/or attending the event.
Not only the workshop will provide formal proceedings, but also the
outcome of the workshop will be included in the roadmap that the
EternalS coordination action is preparing for the European Community.
The roadmap will influence the definition of the Work Programme of
2013, a clear opportunity for you to make your opinion matter. For
this purpose, the workshop will sport short papers presenting position
statements and research roadmaps.

Best Regards

Alessandro

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1st International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS-WS 11)

May 3, 2011 - Budapest, Hungary
https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/

Co-located with the European Future Technologies Conference and  
Exhibition (FET11) http://www.fet11.eu

Sponsored by the European Coordination Action EternalS:
Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge


SCOPE

Methods making systems capable of adapting to changes in user
requirements and application domains are key research ICT
areas. Adaptation and evolution depend on several dimensions, e.g.,
time, location, and security conditions, expressing the diversity of
the context in which systems operate. A design based on effective
modeling of these dimensions constitutes a meaningful step towards the
realization of Trustworthy Eternal Systems.
The first Eternal Systems workshop aims at creating the conditions for
mutual awareness and cross-fertilization among broad ICT areas such
as: Learning Systems for Knowledge Management and Representation,
Software Systems, Networked Systems and Secure Systems. These share
similar objectives such as adaptation, evolvability and flexibility
for the development of long living and versatile systems. The global
analysis of the above features result in interesting cross-cutting
research topics as for example automatic learning of systems capable
of analyzing knowledge and diversity with respect to their complex
semantic interactions and evolution over time. Also interesting is the
exploitation of formal methods for the design and networking of
adaptive and evolving software systems. Security policies and fully
connected environment are other fundamental directions of effective
present and future systems.

The workshop aims at bringing together experts and stakeholders of the
above technology. To promote discussion and collaborations among
stakeholders paper submissions to the workshop are
welcomed. Contributions that present cross-area work are particular
interesting, such as: (i) diversity awareness & management, (ii) time
awareness & management, and (iii) self-adaptation & evolution by
automatic learning.


VOICE YOUR IDEAS

The contributions and the outcome of the discussion will be considered
for inclusion in the roadmap that the EternalS coordination action is
designing for the European community: https://www.eternals.eu/
The roadmap will be an input to the European Community for the
definition of the Work Programme of 2013.


TOPICS

The organizers solicit original submissions from both industry and
academic experts. The topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:

(i) Learning Systems for Knowledge/Information Management and  
    Representation
This area concerns with research for the development of machine
learning models with applications mainly in the domain of natural
language processing.
* Practical and theoretical machine learning approaches and  
  architectures
* Knowledge Representation
* Information Extraction
* Information Retrieval
* Data Mining
* Semantic Web
* Speech Processing
* Image processing
* Human Computer Interaction

(ii) Software Systems
* Modeling languages
* Feature description languages
* Software product lines
* Feature-oriented programming
* Delta-oriented programming
* Architectural models of diversity
* Formal Methods
* Software evolution
* Component-based systems

(iii) Networked Systems
This area deals with the connection of networked systems over time,
hence addressing eternal interoperability.
Related topics include but are not limited to:
* Connector theory
* Models at runtime
* Protocol learning
* Protocol synthesis
* Runtime verification & validation
* Model-based monitoring
* Interoperable security, privacy & trust

(iv) Secure Systems
This topic area deals with supporting the supervised evolution of
secure systems from the development, deployment, and operation
perspectives. Research in the context of the so-called Future Internet
is particularly welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Requirements engineering and risk assessment for secure and  
  evolvable systems
* Software architectures for secure and evolvable systems
* Modeling techniques for secure and evolvable systems
* Model-based security techniques for secure and evolvable systems
* Secure programming
* Verification and testing
* Software engineering processes for secure and evolvable systems


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: April 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2011
Submission of camera-ready: April 27, 2011


SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION

To promote discussion and the topics of the workshop, scientific  
articles are invited in two different format contributions:

1. full papers of max. 10 pages including references, pictures and
   tables, presenting novel research results;

2. short papers of max. 4 pages including references, pictures and
   tables, presenting initial ideas and position statements.

The contributions will be peer reviewed by the Program Committee
(single-blind review process) and accepted papers will be published in
the post-proceedings. The selected contributions will appear in the
ACM International Conference Proceedings (ICP) Series (approval
pending). For further details, see
http://www.acm.org/publications/icp_series

Submissions must follow the format provided at the following link:
https://www.eternals.eu/workshop-2011/submission.php They must be sent
in PDF by email to eternals-ws-2011 at cs.kuleuven.be.  Further,
submissions should clearly indicate the type of contribution
(full/short paper) and the topic area, i.e., (i) Learning Systems for
Knowledge Management and Representation, (ii) Software Systems, (iii)
Networked Systems, (iv) Secure Systems or (v) Interdisciplinary.

PARTICIPATION

Anybody interested can participate to the workshop. There is no
participation fee but the attendees should register at the following
link: https://www.eternals.eu//workshop-2011/registration.php

Participants to the FET11 conference are very welcome. Further,
attendants to the EternalS workshop are warmly invited to prolong
their stay in Budapest and participate to the FET11 conference.


ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs

Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Program Committee (provisional: to be extended)

Roberto Basili, University of Rome Tor Vergara
James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Anna Corazza, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Sergio Di Martino, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
Reiner Hähnle, Chalmers University, Sweden
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Richard Johansson, University of Trento, Italy
Paul Lewis, University of Southampton, UK
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S - University of Hannover, Germany
Claudia Niederee, L3S Research Centre, Germany
Julien Masanès, European Archive, France
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany

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