CALL FOR PAPERS

 DSN 2008 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008)

                Anchorage, Alaska - USA
                      27 June 2008

              http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/wads


MOTIVATION AND THEME

This workshop will continue the initiative, which started five years ago, of
bringing together the international communities of dependability and software
architectures. The first workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems was
organised during the International Conference on Software Engineering 2002
(ICSE 2002). Since then seven workshops were organised and four books were
published. This series of workshops have shown to be a fertile ground for both
communities to clarify previous approaches, thus helping to promote new topical
areas where the most promising research may lie, while avoiding the reinvention
of the wheel.

The main focus of this series of workshops is to address at the architectural
level the structuring, modelling, and analysis of dependable software systems.
During DSN 2008 WADS the underlying theme will be Dependable Service Oriented
Architectures.


OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities of software
architectures and dependability to discuss the state of research and
practice when dealing with dependability issues at the architecture
level. We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia
on all topics related to software architectures for dependable systems.
These include, but are not limited to:

    * Rigorous design: architectural description languages;
    architectural patterns; formal development; architectural views;
    architectural support for evolution; integrators (wrappers) for
    dependability; representation of fault assumptions;
    * Verification & validation: architectural inspection techniques;
    theorem proving; type checking; model checking; architecture-based
    fault injection; architecture-based conformance testing; simulation;
    * Fault tolerance: redundancy and diversity at the architectural
    level; error confinement; architectural monitoring; dynamically
    adaptable architectures; exception handling in software
    architectures; tolerating architectural mismatches; architectural
    support for self-healing, self-repairing, self-stabilizing systems;
    support for adaptable fault tolerance;
    * System evaluation: assurance based development; dependability
    modeling and analysis in software architectures; run-time checks of
    dependability models at the architectural level; tradeoff between
    dependability and cost;
    * Enabling technologies: model driven architectures; component based
    development; aspects oriented development; middleware;
    * Application areas: safety-critical systems; critical
    infrastructures; mobile systems; embedded systems; service oriented
    architectures: e-commerce, e-business, e-government;


PARTICIPATION, SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS

The workshop is open to all researchers, system developers and users who are
involved with or have an interest in dependability at the architecture level.
We encourage all the prospective participants to submit an extended abstract,
work-in-progress report or position paper.

The submissions must conform to the proceedings publication format (IEEE
Conference style) and should not exceed six pages, including all text,
references, appendices, and figures. They should explain the contribution to
the field and the novelty of the work, making clear the current status of the
work. Workshop paper submissions should be sent electronically (preferably in
PDF format), by the submission date, through the Web submission system
accessible from the Workshop home page. The submissions will be reviewed by at
least three members of the Program Committee. The papers will be published in a
supplemental volume of the DSN Proceedings.


TENTATIVE IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: ** 17 March 2008 **
Author notification: 14 April 2008
Publication ready copy: 2 May 2008


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, France
Cristina Gacek, Newcastle University, UK


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Roberto Baldoni (Italy), Felicita Di Giandomenico (Italy), Wolfgang Emmerich
(UK), Peter Feiler (USA), Lars Grunske (Australia), Ricardo Jiménez Peris
(Spain), Eliane Martins (Brazil), Nenad Medvidovic (USA), Henry Muccini
(Italy), Priya Narasimhan (USA), Rick Schlichting (USA), Jean-Bernard Stefani
(France), Elisabeth A Strunk (USA), Francois Taiani (UK), Aad van Moorsel (UK),
Jie Xu (UK)