November 17-19, 2008

Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

The SERENE 2008 workshop is an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in Software Engineering for Resilient Systems. SERENE 2008 views resilient systems as open distributed systems that have capabilities to dynamically adapt, in a predictable way, to unexpected and harmful events, including faults and errors. Engineering such systems is a challenging issue which needs urgent attention from and combined efforts by people working in various domains. Achieving this objective is a very complex task, since it implies reasoning explicitly and in a consistent way about systems functional and non-functional characteristics.

SERENE advocates the idea that resilience should be explicitly included into traditional software engineering theories and practices and should become an integral part of all steps of software development. As current software engineering practices tend to either capture only normal behaviour, or to deal with all abnormal situations only at the late development phases, new software engineering methods and tools need to be developed to support explicit handling of abnormal situations through the whole software life cycle. Moreover, every phase of the software development process needs to be enriched with the phase-specific resilience means.



The following constitutes a list of the key software engineering domains that the SERENE workshop will focus on. This list should not, however, be considered as closed or technically restrictive:

- Formal and semi-formal modelling of resilience properties
- Re-engineering for resilience
- Software development processes for resilience
- Requirement engineering processes for resilience
- Model Driven Engineering of resilient systems
- Verification and validation of resilient systems
- Error and fault handling in the software life-cycle
- Resilience through exception handling in the software life-cycle
- Frameworks and design patterns for resilience
- Software architectures for resilience
- Component-based development and resilience
- System structuring for resilience
- Atomic actions
- Dynamic resilience mechanisms
- Resilience prediction
- Resilience metadata
- Reasoning and adaptation services for improving and ensuring resilience
- Intelligent and adaptive approaches to engineering resilient systems
- Engineering of self-healing autonomic systems
- Dynamic reconfiguration for resilience
- Run-time management of resilience requirements
- CASE tools for developing resilient systems.



Nicolas Guelfi (University of Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG)
Henry Muccini (University of L'Aquila, ITALY)
Patrizio Pelliccione (University of L'Aquila, ITALY)
Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle University, UK)

	ERCIM - The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (http://www.ercim.org)
	FNR - Luxembourg National Research Fund (http://www.fnr.lu)
	FP7 DEPLOY IP on Industrial deployment of system engineering methods providing high dependability and productivity - http://deploy-project.eu)
	LASSY - Laboratory for Advanced Software Systems, University of Luxembourg (http://lassy.uni.lu)
	School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK (http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk)
	ReSIST - Resilience for Survivability in IST. A European Network of Excellence (http://www.resist-noe.org)

	ACM SIGSOFT (http://www.sigsoft.org)
	ReSIST - Resilience for Survivability in IST. A European Network of Excellence (http://www.resist-noe.org)

SERENE is a new event joining together two series of events:
- RISE workshop: http://rise.uni.lu sponsored by ERCIM
- EFTS workshop: http://efts.uni.lu

Since SERENE 08 is a RISE/EFTS joint workshop, you can consult the previous editions of RISE/EFTS. Post-proceedings of RISE were published as volumes in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Concerning EFTS 2006, a post-proceeding book was published in World Scientific Series on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering - Vol. 19 (http://www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/6362.html). The EFTS 2007 proceedings are available from the ACM Digital Library
(http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1316550&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=7098745&CFTOKEN=49838457) and a special journal issue is currently in preparation for publication in the International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering (http://www.crlpublishing.co.uk/journal.asp?j=csse&s=Aims%20and%20Scope).


More information:

• Call for Papers
• Papers Submission
• Workshop program
• Registration
• Location
• Hotels
• Slides

Important dates:

Submissions due	June 30, 2008 (extended)
Notification of acceptance	July 28, 2008
Camera ready due by	September 15, 2008

Contact:

For more information, or to be placed on our mailing list, please use the contact
details below, referring explicitly to SERENE 2008:

SERENE 2008 Secretariat
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University (UK)
Fax: +44-191-222-8788
E-mail: Jodi Hossbach: jodi.hossbach@ncl.ac.uk
Web Site: http://serene2008.uni.lu

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