cura ipsum IFIP WG8.1 working conference on self healing inforamtion systems

Call for Papers and Working Sessions

Cura Ipsum

IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on

Self-Healing Information Systems

Klagenfurt, Austria

July 5-7, 2006

http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/CuraIpsum/

Conference Aims and Objectives 

Since the early 1980's, the IFIP WG8.1 conferences have provided a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences in the field of Information System Engineering. The working conferences have a tradition of sensing and promoting new and innovative topics for information systems development. This tradition will be continued by the conference “cura ipsum” which will be held in Klagenfurt, Austria. The conference programme will feature invited talks, paper presentations, workshops and interactive panel sessions and should raise attention to the great challenge – building self-healing information systems.

Conference Theme 

Self-healing software systems have been named as one of the great challenges for IT research in the next decade. Self-healing systems are considered a major technique to cope with the increasing complexity of modern information systems which rely on the proper functioning of numerous components, many of them heterogeneous, distributed and in different spheres of control. Self-healing information systems will monitor their state and their operations, validate the assumptions they have about their environments, and react to observed or expected malfunctions. For this end, self-healing information systems need monitoring, diagnosing and repairing capabilities. Self healing qualities of information systems have to be incorporated in the design of information systems and adequate design techniques and design validation techniques need to be developed. Last but not least, users have to be taken into account: users may c!
 ontribute to discover and solve problems on one hand, and on the other hand, human failures and human involvement and information needs could complicate repair.  

Self healing information systems are not yet established as a research topic in itself. Techniques and methods from traditionally different subfields of informatics will be needed to achieve the high goal. It is the ambition of this working conference to bring expertise together to gain insight into the research approaches aiming at providing support needed for self-healing information systems.

Relevant Topics (indicative)

Models, Methods and Tools for IS Engineering

Failure Tolerance

IS Monitoring

IS Diagnosis

Exception Handling

Transactional Process Characteristics

IS Repair

Quality Criteria for IS Design

Recovery and Recoverability

IS Systems for Catastrophe Recovery

Usability Issues in Failure Handling

Design evaluation

Security aspects of self-healing systems

Reflective Information Systems/Models

Call for papers 

The Program Committee solicits original technical papers either in the area of the main conference theme or relevant to the list of topics given above. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words. All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to the conference theme and topics. 

The accepted contributions will be included in the proceedings published in the IFIP series by Springer Verlag.

Authors are invited to use the style files provided by Springer Verlag already for submission.

See ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/ifip/authinst.pdf for details.

Submissions must be free of copyright infringements, contain original work not published or submitted elsewhere. Authors submit contributions electronically via the interface given at the website of the working conference.

Call for Working Sessions 

Working sessions will be held in conjunction with the conference on topics in line with the conference theme and topics. Working sessions are typically one or two session slots (i.e. 90 or 180 minutes) long and should stimulate intense discussion on new topics. There should be a limited number of participants, impulse presentations, position statements and ample room for discussion. If appropriate, the results of working sessions can be published in the proceedings. We invite proposals for working sessions stating the topic and overall objectives of the workshop and giving a short curriculum vitae of the proposed organiser(s). Proposals should be sent to the general chair (johann.eder@...). 

Important Dates 

Paper submission:  March 30th, 2006

Notification of acceptance:  May 15th, 2006

Final version for participants’ proceedings: June 15th, 2006

Camera ready copy for post-conference proceedings: July 15th, 2006

Conference: July 5th-7th, 2006

Conference Organisation 

General Chairs

Johann Eder, Universität Wien

Program Co-Chairs:

Barbara Pernici, Politecnico Milano,

Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Organising Chair :

Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Program Committee members (to be completed)

Christoph Bussler, USA 

Fabio Casati, USA 

Luca Console, Italy 

Marie-Odile Cordier, France 

Jan Dietz, The Netherlands 

Asuman Dogac, Turkey 

Shahram Dustar, Austria 

Maraigrazia Fugini, Italy 

Manfred Jeusfeld, The Netherlands 

Hannu Kangassalo, Finland 

Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria 

Angelos D. Keromytis, USA 

Manuel Kolp, Canada 

John Krogstie, Norway 

Michele Missikoff, Italy 

Thimios Panagos, USA 

Mike Papzouglou, The Netherlands 

Oscar Pastor, Spain 

Cesare Pautasso, Switzerland 

Colette Roland, France 

Matti Rossi, Finland 

Motoshi Saeki, Japan 

Amit Sheth, USA 

Markus Stumptner, Australia 

A Min Tjoa, Austria 

Paolo Traverso, Italy 

Benkt Wangler, Sweden