LASSY 2018 - Live Adaptation of Software SYstems 2018

When developing current-day software systems, their deployment and usage environments should be considered carefully, in order to understand the adaptations those systems might need to undergo to interact with other systems and with their environment. Moreover, due to the portability, mobility and increasingly evolutionary nature of software systems, such adaptations should be enacted even while the system is running. Developing such software systems can prove challenging, and many seemingly different techniques to address this concern have been proposed over the last couple of years.
The intention of the LASSY workshop is to congregate all topics relevant to dynamic adaptation and run-time evolution of software systems, ranging from a computer science perspective covering the domains of programming languages, model-driven software development, software and service composition, context-aware databases, software variability, requirements engineering, UI adaptation and other domains, to a human perspective covering sociological or ethical implications of dynamic software systems. The workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack.
LASSY welcomes contributions proposing new techniques to achieve or manage the live adaptation of software systems from a programming, data, or user interface perspective. Likewise, contributions from industrial partners presenting new application domains in which the use of live adaptations would benefit the domain will be highly regarded. Similarly, we are especially interested in tool-oriented submissions evidencing the use of tools to facilitate the development, management and evolution of live adaptive software systems. In general, the objective of LASSY is to foster fruitful discussions on how approaches to live adaptation of software systems could be influenced by other approaches with different perspectives or focusing on different levels of the development stack.