WoSAR 2015 - Seventh International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR 2015)

Seventh International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR 2015)
Co-located with ISSRE 2015, November 2-5, 2015, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
https://sites.google.com/site/wosar2015/
2015 marks an anniversary for the software aging and rejuvenation (SAR) community: The seminal paper "Software rejuvenation: Analysis, module and applications" by Huang, Kintala, Kolettis and Fulton, which started research on the software aging phenomenon and the possibility of counteractingit via software rejuvenation, appeared exactly 20 years ago. For the last seven years, WoSAR has been the international event bringing together researchers and practitioners involved with the theoretical and experimental aspects of software aging and rejuvenation. As a satellite event of the premier symposium, ISSRE 2015, WoSAR 2015 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the state of the art and the new challenges in software aging and rejuvenation research, as well as a unique opportunity for establishing collaborations among several research groups interested in this research field.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
This call addresses research on (but not limited to) the following topics:
? Modeling and characterization of the software aging phenomenon;
? Design, implementation, and evaluation of rejuvenation mechanisms;
? Aging monitoring and rejuvenation applied to industrial, large-scale, and mission-critical systems;
? Modeling, analysis and implementation of rejuvenation scheduling;
? Experimental and empirical software aging detection techniques;
? Prediction models for mean time to aging-related failures;
? Machine learning applied to software aging characterization;
? Control theory applied to software aging and rejuvenation;
? Survivability applied to software aging and rejuvenation;
? Test strategies for aging-related faults;
? Aging-oriented reliability growth models and reliability assessment;
? Novel applications for software rejuvenation;
? Reports and analysis of real case studies;
? Software rejuvenation benchmarking and metrics.
WoSAR is a unique forum for discussing the impacts of software aging and rejuvenation in different domains of applicability, such as cloud computing, smart grids, mobile, transportation, embedded systems, cyber-physicalsystems, medical devices, and systems of systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: August 14, 2015
Paper notification: September 4, 2015
Camera-ready copy: September 15, 2015
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit high-quality unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental SAR research. After rigorous review, all the accepted papers will be included in the supplemental proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papersmust be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript templates for conference proceedings [1]. Papers must not exceed the page limit (in double-column, IEEE conference style format) of six pages plus one page for references and appendices. Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair [2]. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:wosar2015-AT-easychair.org
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary General Co-Chairs:
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
General Co-Chairs:
Michael Grottke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Fumio Machida, NEC Corporation, Japan
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Kenji Kono, Keio University, Japan
Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Publication Co-Chairs:
Roberto Natella, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany
Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University, Japan
Finance Co-Chairs:
Jinghui Li, Huawei Technologies Corporation, China
Kalyan Vaidyanathan, Oracle Corporation, USA
Web Master:
Alvaro Botas, Universidad de León, Spain