HotSWUp 2011 - 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp 2011)

3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp 2011)

Actively-used software systems are upgraded regularly to incorporate bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with evolving requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they significantly impact the system's performance and reliability. Recently-introduced commercial products aim to address various aspects of this problem; however, recent studies and a large body of anecdotal evidence suggest that upgrades remain failure-prone, tedious, and expensive.

The goal of HotSWUp Workshop is to identify cutting-edge research for supporting software system upgrades that are flexible, efficient, robust, and easy to specify and apply. Many diverse research areas are concerned with building large, evolving, highly-available systems. As such, HotSWUp seeks contributions from all these areas, ranging from databases to distributed systems, and from programming languages to software engineering, and separately reflected in conferences such ICDE, SIGMOD, OOPSLA, PLDI, ICSE, FSE, SOSP, and OSDI. By seeking contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine novel ideas with experience from upgrading real systems. The present workshop aims to build on the successes of HotSWUp'08 and HotSWUp'09 where the paper presentations and lively discussions attracted a diverse audience of researchers.