1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

<pre>ERENE 2008 is organized by the ERCIM working group SERENE and<br>is being held in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT&#046; The SERENE 2008<br>workshop is an international forum for researchers and practitioners<br>interested in the advances in Software Engineering for Resilient Systems&#046;<br>Engineering such systems is a challenging issue which needs urgent attention<br>from and combined efforts by people working in various domains&#046;<br>Achieving this objective is a very complex task, since it implies reasoning<br>explicitly and in a consistent way about systems functional and non&#8211;functional<br>characteristics&#046; SERENE advocates the idea that resilience should be explicitly<br>included into traditional software engineering theories and practices and<br>should become an integral part of all steps of software development&#046;<br>As current software engineering practices tend to either capture only normal<br>behaviour, or to deal with all abnormal situations only at the late development<br>phases, new software engineering methods and tools need to be developed<br>to support explicit handling of abnormal situations through the whole software<br>life cycle&#046; Moreover, every phase of the software development process needs<br>to be enriched with the phase&#8211;specific resilience means&#046;</pre><p> </p>