Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration, London, UK

Abbrevation

SISSY

Link

http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/oc/Veranstaltungen/SISSY14/

City

London

Country

Deadline Paper

2014-07-11

Start Date

2014-09-08

End Date

2014-09-08

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) pervades every aspect of our daily lives. This inclusion changes our communities and all of our human interactions. It also presents a significant set of challenges in correctly designing and integrating our resulting technical systems. For instance, the embedding of ICT functionality in more and more devices (such as household appliances or thermostats) leads to novel interconnections and a changing structure of the overall system. Not only technical systems are increasingly coupled, a variety of previously isolated natural and human systems have consolidated into a kind of overall system of systems â€“ an interwoven system structure. This change of structure is fundamental and affects the whole production cycle of technical systems â€“ standard system integration and testing is not feasible any more. The increasingly complex challenges of developing the right type of modelling, analysis, and infrastructure for designing and maintaining ICT infrastructures has continued to motivate the SASO community. In this workshop, we intend to study novel approaches to system of system integration and testing by applying SASO principles; specifically we want approaches that allow for a continual process of self–integration among components and systems that is self–improving and evolving over time towards an optimised and stable solution. Although research in self–organising systems â€“ such as the Organic Computing (OC) and Autonomic Computing (AC) initiatives â€“ has seen an exciting decade of development, in which there has been considerable success in building individual systems, OC/AC is faced with the difficult challenge of integrating multiple self–organising systems, and integrating self–organising systems with traditionally engineered ones as well as naturally occurring human organisations. Meanwhile, although there has been important development in system of systems methodologies (e.g., Service–oriented Architectures, clouds technology etc.), many of these developments lack scalable methods for rapidly proving that new configurations of components/subsystems are correctly used or their changes verified or that these frameworks have pulled together the best possible context–sensitive configuration of resources for a user or another system. This workshop intends to focus on the important work of applying self–X principles to the integration of â€œInterwoven Systems" (where an "Interwoven System" is a system cutting across several technical domains, combining traditionally engineered systems, systems making use of self–X properties and methods, and human systems). The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges involved in creating self–integrating systems and consider methods to achieve continuous self–improvement for this integration process. The workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of researchers (i.e. from systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, socio–technical systems, and the OC/AC domains) in the hope that collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to drive forward research in the area. Topics ====== The overall message of the workshop covers different fields of research that will be part of the scope for accepted papers and discussions: * Properties that an OC/AC–based system integration could enable * Self–x properties applied to systems integration – self–improving – self–monitoring – self–modelling * Methods for self–integration – continuous and evolving integration – self–improving over time – guidance by models – collaboration schemes * Approaches for self–modelling at runtime * Quantification of the system integrationâ€™s quality and performance * System integration with uncertainty * Implications on traditional design processes * Implications of the OC design notion on todayâ€˜s perception of design flows and tools – Trade–off between bottom–up design and pre–fabrication – Overhead in form of redundant system resources – Provisioning to allow for self–organised functional enhancement – Provisioning to allow for performance enhancement at runtime Further topics connected to the overall message will be also accepted.