Dependable Architectures Workshop

Thursday 27th November 2008

10:00-16:00

Beechgrove Rooms
University House
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
LS2 9JT

Dependability is a critical issue in any system, which can be addressed at the architectural level. NEC (Network Enabled Capability) raises crucial questions regarding how it is to be addressed in a dynamic, distributed environment where traditional ´closed system´ design methods are no longer sufficient i.e. should solutions be considered explicitly or implicitly at an abstract level in the architecture? Research in architectural-level reasoning about dependability is an emerging theme in systems engineering. This workshop aims to bring together academia and industry to discuss and present ideas on recent developments in the design and evaluation of dependable system architectures. Topics include:

• Evaluation of architectures.
• Dependability metrics, methods, and means.
• System design and fault-tolerance for dynamic integration.
• Assurance and certification.
• Runtime monitoring and governance.

Workshop Programme

09:30-10:00	Registration & Refreshments
Session Chair: Dr. Duncan Russell, University of Leeds
10:00-10:50	Keynote: Dr. Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent Architecting Software Fault Tolerance and Beyond
10:50-11:20	Professor John K. Davies, BAE Systems (Insyte) An Industry View of Dependability: Or Why Delivering Poor Performance is Not Good for Business
11:20-11:35	Break
11:35-12:05	Dr. Tim Kelly, University of York Safety Tactics for Software Architecture Design
12:05-12:35	Carl Gamble, University of Newcastle Towards a Framework of Technologies to Support Reconfiguration
12:35-13:30	Lunch
Session Chair: David Webster, University of Leeds
13:30-14:20	Keynote: Dr. Cristina Gacek, University of Newcastle Fitting Problems: Addressing Architectural Mismatches when Architecting Dependable Systems
14:20-14:50	Dr. Duncan Russell and Dr. Colin C. Venters, University of Leeds Dependable Dynamic SOA for Military Capability
14:50-15:05	Break
15:05-15:30	Sania Bhatti, University of Leeds Target Tracking Using Sensor Network with Fault Tolerance
15:30-16:00	Panel Session with Dr. Rogerio de Lemos, Dr. Cristina Gacek, Dr. Tim Kelly, Dr. Duncan Russell. Cheng, B. H. C., Giese, H., Inverardi, P., Magee, J., and de Lemos, R. (2008). Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Road Map (Draft Version: 26 May, 2008) Abstract Software's ability to adapt at run-time to changing user needs, system intrusions or faults, changing operational environment, and resource variability has been proposed as a means to cope with the complexity of today's software-intensive systems. Such self-adaptive systems can configure and reconfigure themselves, augment their functionality, continually optimize themselves, protect themselves, and recover themselves, while keeping most of their complexity hidden from the user and administrator. In this paper, we present research road map for software engineering of self-adaptive systems focusing on four views, which we identify as essential: requirements, modelling, engineering, and assurances.
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