Software is becoming more and more aware of its current execution context. Decisions traditionally made at design time are moved at run-time to enhance the services offered by the software to its users. Furthermore, software reasons about the execution environments and its internal status to enhance the functionality provided by its users. Some of the keywords that characterize the software today are: context-aware, dynamic, autonomous, smart, adaptive, self-managed.
In this context, the Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures (CASA) workshop aims to address the issues and challenges raised by the design, implementation, and evaluation of software systems characterized by the above-mentioned keywords. Novel design and development approaches are needed to face the new issues raised by such systems. New solutions are expected to address properly the trade-offs among the various quality attributes characterizing these systems. Or, existing architectural solutions should be adapted and improved to meet the evolving and dynamic requirements of context-aware, autonomous, and smart systems.
The workshop aims to bring together software engineers and computer scientists, researchers, practitioners and educators to discuss and exchanges results, case studies, experiences, novel approaches and visionary ideas concerning software architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions.
NEWS: KEYNOTE - "Data-Driven Context-Aware Architecting: an Experience in the Context of Cyber-Physical Space", by Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
The CASA 2018 workshop is interested in all the topics concerning the
architectural aspects in Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart
(CASA) solutions. Please find below several examples of possible
topics:
software architectures for CASA solutions: surveys, issues,
challenges, comparisons;
architecture frameworks for CASA solutions;
architecture description languages for CASA solutions;
standards for software architectures in CASA solutions;
model-driven engineering for CASA solutions;
software architecture and Big Data for CASA solutions;
software architecture and Internet-of-Things for CASA
solutions;
cloud-computing and network infrastructures for CASA
solutions;
machine learning and CASA solutions;
autonomous and self-adaptive aspects of CASA solutions;
coordination aspects of CASA solutions;
context-awareness in CASA solutions;
real-time/latency-awareness in CASA solutions;
social and technological issues in CASA solutions;
evolution and maintenance issues in CASA solutions;
privacy, safety, security, cyber-physical issues in CASA solutions;
testing and evaluation of smartness in CASA solutions;
software architectures in CASA case studies and innovative applications;
teaching software architectures for CASA solutions.
full research and experience papers (max 7 pages), presenting novel
contributions concerning the architectural aspects of context-aware,
autonomous, and smart solutions;
short and position papers (max 4 pages), presenting promising preliminary
results from work-in-progress or research challenges in software
architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions.
All the papers must be written in English. All the submitted papers should follow the ACM ICPS proceedings templates
available at: ACM web site .
Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of
Program/Organizing Committee (or their sub-reviewers) and
selection of accepted papers will be based on relevance, quality
and originality of the submitted papers. For each accepted paper,
at least one of the (co)author(s) is expected to be present at the
workshop and to present the paper.
Jakob Mass, Chii Chang and Satish Srirama: Context-aware Edge Process Management for Mobile Thing-to-Fog Environment.
Mohammad Sharaf, Henry Muccini and Apurvanand Sahay: A Comparative Analysis of Self-Adaptive Patterns in Cyber-Physical Systems.
Aurora Macías and Elena Navarro: An Integrated Approach for Context-Aware Development.
Position papers:
Petr Hnetynka, Petr Kubat, Rima Al Ali, Ilias Gerostathopoulos and Danylo Khalyeyev: Guaranteed Latency Applications in Edge-Cloud Environment.
Rima Al-Ali, Robert Heinrich, Petr Hnetynka, Adrian Juan-Verdejo, Stephan Seifermann and Maximilian Walter: Modeling of Dynamic Trust Contracts for Industry 4.0 Systems.
9:05 -10:00 Keynote "Data-Driven Context-Aware Architecting: an Experience in the Cyber-Physical Space" by Henry Muccini
10:00 - 11:00 First Session: Towards the Edge - Chair: Claudia Raibulet
10:00 - 10:30 Jakob Mass, Chii Chang, Satish Srirama: Context-aware Edge Process Management for Mobile Thing-to-Fog Environment.
SLIDES
10:00 - 10:30 Petr Hnetynka, Petr Kubat, Rima Al Ali, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Danylo Khalyeye: Guaranteed Latency Applications in Edge-Cloud Environment.
SLIDES
11:00 -11:30 Break
11:30 - 13:00 Second Session: Models and patterns - Chair: Tomas Bures
11:30 - 12:00 Aurora Macías, Elena Navarro: An Integrated Approach for Context-Aware Development.
SLIDES
12:00 - 12:30 Rima Al-Ali, Robert Heinrich, Petr Hnetynka, Adrian Juan-Verdejo, Stephan Seifermann, Maximilian Walter: Modeling of Dynamic Trust Contracts for Industry 4.0 Systems.
SLIDES
12:30 - 13:00 Mohammad Sharaf, Henry Muccini, Apurvanand Sahay, A Comparative Analysis of Self-Adaptive Patterns in Cyber-Physical Systems
13:00 -14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Breakout groups of about 5-8 persons - on research topics and questions
15:30 -16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Final Discussion & Planning CASA2018
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy --- Email: raibulet at disco.unimib.it
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France --- Email: khalil at laas.fr
Tomáš Bureš, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic --- Email: bures at d3s.mff.cuni.cz
MariaGrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy --- Email: fugini at polimi.it
Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden --- Email: patrizio.pelliccione at cse.gu.se
Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, University of Brasilia, Brasil --- Email: genaina at unb.dot.br
Tomáš Bureš, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ovidiu Constantin, Oracle, Italy
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Liliana Dobrica, POLITEHNICA Universiy, Romania
Khalil Drira, University of Toulouse, France
Cédric Eichler, INSA Bourge, France
Paolo Falcarin, University of East London, UK
Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Henry Muccini, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Genaina Nunes Rodrigues, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
Thierry Villemur, University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, France
