CASA@ECSA2020

Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architecture Workshop
co-located with the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture
19th-20th September, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic
CASA@ECSA2022

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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.

The Special Issue on Software Architectures for Context-Aware Smart Systems related to the first two editions CASA2017 and CASA 2018 of the workshop is available online.

The second Special Issue on Software Architectures for Smart and Adaptive Systems (SASAS) in the Information and Software Technology Journal related to the third edition of the workshop CASA 2020 will be available soon.

We are please to announce that Prof. Amel Bennaceur from The Open University in UK will give the invited talk entitled "The Road to Collaboration is Paved with Goals".

Topics

The CASA 2022 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: surveys, issues, challenges, comparisons;
  • architecture frameworks;
  • architecture description languages;
  • models, standards, and techniques;
  • model-driven engineering approaches;
  • CASA and Big Data, Internet-of-Things, Machine Learning;
  • local, edge, cloud computing;
  • autonomous, self-adaptive, and coordination;
  • real-time/latency-awareness;
  • social and technological issues;
  • evolution and maintenance issues;
  • privacy, safety, security, cyber-physical issues;
  • testing and evaluation;
  • software architectures in CASA case studies and applications (e.g., healthcare, banking, fintech, human resources management, agriculture, education);
  • teaching software architectures;
  • current practices and open topics in ongoing and developed projects.


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Important Dates

Paper submission: 1st of July 2022 - Extended: new deadline: July 10th, 2022
Notification: July, 29th, 2022
Camera ready: August, 5th, 2022


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Submission Guidelines

The workshop invites two types of submissions:

  • full research and experience papers, presenting novel contributions concerning the architectural aspects of context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions; the length of full/experience workshop papers shall be maximum 12 pages plus 2 pages only for references;
  • short and position papers, presenting promising preliminary results from work-in-progress or research challenges in software architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions; the length of short/position workshop papers shall be maximum 8 pages plus 2 pages only for references;

All the papers must be written in English and should follow the Spriger LNCS style available at this 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.

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Publication

ECSA 2022 will use a two-step process for workshop proceedings.
Online proceedings (available before the start of the conference) will include all the accepted papers of the workshops and will be published online on the ECSA 2022 web page (no proceedings). The accepted papers will be accessible only by the ECSA 2022 workshop participants and the format should conform to Springer LNCS style.
After the conference, we will organise post-proceedings of selected and extended papers of workshops that will be published in a Springer LNCS volume (up to 16 pages). Workshop papers submitted for the post-proceedings will undergo a minor revision cycle where the extensions with respect to the workshop versions will be checked by the reviewers.

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Accepted Papers:

  • Danylo Khalyeyev, Tomas Bures, Petr Hnetynka, Towards characterization of edge-cloud continuum.
  • Andreas Kreutz, Gereon Weiss, Mario Trapp, Towards Uncertainty Reduction Tactics for Behavior Adaptation.
  • Elvin Alberts, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Tomas Bures, MockSAS: Facilitating the Evaluation of Bandit Algorithms in Self-Adaptive Systems.

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Workshop Program:

13:30 - 15:00 First Session: Chair: Claudia Raibulet

13:30 - 13:45 CASA&WASA 2022 - Joint Event - Introduction

13:45 - 14:45 Keynote: The Road to Collaboration is Paved with Goals, Prof. Amel Bennaceur, The Open University, UK. SLIDES

14:45 - 15:00 Discussions

15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

15:30 - 17:00 Second Session: Chair: Stefan Kugle

15:30 - 15:45 Danylo Khalyeyev, Tomas Bures, Petr Hnetynka, Towards characterization of edge-cloud continuum. SLIDES

15:45 - 16:00 Andreas Kreutz, Gereon Weiss, Mario Trapp, Towards Uncertainty Reduction Tactics for Behavior Adaptation. SLIDES

16:00 - 16:15 Elvin Alberts, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Tomas Bures, MockSAS: Facilitating the Evaluation of Bandit Algorithms in Self-Adaptive Systems. SLIDES

16:15 - 16:30 Lucas Mauser, Stefan Wgner, Peter Ziegler, Methodological Approach for Centralization Evaluation of Modern Automotive E/E Architectures

16:30 - 16:45 Anas Alkoitli, Joakim Anderlind, Carl-Johan Bjornson, Mathias Drage, Morgan Thowsen, Antonia Welzel, Miroslaw Staron, Assessing Security of Internal Vehicle Networks

16:45 - 17:00 Discussions

17:00 - 17:30 BREAK

17:30 - 18:00 Third Session: Chair: Genaina Rodriguez

17:30 - 18:00 Conclusions + Next CASA/WASA edition + Closing

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Workshop Organizers

Claudia Raibulet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam --- Email: c.raibulet at vu.nl
Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, University of Brasilia, Brasil --- Email: genaina at unb.dot.br
Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy --- Email: martina.desanctis at gssi.it

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Program Committee


Michel Albonico, Vrije University, The Netherlands
Fahed Alkhabbas, Malmö University, Sweden
Ricardo Caldas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, The Netherlands
Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy
Amleto Di Salle, University of L'Aqula, Italy
Liliana Dobrica, POLITEHNICA Universiy, Romania
Cédric Eichler, INSA Bourge, France
Pasqualina Potena, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
Claudia Raibulet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
Genaina Nunes Rodrigues, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Ramon Salvador Vallès, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
Luciana Rebelo, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy
Thierry Villemur, University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, France
TO BE EXTENDED!

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