COMPSAC 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008.

SCOPE

The objectives of this workshop are:

• To further identify and set forth various seemingly unrelated research areas that impinge on the emerging area of software cybernetics.
• To further formulate and clarify the emerging fundamental principles of the new area, review the state-of-the-art, extend existing frontiers, and identify new research directions and application topics.
• To assist various researchers and practitioners in this new area to become acquainted, promote cooperation and collaboration among them, and encourage others to join this research area.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Models and use of feedback mechanisms in software processes, simulation, and systems
• Feedback control in software test process and fault-tolerant computing
• Robust feedback policies for software security
• Robust software evolution using adaptive feedback control
• Self-adaptive, self-managing, and learning software
• Adaptive testing; fault detection and localization for self-correction in software and software processes
• Control of software aging and rejuvenation; adaptive rejuvenation
• Relationship between bisimulation and controllability
• Application of supervisory control principles to software synthesis and safety control
• Software architectures for control systems
• Proactive and autonomic computing
• Software-enabled control
• Quality of Service Adaptive Mechanisms
• Adaptive Systems Design
• Adaptive Software Architectures
• Component-Based Adaptive Systems
• Software lifecycle management via feedback control