Call for Paper

Embedded systems (electronics and software) are of widespread use in safety-critical domains such as aerospace, automotive, and industrial automation and in business-critical domains such as communications and consumer electronics. Stringent quality requirements go together with the demand for low costs and low maintenance needs, but high safety and security levels, high dependability, high reliability and short time-to-market. This symposium will put the emphasis on quality engineering of these systems.

The best contributions will be selected for post-symposium publication in the Springer journal "Software Tools for Technology Transfer" (STTT, sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de).

This International Symposium on Quality Engineering of Embeddded Systems is an affiliated event of the 4th European Conference on Model Driven Architectures (ECMDA2008, www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ecmda2008).

It is supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung (www.krupp-stiftung.de) - a foundation that supports research in various areas of sciences and in particular in the field of quality engineering of embedded systems.

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Scope

The following constitutes a non-exclusive list of topics that the symposium will focus on:

• Modelling of quality in terms of dependability, reliability, resilience, etc. properties;
• Modelling of embedded, hybrid systems and of their environments;
• Quality-oriented implementation/conformance relations;
• Quality support of component platforms for embedded systesm;
• Design and test patterns for embedded systems;
• Quality frameworks and tools for embedded systems
•  Fault modelling and handling in the embedded system life-cycle;
• Model-driven engineering for embedded systems addressing heterogeneity of models and views;
• Variant, configuration and version management for embedded systems;
• Architecture-driven development of embedded systems;
• Model-based testing;
• System development processes;
• Autonomic approaches for embedded systems;
• Dynamic reconfiguration for quality;
• Models at runtime;
• Requirement engineering processes;
• Verification and validation approaches;
• Case studies and applications in automotive, medical, avionics, telecommunication, etc.

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Types of contribution

Technical papers: Original work addressing the topics targeted by the symposium can be submitted as technical papers. Such papers may describe basic or applied research and advanced "work in progress" papers might also be considered.

Welcome Note

Ina Schieferdecker, FOKUS, Berlin

Keynote Speaker

Werner Damm, Oldenburg

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Important dates

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Submission Guidelines

All submissions are to be submitted electronically via the symposium web site at www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/qees2008. The preferred format is LaTeX, but PostScript or PDF are also accepted. Authors who prepare their papers with LaTeX are encouraged to use the Springer-Verlag's macropackage svjour. It is available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svjour/sttt/.

Papers must be written in English. Authors whose mother tongue is not English are advised to seek the assistance of a native English speaker who is familiar with the topic of the paper.

The page limit for technical papers is sixteen (16) pages.

All submissions must be received electronically. One of the authors of each accepted paper is to present the paper at the symposium.

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Location

The symposium will be held at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institute
for Open Communication Systems
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin, Germany

www.fokus.fraunhofer.de

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Program Chairs

• Ina Schieferdecker (Techn. Univ. Berlin, Germay)
• Nicolas Guelfi (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle Univ., UK)

Progrm Committee (tentative)

• Essameddin Badreddin, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• Sami Beydeda, ZIVIT, Germany
• Ana R. Cavalli, INT, France
• Y. C. Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Hakan Coskun, TU Berlin, Germany
• Tibor Farkas, FOKUS, Germany
• Roland Groz, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
• Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK
• Ferhat Khendek, Concordia U, Canada
• Kane Kim, University of California, USA
• Yves Le Traon, ENST, France
• Tiziana Margaria, Univ. Potsdam, Germany
• Aditya Mathur, Purdue, USA
• Brian Nielsen, U of Aalborg, Denmark
• Manuel Núñez, UC de Madrid, Spain
• Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, USA
• Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, Canada
• Alexander Pretschner, ETHZ, Switzerland
• Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy  
• Kenji Suzuki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• M. Ümit Uyar, City U of New York, USA
• Thomas Weigert, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
• Eric Wong, University Of Texas At Dallas, USA
• Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
• Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Contact details

For more information, or to be placed on our mailing list, please use the contact details below, referring explicitly to QEES 2008:

Tel:      +49 30 3463 7241

Fax:      +49 30 3463 8241

E-mail:   ina [dot] schieferdecker [at] fokus [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de

Web Site: www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/qees2008