Self Adaptive Systems in RE 2010

From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group

RESG Workshop:
The Future Of Requirements Engineering For Self-Adaptive Systems

Date

Wednesday 2 March, 2pm - 5.30pm

Location

University College London: Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street, London, W1W 7EJ

(5 mins walk from main Gower Street campus)

Registration

The workshop is free and open to anyone. However, space is limited so registration is required. Please register through the BCS Event Booking Site:

• BCS Members registered to the secure area on the BCS web site click here.
• BCS Members not registered to the secure area on the BCS web site click here.
• Non-BCS Members click here.

Please note deadline for registration is at 11:59 on Tuesday 1st March.

Workshop Overview

The launch 10 years ago of an industry-led "autonomic computing" initiative, in which self-management was proposed as a means to tackle the problem of growing complexity in computing systems, helped spark the following decade's explosion of academic research concerned with the difficulties of engineering systems that were autonomous, dynamic, self-adaptive, self-healing, self-configuring, self-managed (now commonly dubbed self-*).

Research projects were proposed and funded, dedicated workshops and conferences became major events. But is academia taking this research in a direction that meets real needs?

Taking the form of a half-day workshop, this event will consider the state-of-the-art vs. the state-of-practice in engineering self-managed systems from the perspective of system requirements.

Programme

• 14.00 - Welcome and Introductions (Emmanuel Letier)
• 14.10 - Keynote speaker: Darren Ansell, BAE Systems
• 14.30 - Discussion
• 14.35 - Pete Sawyer, University of Lancaster
• 14.55 - Discussion
• 15.00 - Mazeiar Salehie, Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
• 15.20 - Discussion
• 15.25 - Yijun Yu, Open University
• 15.45 - Discussion
• 15.50 - Nicolas D'Ippolito, University of Buenos Aires / Imperial College London
• 16.10 - Discussion
• 16.15 - William Heaven, University College London
• 16.35 - Open discussion + Conclusions (chaired by Emmanuel Letier)
• 17.30 - Close

Bios

Dr Darren Ansell is the Control Account Manager for Autonomy in Systems, at BAE Systems Military Aircraft and Information business unit. He is also BAE Systems' technical manager for the ASTRAEA programme, a UK industry-led consortium focusing on the technologies, systems, facilities, procedures and regulations that will allow autonomous vehicles to operate safely and routinely in civil airspace over the United Kingdom.