Call for participation: SERENE 2014 Workshop and Autumn School on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems

[Alexander Romanovsky]

             **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****

              The 6th International Workshop 
   on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE)
        15-16th October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
             http://serene.disim.univaq.it/

                The SERENE Autumn School
     on Engineering Resilient Cyber Physical Systems
        13-14th October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
             http://serene.disim.univaq.it/


The SERENE 2014 workshop provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners to exchange ideas on advances in all areas relevant to
software engineering for resilient systems. The SERENE autumn school will
explore the resiliency of cyber physical systems.


*** MAIN WORKSHOP FEATURES ***
- 12 technical papers in 4 sessions
- Keynote on community resilience engineering
- Panel on runtime resilience assessment of dynamic software systems
- SERENE Working Group meeting
- Autumn School on Engineering Resilient Cyber Physical Systems


*** PAPER SESSIONS ***
- Design of Resilient Systems
- Analysis of Resilience
- Verification and Validation
- Monitoring


*** KEYNOTE ***
- Vincenzo De Florio (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium, and iMinds):
 Community Resilience Engineering: Reflections and Preliminary Contributions


*** PANEL SESSION ***
Topic: Views on Runtime Resilience Assessment of Dynamic Software Systems
Organizer: Marco Vieira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Panelists:
- Elena Troubitsyna (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
- Katinka Wolter (Freie University Berlin, Germany)
- Vincenzo De Florio (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Henry Muccini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
- Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle University, UK)


*** AUTUMN SCHOOL ***
Date: 13-14th October, 2014
Topic: Engineering Resilient Cyber Physical Systems
Director of the school: Henry Muccini (Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy)
Presenters of the Autumn School:
- Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University, USA): Resilience in Cyber-Physical
 Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
- Zsolt Kocsis (IBM Hungary): System Management Overview
- Luigi Pomante (Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy): System-Level Concurrent Error
 Detection
- Imre Kocsis (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics):
 Measurement-Driven Resilience Design of Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical
 Systems


*** VENUE OF THE WORKSHOP AND AUTUMN SCHOOL ***
SERENE 2014 will be hosted by Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
- Budapest is a historic city having nearly 2 million inhabitants in
 the heart of Middle Europe.
- Budapest has a vibrant cultural heritage, it offers several tens of
 museums, concert halls and an opera house.
- Junior people may enjoy its specific subculture ranging from jazz
 concerts to ruin pubs.
- Budapest is called the City of Spas with a dozen thermal baths served by
 natural thermal springs.


**** FURTHER INFORMATION ****
Detailed information on registration, prices, transportation, hotels, and
local arrangements is available on the SERENE 2014 website:
http://serene.disim.univaq.it/