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Call for Contributions - 1st Workshop on

Robust and Adaptive Large Scale Software Systems (RALS3)

Karlsruhe, Germany, September 29, 2020
https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/ls3/rals3/

in conjunction with INFORMATIK 2020
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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Submission Deadline: 15.05.2020
Authors Notification: 15.06.2020
Camera-ready Version: Late August 2020


Dear colleagues,

please consider the opportunity to contribute to the 1st Workshop on Robust and Adaptive Large Scale Software Systems (RALS3) to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany in conjunction with INFORMATIK 2020.

*** ABOUT RALS3 ***

Large-Scale Software systems are the backbones of today’s society. The sheer scale and the resulting dynamics render manual control of those systems infeasible. Instead, they need to automatically adapt to changes, both from within the system itself as well as its environment. To fulfill given functional and quality requirements even during adaptation, these systems require a certain robustness in respect to change. This workshop aims at exploring challenges and techniques to tackle this interplay of adaption and robustness across the complete system stack.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

As a key challenge, it is not possible to completely switch off these functionality is provided by different components from different ecosystem partners in complex and unplanned, ad-hoc structures. The service and quality provided by these systems is consequently an emergent property of the ecosystem that can neither be achieved nor easily enforced centrally.
Reaching the goal of robust and adaptive large-scale software systems is a holistic endeavor that cannot be addressed by research solely in a single area of computer science. Instead, it requires coordination and cross-area solutions of multiple areas of Computer Science. Consequently, this workshop focuses on bringing the research communities of all required subareas together to exchange experiences, ideas, and future solutions to achieve robust and adaptive large-scale software systems.

*** SUBMISSION INFORMATION ***

Authors are invited to submit research papers (up to 14 pages), position papers (up to 8 pages), or abstracts (2 page) in LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Research papers should present original and evaluated research whereas position papers describe novel ideas, identified challenges, or experiences related to the workshop’s main topic. The 2-page abstracts describe state of practice and challenges, particularly covering but not limited to industrial practitioners.

PDF submission via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rals3

Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2020
All papers undergo a blind review process. Authors will be notified
until June 15, 2020. Final version is due to late August 2020.
All accepted papers will be as part of the workshop proceedings via CEUR-WS.


*** CONCEPT & SCHEDULE ***

Each session consists of three talks of 20 minutes each with 2 minutes for clarification questions. The talk presenters will form a panel moderated by the session chair for the final 24 minutes of a session which is used for deeper questions from the audience as well as discussions on challenges and research directions. Participants of the workshop are invited to co-author a resulting publication summarizing the outcome of the workshop with respect to the identified challenges, potential directions for solutions, and existing approaches.

*** LOCATION ***

RALS3 will be held conjunction with INFORMATIK 2020 from 29.09. - 01.10.2020 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

*** ORGANIZERS ***

Michael Glaß, Ulm University
Franz J. Hauck, Ulm University
Manfred Reichert, Ulm University
Matthias Tichy, Ulm University

*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***

Lars Grunske, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Rüdiger Kapitza, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Sandro Schulz, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Fedor Smirnov, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
Sebastian Steinhorst, Technical University of Munich
(T.B.E.)