No.027 Engineering Adaptive Software Systems (EASSy)

Dear EASSy 2013 Participant,

Thank you very much for accepting our invitation to participate in the Shonan Meeting No. 27 entitled?Engineering Adaptive Software Systems (EASSy 2013), September 9‐12, 2013 in Shonan, Japan. We are?delighted to report that over 33 participants signed up for this exciting workshop.

In collaboration with Shonan staff we developed a preliminary program for EASSy 2013 which can be?found below (i.e., please scroll down). The program basically consists of a set of group?performances related to engineering adaptive software systems.

The respective groups are entirely free on how to orchestrate their allotted time frame (i.e., 90 or 60?minutes). We expect that one group member will assume a leadership role and orchestrate the?preparation of the group performance. The only key format requirement is to include at least 10 or 15?minutes worth of discussion for the 60 or 90 minute sessions, respectively. The groups are strongly?encouraged to be creative. An integrated group performance involving different people could?concentrate on different aspects of their overall research program. For example, the first presenter?outlines the entire research program, the second presenter highlights the major results of the group, the?third presenter discusses applications and case studies, and the fourth presenter details ongoing and?future research. Other ideas include highlighting a stellar result, conducting a demo, or orchestrating a?highly interactive discussion with the entire audience. Of course, a sequence of independent?presentations is an option, particularly if you are in a group with participants from different research groups. But even for those groups integration efforts would be appreciated. Such integration efforts may lead to future collaborations. In the current program every participant is allocated to a group and hence is entitled to a speaking slot.?However, if you prefer not to give a talk please let us know. That is perfectly ok given the large number?of participants. In summary, we hope that the assigned groups can get organized, be creative, and?deliver a stimulating performance.

The program also features an excursion including a dinner banquet in the beautiful city of Kamakura.?Although Kamakura proper is today rather small, it is often described in history books as a former de?facto capital of Japan as the seat of the Shogunate and of the Regency during the Kamakura Period.

We are also trying to be innovative with respect to introductions. We kindly encourage you to produce a?short video to introduce yourself. As a concrete example check out the highly acclaimed ICSE 2013 teaser?videos. The video should be at most one minute long. Please send the link to your video, ideally in youtube format, for posting as a link to your name on the schedule to?hausimuller@gmail.com. Participants can then watch these videos and thus familiarize themselves?with the participants and their topics before the workshop. Please check the schedule regularly to watch the videos while we upload them. This also provides an opportunity to feature?the individual rather than the group.

As for outcomes of the workshop we hope that new connections and collaborations will result from our?week together in Japan. One common way to facilitate collaboration beyond the workshop is to compile?a book. Thus, over the next year we plan to produce an EASSy 2013 with the organizers as editors. Time?is set aside during the last day of the workshop to outline and structure the book. A common structure?for such a book could be as follows: (1) an overview or roadmap chapter involving all the participants of?the workshop; (2) a handful of chapters that discuss key topics of the workshop; and (3) selected?chapters by individual groups. The self-adaptive systems community developed two such books recently?as follows.

• de Lemos, Giese, Müller, Shaw (Eds.): Software Engineering for Self‐Adaptive Systems II, LNCS?7475, Springer (2013)
• Cheng, de Lemos, Inverardi, Magee (Eds.): Software Engineering for Self‐Adaptive Systems, LNCS?5525, Springer (2009)

Here are some useful links:

• How to get to Shonan Village Center from Narita airport? By train and local bus.
• http://kanagawa‐travel‐info.com/english/tourism_articles/111
• Very detailed instructions?from another conference; ignore chartered bus instructions?(9.24MB)
• Internet access at Shonan Village Center

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you at Shonan Village Center in Japan in September for a highly productive?workshop.

Best wishes,

Shinichi Honiden, National Institute of Informatics, Japan <honiden@nii.ac.jp>
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada <hausimuller@gmail.com>
John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy <john.mylopoulos@gmail.com>
Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK <y.yu@open.ac.uk>

EASSy 2013 Organizers