Intern. Symposium on
Quality Engineering of Embedded Systems

June 13, 2008
Berlin, Germany
www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/qees2008

Call for papers

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.



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.



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



IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions due by: April 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2008
Camera-Ready for Symposium Proceedings: May 15, 2008
Symposium: June 13, 2008
Camera-Ready for STTT: August 31, 2008



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.


LOCATION:

The symposium will be held at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
(www.fokus.fraunhofer.de)



PROGRAM CHAIRS:

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


PROGRAM 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


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