GRACE International Symposium on Advanced Software Engineering 2010

Objective

With the progress of computerization and digitalization, software has become an essential infrastructural cornerstone of our society. Without proper software engineering techniques helping to develop and expand complex systems, it becomes difficult to pave the way for an advanced technological age. At the same time, software systems evolve year by year, increase in scale and complexity, become more sophisticated and increasingly diverse. Empowering software engineers and managers to develop robust and high-quality software systems thus becomes a grand challenge. The GRACE International Symposium provides a forum for national and international leaders, researchers, software engineers, and teachers involved in creating cutting-edge software or teaching software engineering. The symposium calls for high-quality papers and presentations on research and research trends. Keynote presentations and panel discussions include the introduction of the GRACE center, results of our educational practice, as well as directions for future research.

Keynote Speech by Prof. Jeff Kramer

Title	Self-Managed Adaptive Systems

Abstract

Rigorous techniques are needed to develop adaptive systems which can cope with both changes in the environment and with changing goals. The objective is to minimise the degree of explicit management necessary for construction and subsequent evolution whilst preserving the safety properties implied by its specification. In this talk, we focus on an architectural approach to self-management, in which software components automatically configure their interaction as required. We present an outline three-layer reference model as a context in which to articulate some of the main issues and to describe our pilot implementation. In particular we present our current work on plan synthesis from goals and properties.