WORIE 2012 - WORKSHOP ON THE RELIABILITY OF INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS

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Category WORIE 2012

Deadline: March 15, 2012 | Date: June 27, 2012

Venue/Country: Guanajuato, Mexico

Updated: 2012-02-03 19:35:35 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://amilab.ii.uam.es/worie2012/

to be held within the

8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'12)

Guanajuato, Mexico, 26-29 of June 2012

(http://www.intenv.org/)

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- IMPORTANT DATES

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15 March 2012: Paper submission deadline

16 April 2012: Notification of acceptance

30 April 2012: Final version submission

26 or 27 June 2012: Workshop date

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- MOTIVATION

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Intelligent Environments (IE) is rising as one of the technical fields

with the highest potential to make an impact in daily human life during

the near future. Developments in this area are achieved by a complex

juxtaposition of complex technical fields. Software is related to the

architecture of a building, sensors, a network for data transportation,

and different levels of users. Many of these elements are error prone,

software is notoriously difficult and even companies like NASA,

Microsoft, Intel, BMW, which can afford powerful teams of experienced

development teams have paid with lives, economic losses and reputation

missing to detect software bugs within their products. Sensors are often

unreliable, networks are sometimes unstable and users can put systems to

the test in circumstances that were not initially foreseen. Developing

this type of systems is therefore complex and given that some

applications will be given the tremendous responsibility to take care of

humans. Think for example on how much interest there is on the development

of systems to support independent living. These systems are intended to

give peace of mind to elderly people and their relatives trusting that

the system will be able to do many things for them including safety related

issues like detecting whether the occupant of the house has fallen or is

unwell in some way. Other examples are unmanned cars and other autonomous

systems which are supposed to perform tasks for us which can have disastrous

consequences should something go wrong.

Our community should develop appropriate standards and specific methodologies

to ensure we do our outmost to deliver safe systems given the current state

of the art. Given the specific blend of components in our area of development

we cannot just transfer developments in other areas (although of course they

should be taken into account to inform the process). This event will aim to

bring together developers and researchers to focus on all aspects of the

development process that can contribute to make Intelligent Environment systems

safer and to provide methodologies that can increase the confidence in these

developments.

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- WORKSHOP FORMAT

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The core of the event will be the presentation of recent advances in

research and applications followed by a debate aiming to encourage a

critical reflection on the subject. Presentations can also contain demos

about tools and applications.

After the presentations of the selected papers, a panel will focus on

critical issues that should be addressed at both academic and professional

level. The results of this panel can be used then by different groups to

elaborate a summary document on achievements and prospective issues to be

considered by the research community. Interaction will be encouraged

throughout the event.

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- TOPICS

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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones,

all of them applied to increase the reliability of IE and related systems

(such as Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing systems, Ambient Intelligence

systems, Smart Environments, Multi-Agent Systems, etc.):

- Requirement specification

- Elicitation of user requirements

- Modelling notations

- Rule-based modelling

- Integration of modelling and specification

- Workflow modelling

- Simulation

- Formal analysis and design

- Human-centred design

- Software engineering techniques

- Testing

- Validation

- Formal and semi-formal methods

- Verification of system correctness

- Model checking

- Combination of verification methods

- Quality assessment

- Technical frameworks

- Support tools

- Applications and case studies

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- SUBMISSIONS

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Authors wishing to participate to this event should:

(1) Format their papers according to the IOS Press style, with a length

of at least 6 but no more than 12 pages. Latex and Word templates can be

found in:

http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

(2) Submit the papers using the CMT account for this workshop

(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WoRIE2012).

See more details on this from the web page of the workshop.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by several reviewers with expertise

in the area in order to provide constructive feedback to their authors and

select the best ones for their presentation in the workshop and their

publication in the proceedings.