Software aging is a problem of progressive degradation of performance and dependability in computer programs, especially those executing for long period of time. This phenomenon has been extensively studied for more than 20 years, as it affects many systems, from embedded devices to server software to critical systems.
Software rejuvenation, i.e., proactive restart of application (components/threads/task), reboot of VMs or machines, and failover to a replica are the most prominent approach es to combat software aging. A variety of rejuvenation techniques, scheduling plans, scope and granularity, have been proposed for different application types and platforms.
WoSAR is the premier international venue to discuss the recent advances and discoveries in theoretical and practical aspects of software aging and rejuvenation research. In this year, we encourage submissions targeting interdisciplinary research, in particular those listed in the topics of interest.
This call for papers addresses all researchers and practitioners with an interest about performance and dependability degradation of software systems. Topics addressed in the workshop include but are not limited to:
Progressive degradation of performability / availability / reliability / scalability / “-ilities” in software systems.
On-line feedback control view of software rejuvenation.
Modeling and characterization of the software aging phenomenon.
Design and evaluation of rejuvenation techniques.
Analysis of aging-related faults/bugs, errors, and failures.
Software test strategies for detecting aging-related bugs.
Monitoring, detection and data analysis of software aging effects (e.g., memory leaks, database index fragmentation, unterminated processes/threads, accrual of round-off errors, ...).
New classes of software aging effects.
Software aging and rejuvenation applied to anomaly detection and security intrusions.
Software aging and rejuvenation in Big Data and IoT Apps.
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) interactions with software aging and rejuvenation approaches.
Environment dependent bugs and their mitigation techniques.
Metrics for software performance and degradation.
Fault localization and testing for aging-related bugs.
Software refactoring for aging-related software problems.
Clone detection in aging software.
Machine learning techniques for aging-related bugs.
Tools for detection and repair of memory leaks.
Analytical, empirical, and experimental studies of any of the above topics.
Software aging monitoring and Software rejuvenation techniques for unmanned vehicles like Drones or Cars.
Software aging and rejuvenation techniques for humans in safety critical environments, like large warehouses.
Other software aging related phenomena, as for example, age of information.
For all the above topics, WoSAR is a unique forum to discuss the software aging and rejuvenation impacts on systems from different domains of applicability such as:
Cloud computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog computing, Mobile, Machine learning systems, Embedded, Medical, Cyber-physical systems, Cyber-Security, Industrial control systems such as SCADA, Smart Grids, Smart Infrastructures, Smart Cities, Transportation, Telecommunication, Military, System of systems, Databases, High Performance Computing, Software Defined Networks, and others.
Abstract registration deadline: July 21, 2020
Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2020
Paper notification: August 21st, 2020
Camera ready papers: August 28th, 2020
Authors are invited to submit high quality unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental software aging and rejuvenation research. All the accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE authoring guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Full papers should not exceed seven pages in IEEE style. Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wosar2020).
There will be a special session titled “Invited Journal Papers” at WoSAR 2020. During this session, researchers will have the opportunity to present any of their recently published peer-reviewed journal articles. For an article to be considered in this session, it must have been published between January 1, 2017 and August 15, 2020.
Researchers interested in presenting their work in this session, must send email to beto at esulabsolutions dot com with the following information, by 11:59 pm Pacific Time on July 21, 2020.
1) A copy of the refereed journal article
2) One paragraph description of the technical significance of this article in the fields related to SAR
3) Short biography of the presenting author
Authors, whose papers are selected, must be registered for the conference in order to present their paper. Note that the selected papers will NOT be reprinted nor archived by WoSAR 2020.
Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions, USA
Xiaoyuan Xie, Wuhan University, China
Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Javier Alonso, Amazon, USA
Rivalino Matias, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Vasilis Koutras, University of the Aegean, Greece
Junjun Zheng, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany
Xiaoting Du, Beihang University, China
Javier Alonso, Amazon.com, USA
Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany
Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions, USA
Xiaolin Chang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Domenico Cotroneo, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Lance Fiondella, University of Massachusetts, USA
Michael Grottke, GfK SE and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,Germany
Sandip Homchaudhuri, Qualcomm Technologies Inc (QTI), USA
Kenji Kono, Keio University, Japan
Vasilis Koutras, University of the Aegean, Greece
Jinghui Li, Huawei, China
Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Paulo Maciel, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Rivalino Matias, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Veena Mendiratta, Bell Labs, Nokia, USA
Manoj Nambiar, Infosys, India
Roberto Natella, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University, Japan
Roberto Pietrantuono, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Agapios Platis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Stefano Russo, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Marco Scarpa, University of Messina, Italy
Nuno Silva, CRITICAL Software S.A., Portugal
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
Kalyan Vaidyanathan, BAE Systems
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Jianwen Xiang, Wuhan University, China
Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Xiaoyuan Xie, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
Hiroshi Yamada, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
Junjun Zheng, Ritsumeikan University, China
Zheng Zheng, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China