SEAMS 2009: Software engineering for adaptive and self-managing systems

With the rapid growth of web services and the continuous evolution from software-intensive systems to socio-technical ecosystems, the management of modern computing systems with many uncertainties in their environments presents significant challenges and risks for businesses. End-users increasingly demand software systems that are resilient, dependable, fault-tolerant, energy-efficient, or self-healing. One of the most promising approaches to engineering these properties is to equip software systems with feedback control to address the management of inherent system dynamics. The resulting self-adapting and self-managing computing systems are better able to cope with and even accommodate changing contexts and environments, shifting requirements, and computing-on-demand needs. The SEAMS workshop series consolidates the interests in the software engineering community on self-adaptive and self-managing systems. SEAMS provides a forum for researchers to share new results, raise awareness, and promote collaboration. SEAMS 2009 builds on the success of the SEAMS ICSE workshops of 2008 in Leipzig, Germany, 2007 in Minneapolis, USA, and 2006 in Shanghai, China.