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Workshop on Software Architectures for Adaptive
Autonomous Systems (SAAAS)
Meenakshi D’Souza, Swarup Kumar Mohalik, Mahesh Babu Jayaraman
Preface
The workshop on Software Architectures for Adaptive Autonomous Systems (SAAAS 2016) is held
in conjunction with the 9th Indian Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Goa, India, on 18th
February. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss
and explore the architectural elements which can exhibit such intelligent behavior as is essential to
manage and operate large and complex systems.
It is widely acknowledged that we are heading to the IoT era, an era where we will see a prolif-
eration of devices that are intended to aid human activity through automatic sensing and actuation
capabilities. Correspondingly, their management and operations will increase in complexity, so
much so that it will be impossible to manage them with current methodologies. One of the ways
to deal with this situation is to create autonomous systems that are self-configuring, self-managing,
self-healing, etc. To do this, one has to write intelligent software that leverages the learnings from
AI and cognitive technologies research.
Interestingly, the ever-increasing scale and complexity has been the reason behind exploration of
suitable paradigms since the 90’s. In the beginning of the new millenium, the need for management
and operation of large software systems led to efforts for scalable architectures such as MAPE-K
(IBM), Adaptive Enterprises (Hewlett-Packard) and Dynamic Systems (Microsoft), in addition to
research and prototypes in academia. However, the advent of IoT and the promise of integration of
software and ”things” is disruptive in its scale and complexity and calls for a re-evaluation of the
existing architectural solutions.
While the problem space seems to be daunting, there have been a number of positives in the
solution space as well. There has been a huge jump in available computing power due to the ever-
increasing raw processing power in the silicon and cloud computing, high-speed, high bandwidth
communication resources within (PCI-E) and without (Gigabit, 5G). In the methodologies front,
there has been a tremendous spurt in big data analytics and great strides in formal methods engines
and planning/scheduling techniques. The challenge is to utilize these resources and methodologies
in either the existing or novel architectures to provide large industrial scale solutions such as smart
cities (water, power, waste management), smart electric grids, intelligent transport systems etc.
The objective of the workshop is to expose the audience to these challenges and the state-of-the-art
in research and implementation in the field.
Topics under scope: All aspects of autonomous and adaptive software including but not
limited to the following areas - Multi-agent systems, Self-adaptive software, Planning techniques,
Analytics, Specifications, Architecture and Design, Monitoring and Control, Testing and Verifica-
tion, Formal Methods.
The program committee selected one paper for short presentation based on relevance and quality.
In addition to the keynote setting the stage for the workshop, there are three invited talks and a
panel session with experts to facilitate open discussions with the audience in the related topics.
Program Committee
Biplav Srivastava, IBM, Delhi (Chair)
Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ericsson
Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT, Kharagpur
Rajdeep Niyogi, IIT, Roorkee
Manoranjan Satapathy, IIT, Bhubaneswar
Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT, Bangalore
Swarup Kumar Mohalik, Ericsson Research, Bangalore
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Mahesh Babu Jayaraman, Ericsson Research, Bangalore
S. Ramesh, General Motors, USA
Aneta Vulgarakis, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Nanjangud C Narendra , Ericsson Research, Bangalore
Keynote
Title - Complex Systems : Use Cases, Technology Challenges and Solution Approaches
Speaker - Padmanabhuni Srinivas
Invited Talks
Software Architectures for Autonomous Systems
Swarup Kumar Mohalik and Mahesh Babu Jayaraman
Assuring Software Safety in Adaptive Industrial Automation Systems
S D Sudarshan and Raoul Jetley
Formal Verification of Autonomous Systems
Meenakshi D’Souza
Accepted Papers
1. Performance Modeling of Cloud-based Web Systems to Estimate Response Time Distribution
Dayle Chettiar, Arindam Das and Olivia Das
Panel Discussion
Topic - Perspectives and Possible Directions in Realization of Complex Systems
Panel Members
Gabi Zodik, IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Israel
S.D. Sudarsan, ABB Corporate Research, Bangalore
Santonu Sarkar, BITS Pilani, Goa
Mahesh Babu Jayaraman, Ericsson Research, Bangalore
Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT, Bangalore (Moderator)
Swarup Kumar Mohalik, Ericsson Research, Bangalore (Moderator)
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