What caught your eye at DEAS 2005? 40 DEAS 2005 Participants

2 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Murray  Interoperability – need standards  Dan  Adapting to design flaws seems impossible  Danny  Lots of architectures for adaptability  Apply architectural analysis to verify quality properties  Marin  Diverse range of papers across autonomic computing, and software engineering  Wide spectrum of high-level and specific papers

3 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Masoud  Pushing complexity inside systems can become difficult to maintain (humans still involved in evolving these systems)  Need to separate the concerns of self-management from business logic  Rean  How to benchmark or evaluate these systems on various quality factors, beyond performance?  Need objective criteria

4 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Piotr  Diverse range of papers, but disjoint; perhaps the topics could be more targeted, since autonomic computing is such a wide area  Dennis  Diversity good, to avoid the growing community from being too insular  Several traditions involved here  TRAPJ approach seems to have promise

5 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Bradley  Also interested in TRAP approach  Massimiliano  Practicality of the techniques  Marcus  No one presented a development approach that involved existing, legacy components

6 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  No work on formally analyzing an adaptable system to ensure quality requirements  Yijun  Need example benchmark problem on which autonomic aspects can be applied  Diverse range of viewpoints  Looking at formalizing goals; executable specification language for dynamic changing goals for properties

7 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  How to reveal fault or failure in a system?  How to specify formally how to adapt or evolve the system?  Alexei  Didn’t see anything on formalization of adaptation  Practical solutions lower level than he can directly use

8 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Dynamic measures  Jinguo  Agents community also very diverse  Lots of mechanisms, but missed real results or strategies for making a system self managing; does such a system really help?  Ken  Role of user in autonomic systems

9 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  Upcoming autonomic computing events  ICAC, Seattle, mid June  ICSM, Budapest, September STEP – Software Technology & Engineering Practice –Working workshop  CASCON, Toronto, October 19 Autonomic Workshops

10 What caught your eye at DEAS 2005?  DEAS future  A focus on software applications, more than the middleware aspects  Need design techniques and strategies for building an autonomic application in some domain  Symposium at ICSE 2006 Shanghai two-day workshop focusing on software engineering aspects

11 DEAS 2005 Proceedings  21 papers  131 pages  To appear in ACM Digital Library  Copyright ACM /05/0005  final.pdf final.pdf

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