SISSY 2019 - Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration

This workshop is dedicated to the memory of our dear colleague and co-chair, Professor Rolf Würtz.

 9:00 -  9:30   Welcome, Overview of Workshop Structure, and Introduction

• Overview of Workshop: Co-chairs Kirstie Bellman, Ada Diaconescu, Sven Tomforde.
• Kirstie L. Bellman, Christian Gruhl, Chris Landauer and Sven Tomforde. Self-improving System Integration - On a Definition and Characteristics of the Challenge

 9:30 - 10:30   Self-coordination from Low Level to High

• Roberto Rodrigues Filho, Alexander Wild and Barry Porter. Code Synthesis in Self-improving Software Systems
• Veronika Lesch, Christian Krupitzer and Sven Tomforde. Emerging Self-Integration through Coordination of Autonomous Adaptive Systems
• Christopher Landauer. Degrees of Intimacy in SiSSy Systems: How to Join a Team

10:00 - 11:00   Coffee BREAK (adjacent to workshops)

11:00 - 12:00   Knowledge and Explanation in Self-* Systems

• Antonio García-Domínguez, Nelly Bencomo, Juan Marcelo Parra-Ullauri and Luis Hernán García-Paucar. Towards History-Aware Self-Adaptation with Explanation Capabilities
• Kirstie L. Bellman. Strategies for Helping SISSY Systems Deal with Knowledge Gaps and Unknowns
• Discussion on Self-knowledge

12:00 - 12:30   Learning in Self* Systems

• Chloe M Barnes, Lukas Esterle and John Na Brown. When you Believe in Things that You Don't Understand: the Effect of Cross-generational Habits on Self-improving System Integration
• Anthony Stein and Sven Tomforde. Transfer Learning is a Crucial Capability of Intelligent Systems Self-Integrating at Runtime

12:30 - 14:00   Lunch BREAK (Restaurant Hjortron)

14:00 - 15:30   Panel on SISSY Systems Testbeds
    Rose Gamble, Hartmut Schmeck, Phyllis Nelson, Christopher Stewart, Ada Diaconescu

• Charles Walter and Rose Gamble. Crossing the Adaptation Boundaries of Distinct Testbeds
• Birger Becker, Sebastian Kochanneck and Hartmut Schmeck. Testbeds for Component Integration in Energy Systems
• Phyllis Nelson. CARS: a Wrappings-based Test Bed for Self* Cyber-physical Systems and Their Integration
• Philippe Lalanda and Ada Diaconescu. Integration of pervasive platforms with iCASA
• Christopher Stewart. A Testbed for Multiple UAV Integration.

15:30 - 16:00   Coffee BREAK (adjacent to workshops)

16:00 -17:30   Discussion on Creating a SISSY Integration Testbed

• Chloe M. Barnes, Kirstie L. Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Christopher Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Phyllis R. Nelson, Anthony Stein, Christopher Stewart and Sven Tomforde.
  CHARIOT - Towards a Continuous High-level Adaptive Runtime Integration Testbed
• All: Discussion
• Announcement of Special Issue Opportunity

20:00   Welcome Reception