Areas of Interest

  • Simulation and continuous experimentation
    • Simulation environments
    • Context dependent requirements
    • Feedback-loops to handle uncertainties
    • Explicit boundaries for adaptive behavior
    • Model evolution
    • Continuous experimentation and cyber-physical systems
  • SELF-* and runtime monitoring
    • Run-time verification
    • V&V monitors
    • (Re)configuration
    • Adaption properties such as stability, robustness, consistency, security or safety
    • Context monitoring
    • Context-dependent properties
  • Testing methods for adaptive systems
    • Test case derivation
    • Test case selection
    • Test execution
    • Test oracles
    • Model-based testing
  • Case studies and use cases
    • Fail-operational systems
    • Adaption mechanisms
    • Elastic computing
    • Machine-learning based adaptive mechanisms
    • Models at runtime