Posted by Dr Serena Coetzee on 11 Nov 2009, 13:34 (last modified on 11 Nov 2009, 13:40)

Together with Kurt Geihs from the University of Kassel (Germany) and Kay Römer from the University of Lübeck (Germany), Stefan Gruner from our department will host the 1st SESENA Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications under the umbrella of the 32rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2010) in Cape Town next year.

Realization of distributed sensor network applications is a challenging and cumbersome task where multiple objectives need to be pursued at the same time. Developers have to face not only the functional application requirements, but also have to cope with a number of difficult non-functional requirements and constraints resulting from scarce resources and energy, from the need for self-organization and unattended operation, from the heterogeneity of network nodes, and from unpredictable environmental influences.

The lack of appropriate software development methodologies and tools often leads to unstable and suboptimal implementations. Software engineering support is therefore sought that eases the development task and helps to produce optimized application software tailored to the specific application environment and sensor network conditions. Appropriate development support is needed for all phases of the application software lifecycle.

The aim of the SESENA workshop is to bring together the software engineering and sensor network communities (both academia and industry) to jointly address this challenge. The workshop goals are to provide a discussion forum for software development methodologies and tools for sensor network applications, and to establish a community that carries the discussion on after the workshop. The workshop will feature an invited keynote talk, paper presentations, demonstrations of tools, as well as a working session. The official call for papers, as well as the workshop's own website, are going to be released in the near future and will be accessible via the website of ICSE'2010.