Congratulations to Paul Temple, Associate Professor at the University of Rennes and researcher in the DIVERSE team, who received the Best Artifact Award at SEAMS 2026 for the paper entitled:
“Dynamic Agent Generation for Self-Adaptive Root Cause Analysis” co-authored with Brell Sanwouo (CRIStAL, Univ. Lille ) and Clément Quinton (CRIStAL, Univ. Lille). This work explores how dynamic, agent-based approaches can improve root cause analysis in complex microservices systems. In particular, it uses an agentic-AI approach to dig into various sources of information and find an explanation (called root cause) to failures that occur at runtime.
SEAMS (The 21st International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems), co-located with ICSE (the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering), addresses the development of autonomous software systems capable of adapting and managing themselves. These systems—used, for example, in autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and service robots—must operate reliably despite changing environments, variable resources, evolving user needs, as well as attacks and failures.
SEAMS aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to investigate, discuss, and advance fundamental principles, the state of the art, and solutions to critical challenges in engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems. These so-called “self-*” systems (self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection) are designed with goals of safety, performance, and cost-effectiveness.