Editorial message: special track on operating systems and adaptive applications

The purpose of this track is to bring together researchers, designers, and developers who are interested in methodology for the design and analysis of operating systems and adaptive applications. It is motivated by a tremendous growth on the demands for high-performance operating systems in recent years. Such an observation comes with the fact that many adaptive applications become more and more complex, and it imposes new challenging issues never faced before in this application field. It is thus clear that nowadays the development and design of operating systems must rely, even more than that in the recent past, on specific solutions both in the hardware and in the software components. Moreover, the needs to timely tackle changes in the market pushes toward the employment of methodologies to shorten the development time and to drive the evolution of existing products. The solutions to new problems emerging in this setting call for a joint effort from the academics and industry.