SAM 2021: 13th System Analysis and Modelling Conference Virtual, co-located with MODELS 2021 Fukuoka, Japan, October 11-12, 2021

The System Analysis and Modelling (SAM) conference provides an open arena for participants from academia and industry to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in modelling and analysis of complex systems using ITU-T's Specification and Description Language (SDL‑2010) and Message Sequence Chart (MSC) notations, as well as related system design languages — including but not limited to UML, ASN.1, TTCN, SysML and the User Requirements Notation (URN).

SAM 2021 is co-located with MODELS 2021, which will be held in Fukuoka, Japan virtually.

Scope and Topics

This year’s edition of SAM will be under the theme “System Analysis and Modelling: Agility and DevOps", including languages and methods standardized by the ITU-T, and domain-specific languages. Also included are software engineering technologies, such as for requirements engineering, software verification and validation, and automated code generation. Authors are therefore invited to submit papers related to this year’s theme including the following non-exclusive list of topics:

• Evolution of languages: domain-specific languages, modular language design, language extensions, semantics and evaluation, methodology for application.
• Model-driven development: analysis and transformation of models, reuse approaches, verification and validation of models, systematic testing based on and applied to models.
• System engineering models: semantics of system models, refinement of system designs into implementations, integration of system and software design models, non-functional aspects (such as performance, quality of service, real-time aspects, security, etc.) in system models, multi-core models.
• Industrial application and tool reports: industrial usage reports, standardization activities, tool support and frameworks, domain-specific applicability (such as telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, Internet of Things, control, etc.), within Agile/DevOps environments. Such reports should focus on what is effective (and ineffective) in applying a technique preferably backed up by some measurements. A report should not just describe an implementation, though new application areas are of interest.

Authors of selected long research papers accepted at SAM 2021 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts to a special section of a Journal.

Submission Guidelines

The SAM 2021 proceedings will be published by IEEE. SAM 2021 welcomes academics and industrial submissions in the following categories:

• Full papers describing original, unpublished results (max 10 pages, including figures, appendices and references in IEEE format). 
• Short papers describing work in progress (max 6 pages, including figures, appendices and references in IEEE format). 

Long papers should describe significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the SAM-related topics. Short papers are insightful contributions on SAM relevant topics such as preliminary and initial research results for which a complete evaluation has not yet been performed.

We encourage also the submission of (long or short) papers that describe negative results and replication studies. This type of papers advance our knowledge by allowing us to continuously (re)evaluate our understanding of the current approaches.

Each paper submitted to the technical track will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, based on significance, originality, substance, correctness, and clarity.

Best Paper Awards will be given to authors of long and short papers, which will be selected by the program committee and SAM Co-chairs among the accepted and presented papers.

Submission Instructions

• All submission must be in PDF and made via Easychair.
• All submissions must conform to SAM 2021 formatting instructions and must not exceed 10 pages for long technical papers and 6 pages for short technical paper. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages
• Submissions must adhere to the IEEE formatting instructions, which can be found at: IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
• The submissions must comply with the IEEE Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification. In particular, they must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for SAM. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Computer Society Policy on Authorship, part of the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ.
• Accepted papers must be presented at SAM 2021 by one of the authors.

Important Dates

Committees

About the SDL Forum Society

The SDL Forum Society that runs the conference is a non-profit organization established by language users and tool providers to promote the Specification and Description Language (SDL‑2010), Message Sequence Charts (MSC) and related System Design Languages (including but not limited to ASN.1, TTCN‑3, SysML and URN), to provide and disseminate information on the development and use of the languages, to support education on the languages and to plan and organize the SAM conference series and events to promote the languages.