SESOS-ICSE2018: the 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems May 29th 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden, May 29-30, 2018 |
Conference website | http://sesos2018.systems-of-systems-engineering.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sesosicse2018 |
Submission deadline | February 5, 2018 |
CALL FOR PAPERS SESoS 2018:
the 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems
http://sesos2018.systems-of-systems-engineering.org
at ICSE 2018 http://2018.icse-conferences.org/
May 29 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden
SCOPE
Systems-of-Systems (SoS) have become increasingly complex and are frequently used in highly distributed, dynamic, and open environments. SoS have emerged as a new class of evolving software systems, where constituent systems (themselves systems in their own right) work cooperatively in order to fulfill specific missions. SoS are characterized by managerial and operational independence, geographic distribution, evolutionary development, and creation of emergent behavior. These characteristics have therefore raised substantial challenges to software engineering researchers and practitioners. SoS is becoming a hotspot, from both the research and the industrial viewpoints, in particular, related to crucial classes of applications such as safetycritical or mission-critical SoS. Furthermore, SoS are increasingly involved in applications that address societal needs such as environmental monitoring, distributed energy grids management, emergency coordination and crisis management, global traffic control, and smart cities. In this context, the research topic of software engineering for SoS needs to receive more attention and research efforts, considering that the software part of SoS is becoming increasingly larger and more complex. Software engineering theories and tools are needed to adequately design, implement, operate, and even evolve such dynamic, complex software-intensive SoS.. This workshop series is the first that addresses specifically this new perspective. The main goal of SESoS is to provide a forum for software engineering researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze research and development issues, discuss promising solutions, and propose inspiring visions for the future.
TOPICS
The workshop will focus on discussing and establishing the foundations for the SoS Software Engineering domain, to pave the way for a more structured community effort. For this, the workshop will focus on the following (and similar) themes:
* SoS Analysis & Architecture
* Requirements engineering
* Architectural description
* Architectural evaluation
* Architectural evolution
* SoS Model-Based Engineering
* Modeling and simulation
* Model driven engineering
* Models at runtime
* SoS Construction and Evolution
* Techniques and technologies
* Service-orientation
* Component frameworks
* Evolutionary development
* SoS Experience
* Industrial perspectives
* Successful case studies
* SoS General Issues
* Characteristics of SoS
* Quality in SoS
* SoS development processes
* Acquisition and project management
* Verification and validation of SoS
* Future perspective, challenges, and directions of SoS research and/or development
SUBMISSION
Two types of submissions are invited:
* Regular paper (up to eight pages): sound technical contributions from both academia and industry; and
* Position paper (up to four pages): new ideas, positions, or perspectives of research that are not fully validated.
All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and must not be simultaneously under review or submitted elsewhere. All papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. All submissions must be in English, formatted according to the ICSE 2018 Format and Submission Guidelines and submitted in either PDF or Postscript format through online upload to the workshop submission website at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sesosicse2018
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
The accepted papers will be published in the electronic ICSE Companion Proceedings in both ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. SESoS is technically co-sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGPLAN. Previous SESoS editions were technically co-sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGPLAN.
Special Issue in an indexed international journal is planned for publishing extended versions of a selection of best papers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Feb. 05, 2018
Notification: Mar. 05, 2018
Camera-ready copy: Mar. 19, 2018
Workshop date: May (day), 2018
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Khalil Drira
LAAS-CNRS – Univ. of Toulouse, France
Flavio Oquendo
IRISA – Univ. of South Brittany, France
Paris Avgeriou
Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
Carlos E. Cuesta
Rey Juan Carlos Univ., Spain