[agents] DL Extension: 2nd Int. Workshop on Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems, co-located with ISSRE20

daniela briola daniela.briola at unimib.it
Fri Jul 31 03:53:42 EDT 2020


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=================CALL FOR PAPERS, DL Extended!==================

                         	 GAUSS 2020
                          
                   2nd International Workshop on
   Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems
                   co-located with ISSRE 2020  
                   Coimbra - Portugal (Virtual)
                        October 12 - 15, 2020      

               http://gauss2020.disim.univaq.it/ <http://gauss2020.disim.univaq.it/>


Regular Papers:
  * Abstract submission deadline: July 24th, 2020 [not mandatory]
  *** Submission deadline: August 10 EoE, 2020 (Extended) ***
 * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2020
  * Camera ready: August 28th, 2020

Journal First Track:
  * Record submission deadline: August 3rd, 2020
  * Notification to authors: August 28th, 2020
==================================================================

====== Scope ======

Systems of Systems (SoSs) are gaining momentum due to the widespread adoption 
of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, an increasing interest for smart 
cities, digital twins, and industrial cyber physical systems. The heterogeneity 
and large scale of these systems require novel design techniques, architectures 
and software infrastructures able to integrate independent (sub)systems to 
support their seamless cooperation, even through emergent behaviors. In 
addition, the continuous servicing process enabled by the recent microservices 
paradigm leads to rely on evolving approaches able to anticipate, mitigate, or 
react to unplanned scenarios.

Each system of a SoS must both exist as an independent entity and become part 
of wider systems when needed. This vision radically changes the notion of 
“integrated” system: (a) (sub)systems offer limited interaction capabilities 
and little possibility to be controlled; (b) cooperation can be ad-hoc and only 
needed in specific cases or conditions; (c) in many cases there is no prior, 
complete, knowledge of the (sub)systems; (d) SoS behaviors can be partially 
unplanned to follow environment or requirement changes.

The goal of the GAUSS (Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems) 
workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the 
design, the development, the validation, and the continuous maintenance of 
System of Systems. In this context, specific emphasis to methods and approaches 
focusing on ensuring desired sets of quality attributes (e.g., reliability, 
security, resilience) that SoSs must satisfy is given.

In addition, research works on distributed and adaptive system are also subject 
of interest for the GAUSS Workshop. Indeed, topics on dynamic modules 
integration, autonomous reaction to unplanned scenarios, or dynamic evolution 
of operational and managerial assets are source of changes that often 
potentially affect the overall environment (i.e. the SoS) too, consequently 
they are in the scope of the workshop too.

The GAUSS workshop will accept regular papers reporting on new research, and 
presentations of Journal First Papers. In addition, the organizing committee is 
planning to invite the best regular papers for a special issue on a Journal 
related to the topics of the Workshop (to be decided).

====== Topics ======

The list of relevant topics include but is not limited to:
  * Modeling, design, and engineering of SoSs
  * Architectures, architectural styles, and middlewares for SoSs
  * Foundations and formal methods for SoSs
  * Methods for architecture synthesis, coordination and adaptation patterns
  * Online V&V techniques for functional and non-functional assessment and 
    dependability
  * Online and Offline testing techniques for SoSs and Complex Systems
  * Context-awareness and context-aware adaptation techniques
  * Reconfiguration and optimization techniques
  * Self-* mechanisms
  * Techniques for extracting behavior models from streams of continuos 
    observations
  * Applications of SoSs
  * Distributed Software Engineering: strategies, processes, testing and methods
  * SoSs experiences, case studies, benchmarking, evaluations, testing, and 
    industrial perspectives
  * Models of functional and non functional requirements, context and 
    governance policies to support integration of SoSs
  * Knowledge management and Decision-making process in SoSs
  * Ambient Intelligent Systems
  * MultiAgents solutions for SoSs
  * Interaction Platforms enabling heterogeneous entities participation
  * Knowledge bases integration support and exploitation for semantic 
    interoperability
  * Autonomic coordination, negotiation and interactions for MultiAgents and 
    Complex systems
  * Blockchain technology for distributed and heterogeneous systems
  * Internet of Things-based SoSs
  * Adaptive and Reactive systems

====== Venue ======

The 2nd Edition of the International Workshop GAUSS will be held in conjunction 
with the 31st edition of the ISSRE Conference that will be held in Coimbra, 
Portugal, Oct 12 - 15, 2020. 
Due to the Covid outbreak, both the main  conference and the workshop will be virtual. 
Information regarding how to follow 
the events will be provided in the next future.

=================================================================
========================= Regular Papers ===========================
=================================================================

Papers submitted for evaluation must be original, unpublished, and not 
submitted for publication elsewhere.

Any submission of a contribution implies that, if accepted for presentation, at 
least one of its proponents must register (paying the requested fee) and attend 
the conference for giving the presentation.

===== Submissions =====

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in 
PDF using the EasyChair submission site:
  * https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=issre2020 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=issre2020>

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE CS Format Guidelines (for more information 
see at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> ).
GAUSS 2020 accepts two categories of papers:
  * LONG: up to 8 pages (with references)
  * SHORT: up to 4 pages (with references)

Papers that exceed the number of pages for their submission category could be 
rejected without review.

===== Dates =====

  * Abstract submission deadline: July 24th [**not mandatory**]
  * Full paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2020
  * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2020
  * Camera-ready papers: August 28th, 2020

==== Publication ====

Accepted peer-reviewed papers will be included in a supplemental volume of the 
ISSRE conference proceedings, and published by the IEEE Computer Society on 
IEEE Xplore.

*** We plan to invite some selected papers to submit an extended version to a 
special issue on a Journal related to the topics of the Workshop (to be 
decided).

=================================================================
================== Special Track: Journal First =================
=================================================================

This year GAUSS will have a dedicated session to promote the community meeting 
and research sharing, accepting already published papers on journals related to 
the topics of the workshop.

Authors who had articles published on eligible journals between January 1st, 
2019 and August 3rd, 2020 can propose their work to the JF Track of GAUSS. The 
proposed papers must be in the scope of the workshop; furthermore, they must 
not be an extension of previous Conference/Workshop papers, and they must have 
not already been presented in similar JF tracks.

Journals are eligible for the JF track if they:
  * are indexed on Scimago at: https://www.scimagojr.com/ <https://www.scimagojr.com/> 
  * are in subjects areas and categories related to the workshop (e.g., 
    Computer Science, Software, Artificial Intelligence, etc.)
  * have an average evaluation of Q2 (or more) in the last 4 years (2015-2018) 
    in these categories

Please note that the papers in the JF Track will not be evaluated again by 
reviewers: their quality is already assured by the journals where they are 
published. The selection process will only refer to the relevance and the 
affinity of the papers with respect to the workshop topics and the availability 
of the foreseen presentation slots.

===== JF Track Submissions =====

Authors should submit an electronic record (written in English) in PDF using 
the EasyChair submission site:
  * https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=issre2020 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=issre2020>

Each record submission for the JF Track must include:
  * the title of the original article
  * the complete list of authors
  * the original abstract
  * a list of keywords
  * the full reference to the article as accepted by the journal (plus a link 
    to the online version, if any)
  * if available, authors can include a public version of the paper too (e.g., 
    pre-print, arXiv link, etc.) [**not mandatory**]

===== Dates =====

  * Record submission deadline: August 3rd, 2020
  * Notification to authors: August 28th, 2020

===== Presentation =====

All the papers accepted to the JF Track will have a presentation slot to 
promote their work during GAUSS 2020. Please note that these papers will not be 
included in the proceedings: only the Title, Authors and Abstract will appear 
on the websites, plus a mandatory reference to the already published paper.

Any accepted submission to the JF Track implies that at least one of its 
proponents must register (paying the requested fee) and attend the conference 
for giving the presentation.



The Organizers

Pietro Braione, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy
Daniela Briola, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy
Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI - Italy
Francesco Gallo, Università dell'Aquila - Italy
Francesco Poggi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italy
Giovanni Quattrocchi, Politecnico di Milano - Italy 
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