[agents] CFP: GAUSS'21 Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems Workshop, co-located with ISSRE 2021

[daniela briola]

=========================CALL FOR PAPERS=========================

                            GAUSS 2021

                3rd International Workshop on
    Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems
                  co-located with ISSRE 2021        

                   http://gauss2021.iasi.cnr.it/ <http://gauss2021.iasi.cnr.it/>
                   Wuhan, China - Hybrid Event
                     October 25 - 28, 2021

Regular Papers:
 * Abstract submission deadline: July 23rd, 2021 [not mandatory]
 * Submission deadline: August 1st, 2021
 * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2021
 * Camera ready: August 28th, 2021
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====== Scope ======

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 (SoSs). The workshop promotes research works on distributed 
solutions built on top of independent (sub)systems that seamlessly cooperate, 
even through emergent behaviors. In addition, research and case studies are in 
scope if addressing dynamic modules integration, autonomous reaction to 
unplanned scenarios, or dynamic evolution of SoS operational and managerial 
assets (i.e., environmental adaptation). Both the contexts encourage 
contributions focusing on ensuring desired sets of quality attributes (e.g., 
reliability, security, resilience) that SoSs must satisfy. 

This year the GAUSS workshop is also focusing on the special theme: 
* Engineering and Exploiting Microservice Architectures for SoSs *
In addition to contributions fulfilling the core aims of the workshop, 
submissions about methods and solutions on this special theme are also 
encouraged.

The GAUSS workshop will accept regular and short papers reporting on research 
work, surveys, mapping studies, or presentations of case studies. 

In addition, also for the current edition, the organizing committee is planning 
to invite the best contributions 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
 * Engineering and Exploiting Microservice Architectures for SoSs

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

The 3rd Edition of the International Workshop GAUSS will be held in conjunction 
with the 32nd edition of the ISSRE Conference that will be held in Wuhan, China, 
Oct 25 - 28, 2021. Also this year both the GAUSS Workshop and the ISSRE 
Conference will adopt a hybrid model allowing either in-person or online remote 
presentations.

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/conferences/?conf=issrew2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issrew2021>

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 2021 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 23rd [**not mandatory**]
 * Full paper submission deadline: August 1st, 2021
 * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2021
 * Camera-ready papers: August 28th, 2021

===== 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).

===== Organizing Committee Members =====

* Pietro Braione, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy
* Daniela Briola, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy
* Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI - Italy
* Francesco Gallo,  Italy
* Giovanni Quattrocchi, Politecnico di Milano - Italy

===== Contact =====

For any question, curiosity or report, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
* gauss-workshop-2021 at iasi.cnr.it <mailto:gauss-workshop-2021 at iasi.cnr.it>
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