[agents] CFP: (IEEE Tech Sponsored) SDS2025: Lyon, France 2-5 Dec 2025 - The 12th International Conference on Software Defined Systems

Mon Jun 23 14:23:00 EDT 2025

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* IEEE Technically Sponsored*

*The 12th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS2025)*

https://www.gcet-conference.com/SDS2025

Lyon, France. December 2-5, 2025

Venue: University Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Submission link, Click Here
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds202501>

*Submission Date: 31 August 2025 *

Notification to Authors: 20 October 2025

Camera Ready Submission: 30 October 2025

SDS 2025

In the era of digital transformation, the world is rapidly converging
toward a future where *everything will be software-controlled*. From
networks and infrastructure to industry, cities, and devices, the shift
toward *softwarisation* is redefining how systems are built, operated, and
evolved. This paradigm enables unprecedented agility, automation, and
intelligence across every layer of modern computing environments. *The 12th
International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS 2025)* invites
researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and
government to explore the foundations, architectures, challenges, and
breakthroughs in software-defined everything. The conference serves as a
multidisciplinary platform to showcase innovations in *programmability,
abstraction, virtualization, and orchestration* that drive software-defined
solutions across domains. As control and intelligence increasingly migrate
from hardware to software, SDS 2025 aims to stimulate cross-disciplinary
dialogue and foster collaborations that bridge networking, systems,
security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and beyond. SDS 2025 is
more than a conference, it's a forum to define the software-driven future
of connected intelligence. We welcome theoretical insights, practical
innovations, case studies, and visionary ideas that push the boundaries of
software-defined systems.

We welcome high-quality research and case studies in, but not limited to,
the following areas:
*1. Core Foundations of Software-Defined Systems*

   - Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Storage (SDS), and Compute
   - Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and service chaining
   - Control plane/data plane decoupling and programmability (e.g., P4,
   eBPF)
   - Intent-based, policy-driven, and declarative system control
   - Platforms for orchestration, monitoring, and lifecycle management

*2. Software-Defined Cloud, Edge, and Fog Environments*

   - Software-defined architectures for cloud-edge continuum
   - Edge-native orchestration and microservices
   - Serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models in SDS
   - Lightweight virtualization and container orchestration at scale
   - Hybrid and distributed infrastructure control across fog, edge, and
   cloud

*3. AI-Driven and Intelligent SDS*

   - AI/ML for optimization, orchestration, and decision-making
   - Federated and distributed learning in software-defined environments
   - Reinforcement learning for dynamic resource and policy control
   - Explainable and trustworthy AI in SDS automation

*4. Security, Privacy, and Trust in Software-Defined Systems*

   - Secure identity, authentication, and access control
   - Zero trust architectures for SDS
   - AI-based threat detection and intrusion response
   - Post-quantum security and trust models in virtualized systems
   - Confidential computing and privacy-preserving orchestration

*5. Automation, Resilience, and Adaptability*

   - Self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing SDS
   - Closed-loop control and feedback in system orchestration
   - Digital twins and predictive simulation for SDS environments
   - Resilience and disaster recovery in programmable infrastructure

*6. Interoperability, Standards, and DevOps*

   - Multi-vendor and multi-domain SDS interoperability
   - Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevSecOps for SDS
   - APIs, standard protocols, and open-source frameworks
   - Benchmarks, simulators, and validation environments for SDS

*7. Sustainable and Responsible Software-Defined Systems*

   - Energy-aware design and carbon-efficient orchestration
   - Green AI and sustainability metrics in softwarised systems
   - Lifecycle management and sustainable SDS architecture

*8. Human-Centered and Societal Perspectives*

   - Human-in-the-loop and explainable SDS interfaces
   - Usability, visualization, and abstraction for managing complex SDS
   - Ethics, transparency, and governance in autonomous systems

*9. Applications and Emerging Domains*

   - SDS for smart cities, industrial automation (Industry 4.0), and
   healthcare
   - Software-defined robotics, drones, and autonomous systems
   - SDS in 5G/6G networks, network slicing, and beyond
   - Digital twins for infrastructure, manufacturing, and cyber-physical
   systems
   - Integration of quantum, neuromorphic, and non-traditional compute
   models

*10. Software Engineering for Software-Defined Systems*

   - Software Architecture & Design for SDS
   - Design patterns for programmable infrastructures
   - Scalable and modular architectures for cloud-edge control
   - Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and APIs for infrastructure control
   - DevOps, DevSecOps, and Automation
   -
   - CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for SDS
   - Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management
   - Security integration (DevSecOps) in software-defined environments
   -

   Testing, Verification, and Reliability Engineering
   Formal methods and runtime verification for SDS
   - Chaos engineering, fault injection, and resilience testing
   - Simulation and digital twins for pre-deployment validation
   -

   Tooling and Software Infrastructure
   Compilers, SDKs, and orchestration frameworks for SDS
   - Open-source tools and platforms supporting programmable systems
   - Emulators, testbeds, and benchmarking environments
   -

   Human-Centered and Process-Aware Engineering
   Developer experience (DevEx) and usability in SDS tools
   - Socio-technical aspects and collaboration in large SDS teams
   - Agile/lean processes adapted for infrastructure software
   -

   Governance, Sustainability, and Software Lifecycle Management
   Lifecycle engineering for long-term evolution of SDS
   - Sustainability and green software practices
   - Regulatory compliance, traceability, and ethics in system automation

Submission link, Click Here
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds202501>

Join us at SDS 2025 and help shape a future where every system, service,
and solution is intelligently controlled by software. SDS 2025 encourages
interdisciplinary, theoretical, experimental, and applied research
contributions. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and made accessible through major digital libraries.

Submission link, Click Here
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds202501>

*Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings*

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11"
two-column format (IEEE Templates
<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!dRSQJg3els6mW1NFTvGl-afhsxlcFv9HiYGrSPo02_baGM0o0gtptgu-bfnFLhqwrNV2aw9yPqpklGK5lJGS2hfgcV3jyAk$>).
All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at
Paper Submission
Link <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds202501> . Submitted papers
must present original unpublished research that is not currently under
review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these
guidelines may be rejected without review. You can Submit:

1- A full paper between 6 and 8 pages (including all figures, tables and
references).

2- Short papers are between 3 and 4 pages long, including position papers
and industrial demos or project proposals including PhD project proposals.

3- Extended abstract: High-level summary of your research / position paper/
industrial application / Running (funded or non funded) projects or project
Ideas/ PhD thesis extended Abstract (2 pages)

4- Abstract: Synopsis of your research, including running (funded or non
funded) projects (500 words)

All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted
papers will appear in the SDS 2025 Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE
Xplore for inclusion based on scope anf quality. Other indexing include  EI
(Compendex), Scopus and  DBLP.

Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under
consideration for another conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers
are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that
are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers
will be accepted as short papers.

*Contact:* If you have any questions, please send an email to:
gcetconference at gmail.com

*GCET 2025 General Co-Chairs: *

* Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France

* Tamara Zhukabayeva, L.N Eurasian National University,Kazakhstan

* Jaime Lloret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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