<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span id="gmail-x_docs-internal-guid-97dce20e-7fff-58d4-9aa2-74368b6dfbfd" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">[Apologies for any cross-posting]</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-"></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome contributions in the area of agent-based systems and self-adaptive software! </span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">SEAMS 2021 - Call for Papers </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">The 16h International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Madrid, Spain, </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">May 23-24, 2021</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/seams-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://conf.researchr.org/home/seams-2021</a> </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font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ass="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">SCOPE</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 55.5pt 0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Modern and emerging software systems, such as industrial Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, cloud and edge computing, robotics, and smart environments have to operate without violating their quality requirements. Self-adaptation and self-management enable these systems to adapt themselves at runtime to preserve and optimize their operation in the presence of uncertain changes in their operating environment, resource variability, evolving user needs, attacks, intrusions, and faults.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 1.5pt 0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Approaches to building and augmenting software and software-controlled systems with self-managing and self-adaptive capabilities are an important area of research and development, offering solutions that leverage advances in fields such as software architecture, fault-tolerant computing, programming languages, run-time program analysis and verification, among others. </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Additionally, research in this field is informed by related areas such as control systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, agent-based systems, and biologically inspired computing. SEAMS focuses on software engineering methods, techniques, processes and tools that can be used to support self-* properties, like, self-protection, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-configuration.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">The objective of SEAMS is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to investigate, discuss, examine and advance the fundamental principles, the state of the art, and the solutions addressing critical challenges of engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">All topics related to engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems, including:</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Foundational Concepts</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Self-* properties</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Understanding and taming uncertainty</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Runtime models and variability</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Mixed-initiative and human-in-the-loop systems</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-he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t-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Instrumentation of legacy systems (probing and effecting)</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Processes and methodologies</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Languages</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Formal notations for modeling and analyzing self-* properties</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Domain-specific language support for self-adaptation</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Programming language support for self-adaptation</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Areas</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Industrial Internet of Things</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Cyber-physical systems</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Cloud, fog and edge computing</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Bioengineering</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Robotics</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Smart environments</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Smart user interfaces</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* Privacy and security</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">COMMUNITY DEBATE</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">One of the recurring discussions within the community is the topic of handling unanticipated changes in self-adaptive systems. To foster our understanding of this topic, SEAMS 2021 will include a debate where participants can take a position either in favour or against the statement </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">“handling unanticipated changes is the ultimate challenge for self-adaptation”. </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> The debate at the symposium will have an adjudicator and two sides, respectively in favour and against the statement. The idea is to have a vote at the end from the audience to decide who was more convincing. Members of the audience can ask questions, and both sides need to answer those questions. </span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">TYPES OF PAPERS</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">SEAMS 2021 solicits the following types of papers:</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Long papers</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> (10 pages main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices, etc.; plus references up to two additional pages): papers offering novel and mature research contributions, including:</span></div><ul class="gmail-" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Technical papers that clearly describe an innovative and original technical contribution.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Empirical study that evaluates or compares existing techniques or derives relevant findings using a research method (experiment, survey, case study, grounded theory, …).</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Literature review on a research topic in the field.</span></div></li></ul><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Authors of long papers are encouraged to submit their supplementary material for recognition of artifacts that are functional, reusable, available, replicated, or reproduced. Accepted long papers whose supplementary material has been evaluated positively will receive corresponding artifact badges. To submit supplementary material, an extra one page abstract (not included in the proceedings) should be attached to the submitted long paper, which describes the material, provides information to access the material, supports the evaluation of the material, and justifies why the material deserves the badges the authors are applying for.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Short papers</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> (6 pages + 1 page references): papers that have smaller scope and/or contribution. This type of papers also includes: </span></div><ul class="gmail-" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">New Ideas and Emergent Results (NIER) papers, which describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience papers that </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap">describe the experiences gained from applying/evaluating software engineering research results in practice.</span></div></li></ul><ul class="gmail-" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Artifact papers, which describe model problems, exemplars, or sets of resources (e.g., data sets, tools, and frameworks) that are useful for the broader SEAMS community to develop, evaluate, and compare self-adaptation approaches. Please, check the specific call for this type of paper at following link: <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/seams-2021/seams-2021-papers#Call-for-Artifacts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://conf.researchr.org/track/seams-2021/seams-2021-papers#Call-for-Artifacts</a></span></div></li></ul><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Demo papers</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2 pages + 1 page references): papers that should demonstrate the use of self-adaptive software in a proof-of-concept, prototype or real-world application. The paper should contain a URL to a demonstration video of no more than five minutes in duration explaining the working of the application.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Community debate papers</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2 pages including references): Researchers who want to participate in the community debate (see above)  are invited to write a motion either in favour or against the statement </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">“handling unanticipated changes is the ultimate challenge for self-adaptation.” </span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted papers will appear in the SEAMS 2021 proceedings that will be published in the IEEE and ACM digital libraries. The official publication date is the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">SEAMS 2021 also continues to solicit </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">* artifacts papers *</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> including </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap">an artifact paper (max 6 pages + 1 page references) and the artifact itself.</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Call for Artifacts can be found at the following page: </span><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/seams-2021/seams-2021-papers#Call-for-Artifacts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:underline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://conf.researchr.org/track/seams-2021/seams-2021-papers#Call-for-Artifacts</span></a></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">BEST PAPER AWARDS</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">SEAMS 2021 will recognize three outstanding papers with a </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">"Best Paper Award"</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">"Best Student Paper Award</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">", and </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">"Best Artifact Award"</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">. The winners will be selected from a shortlist by a dedicated committee, considering the following criteria: originality, technical quality, soundness, significance, and clarity of presentation. The primary author of the Best Student Paper award must be a student at the time of submission.</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE EXPECTATION</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for and attend SEAMS 2021 and present the paper. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or COVID-19 prevention).</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">============================================================</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS</span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">All submitted papers and artifacts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. </span></div><br class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:i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se" target="_blank">romina.spalazzese@mau.se</a>; <a href="mailto:romina.spalazzese@gmail.com" target="_blank">romina.spalazzese@gmail.com</a><br>Phone: +46 722496527</font><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>