<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Apologies for multiple posting, please distribute among interested parties</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">______________________________________________________________________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <b class="">EXTENDED DL: 14 MARCH</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Call for Papers - <b class="">Special Issue</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of the Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> on</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance</b> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">—>>> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20477481/homepage/special_issues.htm" class="">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20477481/homepage/special_issues.htm</a> <<<— </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">______________________________________________________________________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">_____________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><b class="">Aim and Scope</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Distributed Complex Systems (e.g., Systems of Systems - SoSs) are gaining momentum due to the </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and the increasing interest for smart cities, </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">digital twins, and industrial cyber physical systems. The heterogeneity and large scale of these systems </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">require novel design techniques, architectures and software infrastructures able to integrate independent </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(sub)systems to support their seamless cooperation and to address their emergent behaviors. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In addition, the continuous servicing process enabled by the recent micro-services paradigm leads to rely on </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">evolving approaches able to anticipate, mitigate, or react to unplanned scenarios. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Each part of a Distributed Complex System can both exist as an independent entity and become part of wider </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">systems when needed. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">This vision radically changes the notion of “integrated” system: </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(a) (sub)systems offer limited interaction capabilities and little possibility to be governed by other entities; </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(b) cooperation can be ad-hoc and only needed in specific cases or conditions; </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(c) in many cases there is no prior, complete, knowledge of the (sub)systems; </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(d) the behavior can be partially unplanned to follow environment or requirement changes. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">the development, the validation, and the continuous maintenance of Distributed Complex Systems </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">(e.g., SoSs, MultiAgent Systems, Adaptive Systems, Ambient Intelligent Systems). </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Indeed, topics on dynamic modules integration, autonomous reaction to unplanned or dynamic scenarios, </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">or dynamic evolution of operational and managerial assets are in the scope of this special issue. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">_____________</div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The list of relevant topics include but is not limited to</b>:</span></p><ul class=""><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Modeling, design, and engineering of Distributed Complex Systems</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Architectures, architectural styles, architecture synthesis and middlewares for Distributed Complex Systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Foundations and formal methods for distributed complex systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Coordination and adaptation patterns </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Online V&V techniques for functional and non-functional assessment and dependability </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Online and offline testing techniques </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Context-awareness and context-aware adaptation techniques </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Reconfiguration and optimization techniques </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Self-* mechanisms </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Techniques for extracting behavior models from streams of continuous observations </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Applications, experiences, case studies, benchmarking, industrial perspectives of Distributed Complex Systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Distributed software engineering: strategies, processes, evaluation and methods </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Models of functional and non functional requirements, context and governance policies to support integration of Distributed Complex Systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Knowledge management and decision-making process in Distributed Complex Systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ambient intelligent and multi-agent systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Interaction platforms enabling heterogeneous entities participation </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Knowledge bases integration support and exploitation for semantic interoperability </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Autonomic coordination, negotiation and interactions for multi-agent and complex systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Blockchain technology for distributed and heterogeneous systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Internet of Things-based Distributed Complex Systems </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Adaptive and reactive Distributed Complex Systems </span></li></ul><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">___________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><b class="">Important Dates</b>:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">- <b class="">Paper Submissions</b>: <strike class="">28 February 2021</strike><b class=""> 14 March!</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">- First Notification: <strike class="">15 May 2021</strike> 30 May</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">- Revised papers Submission: <strike class="">30 June 2021</strike> 15 July</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">- Final Notification: <strike class="">10 August 2021</strike> 30 August</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">___________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><b class="">Submission Guidelines</b>:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Author Guidelines for the journal “Software: Evolution and Process”, </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New";"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">and that are available at: </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20477481/homepage/forauthors.html" class="">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20477481/homepage/forauthors.html</a> </span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the editorial system at: </span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsme" class="">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsme</a></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> . </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">By following the submission instructions, please select “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance” when required by the system. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the reviewing procedures in place for the journal “Software: Evolution and Process”. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If the submission is an extended work of a </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">previously published conference or workshop paper, you must submit a cover letter detailing:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> 1) the “Summary of Differences” between the Conference/workshop paper and extended version paper</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> 2) a clear list of “new and original” contributions in the extended version paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> 3) confirmation of the percentage of new material (at least 30%), and </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> 4) the related previously published conference/workshop papers. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;">__________</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><b class="">Guest Editors</b>:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">- Pietro Braione, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. <br class="">- Daniela Briola, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. <br class="">- Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI, Italy. <br class="">- Francesco Gallo, University of L’Aquila, Italy. <br class="">- Francesco Poggi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. <br class="">- Giovanni Quattrocchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. </span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; 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