<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="">=========================CALL FOR PAPERS=========================<br class=""><br class=""> GAUSS 2021<br class=""><br class=""> 3rd International Workshop on<br class=""> Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems<br class=""> co-located with ISSRE 2021 <br class=""><br class=""> <a href="http://gauss2021.iasi.cnr.it/" class="">http://gauss2021.iasi.cnr.it/</a><br class=""> Wuhan, China - Hybrid Event<br class=""> October 25 - 28, 2021<br class=""><br class="">Regular Papers:<br class=""> * Abstract submission deadline: July 23rd, 2021 [not mandatory]<br class=""> * Submission deadline: August 1st, 2021<br class=""> * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2021<br class=""> * Camera ready: August 28th, 2021<br class="">=================================================================<br class=""><br class="">====== Scope ======<br class=""><br class="">The goal of the GAUSS (Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems) <br class="">workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the <br class="">design, the development, the validation, and the continuous maintenance of <br class="">System of Systems (SoSs). The workshop promotes research works on distributed <br class="">solutions built on top of independent (sub)systems that seamlessly cooperate, <br class="">even through emergent behaviors. In addition, research and case studies are in <br class="">scope if addressing dynamic modules integration, autonomous reaction to <br class="">unplanned scenarios, or dynamic evolution of SoS operational and managerial <br class="">assets (i.e., environmental adaptation). Both the contexts encourage <br class="">contributions focusing on ensuring desired sets of quality attributes (e.g., <br class="">reliability, security, resilience) that SoSs must satisfy. <br class=""><br class="">This year the GAUSS workshop is also focusing on the special theme: <br class="">* Engineering and Exploiting Microservice Architectures for SoSs *<br class="">In addition to contributions fulfilling the core aims of the workshop, <br class="">submissions about methods and solutions on this special theme are also <br class="">encouraged.<br class=""><br class="">The GAUSS workshop will accept regular and short papers reporting on research <br class="">work, surveys, mapping studies, or presentations of case studies. <br class=""><br class="">In addition, also for the current edition, the organizing committee is planning <br class="">to invite the best contributions for a special issue on a Journal related to the <br class="">topics of the Workshop (to be decided).<br class=""><br class="">====== Topics ======<br class=""><br class="">The list of relevant topics include but is not limited to:<br class=""> * Modeling, design, and engineering of SoSs<br class=""> * Architectures, architectural styles, and middlewares for SoSs<br class=""> * Foundations and formal methods for SoSs<br class=""> * Methods for architecture synthesis, coordination and adaptation patterns<br class=""> * Online V&V techniques for functional and non-functional assessment and <br class=""> dependability<br class=""> * Online and Offline testing techniques for SoSs and Complex Systems<br class=""> * Context-awareness and context-aware adaptation techniques<br class=""> * Reconfiguration and optimization techniques<br class=""> * Self-* mechanisms<br class=""> * Techniques for extracting behavior models from streams of continuos <br class=""> observations<br class=""> * Applications of SoSs<br class=""> * Distributed Software Engineering: strategies, processes, testing and methods<br class=""> * SoSs experiences, case studies, benchmarking, evaluations, testing, and <br class=""> industrial perspectives<br class=""> * Models of functional and non functional requirements, context and <br class=""> governance policies to support integration of SoSs<br class=""> * Knowledge management and Decision-making process in SoSs<br class=""> * Ambient Intelligent Systems<br class=""> * MultiAgents solutions for SoSs<br class=""> * Interaction Platforms enabling heterogeneous entities participation<br class=""> * Knowledge bases integration support and exploitation for semantic <br class=""> interoperability<br class=""> * Autonomic coordination, negotiation and interactions for MultiAgents and <br class=""> Complex systems<br class=""> * Blockchain technology for distributed and heterogeneous systems<br class=""> * Internet of Things-based SoSs<br class=""> * Adaptive and Reactive systems<br class=""> * Engineering and Exploiting Microservice Architectures for SoSs<br class=""><br class="">====== Venue ======<br class=""><br class="">The 3rd Edition of the International Workshop GAUSS will be held in conjunction <br class="">with the 32nd edition of the ISSRE Conference that will be held in Wuhan, China, <br class="">Oct 25 - 28, 2021. Also this year both the GAUSS Workshop and the ISSRE <br class="">Conference will adopt a hybrid model allowing either in-person or online remote <br class="">presentations.<br class=""><br class="">Information regarding how to follow the events will be provided in the next <br class="">future.<br class=""><br class="">====== Regular Papers ======<br class=""><br class="">Papers submitted for evaluation must be original, unpublished, and not submitted <br class="">for publication elsewhere. <br class=""><br class="">Any submission of a contribution implies that, if accepted for presentation, at <br class="">least one of its proponents must register (paying the requested fee) and attend <br class="">the conference for giving the presentation.<br class=""><br class="">===== Submissions =====<br class=""><br class="">Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in <br class="">PDF using the EasyChair submission site:<br class=""> * <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issrew2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issrew2021</a><br class=""><br class="">Submissions must adhere to the IEEE CS Format Guidelines (for more information <br class="">see at <a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" class="">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> ).<br class="">GAUSS 2021 accepts two categories of papers:<br class=""> * LONG: up to 8 pages (with references)<br class=""> * SHORT: up to 4 pages (with references)<br class=""><br class="">Papers that exceed the number of pages for their submission category could be <br class="">rejected without review.<br class=""><br class="">===== Dates =====<br class=""><br class=""> * Abstract submission deadline: July 23rd [**not mandatory**]<br class=""> * Full paper submission deadline: August 1st, 2021<br class=""> * Notification to authors: August 21st, 2021<br class=""> * Camera-ready papers: August 28th, 2021<br class=""><br class="">===== Publication =====<br class=""><br class="">Accepted peer-reviewed papers will be included in a supplemental volume of the <br class="">ISSRE conference proceedings, and published by the IEEE Computer Society on <br class="">IEEE Xplore.<br class=""><br class="">We plan to invite some selected papers to submit an extended version to a <br class="">special issue on a Journal related to the topics of the Workshop (to be <br class="">decided).<br class=""><br class="">===== Organizing Committee Members =====<br class=""><br class="">* Pietro Braione, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy<br class="">* Daniela Briola, Università di Milano - Bicocca - Italy<br class="">* Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI - Italy<br class="">* Francesco Gallo, Italy<br class="">* Giovanni Quattrocchi, Politecnico di Milano - Italy<br class=""><br class="">===== Contact =====<br class=""><br class="">For any question, curiosity or report, please do not hesitate to contact us at:<br class="">* <a href="mailto:gauss-workshop-2021@iasi.cnr.it" class="">gauss-workshop-2021@iasi.cnr.it</a></body></html>