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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Call for Papers: SEAMS-2023</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">18th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Co-located with the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Melbourne, Australia, May 2023 (dates to be confirmed)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">https://conf.researchr.org/home/seams-2023</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** SCOPE *** </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Today we are building an exciting future in which autonomous vehicles navigate complex environments, smart cities help solve public problems and achieve a higher quality of life, and service robots support social care workers or perform tasks that are too dangerous for humans. However, these software-intensive systems must continuously preserve and optimize their operation in the presence of uncertain changes in their operating environment, resource variability, evolving user needs, attacks and faults. In addition, the complexity of these systems demands them to adapt and manage themselves autonomously.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">SEAMS is a CORE-A ranked conference that applies software engineering methods, techniques, processes, and tools to support the construction of safe, performant, and cost-effective self-adaptive and autonomous systems that provide self-* properties like self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection. 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, state of the art, and the solutions addressing critical challenges of engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">We welcome research contributions to all topics related to engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems, including:</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Foundational Concepts</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Self-* properties</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Uncertainty</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Runtime models and variability</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Mixed-initiative and human-in-the-loop/human-on-the-loop</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Ethical challenges</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Engineering Strategies</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* AI and machine learning</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Automatic synthesis techniques</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Control theory</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Search-based techniques</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Model checking</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Simulation and digital twins</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Engineering Activities</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Domain/environment analysis</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Requirements elicitation</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Security and privacy </span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Architecture and design</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Testing and assurances</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Automated maintenance </span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Systematic reuse</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Processes and methodologies</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Self-adaptation for software engineering </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Languages</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Formal notations for self-* properties</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Domain-specific languages</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Programming language support</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Application areas and domains include but are not limited to industrial internet of things, cyber-physical systems, cloud/fog/edge computing, bioengineering, robotics, smart environments, smart user interfaces, web applications, and automotive. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** TYPES OF PAPERS ***</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">SEAMS 2023 solicits the following types of papers.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">RESEARCH TRACK</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Research papers (10 pages of content + 2 pages of references): papers offering novel and mature research contributions and experiences gained from applying or evaluating research results in practice.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Short papers (6 pages of content + 1 page of references): papers presenting ongoing research or new research ideas without a complete evaluation.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Community debate (2 pages, possibly with a supporting video): Participants from industry and academia who would like to participate in the SEAMS 2023 community debate are strongly encouraged to submit a short position paper on the statement: “The solutions developed by the self-adaptive systems community are mature enough for industrial adoption.” A submission should clearly take a position in favor or against the statement and support this position with arguments. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">ARTIFACT TRACK</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">* Artifact papers (6 pages of content + 1 page of references): papers describing testbeds, model problems, or resources (e.g., data sets, tools, and frameworks) enabling the SEAMS community to develop, evaluate, and compare self-adaptation approaches. Artifact papers can be associated with research papers, or they can be as standalone contributions. Please check the specific call for this type of paper at following link: https://conf.researchr.org/track/seams-2023/seams-2023-artifact-track</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES ***</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">SEAMS 2023 will use TWO SUBMISSION ROUNDS, with firm deadlines in October 2022 and February 2023, and with the possibility of submitting a revised version from the first round to the second as detailed below.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">First submission round (only Research Track)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Abstract deadline (firm): 1 October 2022</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Paper submission due (firm): 7 October 2022</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Notification of decision (Accept / Revision / Reject) to authors: 15 December 2022</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";"> - Submissions with ‘Accept’ decisions: Final paper files (camera-ready copy) due: 1 February 2023</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";"> - Submissions with ‘Revision’ decisions: Submit a revised version along with a response letter to the reviews by 1 February 2023 (see ‘Second submission round’).</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";"> - Submissions with ‘Reject’ decisions: Final decision, authors of the “Rejected” papers from the first round may not resubmit the paper again in the second round. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Second submission round (Research Track and Artifact Track)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Abstract deadline for new submissions (firm): 25 January 2023 </span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Paper, new and revised round-one papers submission due (firm): 1 February 2023</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Notification of decision (Accept / Reject): 15 March 2023</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Final paper for new and revised submissions (camera-ready copy) due: 31 March 2023</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** AWARDS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ***</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">SEAMS will offer the following awards:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Best research paper</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Best student research paper</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">• Best artifact</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Additionally, the authors of selected Research papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their work to a dedicated Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">General Chairs: Radu Calinescu (University of York, UK), Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Program Chairs: Valérie Issarny (Inria, France), Pooyan Jamshidi (University of South Carolina, USA)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Artifact Chairs: Diego Perez-Palacin (Linnaeus University, Sweden), Genaina Rodrigues (University of Brasilia, Brazil)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Most Influential Paper Chair: Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Proceedings Chair: Sinem Getir Yaman (University of York, UK)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Publicity Chairs: Matteo Camilli (University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Nianyu Li (Peking University, China), Ana Petrovska (Technical University of Munich, Germany)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Social Media Chairs: Gabriel S. Rodrigues (University of Brasília, Brazil), Gricel Vázquez (University of York, UK)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Web Chair: Sebastian Hahner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei";">Virtualization Chair: Nicolás Cardozo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)</span><br>
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