CfP: The 23rd International Conference on Engineering Complex Systems (ICECCS 2018)

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The 23rd International Conference on Engineering Complex Systems (ICECCS 2018)

12-14 December 2018 | Melbourne, Australia | http://formal-analysis.com/iceccs/2018/

Over the past several years, we have seen a rapid rising emphasis on design, implement and manage complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. The complex computer systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and processing large amount data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environments and scenarios these systems operate in; demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability; as well as the large variation in development methodology, programming languages and implementation details. The key issues in these systems include performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns.

The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues; near-term requirements and challenges; established complex systems; emerging promising tools; and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems.

Important Dates (AoE time)

Abstract submission: 15th June 2018
Paper submission: 22nd June 2018
Notification of acceptance: 22th August 2018
Camera ready copy due: 21th September 2018

TOPICS:

• Requirement specification and analysis
• Verification and validation
• Security and privacy of complex systems
• Model-driven development
• Reverse engineering and refactoring
• Software architecture
• Big Data Management
• Ambient intelligence, pervasive computing
• Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks
• Design by contract
• Agile methods
• Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures
• Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems
• Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems
• Systems of systems
• Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Tools and tool integration
• Industrial case studies

SUBMISSION

Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research,
lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by
industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference
program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals,
researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that
include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss
relationships between industrial and academic research.

Full Papers

Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them.

Short Papers

Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submission and Publication

Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages, and short papers should not exceed 4 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately, without review.

Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance to the (CPS guidelines). We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS'18 portal, hosted on EasyChair.

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing
Services (CPS) and submitted for EI indexing.

Organization:

General Chair: Yuan-Fang Li (Monash University, Australia)
Program Chairs: Anthony Lin (Oxford, UK) and Jun Sun (Singapore
University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Workshop/Tutorial chair: Marcel Boehme (Monash University, Australia)
Local chair: Xin Xia (Monash University, Australia)
Web Chair: Hou Zhe and Hadrien Bride (Griffith University)
Publicity Chairs: Etienne Andre (Universite Paris 13, France) and
Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)

Program committee

Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Uppsala University, Sweden
Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sergiy Bogomolov, Australian National University, Australia
Yu-Fang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Duc Hiep Chu, Google LLC, United States
Sebastien Gerard, CEA LIST, France
Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Jane Hillston, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Gerald Luettgen, University of Bamberg, Germany
Xiaoxing Ma, Nanjing University, China
Tiziana Margaria, Lero, Ireland
Dominique Mery, Universite de Lorraine, France
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
David Parker, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Christian Prehofer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Max Schaefer, Semmle Ltd., United States
Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia
Kenji Taguchi, CAV Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan
Kenji Tei, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Cong Tian, Xidian University, China
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom
Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan
Zhilin Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China