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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>This is an open call for contributions to the special issue “<b>Microservices and Cloud-Native Solutions: From Design to Operation</b>”. The special issue belongs to the open access journal “<b>Information</b>” (MDPI, ISSN: 0167-6423).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>Please find all information about the special issue attached at the end of this message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>Looking forward to receiving your contributions!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>With my Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>Dr. Jacopo Soldani<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#2F5597'><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/soldani"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597'>http://pages.di.unipi.it/soldani</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Microservices and Cloud-Native Solutions: From Design to Operation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>A special issue of the open-access journal "Information" (MDPI, ISSN: 0167-6423)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Aims and scope</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Microservices and cloud-native solutions are gaining more and more momentum in enterprise IT, with major IT players (such as Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Twitter) already adopting them to deliver their core businesses. Cloud-native solutions enable organizations to design, develop, and run scalable multiservice applications in modern and dynamic environments like the Cloud. Microservice applications are probably the most prominent example of cloud-native solutions, which in general enable obtaining loosely coupled and highly scalable multicomponent systems. Combined with containers, deployment automation technologies, and CI/CD, cloud-native solutions allow application providers to continuously deliver their software, with software updates released frequently with minimal toil. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>At the same time, microservices and cloud-native solutions are inherently complex, due to the high number of interacting software components forming microservices/cloud-native applications. This makes their design, development, enactment, and management costly, complex, and error-prone. Solutions and best practices for accomplishing such tasks are hence needed and set the scope for this Special Issue. Theoretical and practical research papers, as well as review papers, are all welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Availability, fault-resilience, and scalability in microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Best practices and empirical studies on microservices and cloud-native solutions, and on their adoption;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>CI/CD and deployment automation in microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Design principles, architectural smells, and architectural refactoring of microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Fault localization in microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Formal methods, models, and techniques for microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Infrastructure and integration components for microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Integration of microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Model-driven design and development of microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Programming languages for microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Reverse engineering for microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Security of microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Serverless applications and function-as-a-service solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Microservices and cloud-native solutions adaptation, exploitation, and deployment over the Cloud-to-IoT computing continuum (including fog and edge infrastructures);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Testing of microservices and cloud-native solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Verification of microservices and cloud-native solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Submission Window <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Manuscripts should be submitted online (see “Submission Instructions” below). Manuscripts can be continuously submitted until the deadline: <b>May 1st, 2021</b>. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Submission Instructions</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Detailed instructions about manuscript formatting and submission can be found on the special issue website:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'> <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/Microservices_Cloud-Native">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/Microservices_Cloud-Native</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Guest Editor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'>Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>