[fg-arc] CfP: Workshop on Software Qualities and their Dependencies (SQUADE 2018) @ ICSE 2018

[Anne Koziolek (IPD)]

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
                   (Deadline: February 05, 2018)

                  First International Workshop on
       Software Qualities and their Dependencies (SQUADE 2018)
                           @ ICSE 2018

                 Gothenburg, Sweden, May 18, 2018
                  http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/SQUADE/

     (SQUADE is an ICSE 2018 workshop https://www.icse2018.org/)
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* Deadline for Paper Submission: February 05, 2018

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*Scope and Objectives*

This workshop focuses on increasing our understanding of the nature of 
Software Qualities (SQs - e.g., reliability, usability, affordability, 
etc.), their interrelationships, and on bringing them into balance in 
the practice of software engineering.  The relevance and timeliness of 
this topic reflects the current trend towards more software-intensive 
systems, with greater complexity, autonomy, speed of change, and the 
need for interoperability within systems of systems, given the frequent 
system shortfalls and overruns that occur when their SQ balance is not 
achieved.  Research and practices are becoming available, but there is 
overall chaos among SQ definitions, standards and relationships. This 
workshop aims to bring together SQ researchers and practitioners to 
support more solid foundations in the task of dealing with SQs and their 
dependencies.

*Areas of Interest*

Primary areas of interest for the SQUADE workshop are:

* SQs in practice: experience reports, lessons learned, case-studies, 
benchmarks, experiments, negative results due to unknown dependencies, 
best practices and success stories.

* Specification and modelling notations of SQs: analysis of a specific 
property (cost, performance, resource consumption, reliability, 
security, etc.), a set of properties, traceability during the 
development process, traceability over the software lifecycle, model 
annotations.

* SQs validation and verification: dependencies of measurements, 
evaluation methods, trade-off analysis, formal methods, multi-criteria 
analysis, testing, simulation of a given property or set of properties.

* SQs Data Analytics and Machine Learning: significant progress is being 
made in large-scale analysis of a software system’s code smells, 
technical debt, vulnerabilities, and architecture deficiencies across 
software system’s commits history.  Further research is underway in 
exploring machine learning approaches as learning predictive models, 
transfer learning, uncertainty in models, continuous verification, deep 
learning, model optimization, and self-adaptation.

* Ontological Dependencies among SQs: dependencies among SQs include 
synergies, conflicts, means-ends relations, quantitative tradespace 
models, and SQ variation by system state, process, stakeholder value 
propositions, and operational context.  Ontologies addressing these 
sources of variation enable more precise and consistent evaluation of SQ 
dependencies.

Contributions from other SQ-relevant topics are welcome as well.

*Important Dates*

Workshop paper submissions due: Mon February 5th 2018
Notification to authors: Mon March 5th 2018
Camera-ready copies due: Mon March 19th 2018
Workshop date: Mon May 28th 2018

*Program Organizers*

Séverine Sentilles, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Barry Boehm, USC, USA
Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politèecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany



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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anne Koziolek (Martens)

Am Fasanengarten 5,
Building 50.34, Room 326
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Phone: +49 721 608-4-3473
Fax: +49 721 608-4-5990
Web: http://are.ipd.kit.edu/people/anne_koziolek/

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