[ecoop-info] CFP: ICT Verification and Validation Track @ QUATIC'2021 (September, 8-11, 2021, Faro, Portugal)

[Francesca Lonetti]

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QUATIC 2021: International Conference on the Quality of Information
and Communications Technology

Track: ICT Verification and Validation

University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

September, 8-11, 2021

Website: https://2021.quatic.org/thematic-tracks/verification-and-validation


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Modern software technologies pose many challenges to the development
of Verification and Validation (V&V) solutions. On the one hand,
software processes are evolving towards new continuous development and
testing practices where software has to be developed and deployed
quickly to fulfill the strict requirements of competitive customers.
This requires new cost-effective V&V solutions that go side by side
with software development advances.  On the other hand, the ICT
systems become more and more complex and new classes of systems, such
as self-adaptive systems or systems of systems, are attracting a
growing research interest. These systems make V&V activities more
challenging, due to their highly dynamic and configurable nature. From
these trends, the need arises of increasing the research activity on
V&V of ICT systems, so as to guarantee high quality assurance of the
complex software systems, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness
of the software development process, while reducing the effort devoted
to V&V.

The “ICT Verification and Validation” track of QUATIC'2021 represents
an active forum inviting both researchers and practitioners to present
and discuss their recent achievements in V&V, novel V&V techniques and
tools, empirical V&V studies and V&V success stories or any other form
of original research contribution.

TOPICS
Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
•	Requirement-based and model-based testing
•	Approaches and tools for formal verification and model checking
•	Techniques and tools for functional and non-functional assessment
•	Manual testing practices and techniques
•	Safety, security and privacy testing
•	Software quality metrics
•	Quality assurance in agile methodologies and continuous delivery
•	Search-based and machine learning approaches to testing
•	Software reliability and resilience
•	Test automation
•	Dynamic/runtime/online V&V techniques
•	Fault localization
•	Program analysis techniques
•	Scalability and practical applicability of testing
•	Theory of software analysis and testing
•	Software certification
•	V&V in specific domains, such as healthcare, telecommunication,
cloud computing, mobile, big data, automotive, cyber-physical systems,
Internet of Things, education, social network, etc.
•	Applications, experiences, case studies on V&V
•	Perspectives, challenges and issues in V&V
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TRACK COMMITTEE

Chair:  Francesca Lonetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Program Committee:
•	Oum-Ei-Kheir Aktouf, Grenoble INP - LCIS, France
•	Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy
•	Hyunsook Do, University of North Texas, USA
•	Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
•	M.J. Escalona, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
•	Francisco Gortázar, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
•	Maurizio Leotta, University of Genoa, Italy
•	Breno Miranda, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
•	Jesús Morán, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
•	Vânia de Oliveira Neves, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
•	Patrizio Pelliccione, Gran Sasso Science Institute and Chalmers |
Gothenburg University, Sweden
•	Roberto Pietrantuono, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
•	Antonino Sabetta, SAP Labs, France
•	Andreas Ulrich, Siemens, Germany
•	Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK


PUBLICATION

As with previous years, QUATIC'2021 proceedings will be published in a
volume of Springer CCIS Series (Communications in Computer and
Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google
Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS
volumes are also submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings. The
organizers are presently negotiating a journal special issue for
extended versions of the best papers. In 2020 there was an associated
special issue with the Software Quality Journal.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission:   April 10th, 2021
Notification for full papers: May   7th, 2021
Camera-ready (full papers):  May  31st, 2021
Short papers submission:     May 25th, 2021
Notification for Short papers:  June 15th, 2021
Doctoral Symposium submissions: May  25th, 2021
Notification for Doctoral Symposium papers:  June 15th, 2021
Camera-ready (short and Doctoral Symposium):  June 30th, 2021


PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

•	Papers must be in Springer CCIS Format.
•	Full papers must not exceed 14 pages, including figures, references,
and appendices.
•	Short papers must not exceed 8 pages.
•	Authors should submit through EasyChair a PDF version of their paper
without names and affiliations, or other elements that allow the
authors' identification, to guarantee a double-blind review process.
•	Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
track's Program Committee.
•	Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of QUATIC’2021
published by Springer CCIS series, subject to one of the authors
registering for the conference.
•	The iThenticate plagiarism checker software will be used to verify
submissions' originality. Work without substantial new material or
failing to follow length and formatting guidelines, will be desk
rejected, and therefore will not be reviewed.


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