The 8th IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Software Engineering FOR/IN the Cloud (FORINC)

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The flagship workshop on software engineering for/in the cloud is in its 8th edition and runs in conjunction with the IEEE World Congress on Services 2020. The workshop builds on the success of the previous versions and its special issue to the Journal of Systems on Software, featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in software engineering researchers and practitioners. Practitioners are very likely to beg, borrow and steal from software engineering in-the-small to benefit the case of software engineering for the ultra-large-scale, as it is the case of the cloud. Though the fundamentals of engineering software in both paradigms exhibit resemblance, software engineering for the cloud require novel approaches, which address the interplay between technical, economics-driven considerations and shifts software engineering towards a utility-based engineering for software-, infrastructure-, data storage and/or platform- as services.

The goal of this workshop is to address these gaps by strengthening the cross-fertilization of advances from software engineering, services and cloud computing. The workshop will explore, debate and increase our understanding to the following: (i) how recent advances in software engineering (with an emphasis on software architectures, architecting dependable systems, self-adaptive software architectures, economics-driven software engineering, risk management, security software engineering, green software engineering and testing) can(not) relate to the case of cloud; (ii) what are the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the field that appraise the paradigm-shift in engineering software systems as cloud services or cloud infrastructure; (iii) what are the open research directions for software engineering FOR the cloud?; (iv) how the paradigm will shape the future of engineering software IN the cloud i.e. benefiting from the cloud infrastructure, virtualization and economics of scale. The workshop thus aims to bridge the gap between software engineering, services, businesses and cloud computing communities by specifically addressing the challenges for software engineering FOR and IN the cloud. This year theme is targeting challenges in software engineering of trustworthy intelligent data-incentive cloud-based systems.

In this workshop, topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Requirements engineering in and for the cloud
Relating non-functional requirements to architectures in cloud environments
Architecting for the cloud: patterns and architectural styles for the cloud
Agile software development on the cloud
Engineering security, trust and privacy in architectures for cloud environments
Engineering for performance, reliability, heterogeneity, safety, scalability, real-time and dependability in cloud architectures
Self-adaptive and managed software engineering for the cloud
Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence for/on the cloud
Model-driven engineering for the cloud
Environments and tools support for engineering cloud services
Testing in/for the cloud
Maintenance, evolution and migration for cloud-based systems
Software engineering for Cloud and Emerging Technologies(e.g., IoT, Blockchain, Microservices)
Engineering sustainability in cloud architectures
Economics-driven engineering for the cloud and technical debt management;
Data-Driven Cloud Software Engineering
Empirical and industrial studies
Cloud Software Engineering education

Organizers

Workshop Chairs
Rami Bahsoon, The University of Birmingham
Nour Ali, Brunel University London
Tao Chen, Loughborough University
Carlos Mera-Gómez, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

Program Committee
To Be Announced

Submission

We call for original and unpublished papers no longer than 6 pages (up to 2 additional pages may be purchased subject to approval by the Publication Chair.). All papers will be reviewed with a minimum of 3 good-quality reviews per paper. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeservices2020

Authors wishing to submit a paper to this workshop must select the track entitled “IEEE SERVCES Workshop on Software Engineering FOR and IN Cloud” in order to be considered.

UPDATED: Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: ~~March 23 April 6, 2020 June 12~~ June 26, 2020
Notification to Author: ~~April 15 April 27, 2020 July 3~~ July 20, 2020
Camera-ready & Registration: ~~May 1 May 15, 2020 July 20~~ August 3, 2020

Organizers

For general questions about this workshop, please contact Rami Bahsoon: r.bahsoon@cs.bham.ac.uk