Call for Papers

is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of ICSOFT 2020, the 15th International Conference on Software Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on software technologies. The conference areas are "Software Engineering and Systems Development", "Software Systems and Applications" and "Foundational and Trigger Technologies".

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICSOFT with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
2. SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
3. FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES

AREA 1: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

Agile Development
Architectural Design, Refactoring and Patterns
Automated Software Engineering
Change and Configuration Management
Data-Driven Software Engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Formal Methods
Mobile and Cross Platform Development
Model-Driven Software Engineering
Open Source Development
People Management
Process Modeling
Programming Frameworks and Platforms
Project Management
Quality Management
Requirements Engineering
Software Engineering Tools
Software Development Lifecycle
Software and Systems Modeling
Risk Management
Software Project Planning and Tracking
Testing and Testability
User-Centered Design

AREA 2: SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
Ambient Intelligence and Digital Ecosystems
Application Software
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Complex Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems
Decision Support Systems
Embedded Systems
Enterprise Systems and Applications
Government Systems and Applications
Mobile Apps
Real-Time Systems
Robotics
Social Systems and Applications
Software Product Line
System Software
Web Systems and Applications
3D Printing

AREA 3: FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES

Big Data and Data Science
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity Technologies
Digital Divide Technology Factors
High Performance Computing
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Information Age and Digital Revolution
Internet of Things
Mobile Technologies
Natural Language Technologies
Network and Data Communications
Software as a Service
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Web Technologies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG, Germany

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (consult SCITEPRESS Ethics of Publication)

It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

SECRETARIAT

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://icsoft.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Peter Amthor, Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Germany
Vincent Aranega, University of Lille, France
Pasquale Ardimento, University of Bari, Italy
Ethem Arkin, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus and Hasso Plattner Institute, India
Davide Basile, ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy
Yann Ben Maissa, INPT, Morocco
Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic of Coimbra - ISEC, Portugal
Mario Berón, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dominique Blouin, Telecom Paris, France
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessle, Italy
Thomas Buchmann, Faculty of Computer Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany
Jonas Bulegon Gassen, Antonio Meneghetti Faculdade, Brazil
Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Fergal Mc Caffery, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Alejandro Calderón, University of Cádiz, Spain
Ana Castillo, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Ana Cavalli, TELECOM SudParis, France
Alexandru Cicortas, West University Timisoara, Romania
Lidia López Cuesta, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science institute, Italy
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, United States
Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK-IRST, Italy
Amleto Di Salle, University of L'Aquila, Italy
German-Lenin Dugarte-Peña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Gencer Erdogan, SINTEF, Norway
Morgan Ericsson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Anne Etien, Université Lille 1, France
João Pascoal Faria, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
Estrela Ferreira Ferreira Cruz, ADiT-LAB, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, 4900-348 Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Portugal
Felix J. Garcia Clemente, University of Murcia, Spain
Alejandra Garrido, LIFIA, Fac. de Informática, Univ. Nac. de La Plata & CONICET, Argentina
Aritra Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University, United States
Paola Giannini, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
John Paul Gibson, Mines-Telecom - Telecom SudParis , France
Ana-Belén Gil-González, University of Salamanca, Spain
Gorkem Giray, Independent Researcher, Turkey
Ricardo Giuliani Martini, Universidade Franciscana, Brazil
Jose Gonzalez, University of Seville, Spain
Gregor Grambow, Hochschule Aalen, Germany
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hatim Hafiddi, INPT, Morocco
Ludovic Hamon, Le Mans Université, France
Jean Hauck, Departamento de Informatica e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Pedro Rangel Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
Jose Luis Arciniegas Herrera, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Mercedes Hidalgo-Herrero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jose R. Hilera, University of Alcala, Spain
Ralph Hoch, TU Wien, Austria
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Jang-Eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Miloslav Hub, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Zbigniew Huzar, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State University, United States
Judit Jasz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Francisco José Domínguez Mayo, University of Seville, Spain
Maria Jose Escalona, University of Seville, Spain
Hermann Kaindl, TU Wien, Austria
Carlos Kavka, ESTECO SpA, Italy
Dean Kelley, Minnesota State University, United States
Jun Kong, North Dakota State University, United States
Rob Kusters, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands
Wing Kwong, Hofstra University, United States
Pierre Laforcade, LIUM, France
Giuseppe Lami, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Yu Lei, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Letitia Li, BAE Systems, United States
David Lorenz, Open University, Israel
Daniel Lucrédio, UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia
Stephane Maag, TELECOM SUDPARIS, France
Ivano Malavolta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russian Federation
Hamid McHeick, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
Andreas Meier, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Francesco Mercaldo, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Antoni Lluís Mesquida Calafat, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Spain
Gergely Mezei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Antao Moura, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Christian Muck, University of Vienna, Austria
Antonio Muñoz, University of Malaga, Spain
Takako Nakatani, The Open University of Japan, Japan
Joan Navarro, La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Marcos Palacios, University of Oviedo, Spain
Asier Perallos, University of deusto, Spain
Jennifer Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Dietmar Pfahl, University of Tartu, Estonia
Giuseppe Polese, Università Degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem Kallehbasti, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Stefano Quer, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Marcela Xavier Ribeiro, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Andres Rodriguez, LIFIA, Facultad de Informática, UNLP, Argentina
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
António Miguel Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gustavo Rossi, Lifia, Argentina
Stuart Harvey Rubin, University of California San Diego, United States
Gunter Saake, Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Germany
Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Santonu Sarkar, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, India
Elad Michael Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Peter Schneider-Kamp, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Eva-Maria Schoen, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
Istvan Siket, Hungarian Academy of Science, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Hungary
Kuldeep Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Harvey Siy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States
Cosmin Stoica, Independent Researcher, Romania
Ketil Stolen, UiO, Norway
Hiroki Suguri, Miyagi University, Japan
Selma Suloglu, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Claudine Toffolon, Université du Mans, France
Michael Vassilakopoulos, Data Structuring & Eng. Lab., Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
László Vidács, University of Szeged, Hungary
Yan Wang, Google, United States
Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jinhui Yao, Xerox Research, United States
Murat Yilmaz, Gazi University, Turkey
Fatiha Zaidi, Université Paris-Sud XI, France
Zheying Zhang, Tampere University, Finland