Call for Contributions

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General Information

The 28th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024), will take place in Barcelona, Spain.

The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains.

The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to:

  • Formal and model-based engineering of critical systems
  • High-Integrity Systems and Reliability
  • AI for High-Integrity Systems Engineering
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Ada Language
  • Applications in relevant domains

Please see Scope and Topics for the a non-exclusive list of relevant topics to the conference.

The conference schedule comprises a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops.

  • Journal track papers present research advances supported by solid theoretical foundation and thorough evaluation.
  • Industrial track contributions contributions highlight industrial open challenges and/or the practitioners' side of a relevant case study or industrial project.
  • Work-in-progress track papers illustrate novel research ideas that are still at an initial stage, between conception and first prototype.
  • Tutorials guide attenders through a hands-on familiarization with innovative developments or with useful features related to reliable software.
  • Workshops provide discussion forums on themes related to the conference topics.
  • Vendor presentations and exhibitions allow for companies to showcase their latest products and services.

Call for Journal Track Submissions

Following a journal-first model, this edition of the conference again includes a "Journal Track" which seeks original and high-quality papers that describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted journal track papers will be published in the "Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC2024)" Special Issue of JSA -- the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q1 ranked, CiteScore 8.5, impact factor 4.5). Accordingly, the conference is listed as “Journal Published” in the latest update of the CORE Conference Ranking released in August 2023.

Please note that the Ada-Europe organization will waive the Open Access fees for the first four accepted papers, which do not already enjoy OA from other agreements with the Publisher. Subsequent papers will follow JSA regular publishing track.

Submissions should be made online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/. Please select the "Ada-Europe AEiC 2024" option as article type of the paper (submission page open from 15 November 2023).

General information for submitting to the JSA can be found at the Journal of Systems Architecture website.

JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model to speed up the publication process, where Special Issue papers are published in regular issues, but marked as SI papers. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers early, and need not wait until the submission deadline. Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review will be invited to present their work at the conference. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet.

Guest Editors

Bjorn Andersson
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
E-mail: baandersson@sei.cmu.edu

Luis Miguel Pinho
ISEP & INESC TEC, Portugal
E-mail: lmp@isep.ipp.pt

Call for Industrial Track Submissions

The conference seeks industrial practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner‐peer review process.

Interested authors shall submit a short (1‐to‐2 pages) abstract, via Easy Chair, strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style.

The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime‐time technical program of the conference, and will also be invited to expand their contributions into full‐fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the Industrial track of the Conference.

The Industrial Track welcomes contributions that fit the general scope of the conference, and actively address the perspective of practitioners on the topic of interest. Especially welcome are submissions of the following kind:

  • Open challenges and future perspectives on the development of reliable software, high-integrity systems and cyber-physical systems.
  • Experience with languages, tools, methodologies, and products for the achievement of safety and reliability in large or complex projects and systems.
  • Lessons learned in the design, implementation and deployment of reliable software, high-integrity systems, real-time and embedded systems, etc.
  • Insights into language tools and libraries that incorporate or target reliability in software.
  • Reports and highlights from ongoing or completed challenging projects where software is a critical component of the system.
  • Practical hands-on sharing of knowledge gained in the practice of building reliable software.
  • Usage of Reliable Software Technologies in general.

Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs Luciana Provenzano and Michael Pressler.

Call for Work‐in‐Progress Track Submissions

The Work‐in‐Progress track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research and (b) early‐stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4‐page papers describing research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal track. Early‐stage ideas are 1‐page papers that pitch new research directions that fall within the scope of the conference.

The WIP track is expected to address emerging areas where reliability is a first-class requirement. WIP submissions may cover new application domains, new technologies, and new methods related to reliable software, such as autonomous systems, IoT, Industries 4.0, AI for critical systems, Cloud/Edge, security, energy management, etc.

Both kinds of submissions must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent MSc graduates and PhD students are especially sought.

Authors shall submit their work via Easy Chair, strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style.

The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime‐time technical program of the conference and will also be offered the opportunity to expand their contributions into 4‐page articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the Conference.

Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs Alejandro R. Mosteo and Ruben Martins.

Call for Workshops

The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half‐ or full‐day events, to be scheduled at either end of the AEiC conference.

Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the  Ada User Journal.

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Workshop proposals shall be submitted by e‐mail to the Workshop Chair,  Sergio Saez, with subject line: [AEiC 2024: workshop proposal].

Workshop proposals can be submitted from the 15 November 2023 to the deadline. Once submitted, each workshop proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. Decisions will by provided starting from January 1st, 2024.

Call for Tutorials

The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the scope of the conference, with hands‐on or practical elements, and a topical slant oriented to selected targets in the typical conference audience.

The conference audience includes professionals who work in critical systems or develop features for them, students in computer science or engineering education, academic researchers in the field of conference interest, or people who merely approach software development as a hobby.

If you have developed or learned of libraries, tools, compilers, methodologies or programming languages related with critical systems that may ease the software development job of others, you would be a natural candidate for offering a tutorial.

Tutorial proposals include:

  • A title
  • A short abstract (between 100 and 200 words)
  • A bulleted-list outline of the presentation topics
  • The proposed duration (half day or full day)
  • The intended target and level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced)
  • A statement motivating attendance.

Tutorials should be delivered in presence unless exceptional circumstances should dictate otherwise. Tutorial proposals should indicate whether additional audience might be remote.

Submissions shall be sent by e‐mail to the Tutorial Chair, Maria A. Serrano, with subject line: "[AEiC 2024: tutorial proposal]".

Tutorial proposals can be submitted from the 15 November 2023 to the deadline. Once submitted, each tutorial proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. Decisions will by provided starting from January 1st, 2024.

The authors of accepted full‐day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half‐day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials.

Academic Listing

The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal‐track proceedings of the conference, is Q1 ranked, with CiteScore 8.5 and Impact Factor 4.5.
The Ada User Journal, venue of all other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database.

Awards

The organization will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference.

Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors

The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition, with the option of a 20 minutes presentation as part of the conference program. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair, Ahlan Marriott.