Recent Trends in Engineering Software-Intensive Systems

Guest editors:

Antonio Martini, University of Oslo, Norway (antonima@ifi.uio.no)

Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (manuel.wimmer@jku.at)

Theme:

The development of software-intensive systems is continuously evolving and faces many new challenges. New technologies, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc. as well as continuous engineering processes, such as DevOps, are being employed in new open contexts with more pervasive software, e.g., in Smart Cities, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Mobility, etc. This special issue will focus on collecting the latest research results on such emerging topics.

The topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not restricted to, the following:

– Software management & processes

– Software quality & technical debt

– Cloud-native computing & DevOps

– Embedded systems, edge computing & IoT

– Model-driven software engineering

– AI-supported software engineering

– Data and AI-driven software engineering

– Mining open data and software repositories

Surveys, (Systematic) Literature Reviews or Mapping Studies are out of the scope of the special issue and will be desk-rejected.

Important Dates:

– Submission deadline: 20 December, 2020

– First notification: 10 March, 2021

– Revision: 10 May, 2021

– Second notification: 10 July, 2021

– Final version: 10 August, 2021

Submission Guidelines:

The call for this special issue is an open call. In addition, the authors of the best papers of the 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2020) will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers.

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals or conferences. If an earlier version of this work has been published, then this submission must be at least 30% different and the authors should explain in the introduction the delta between this new paper and the prior version. Please note that the papers from SEAA 2020 that are also invited for this special issue, are subject to the same rule. Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/jss. Follow the submission instructions given on this site. Please, select the article type as “VSI: SEAA-2020”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All submitted papers should adhere to the general principles of the Journal of Systems and Software articles. Submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors, available on the journal website. The submitted paper must follow the format specified in the JSS Guide for Authors https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-and-software/0164-1212/guide-for-authors.

Decisions:

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. The guest editors, together with the Editors-in-Chief and the Special Issues Editors will make the final decisions.

For more information about the special issue, please contact the guest editors.