• Ada-Europe 2021 Conference - EXTENDED 14 January deadline

    From Dirk Craeynest@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 31 15:54:53 2020
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    The Ada-Europe 2021 Conference organizers decided to provide more time
    for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most
    submissions is extended to Thursday 14 January 2020. 2 weeks remain!

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    UPDATED Call for Contributions - EXTENDED DEADLINE

    25th Ada-Europe International Conference on
    Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021)

    7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain

    www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

    Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe
    in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED
    and the Ada Resource Association (ARA)

    *** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE ***

    #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming

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    *** General Information

    The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software
    Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in
    Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule
    includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials
    and workshops.

    Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of
    the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment
    to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to
    have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation.
    If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a
    full virtual event.

    The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the
    in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers.

    *** Schedule

    14 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial
    presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop
    proposals

    19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers,
    industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops

    31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and
    Invited Presentation proposals

    30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited
    Presentations

    *** Topics

    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 program will allow ample time for keynotes,
    Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable
    software technologies. Should the situation allow it, the presenters
    will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation.

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

    - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems:
    Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture
    Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance;

    - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling
    Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis
    Methods;

    - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale
    Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and
    Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities;

    - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns,
    Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based
    Design and Development;

    - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and
    Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and
    Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering,
    Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support
    Tools;

    - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes,
    Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK;

    - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability
    Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health
    Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems,
    Serious Games, etc;

    - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems;

    - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies
    and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative
    and Quantitative Metrics;

    - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features,
    implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the
    software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education
    and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics.

    *** Call for Journal-Track Papers

    The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length
    papers that must describe mature research work on the conference
    topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review.

    Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within
    a technical session of the conference and they will be published in
    an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture
    (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors.

    The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2021
    via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021

    Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the
    "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors).
    In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or
    extension of the submissions.

    *** Call for WiP-Track Papers

    The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers
    describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions.
    They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review.
    The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and
    following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/).

    Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot
    within a regular technical session of the conference and will also
    be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in
    the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference.

    The conference is listed in the principal citation databases,
    including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada
    User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic
    Search Ultimate database.

    *** Call for Industrial Presentations

    The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver
    insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness
    of the review process required for regular papers. The authors
    of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the
    form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 14 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and
    following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/).

    The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and
    make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors
    will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of
    the conference.

    These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions
    into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of
    the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference.

    *** Awards

    Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation.
    All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible.

    *** Call for Invited Presentations

    The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers
    to present paramount research results that are relevant to the
    conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to
    these presentations, which may include previously published works,
    relevant new tools, methods or techniques.

    The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot.
    Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the
    participation.

    The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that
    may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page
    summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information
    and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic.

    *** Call for Educational Tutorials

    The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials
    can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be
    purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in
    current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence
    and their application to reliability and safety.

    Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description
    of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration
    (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial
    (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be
    submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair.

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

    *** Call for Workshops

    Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be
    proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to
    be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals
    should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop
    organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event,
    for publication in the Ada User Journal.

    *** Call for Exhibitors

    The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main
    conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition,
    virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers
    of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair
    for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition
    space and time.

    *** Special Registration Fees

    Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees
    for virtual participants.

    *** Venue

    Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a
    well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport.
    The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center
    and beside Santander bay.

    *** Organizing Committee

    * Conference Chair
    Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
    mgh at unican.es

    * Program Chairs
    Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
    aldeam at unican.es
    J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
    gutierjj at unican.es

    * Work-in-Progress Chair
    Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway
    kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no

    * Tutorial & Workshop Chair
    Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    jorge.garrido at upm.es

    * Industrial Chair
    Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
    patricia at ai2.upv.es

    * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair
    Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland
    software at white-elephant.ch

    * Publicity Chair
    Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium
    dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be

    *** Previous Editions

    Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early
    80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies
    series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96),
    London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99),
    Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria
    ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York,
    UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice,
    Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK
    ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France
    ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17),
    Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19).

    Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae.

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    Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be

    *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies ***
    June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021
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