Advanced Digital Architectures for Model-Driven Adaptive Enterprises

Please check out our new book. It has been developed with colleagues Vinay Kulkarni and Sreedhar Reddy (TCS Research) and Balbir Barn (Middlesex University). You can read more about how TCS are using the approach here. An overview of the book is:

The five digital forces (mobility and pervasive computing, cloud, big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, and social media) are poised to bring great academic and industrial breakthroughs. All stakeholders want to understand how to best harness these forces to their advantage. While literature exists for understanding each force independently, there is a lack of knowledge on how to utilise all the forces together to realise future enterprises. 

Advanced Digital Architectures for Model-Driven Adaptive Enterprises is an essential reference source that explores the potential in unifying the five digital forces to achieve increased levels of agility, efficiency, and scale. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics including socio-technical systems, adaptive architectures, and enterprise modeling, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, programmers, designers, computer engineers, entrepreneurs, tool builders, digital practitioners, researchers, academicians, ands students at the graduate level.

Topics Covered

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive Architectures
• Adoption Issues
• Complex Systems of Systems
• Digital Enterprise
• Digital Thread
• Digital Twin
• Enterprise Decision Making
• Enterprise Modeling
• Entrepreneurship
• Investing
• Security and Privacy
• Socio-Technical Systems

Innovations in Software Engineering 2021: Call for Papers

Innovations in Software Engineering Conference
ISEC 2021
Call for Papers
Main Conference - Research Track

 

ISEC is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT India. The 14^th edition of the conference will be held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share problems, experiences, and cutting-edge advancements in the field of software and systems engineering.

ISEC 2021 invites the submission of technical papers describing original and unpublished results of foundational, theoretical, empirical, and applied software and systems engineering research. Submissions are invited in all areas of software and systems engineering, including but not limited to the following:

 

Software Engineering Methods Agile Methods Business Process Design and Deployment Requirements Engineering Empirical Software Engineering Safety-Critical Software Verification and Validation Engineering for Quality Requirements Human Factors Mobile and Web Applications Model Driven Development Software Product Lines Self-Adaptive Systems Software Analytics System Modeling and Simulation Program Comprehension and Visualization End User Development Software Metrics Globally Distributed Teams System Debugging Component Based Software Engineering  Security and Privacy System Architecture   Responsible Software Engineering Trust, Fairness and Ethics Green software engineering

Software Deployment and Operations DevOps Container Based Software Artifacts Dynamic Discovery & Version Management Handling Container Image Sprawl Fault Isolation and Repair Software Evolution and Maintenance   Software for the Cloud Data Obfuscation Application Driven Resource Allocation Cross Cloud Deployment Performance Engineering in the Cloud    Software Engineering Specialisms Service Based Technologies Programming Languages Mining Software Repositories Software Economics and Metrics Software Engineering Education Automated Software Engineering Software Engineering & Machine Learning Software Engineering & AI Software Engineering and Law Formal Methods Traceability Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Blockchain

 

 

Submission Details

Submissions should present the most recent and significant technical contributions to the field of Software and Systems Engineering. We invite high quality submissions to be evaluated against the following criteria:

·       Soundness: The extent to which contributions are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods.

·       Significance: Demonstrating that contributions are novel, original, and important, with respect to the existing body of knowledge.

·       Verifiability: The presentation of sufficient information to support independent verification or replication of the claimed contributions,

·       Presentation: Achieving clear descriptions and explanations, adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

This year, we invite submissions under three categories: Regular, Short, Poster:

·       Regular papers should not exceed 11 pages, 10 pages for the main text (including figures, appendix etc.) and 1 page for references in standard ACM format. Regular papers contain full descriptions that constitute contributions to knowledge and are evaluated against the criteria given above.

·       Short papers should not exceed 5 pages, including references in standard ACM format. Short papers should clearly demonstrate that the work is a contribution to knowledge, but may be incomplete in terms of being able to demonstrate one or more of soundness, significance, or verifiability.

·       Poster papers should not exceed 2 pages. A poster paper is intended to describe work that is at an early stage in development. Accepted poster papers will be provided with an opportunity to display a poster and to discuss the ideas with delegates during a dedicated session of the conference.

Regular paper submissions are expected to contain in-depth descriptions of the new ideas along with detailed evaluation, and when relevant rigorously consider reasonable broader impacts, both positive and negative, e.g. in a separate "Broader Impacts" section (refer to the blog post: https://acm-fca.org/2018/03/29/negativeimpacts/). 

Submissions may take the form of experience reports or case studies. In particular we would welcome such submissions from Industry. Experience reports and case studies should address the application of software engineering practices (which may include work on principles, techniques, tools, methods, processes) to a specific business domain or to the development of a substantial software platform/system. Each paper should describe the context of a problem of practical importance and provide plausible solutions. Please take care to cover the following issues: innovation of the approach and the solution, the methodology, assessment of the benefits, risks and lessons learned.

Short papers may contain, for example, new interesting ideas which may not be evaluated extensively, tool descriptions or case studies. 

Submissions must comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures. In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ISEC. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Digital Library and indexed by DBLP. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper in person.

Submission Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isec2021

Program Co-Chairs

·       Tony Clark, Aston University, UK.                    

·       Alpana Dubey, Accenture Labs, India.

Important Dates

·       ISEC 2021 Conference: 25 -27 Febuary, 2021

·       Paper submission deadline: 20 September 2020, AoE

·       Paper notification: 04 December 2020, AoE

·       Camera ready due: 25 December 2020, AoE

Programme Committee

TBC