[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software Special Issue on Software Reliability Engineering

[Nuno Laranjeiro]

=========================== CALL FOR PAPERS ===========================
               Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software                
           Special Issue on Software Reliability Engineering           
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http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-software-reliability-engineering/


Description
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We invite papers on innovative techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, and security of software products. The submissions may be new and original work or extended versions of papers submitted for the 26th Annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015).


List of Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Reliability, availability, and safety of software systems
- Verification and validation
- Software quality
- Software security
- Dependability, fault tolerance, survivability, and resilience of software systems
- Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering
- Services reliability engineering (cloud services, problem reporting services, etc.)
- Engineering reliable adaptive, self-aware and self-* systems
- Metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of quality/reliability
- Supporting tools and automation 
- Software at large scales and software on small devices.


Important dates
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Full paper submission deadline: March 31st, 2016:
Notification: May 31st, 2016
Publication: September, 2016


Submission information
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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 in http://ees.elsevier.com/jss. Authors should select SI: ISSRE, from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process.

Submitted papers must be original, must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. In case a paper has been already presented at a conference, it should be extended by at least 30% new technical contributions, before submitted for this special issue.


Editor in Chief
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H. van Vliet


Special Issues Editor
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W.K. Chan


Guest editors
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Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany