[AISWorld] [CFP] International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)

[Quatic 2022]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*




*15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (QUATIC 2022)*



Talavera de la Reina, Spain.

September 12-14, 2022

https://2021.quatic.org/

*ABOUT QUATIC 2022*

The International Conference on the Quality of Information and
Communications Technology (QUATIC) is a leading scientific conference that
gathers experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and approaches
regarding all quality aspects in ICT systems engineering and management.
This forum seeks to foster lively discussion on how to further the
state-of-the-art and define future directions, as well as to disseminate
advanced new methods, techniques, and tools.



QUATIC 2022 follows in the tradition of this conference, now in its 15th
edition, and invites practitioners and researchers to submit technical
papers reporting original research and experience results in all topics and
sub-fields of Quality in ICT process, product, and applications domains, as
well as sharing practical studies. Papers that are under simultaneous
review from other research outlets or that are not substantial updates of
previously published work will not be accepted.



QUATIC 2022 is organized by the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain.
The conference will be hosted in Talavera de la Reina, a thriving and
monumental city in the Toledo province, located near to the Tagus river.
University of Castilla-La Mancha recently expanded the academic offer of
Talavera with a new Computer Science degree.



*SUBMISSIONS*

QUATIC 2022 is soliciting papers presenting original research on all
quality aspects related to the specification, design, development,
operation, maintenance and evolution of ITC systems.



The conference is organized into thematic tracks that serve as dedicated
discussion venues on focused topics of interest. QUATIC 2022 offers an
exciting set of tracks, mixing well-established traditional QUATIC topics
and newly proposed tracks, covering break-through research challenges.



·       ICT Verification and Validation

·       Safety, Security and Privacy

·       ICT Process Improvement, Organization, and Governance

·       Quality Aspects in Software Product Management and Requirements
Engineering

·       Quality aspects in Modeling and Low Code Environments

·       Quality aspects in Software Evolution

·       Quality Aspects in Machine Learning, AI and Data Analytics

·       Quality Aspects in Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Systems

·       Quality Aspects in Quantum Computing

·       Software Quality Curricula, Education and Training



*CONTRIBUTIONS*

QUATIC 2022 accepts the following types of contributions:



·       *Research and experience papers* (between 10 and 15 pages total).
Research papers should describe novel and scientifically rigorous
contributions to any aspect related to the quality of ICT systems.
Experience papers should present original reports on relevant industrial
case studies.

·       *Innovative and exploratory papers* (between 4 and 8 pages total).
Papers in this category should describe new, unconventional approaches that
fundamentally challenge established research directions and current state
of practice, but which are at an early stage of investigation.

·       *Journal-first papers* (up to 1 page). Papers in this category
should have been published for the first time in any top-notch journal,
i.e., without any prior publication as workshop or conference paper. The
papers should have been accepted for publication in 2021 or 2022.



Authors should select the track that best suits their field for submitting
their work.



*REVIEW PROCESS AND PUBLICATION*

*Double blind review*: QUATIC 2022 will adopt a double-blind review
process.



*Publishing Ethics*: Authors of all submitted papers to QUATIC 2022 must
abide by the QUATIC code of ethics at http://www.quatic.org/ethics



*Publication:  *As in previous years, QUATIC 2022 proceedings will be
published in a volume of the Springer CCIS Series (Communications in
Computer and Information Science).  CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP,
Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS
volumes are also submitted for inclusion in the ISI Proceedings. The
organizers are presently negotiating with the Software Quality Journal a
journal special issue for extended versions of the best papers



*HOW TO SUBMIT*

All papers must conform with the Springer CCIS Format (
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
)



·       Research papers must not exceed 15 pages, including figures,
references, and appendices.

·       Innovative and exploratory papers must not exceed 8 pages.



*Important*:

-      Authors should submit through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2022) a PDF version of their
paper without names and affiliations, or other elements that allow the
authors' identification, to guarantee a double-blind review process.

-      Authors of Journal-first papers should submit a one-page document in
PDF that contains the authors, title, journal, doi and abstract of the
paper. The authors should also explain in the paper the relevance to QUATIC
using less than 500 words.

-      Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
track's Program Committee.

-      Accepted research and exploratory papers will be included in the
proceedings of QUATIC 2022, subject to one of the authors registering for
the conference.

-      Journal-first papers will not appear in the QUATIC proceedings, but
will be an integral part of the program and presented at the conference.

-      The iThenticate plagiarism checker (https://www.ithenticate.com/)
will be used to verify submissions' originality.

-      Work without substantial new material or failing to follow length
and formatting guidelines will be desk rejected and therefore will not be
reviewed.



*IMPORTANT DATES*

·       Paper submission:                  *April 8, 2022*

·       Notification to authors:        May 16, 2022

·       Camera-ready:                         May 31, 2022

·       Conference:                              September 12-14, 2022





For more information, visit https://2021.quatic.org/