[AISWorld] CFP: Software Quality Journal special issue on "IT Quality Challenges in a Digital Society"

[Antonio Vallecillo]

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    *** Call for Papers: Software Quality Journal ***

Special Issue: "IT Quality Challenges in a Digital Society"

Motivation

A digital society is a society in which digital technologies become the
building blocks
to effectively respond to different individual, community and societal
challenges.
Societal-scale software systems incorporate AI, include people as active
players, create
new information flows and reshape societal knowledge, forming entirely new
environments
and cities in which digital technologies are used to support and enhance
our daily work,
relationships, education, entertainment, industry, commerce, and even
politics. Thus,
to create and sustain our digital society, quality is key.

Despite all its current achievements, potential benefits and future
promises, there are
numerous challenges to creating and sustaining a digital society. For
example,
socio-technical systems provide direct connections to billions of people
daily around
the world, which dramatically increases the potential scale for social
manipulation.
The adoption of new, mostly disruptive, technologies such as quantum
computing or
AI-based decision-making systems can bring along significant advances, but
they also
entail new problems since there is little understanding of how the
resulting systems
will behave. We also have to understand how the scale and speed of these
changes impact
consumers, users, citizens and workers, as well as how they affect social
and private
life, education, science, government, democracy and business.

We invite to this special issue high-quality contributions with innovative
and significant
findings and experiences in the field of software quality, including
methods and techniques
employed by researchers and practitioners for identifying, managing,
controlling, measuring,
and assuring quality issues in the engineering of digital societies. We
accept original and
previously unpublished papers, unless the new work constitutes a
significant expansion of
previous work. Those submissions that present extended versions of papers
published in
conferences require at least 40% original material to be included.

Objective and Topics

This special issue encourages researchers and practitioners to exchange
ideas and approaches
on how to adopt, from a practical point of view, practices, methods,
techniques for build
sustainable software systems. The topics of interest for the special issue
are quality
aspects in the following areas:

  * Software Sustainability
  * Quality Aspects in Software Evolution
  * Quality Aspects in Modeling and Low Code Environments
  * Quality Aspects in Software Product Management and Requirements
Engineering
  * Software Verification and Validation
  * Process Improvement, Organization, and Governance
  * Quality Aspects in Machine Learning, AI and Data Analytics
  * Quality Aspects in Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Systems
  * Quality Aspects in Quantum Computing
  * Safety, Security, and Privacy
  * Software Quality Education and Training in Academia and Industry

Important Dates

  * Paper submission:       November 20, 2022
  * First notification:     January 15, 2023
  * Revised versions due:   February 28, 2023
  * Final notification:     March 31, 2023
  * Manuscript Due:         April 30, 2023
  * Publication Date:       2023

Submission guidelines

All submissions should follow the Software Quality Journal submission
guidelines
available at: https://www.springer.com/journal/11219/submission-guidelines

Guest Editors

For any questions regarding this special issue, please contact the guest
editors:

  * Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga, Spain
  * Joost Visser, Leiden University, Netherlands
  * Ricardo Perez-Castillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

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