Track 5: Software, System and Service Engineering (S3E'21;
https://fedcsis.org/2021/s3se)

Organized within 2021 Federated Conference on Computer Science and
Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS'21; IEEE #52320)

************************* COVID-19 Information *************************

While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia,
Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to
switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS
2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we
will be able to meet in person.

FedCSIS organizers

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FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE

The S3E track emphasizes the issues relevant to developing and
maintaining software systems that behave reliably, efficiently and
effectively. This track investigates both established traditional
approaches and modern emerging approaches to large software production
and evolution.

For decades, it is still an open question in software industry, how to
provide fast and effective software process and software services, and
how to come to the software systems, embedded systems, autonomous
systems, or cyber-physical systems that will address the open issue of
supporting information management process in many, particularly complex
organization systems. Even more, it is a hot issue how to provide a
synergy between systems in common and software services as mandatory
component of each modern organization, particularly in terms of IoT, Big
Data, and Industry 4.0 paradigms.

In recent years, we are the witnesses of great movements in the area of
software, system and service engineering (S3E). Such movements are both
of technological and methodological nature. By this, today we have a
huge selection of various technologies, tools, and methods in S3E as a
discipline that helps in a support of the whole information life cycle
in organization systems. Despite that, one of the hot issues in practice
is still how to effectively develop and maintain complex systems from
various aspects, particularly when software components are crucial for
addressing declared system goals, and their successful operation. It
seems that nowadays we have great theoretical potentials for application
of new and more effective approaches in S3E. However, it is more likely
that real deployment of such approaches in industry practice is far
behind their theoretical potentials.
The main goal of Track 5 is to address open questions and real
potentials for various applications of modern approaches and
technologies in S3E so as to develop and implement effective software
services in a support of information management and system engineering.
We intend to address interdisciplinary character of a set of theories,
methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies in disciplines
such as: Software Engineering Methods, Techniques, and Technologies,
Cyber-Physical Systems, Lean and Agile Software Development, Design of
Multimedia and Interaction Systems, Model Driven Approaches in System
Development, Development of Effective Software Services and Intelligent
Systems, as well as applications in various problem domains. We invite
researchers from all over the world who will present their
contributions, interdisciplinary approaches or case studies related to
modern approaches in S3E. We express an interest in gathering scientists
and practitioners interested in applying these disciplines in industry
sector, as well as public and government sectors, such as healthcare,
education, or security services. Experts from all sectors are welcomed.

Topics:

Submissions to S3E are expected from, but not limited to the following
topics:
     • Advanced methodology approaches in S3E – new research and
development issues
     • Advanced S3E Process Models
     • Applications of S3E in various problem domains – problems and
lessons learned
     • Applications of S3E in Lean Production and Lean Software Development
     • Total Quality Management and Standardization for S3E
     • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods in advancing
S3E approaches
     • S3E for Information and Business Intelligence Systems
     • S3E for Embedded, Agent, Intelligent, Autonomous, and
Cyber-Physical Systems
     • S3E for Design of Multimedia and Interaction Systems
     • S3E with User Experience and Interaction Design Methods
     • S3E with Big Data and Data Science methods
     • S3E with Blockchain and IoT Systems
     • S3E for Cloud and Service-Oriented Systems
     • S3E for Smart Data, Smart Products, and Smart Services World
     • S3E in Digital Transformation

Track 5 includes technical sessions:

     • Cyber-Physical Systems (8th Workshop;
https://www.fedcsis.org/2021/sew-iwcps)
     • Software Engineering (41th IEEE Workshop;
https://www.fedcsis.org/2021/sew-iwcps)
     • Advances in Programming Languages (8th Workshop;
https://fedcsis.org/2021/wapl)

There is a possibility of selecting extended versions of the best papers
from Track 5 presented during the conference for further procedure in
the journals: ComSIS, (http://www.comsis.org/ ISI IF(2019) = 0.927), and
COLA, (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-languages
ISI IF(2019) = 1.250).

FedCSIS'21 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

* David Bader; New Jersey Institute of Technology
Keynote title: Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance
Data Analytics

* Rajkumar Buyya; Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab,
The University of Melbourne, Australia; and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd,
Melbourne, Australia
Keynote title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing

* Hristo Djidjev; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keynote title: Using quantum annealing for discrete optimization

* Moshe Y. Vardi; Rice University
Keynote title: Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience

ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD

The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in the following categories:

•       Best Paper Award (€600)
•       Young Researcher Paper Award (€400)
•       Industry Cooperation Award (€400)
•       International Cooperation Award (€400)

All papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the
award winners.

This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual
FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions).

Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award

PAPER PUBLICATION:

     • Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord
file).
     • The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are
available here.
     • Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
     • Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB
memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
     • Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
     • Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN,
ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
     • Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted
for indexation in: Thomson Reuters – Conference Proceedings Citation
Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography and Google Scholar
     • Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS
technical sessions.

IMPORTANT DATES:

+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 24, 2021, 23:59:59 (UCT-12;
there will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 14, 2021
+ Author notification: July 5, 2021
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 26, 2021
+ Conference date: September 2-5, 2021

Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who
could be interested in it.

Track Chairs
     • Luković, Ivan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
     • Kardas, Geylani, Ege University International Computer Institute,
Turkey
     • Mazzara, Manuel, Innopolis University, Russia

Contact: s3e-track@fedcsis.org

Program Chairs
     • Bowen, Jonathan, Museophile Ltd., United Kingdom
     • Hinchey, Mike (Lead Chair), Lero-the Irish Software Engineering
Research Centre, Ireland
     • Szmuc, Tomasz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
     • Zalewski, Janusz, Florida Gulf Coast University, UnitedStates
     • Seyed Hossein Haeri, Catholic University of
Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and University of Bergen, Norway

Contact: s3e-program@fedcsis.org