Third Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software
(PPQS’24)https://sites.google.com/view/ppqs24/home

Co-located with PROFES 2024: https://conf.researchr.org/home/profes-2024

) Theme of PPQS'24 Workshop:
Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) is a recent genre of Software Engineering (SE) discipline - relying on engineering processes and practices - to design, develop, validate and evolve quantum software systems effectively and efficiently. While traditional SE processes and practices retain their relevance in the QSE context, they require adaptation to address the unique characteristics of quantum software. The third edition of the Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software (PPQS'24) represents a forum to establish a vibrant community, fostering both academic research and industrial solutions centered on QSE principles and practices. This community is dedicated to advancing process-centric design, development, validation, deployment, and maintenance of quantum software systems and applications. The workshop invites high-quality, practical research contributions in various forms, such as empirical studies, industrial experience reports, and solution proposals, with a focus on process-centric QSE.

) Goals of the Workshop:
The primary goals of the workshop are to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners from software engineering, business information systems, and quantum computing for cross-fertilisation of theory and practices for developing QSE. 
 
- Academic research focused on investigating the state-of-the-art, emerging, and futuristic challenges, novel solutions, experiences, opinions, and other relevant aspects of QSE for quantum computing. 

- Industrial practitioners who may be interested in practitioners’ perspectives, notations, tools, frameworks and patterns for quantum software engineering and development. 

- Policymakers and the public as decision-makers and administrative authorities can assess the recent advances such as quantum information processing, quantum software and system architectures and quantum software processes. QSW are being adopted in public infrastructures and urban services (e.g., cyber security, bio-inspired computing, and smart systems) that can benefit from the features and operational capabilities offered by quantum computing in general and quantum software in particular.


) Topics of Interest: 
The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Quantum Software Engineering Lifecycle
- Software Engineering Process
- Requirements Engineering
- Software Design and Architecture
- Design and Architecture Patterns
- Validation and Simulation

Empirical Studies on Quantum Software Processes and Practices
- Survey-based studies, systematic reviews and mapping studies.
- Industrial findings and experience reports of developing quantum software
- Empirical studies and metrics 

Patterns and Frameworks for Quantum Software
- Reference architectures
- Architectural patterns and styles
- Reengineering to quantum software systems
- Requirements engineering for quantum software systems
- Development processes and frameworks
- Method engineering and tailoring  Frameworks, and product lines 

Tools and Technologies for Quantum Software
- Prototypes and Tool Support
- Development Environments
- Frameworks and Tools
- Programming Languages and Framework.

) Types of Submissions:
The workshop welcomes unpublished research studies both from academia and  industry focused on engineering processes and practices for quantum software systems and applications  

- Short Papers (06 pages): Work in progress, idea, or vision papers representing research at an early stage 
- Regular Papers (12 pages): Research work at a mature or advanced stage with validated results or empirical findings.

Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS format. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, Springer LNCS format.

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=profes2024 

) Important Dates (AoE time zone): 
- Abstract Submission: 26 July, 2024 
- Paper Submission: 02 August, 2024 
- Notification: 30 August, 2024 
- Camera Ready Version: 13 September, 2024

Organisers: 
Aakash Ahmad, Lancaster University Leipzig, Germany  
Muhammad Waseem, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland  
Mahdi Fahmideh, University of Southern Queensland, Australia