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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- FASSI 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Fundamentals and Advances in Software Systems Integration

The submission deadline is: May 30, 2018.

Conference proceedings are sent for indexing to ISI Thomson Reuters by Filodiritto/InFOROmatica Publisher, Italy

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== FASSI 2018 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


FASSI 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Fundamentals and Advances in Software Systems Integration

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/FASSI18.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SubmitFASSI18.html


Event schedule: September 16 - 20, 2018 - Venice, Italy


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]


Proposals for:

- mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: April 30, 2018


Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


FASSI 2018 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CfPFASSI18.html

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Hot research/industrial areas

Integration-centric design; Maintenance and (safe) evolution; Software quality assurance; Variability modeling; Empirical studies challenges in system integration; Effective live cloud migration; Big Data, Fast Data and Data Lake in system integration; Vulnerabilities in software product lines; Constraints for product lines; Integration via contract Interfaces; Interface-based similarity analysis in component-reuse; Component Interactions impact; Cyber-physical features in system integration; Reusable software strategies; Synchronizing software variants; Evolving software ecosystems; Component semantic similarity analysis; Security variability; Industrial lessons; Customer considerations on post-integration features

Process Integration

Software Dependency; Interfaces; System Integration; Tools and Techniques; Middleware; Communication and Protocols

Data Integration

Data Exchange; Security, Privacy and Trust; Data Modelling and Database Design; Transformation

Organizational Issues

Software Release Management; Software Migration; Third Party Software; Legacy Software; Software Testing; Software Architecture and Standards; Software Project Organization; Team, Organization and National issues

Management and Control

Software Project Management; Costs and Benefits; Software Risk Management; Ownership and Control; Impact Analysis; Stakeholder Analysis; Complexity; Change Management

Modelling & Understanding

Software Modelling; Expert Knowledge; Software Components; Software Understanding; Symptoms; Cause and Effect; Architectural Mismatch; Topology; Reverse Engineering; Multi-Paradigm Modelling; Abstraction; Motivation and Drivers; Assumptions, Awareness and Conflict; Model Transformation

Programming and Design

Software System Design; Software Development Lifecycle; Programming Languages and Concepts; Patterns; Reuse

Applications

Case Studies; Choices and Trade-offs; Lessons Learned


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FASSI 2018 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ComFASSI18.html