With the advent of new computing paradigms, communication and control technologies, software systems are required to be more and more autonomic, collaborative, self-adaptive and evolutionary. The sustainability of software product and the quality of delivered services imposes greater impact to the various perspectives of people's economic activities, scientific research and social life, in particular, when software services and systems are operating in an open and volatile environment, such as the Internet. In order to make software work as expected in a dynamic environment with constantly changing user requirements, the software must be aware of the changes, and be adaptive according to the external input and the feedback of the application system.
This workshop, the 13th International Workshop on Software Cybernetics, will be held in conjunction with the 2016 International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security. It provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their original research results, identify future research problems, and report the current best practices in industry.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:















Proceedings
At least one
author of each accepted paper (including panelists’ position statements) must
register with the full fee and present at the workshop in order for the paper to be included in
the QRS 2016 Supplemental Proceedings. Papers will also be submitted to the
IEEE Xplore database and indexed by all the abstracting and indexing partners
(such as the EI Compendex).
Journal Special Issue (TBA)
Best Paper Award
At least one
award will be presented. Authors will receive a certificate signed by the President
of the IEEE Reliability Society and the Organizers of IWSC 2016.
Panelists Solicitation (TBA)
Important Dates
April 29, 2016 (Extended) | Submission deadline |
May 25, 2016 | Notification to authors |
June 10, 2016 | Camera-ready copies |
August 1-3, 2016 | Workshop |
Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other publications and conferences are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals and review process can be found at http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs16/.
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to eight pages, including the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords.
Authors must follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Arrangements are being made to publish selected accepted papers in reputable journals. The submissions must be in PDF and uploaded to the conference submission site.

Steering Committee
Stephen S. Yau (chair) | Arizona State University | USA |
Kai-Yuan Cai | Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China |
General Chair
Hongji Yang | Bath Spa University | UK |
Program Chair
Feng Chen | De Montfort University | UK |
Web Masters
Shou-Yu Lee | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Xuelin Li | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Workshop Venue
IWSC 2016 will be held in conjunction with QRS 2016 at Vienna, Austria. Please visit the QRS 16 website for further information.
General Inquiries
For more detailed and updated information, please contact Professor Hongji Yang at h.yang@bathspa.ac.uk or Professor Feng Chen at fengchen@dmu.ac.uk.
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IWSC 2016 Program (TBA)