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:

  Modeling of cyber-physical systems
  Modeling of evolving and dynamic systems
  Modeling of large scale smart systems
  Adaptation of control theory to smart systems
  Formalization of control mechanisms in smart systems
  Integration of software, networking and control
  Context-aware, self-adaptive software
  Learning and decision making in large scale smart systems
  Large scale adaptive system design and architecture
  Control of adaptive software rejuvenation
  Adaptive testing and test case generation
  Control in fault-tolerant computing
  Control in quality and security
  Machine learning for software engineering and QoS control
  Practice and experience of SaaCS (Software-as-a-Control-System)