[TYPES/announce] CfP: Special Issue on Architectures, Languages and Verification techniques for Internet-based Society (ALVIS)

[Hugo Vieira]

Special Issue on Architectures, Languages and Verification techniques for
Internet-based Society (ALVIS)
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/si/936582/cfp/

*** Call for Papers ***

* Highlights *
This SI aims at bringing together contributions by scientists and
practitioners to shed light on the
development of technologies for the Internet-based society (IbS). Topics of
interest include the
design and implementation of service-oriented architectures and
microservices, communication and
coordination models for the IbS, and rigorous analysis techniques.
* Manuscript due *: September 15, 2016 * Publication date *: April 15, 2017

* Scope *
Exponential changes in technology and the introduction of mobile devices
led to dramatic societal
changes in the last two decades. Furthermore, the rise of social networks
mutated forever the way
in which people interact, work, study and have fun. It is difficult to
envision an inversion of this
tendency, which instead seems to progress faster and faster with the
introduction of newer
technologies such as touchless credit cards, biometric identification, etc. At
the same time, work
methodologies are more and more based on cloud technology and it is now
common practice to
use services for remote computation and storage. Today, the daily work
routine and the spare time
of citizens heavily relies on communicating devices, which are based on
communication protocols
that allow message exchanges over computer networks.

With this incredible and progressive change of technological scenario,
established development
methodologies are becoming outdated and unable to cope with modern
requirements and contexts.
This leads to a series of interesting and challenging questions. How
reliable is our communication
infrastructure, and how can the software developed for it be tested and
verified? Are there
development methodologies to enhance its reliability and efficiency?
What software
architectures
and design patterns are ideal to guarantee security of financial-critical
systems and reliability for
safety-critical? Are there programming languages and paradigms able to
simplify the design,
development and testing of communicating software, and increase success
rate of deployment?
To what extent different programming paradigms such as functional,
object-oriented, and
service-oriented programming can help software developers? Is the race
towards extreme
distributed componentization, as in the recent  paradigm of microservices,
justified?

To answer these and many other questions, in this critical historical phase
of software engineering
and programming languages, the “Special Issue on Architectures, Languages
and Verification
Techniques for Internet-based Society” aims at bringing together
contributions by scientists and
practitioners to shed light on the development of technologies and society,
and find a common
understanding and direction. We invite investigators to contribute original
research articles as well
as review articles that will help in understanding such a complex and
multifaceted scenario.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design and implementation of Service-oriented Architectures and
Microservices
- Critical software in distributed computing
- Security in communicating systems
- Design and implementation of communication protocols
- Big Data: frameworks and applications
- Formal models and analysis of communicating systems
- Software engineering in communication-centred systems
- Autonomous and Smart systems
- Coordination models for communications
- Probabilistic models for concurrent systems
- Models for multi-agent systems
- Performance analysis in computer networks
- Architectural support for the IbS
- Programming languages for the IbS
- Models and platforms for sociotechnical systems

Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/sp/alvis/.
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