QualITA 2024: call for oral contributions
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June, 13th – Venice – Italy
Deadline: April, 19th
Notification: May, 3rd
Website: https://qualitawg.github.io
Submission form: https://forms.gle/p4mzMrT4r4HWBrkr6
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The Italian Conference on System and Service Quality (QualITA 2024) is the annual event of the CINI System and Service Quality Working Group, putting together Italian researchers, practitioners and professionals from academia, industry and public administration interested in qualities of computing systems such as performance, dependability, trustworthiness, efficiency, resilience, sustainability, and others. This year, it will be held at San Servolo Congress Center, Venice with ACM SIGMETRICS and IFIP Performance 2024, which are respectively the flagship conferences of the ACM special interest group for the computer systems performance evaluation community and of the IFIP working group WG7.3 on performance modeling and analysis. The same venue will also host, on June 14th, the 20th European Workshop on Performance Engineering (EPEW) and the 28th International Conference on Analytical Stochastic Modeling Technique with Applications (ASMTA).
The main purposes of QualITA are:
– to present your latest research results, obtaining valuable feedback from the research community in a friendly environment;
– to meet and interact with other researchers in the field of quantitative analysis of software and hardware systems, fostering discussions about scientific and application topics;
– to join forces in the write-up of project proposals;
– to allow PhD students to enrich their experience by meeting other students, knowing their community and getting feedback on their work.
QualITA 2024 aims to highlight quality aspects, considering the complex, heterogeneous, multidisciplinary environment in which modern computing systems are operating as well as their application domains, characterized by an increasing demand of resilient and sustainable solutions that usually should also meet efficiency as well as time-constrained requirements. Technologies such as Cloud computing, IoT, 5G networks, Big Data and AI start becoming mature enough, turning the peak of inflated expectation and disillusionment towards effective solutions, in the step of enlightenment. To move further, towards the plateau of productivity, the focus switches from functional to non-functional aspects, from mechanisms to qualities and policies for their enforcement, from a proof of concept or prototype to a product or service. Therefore, techniques and tools to deal with quality aspects in the design, implementation and assessment of computing systems become a basic requirement to support such process. QualITA 2024 will explore methodological and practical aspects of qualities, ranging from modeling and design techniques to evaluation tools and case studies. It will also investigate in related domains such as cloud, edge, IoT, intelligent systems, cyber physical systems, high performance computing, blockchain, and similar.
Participants are encouraged to prepare 20-min talks and submit a one or two pages abstract to describe their presentations.
The abstracts will be made available to the participants, as well as the slides of the presentations. If the presentation refers to a published work, the paper can be shared with the participants according to the copyright policy of the publisher (the authors will have to specify if they can and are willing to share the paper among the material of the conference).
The conference will not publish proceedings and allows participants to present novel research or work in progress contributions, case study reports and industrial applications. The possibility of post proceedings or a special issue will be discussed with the participants during the event.
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Types of contributions
Panels and Keynotes
QualITA panel track is meant to be a unique academic and industrial forum to discuss different viewpoints concerning gaps and challenges to be addressed by the CINI WG on System and Service Quality community. QualITA panels are planned to be delivered in a session of 30 minutes or 1 hour. The conference is intended to be self-funded, and not requiring any registration fee. For this reason, there will be no economic support, unless a sponsor is found. Nevertheless, should there be the possibility of having a volunteer and self-funded Keynote speaker, a keynote session could be introduced.
Open Contributions (blue sky basic research free speech)
The main reason for the QualITA meeting will be to strengthen the CINI WG on System and Service Quality community, by sharing to the participants the most recent results and achievements. For this reason there will be the opportunity of presenting a 20 minutes free speech contribution, which can be based on recent talks given in international conferences, on internal presentations, project meetings, summary of the activities of a research group or brand-new ideas (blue sky). PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to present their research and experiences.
Case Study and Industrial Practice
QualITA 2024 launches the Quantitative methods in Industrial practice session in the spirit of highlighting the importance and the impact of quantitative information technology in the landscape of research partnerships with companies, especially those located in Italy. Teams/laboratories/research groups and companies are invited to report their experiences of collaboration on industrial case studies in the context of the workshop topics of interest. Experiences that are generating or have generated “added value”, that is a positive impact both on research and on the activities generated and products resulting from collaborations, are particularly welcome. Presentations of experiences, from which instead emerge critical elements or particular lessons that may be of interest to both industry and researchers engaged in the various application and theoretical aspects of Quantitative Methods in Informatics are also welcome. Alongside speeches by the academic researchers, the participation of company representatives is also strongly recommended, who are invited to participate in the workshop/session to introduce themselves to the entire community.
Outlook 2030 Proposal
The concept of quality of computer systems and services has evolved many times and in many directions since the beginning of computer science and engineering, following the trajectories and the progress of corresponding technologies as well as new application domains and avenues. From microchips and microprocessors, to mainframe and workstations and thus to distributed systems, Cloud, Fog, Edge, mixed paradigms, architectures, and infrastructures. From machine languages to higher level one, to low-no code, microservices, containers, virtualized environments, with layers of software on top of layers of software, or even to hybrid, embedded, cyber-physical, sociotechnical systems or systems of systems. This radically changed the quality landscape, pushing to revise concepts of performance, reliability, dependability, and security accordingly or even to add new concepts such as scalability, resilience, sustainability. We are however witnessing a maturity process moving ideas to technologies faster and faster, where the focus is quickly moving from functional to non-functional aspects, to quality ones. Essentially, the question this meeting is willing to address is “What’s next?”.
The goal of the session is to stimulate the discussion around topics, proposed by researchers and practitioners, which will guide the next evolution of digital system and service quality in the upcoming years. One of the main outcomes of the meeting will be an initial draft of a manifesto – to be finalized in the following period as a scientific paper for a top journal in the field – helpful for our community.
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