Software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SiSoS) Track of the 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020) March 30-April 3, 2020, Brno, Czech Republic http://sisos.systems-of-systems-engineering.org/ === IMPORTANT DATES === NEW DATES! Due to multiple requests the submission deadlines are extended: September 29, 2019: Submission of regular papers November 24, 2019: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection December 9, 2019: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers March 30 -April 3, 2020: Conference === SCOPE === Pervasiveness of networks has made possible to interconnect systems that were independently developed, operated, managed, and evolved, yielding a new kind of complex system, i.e. a system that is itself composed of systems, the so-called System-of-Systems (SoS). Software-intensive SoS (SiSoS) has become a hotspot in the last years, from both the research and industry viewpoints. Indeed, various aspects of our lives and livelihoods have progressively become dependent on some sort of Software-intensive SoS. This is the case of SiSoS found in different areas as diverse as energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation; and applications that address societal needs, e.g. environmental monitoring, distributed energy grids, emergency coordination, global traffic control, and smart cities. Moreover, ubiquitous platforms such as the Internet of Things and nascent kinds such as Cyber-Physical SoSs are accelerating the deployment of Software-intensive SoS in the near future. Definitely, the unique characteristics of Software-intensive SoS raise a grand research challenge for the future of software-reliant systems in our industry and society due to its intrinsic features, among which evolutionary development and emergent behavior. === KEY TOPICS === This track fosters (but is not limited to) submissions in the following topics: - SiSoS Mission Specification and analysis Formal contracts, contract-based approaches Goal-orientation, task orientation Ontologies, reasoning Relationships with emergent behaviors - SiSoS Modeling Model-driven engineering Models-at-runtime Model-based approaches Formal modeling foundations - SiSoS Design Architectural and detailed design Design evaluation Correction by design Design for evolution, scalability or Design for emergent behavior - SiSoS Verification and Validation Testing Compositional/statistical model checking Simulation, co-simulation Simulation of emergent behaviors - SiSoS Construction and Evolution Evolutionary development Correction by construction Techniques & technologies for SoS engineering Service-orientation Component and middleware frameworks - SiSoS Security and Privacy SoS cybersecurity SoS privacy and trust Security against emergent behaviors in SoS - SiSoS Experience Reports from real projects Case studies in real-scale projects Controlled experiments Experience from SoS stakeholders - SiSoS General issues Taxonomies, ontologies Software processes Project management Acquisition in the development of SoS - SiSoS Applications Energy Transportation Global traffic control Emergency coordination Environmental monitoring Smart grids Healthcare Manufacturing Smart cities Any other application domain - Future perspective, challenges, and directions === SUBMISSION === - Regular Papers: The length of a regular paper is 8 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 pages (at extra charge). Submissions can be thereby of maximum 10 pages in ACM camera-ready format. Regular papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process. The name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Only the title should be shown on the first page without the authors' information. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Regular papers must be submitted at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/submission.html - Posters: Submitted papers that received good reviews but were not accepted as regular papers due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. The length of a poster category paper is 3 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 1 page (at extra charge). Posters can be of maximum 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format. - Student Research Competition (SRC) Program (for PhD Students): In addition to regular papers and posters, a special event for PhD students will be organized: The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program. Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (maximum of 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format) at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/submission_src.html (note that submission sites for regular papers and SRC papers are different) Further details on paper format, template, and submission guidelines can be found on the SAC 2020 website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/ For preparing submissions, document templates can be found at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/authorkit.html === REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT === For accepted papers and posters, registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper or poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper or poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers or posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. === JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES === All accepted papers to this SiSoS track of ACM SAC will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a top-level journal. Also, a selection of best papers of all ACM SAC tracks will be published in the ACM Applied Computing Review journal. === TRACK CHAIRS === Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - Univ. Bretagne Sud, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse, France Axel Legay, UCLouvain, Belgium Thais Vasconcelos Batista, UFRN, Brazil === TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE === Jakob Axelsson, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Muhammad Ali Babar, The University of Adelaide, Australia Eduard Baranov, UCLouvain, Belgium Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez, University of Sfax, Tunisia Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Netherlands Everton Cavalcante, UFRN, Brazil Vanea Chiprianov, Univ. Bretagne Sud, France Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain Flavia Delicato, Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cédric Eichler, University of Orléans, France Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, USA Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark José Carlos Maldonado, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki, Finland Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick & Lero, Ireland Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Roberto Passerone, University of Trento, Italy Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers & Univ Gothenburg, Sweden Jennifer Pérez, Technical_University_of_Madrid, Spain Ralf Reussner, KIT / FZI, Germany Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Xiwei Xu, CSIRO, Australia Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China Publicity Chair: Eduard Baranov, UCLouvain, Belgium