First Call for Paper MiDOS @ SAC 2019

IMPORTANT DATES

September 10, 2018: Submission of regular papers
November 10, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
November 25, 2018: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
December 10, 2018: Author registration due date

ACM SAC & MIDOS TRACK 2019

For the past thirty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. MiDOS is the first edition focusing on Microservices, DevOps, and Service-Oriented Architecture and it is the natural continuation of the previous Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming (SOAP) track, now discontinued. 

MiDOS TRACK: CALL FOR PAPERS

Service-oriented architectures have changed our vision of the Web, bringing a paradigmatic shift in the methodologies when designing and implementing distributed systems. Originally, the Web was mainly seen as a means of presenting information to a wide spectrum of people, but service-oriented programming triggered a radical transformation of the Web towards a computational fabric where loosely coupled services interact, can be discovered and then invoked. More recently, the microservices architectural style has been proposed, where applications are developed as a collection of fine-grained services running as independent processes. Distributed applications can then be constructed from independently deployable services taking advantage of the properties of the microservice architecture (e.g., flexibility, maintainability, reusability, compositionality, and scalability) as well as the elasticity of cloud infrastructure. From the practical point of view, the deployment and maintenance of (micro)services architectures is performed using DevOps, i.e., a collection of practices linking software development (Dev) with software operations (Ops). DevOps strongly advocates for automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. By using the DevOps methodology, it is possible to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality. The complex scenario of (Micro)Services and DevOps needs to be clarified on many aspects, both from the engineering and from the foundational points of view. Our track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners having the common objective of transforming Service-Oriented, DevOps, and Microservice practices into a mature discipline with both solid scientific foundations and mature software engineering development methodologies supported by dedicated tools. In particular, we will encourage works and discussions about what (Micro)Services and DevOps still need in order to achieve their goal.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Formal methods for specification of (Micro)Services
  
• Methodologies and tools for Service-Oriented application design
  
• Methodologies and tools for DevOps
  
• Service-Oriented Middlewares
  
• Service-Oriented Programming languages
  
• Test methodologies for Service-Oriented applications
  
• Analysis techniques and tools
  
• Service systems performance analysis
  
• Industrial deployment of tools and methodologies
  
• Standards for Service Oriented Programming
  
• Continuous Integration and Deployment
  
• (Micro)Service application case studies
  
• Dependability and Services
  
• Quality of Service
  
• Cybersecurity and Services
  
• Comparisons between different approaches to Services
  
• Exception handling in composition languages
  
• Trust and Services
  
• Sustainability and Services, Green Computing
  
• Adaptable Services
  
• Empirical research or Experiences on (Micro)Services and DevOps
  
• Failure cases
  

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will double-blindly review submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on the SAC 2019 website:

 http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2019/ 

Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system. 

Please pay attention to ensure anonymity of your submitted manuscript as detailed in the submission page so to allow for double-blind review. 

Papers not satisfying this constraint will be automatically rejected. The maximum length for papers is 10 pages. 

Accepted papers whose camera-ready version will exceed 8 pages will have to pay an extra charge. 

For each accepted paper, a registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. 

This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

                         

STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD PROGRAM

SIGAPP student members can apply for financial support to present their accepted work at SAC via the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (https://www.sigapp.org/stawards.html).

SPECIAL ISSUE

We plan a special issue of a top-level journal for which we will invite the best papers.

PC MEMBERS

To be announced

TRACK CHAIRS

- Luís Cruz-Filipe (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
- Jacopo Mauro (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
- Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
                               

PUBLICITY CHAIR

- Saverio Giallorenzo (University of Southern Denmark, DK)

STEERING COMMITTEE

- Claudio Guidi     (italianaSoftware, IT)
- Ivan Lanese       (University of Bologna, IT and INRIA, FR)
- Manuel Mazzara    (Innopolis University, RU)
- Fabrizio Montesi  (University of Southern Denmark, DK)