IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter    Vol. 62, No. 3, August, 2016
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QRS 2016: A Great Success
(The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security)

W. Eric Wong
 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Chair, QRS Steering Committee

This year's QRS conference was in Vienna, Austria – a place known as the City of Music – from August 1 to 3 at the Vienna University of Technology. In addition to the IEEE Reliability Society, the conference was also sponsored by SBA Research, Austria; Microsoft Research, USA; University of Texas at Dallas, USA; and Graz University of Technology, Austria.

The main conference received more than 100 submissions. In addition, there are ten workshops focusing on various topics within the main scope of QRS. It is the first time that the conference has a poster session to make it more dynamic and interactive. The number of attendees was more than 180. All these make new records for the QRS conference.

Below are some highlights of this year's conference:

•   Six Keynote Speeches

–  The Sound of Data: Make Great Software!
Dr. Thomas Zimmermann
Senior Researcher, Research in Software Engineering (RiSE)
Microsoft Research, USA

–  Networks of ‘Things’
Dr. Jeffrey Voas
Computer Scientist & Incoming President of IEEE Reliability Society
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

–  Automated Software Transplantation
Professor Mark Harman
Director, CREST Center & Head, Software Systems Engineering Group
University College London, UK

–  Cross-disciplinary Modeling – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Professor Gerti Kappel
Head, Business Informatics Group
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

–  New Threat Models for Cryptography
Professor Bart Preneel
Head, COSIC Research Group
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

–  Even the Very Wise Cannot See All Ends: Many Facets of the Test Oracle Problem
Professor T.H. Tse
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

•   Invited Talks & Panel by Workshops

–  Invited Talk by VVASS Workshop
Towards Cyber-Physical-Social Systems – Towards a New Paradigm for Elastic Distributed Systems
Professor Schahram Dustdar
Head, Distributed Systems Group
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

–  Invited Talk by SSCPS Workshop
Software Reliability Engineering Practice in the Development of Embedded RTOS
Dr. Wei Han
Software Chief Researcher
The Aeronautic Computing Technique Institute of Aviation Industries of China (AVIC), China

–  Panel by CRE Workshop
Achieving Defensive Asymmetrical Advantage via Technical, Policy, and Organizational Means
Dr. Paul Nielsen, Director, CMU/SEI
Mr. Bob Cowles, former CISO, SLAC Accelerator National Lab
Dr. George Sharkov, Coordinator, Cybersecurity for the Bulgarian Government
Dr. Rolf Reinema, Head, IT-Security, Siemens

•   Ten Co-located Workshops

–  Workshop on Cyber Resiliency Economics
Chairs: Nick Multari (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Jeffrey Picciotto (MITRE, USA)
–  Workshop on Verification and Validation of Adaptive Systems
Chairs: Bernhard Peischl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Benedikt Eberhardinger (University of Augsburg, Germany)
–  Workshop on Human and Social Aspects of Software Quality
Chairs: Ziyuan Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Jifeng Xuan (Wuhan University, China)
Xiaolin Ju (Nantong University, China)
–  Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-Design
Chairs: Yixiang Chen (East China Normal University, China)
Robert De Simone (INRIA, France)
–  Workshop on Information Assurance
Chair:  Shih-Kun Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
–  Workshop on Software Cybernetics
Chairs: Hongji Yang (Bath Spa University, UK)
Feng Chen (De Montfort University, UK)
–  Workshop on Model-Based Verification & Validation
Chairs: Tugkan Tuglular (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
Fevzi Belli (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
–  Workshop on Software Engineering and Knowledge Management
Chairs: Jing Tian (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Jianwen Xiang (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
–  Workshop on Safety and Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
Chair:  Yanjun Wen (National University of Defense Technology, China)
–  Workshop on Trustworthy Computing
Chairs: Fu-Hau Hsu (National Central University, Taiwan)
Yu-Sung Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

The following are pictures taken at the conference:


Professor Franz Wotawa, General Chair,
at the opening session
Professor Zhenyu Chen, Program co-Chair,
at the opening session

Professor W. Eric Wong, Steering Committee Chair,
at the opening session
Professor Christian Hansen, RS President,
at the reception

Keynote address by Dr. Thomas Zimmermann
Keynote address by Dr. Jeff Voas

Keynote address by Professor Mark Harman
Keynote address by Professor Gerti Kappel

Keynote address by Professor Bart Preneel
Keynote address by Professor TH Tse