Vol. 63, No. 3, November 2017

Front page:

• President’s Message

• From the Editor

Society Announcements:

• Smart Grid Cyber Workshop

• IRPS 2018 Conference

• PHM 2018 CFP

• QRS 2018 CFP

• ISQFD 2018 Link

• RAMS 2018 Link

RS Events & News:

• Software Testing Contest

• DSA Conference

• Loretta Arellano, Award Winner

In Memory:

• Thomas Weir

Articles:

• Blockchain Workshop

• Review, Book by Dr. Birolini

• Review, Book by Trivedi & Bobbio

Members & Chapters:

• Distinguished Lecture

• Upcoming Seminar

• Dr. Frailey’s Seminar

• Dr. Recchia’s Seminar

• Aug 17 Newsletter

• Nov 17 Newsletter

• Aug 17 Meeting

• Oct 17 Meeting

Links:

• Reliability Society Home

• RS Newsletter Homepage

We are very pleased to announce that the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability & Security (QRS 2018) will be held from July 16 to 20 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Since 2015, the SERE conference (IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability) and the QSIC conference (IEEE International Conference on Quality Software) have combined into one large conference, QRS, with Q representing Quality, R for Reliability, and S for Security. This conference is sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society.

This conference provides engineers and scientists from both industry and academia a platform to present their current work, relate their research outcomes and experiences, and discuss the best and most efficient techniques for the development of reliable, secure, and trustworthy systems. It also represents an excellent opportunity for the academic community to become more aware of subject areas critical to the software industry as practitioners bring their needs to the table.

The conference consists of many components including

1. Research Track (regular and short papers)
2. Industry Track
3. Fast Abstract Track
4. Student Doctoral Program
5. Poster Sessions
6. Tutorials
7. Workshops
8. Panels
9. Keynote Speeches

The 2nd IEEE International Software Testing Contest will also be held in conjunction with QRS 2018 on July 17.

We cordially invite you to submit papers to QRS 2018.

Please refer to the following for more details.

Ina Schieferdecker	(General co-Chair)
Yuanshun Dai	(General co-Chair)
Rui Maranhão Abreu	(Program co-Chair)
Hongyu Zhang	(Program co-Chair)
David Lo	(Publicity Chair)
Benedikt Eberhardinger	(Social Media Chair)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs18

SOCIAL MEDIA

IMPORTANT DATES

SPECIAL SECTION in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to a special section of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

Refer to http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs17/best.html for papers from QRS 2017 which have been invited for this special section.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following subjects:

* Reliability, security, availability, and safety of software systems
* Software testing, verification and validation
* Program debugging and comprehension
* Information and software assurance
* Fault tolerance for software reliability improvement
* Modeling, prediction, simulation, and evaluation
* Metrics, measurements, and analysis
* Secure and reliable storage
* Software penetration and protection
* Software vulnerabilities
* Formal methods
* Malware detection and analysis
* Intrusion detection and prevention
* Operating system security and reliability
* Mobile and smartphone applications
* Internet of things and cloud computing
* Information and knowledge management
* Benchmark, tools, and empirical studies

SUBMISSION

Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere) with a maximum of twelve pages (regular papers), eight pages (short papers, workshop papers, and Student Doctoral Program), and two pages (Fast Abstract Track and poster sessions). Each paper should include a title and the name and affiliation of each author. Except for the Fast Abstract Track and posters, each submission should also include a 150-word abstract and up to 6 keywords. The format of your submission must follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). The first author of a Student Doctoral Program submission must be a student. At least one Best Paper Award with a cash prize will be presented. Detailed instructions for paper submission can be found at http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs18.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Accepted papers will also be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore and to other abstracting and indexing partners such as the Ei Compendex.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs:	Ina Schieferdecker Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Yuanshun Dai University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Program Chairs:	Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle, Australia Rui Maranhão Abreu University of Lisbon, Portugal
Industry Track Chairs:	Pete Rotella, Cisco, USA Sunita Chulani, Cisco, USA
Publicity Chair:	David Lo Singapore Management University, Singapore
Social Media Chair:	Benedikt Eberhardinger University of Augsburg, Germany
Local Organizing Chairs:	Luis Cruz University of Porto & INESC-ID, Portugal Bruno Lima, University of Porto, Portugal Pedro Adão, University of Lisbon, Portugal

GENERAL INQUIRIES

For more detailed and updated information, please refer to http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs18, or contact Professor W. Eric Wong, Chair, Steering Committee at ewong@utdallas.edu or General Chairs: Professor Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) at ina.schieferdecker@fokus.fraunhofer.de and Professor Yuanshun Dai (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) at 1125105129@qq.com.