****************************************************************************************** VECoS 2021 - Call for Papers The 15th International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems is planned to take place on November 20-26, 2021, at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. November 22-23, 2021, Beijing, China http://vecos-world.org/2021/ Co-located with FM’21 ***************************************************************** -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- TBA -- IMPORTANT DATES -- All the deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth) * Papers deadline: 21 June 2021 * Paper notification: 6 September 2021 * Camera-ready deadline: 20 September 2021 * Conference: 22–23 November 2021 -- ABOUT VECoS -- The VECoS conference series focuses on the analysis of computer and communication systems, where functional and extra-functional properties are inter-related. VECoS encourages the cross-fertilization between the various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abstraction techniques * Compositional verification * Correct-by-construction design * Rigorous system design * Equivalence checking * Model-checking * Parameterized verification * Performance and robustness evaluation * Probabilistic verification * QoS evaluation, planning and deployment * Dependability assessment techniques * RAMS (Reliability-Availability-Maintainability-Safety) assessment * Model-based Security assessment * Security protocols verification * Discrete-event and hybrid systems Modeling and Simulation * Supervisory control * Verification & validation of IoT * Verification & validation of safety-critical systems * Assessment for real-time systems * Worst-case execution time analysis * Verification, testing and explaining data-driven and earning-enabled systems Application areas of interest to VECoS include: adaptive systems, communication protocols, computer-supported collaborative work systems, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, high-performance computing, internet of things, logistics systems, manufacturing of the future, mixed criticality systems, mobile and wireless networking, operations research, programming languages, real-time and embedded operating systems, service-oriented systems,telecommunication systems, ubiquitous systems, web services, wireless sensor networks and workflow systems. An overview of previous VECoS conferences can be found at : http://vecos-world.org/ VECoS 2021 will be held in October 22-23 in Beijing, China -- GENERAL INFORMATION ON SUBMISSIONS -- Submitted papers must be no longer than 15 pages (including bibliography), written in English, presenting original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecos2021), using the LNCS format (version 2.20 or above). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in extended and revised form in a special issue of an indexed international journal (ISSE:Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering or IJCCBS: International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems). -- ORGANIZATION -- General Chairs * Kamel Barkaoui,Cedric Cnam Paris, France * Zhiwu Li, Xidian University, Xian, China (or Macau MUST) Program Chairs * Ayoub Nouri, Huawei France, Grenoble, France * Weimin Wu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Publicity Chairs * Belgacem BEN HEDIA, CEA LIST, Saclay, France * Vladimir-Alexandru Paun, Five Rescue, Paris, France For additional information, visit the conference website: http://vecos-world.org/2021/