Software Reliability, Security and Quality Assurance
A special issue of Software (ISSN 2674-113X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stochastic model; reliability and maintenance; performance evaluation
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Interests: software reliability; dependable computing; performance evaluation; computer security
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Interests: software testing, fault localization, and safety issues for autonomous systems; testing and debugging for Machine Larning Systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the era of Industry 4.0, software applications, such as cyber-physical systems (CPSs), server systems, machine-learning-based systems, data-based systems, and real-time computing systems, play an important role in both industry and our daily lives. These systems tend to be composed of many different components, which may interact with each other and exhibit complex behaviours. Since these systems are controlled by software, software reliability, security, and quality assurance are critical, as failures in these systems may lead to disruptive results, even the loss of human lives. Currently, extensive studies on software reliability, security, and quality assurance, including formal engineering, software test, verification and validation techniques, and reliability and security modelling, have been conducted, aiming to improve several attributes such as the systems’ reliability, security, availability, safety, etc. In complex systems, a gap between the vast number of interacting components and the scalability of current approaches still exists. Nevertheless, we believe the demand for dependable software systems motivates the development of novel techniques or feasible adaptations of existing techniques, addressing issues such as component interactions or real-time scheduling.
For this Special Issue, we welcome high-quality submissions that were presented at The 6th World Symposium on Software Engineering (WSSE 2024), Kyoto, Japan, on September 13-15, 2024, and The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Intelligent Software Quality (AISQ 2024), in conjunction with The 35th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2024) in Tsukuba, Japan, on October 28-31, 2024. However, presentation at these symposiums is not mandatory for submission to this Special Issue. If the paper is accepted, then the authors are requested to cover the APC required by MDPI. For the best quality papers evaluated by the Guest Editors, MDPI will give a token of 100% discount for the top 10 high quality papers.
Prof. Dr. Tadashi Dohi
Dr. Junjun Zheng
Dr. Xiao-Yi Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- software reliability
- software security
- software quality assurance
- requirement engineering
- formal engineering
- software test
- verification and validation techniques
- software reliability modelling
- software security modelling
- software metrics
- empirical software engineering
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