19th IEEE International Workshop on Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS 2025)

The goal of the workshop

Software reuse has been one of the most effective paradigms for building software systems and applications for decades. Recently, the rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and scope of software systems to new levels. A number of new types of software systems are emerging, among which microservice oriented systems, pervasive computing, cloud computing, AI-driven smart systems and big data applications are eminent examples. The advent of these emerging systems has raised the level of software reuse to services, large-scale components or agglomeration of components in more challenging context, which is pervasive, service-oriented, AI driven and trustworthy. Systematic and large-scale reuse of reusable assets at multiple development levels is improving the efficiency of software development activities significantly in terms of cost and time.

However, previous research in software reuse mainly focused on the functional aspect of a system, tended to ignore or treat the quality aspects trivially. Modern computing models tend to be globally distributed, ubiquitous, highly secure, intelligent and dynamically adaptive. These systems, such as smart/pervasive systems, cloud services, microservice-based systems and big data applications, have imposed more rigorous quality requirements on software reuse technologies. Today in the “smart IoT era”, it becomes a great challenge to meet the new requirements of emerging software systems and meanwhile enjoy the benefits of substantial software reuse. 

Recently, the research community and industry have been aware of the above weakness and much work has been ongoing. In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share latest research results, advances and practical experiences under the banner of “Quality Oriented Reuse of Software for Emerging Software Systems in IoT and AI Era”. The workshop will act as a forum for active discussion, idea stimulation and communication.

 

Workshop theme and scope

The workshop will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry for  advancing the methodology and technology of software reuse which emphasizes meeting strict quality  requirements, such as dependability, agility, security and performance, particularly in the context of  emerging types of software systems. The workshop seeks new approaches, system architectures and  tools that facilitate the quality aspects of software reuse technologies.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • IoT-based pervasive systems
  • Microservices and reuse
  • AI-driven smart systems
  • Machine learning based software engineering 
  • Architecture and models for Big Data applications
  • Architecture and models for IoT applications
  • Trustworthiness and security models 
  • Trustworthy software reuse methods
  • Dependable component-based systems
  • Software product lines
  • Quality aspects of design patterns
  • Software evolution
  • Software quality metrics and testing
  • Model-driven software engineering
  • Generative AI and software reuse
  • Component and service repository
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Cloud computing services: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
  • Quality of clouds services
  • Reuse in safety critical systems
  • Reuse in service and component-based Enterprise Systems
  • Reuse in embedded software systems
  • Open-source software reuse
  • Case studies and experience reports

Workshop organizer(s)

Xiaodong Liu 
School of Computing
Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK
Email: x.liu@napier.ac.uk

Hongji Yang 
Department of Informatics Leicester University
Leicester, UK
Email: hongji.yang@leicester.ac.uk

Program Committee

Oluwaseun Bamgboye
Edinburgh Napier University, UK  

David Bell
Brunel University, UK 

Laizhong Cui
Shenzhen University, China 

Qing Duan
Yunnan University, China 

Marcelo Fantinato
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 

João M. Fernandes
University of do Minho, Portugal 

Barbara Gallina
Mälardalen University, Sweden 

Pooyan Jamshidi
South Carolina University, USA 

George Kakarontzas
University of Thessaly, Greece 

Soo Dong Kim
Soongsil University, Korea 

Hua Li
Inner Mongolia University, China 

Jingyue Li
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Xiaodong Liu
Edinburgh Napier University, UK  

Qi Liu
Edinburgh Napier University, UK  

Richard Millham
University of Bahamas/ Durban University of Technology, Bahamas

Dr.Vo Ngoc Phu
Duy Tan University and Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam

Salah Sadou
University of South Brittany, France 

Francois Siewe
De Montfort University, UK 

Yingchun Tian
Changzhou University, China 

Guifa Teng
Hebei Agriculture University, China 

Emiliano Tramontana
Universit`a di Catania, Italy 

Hongwei Wang
Zhejiang
University, China  

Huaiguang Wu
Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China

Hongji Yang
Bath Spa University, UK  

Kevin Yang
Chinese Academy of Science, China 

Lu Zhang
Beijing Union University, China 

Wei Zheng
Northwest Polytechnic University, China 

Shikun Zhou
Portsmouth University, UK 

Vijay Walunj
University of Missouri-Kansas City SCE, USA 

Chen Li
Aalborg University. Danmark 

Important Dates

UPDATED: Full symposium papers due
January 31, February 15, February 28, 2025

Symposium paper notification
April 7, 2025

Workshop papers due
April 15, 2025

Workshop papers notification
May 1, 2025

Camera-ready copy
June 1, 2025

Conference Dates
July 8-11, 2025

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