9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Systems (SESS 2025)
Call for Papers
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to share their experiences and discuss the latest advances and innovations in software engineering with application to the development of smart systems.
Workshop Theme
Smart systems are those that are able to sense their environment context and adapt their behavior as the context changes in order to provide appropriate services to the user anytime anywhere. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for smart systems as it makes it possible to turn any object into a smart thing, able to sense its current situation, adapt to new situation and communicate with other smart things. There are a growing number of applications emerging from the IoT technology to include cyber-physical systems, smart homes, smart healthcare, intelligent transportation, and smart cities. Software will form a critical part of these systems to provide reliable and efficient smart services. However, developing software for smart systems is challenging due to a number of reasons: they are highly distributed; large scale; network nodes are heterogeneous; involve resource constrained mobile devices; and requirements are not fixed but change frequently. Thus, traditional methods for requirement engineering, system design, testing and verification are no longer adequate. New approaches are required to cater for changing system requirements, context–awareness, mobility and smart adaptation to changing context.
Scope of the workshop
The workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Requirement engineering for smart systems
- Model-driven engineering for smart systems
- Testing of smart systems
- Formal specification and verification of smart systems
- Cloud computing
- Internet of Things
- Context-aware and adaptive systems
- Mobile computing
- Pervasive/Ubiquitous computing
- Intrusion detection systems
- Security and privacy of smart systems
- Cyber physical systems
- Real-time control systems and robotics
- E-learning and smart educational systems
- LLMs and Smart Systems
- LLMs and Smart Systems in Education
Workshop organizer(s)
Francois Siewe
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Email: fsiewe@dmu.ac.uk
Sofia Meacham
Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
Email: smeacham@bournemouth.ac.uk
Shikun Zhou
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Email: shikun.zhou@port.ac.uk
Vasileios Germanos
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Email: vasileios.germanos@dmu.ac.uk
Program Committee
Fatemeh Zarrabi
Muhammad Kazim
Thai Son Hoang
Sofia Meacham
Kirill Bogdanov
Ali Jwaid
David Smallwood
Waltenegus Dargie
Shikun Zhou
Francisco Aparicio-Navarro
Phan Cong Vinh
Stefan Kuhn
Esther Palomar
Zhu Huibiao
Timothy A. Chadza
Emanuele Lido Secco
Wen Zeng
Qiyi Tang
Leandros Maglaras
Dimitris Kosmanos
Xiaodong Liu
Fudong Li
Xin Lu
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
Paper Templates
IEEE Paper templates are available in MS Word 2003 and LaTex. All submissions must use US 8.5×11 letter page format.
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