ICIS2021-Summer Special Sessions
Workshop 1: The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Media Theory and Application (SMTA 2021) In conjunction with ICIS 2021-Summer
June 23-25, 2021，Shanghai
Motivation
Smart media, an application of artificial intelligence, is becoming a hot research topic in recent years. Smart media takes advantage of context-aware computing to analyze the consumer’s environment, behaviors and preference, and to provide contents, products and service that matches up with needs of consumers to enhance user experiences. The development of smart media applies the latest internet technologies to media field, which cover fundamental theories, application-oriented theories, key technologies and applications at multiple levels. The research not only has high theoretical research value but also is of crucial importance for shaping where media technology industry will be headed.
Topics
This workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research findings in any aspects of smart media. We especially encourage papers on mobile communication net, internet of things, UHD video technology, big data, cloud computing, cloud storage, artificial intelligence, smart media, virtual reality, augmented reality etc. We also welcome papers that highlight successful modern applications of smart media, such as intelligent voice, intelligent writing, intelligent editing, intelligent asset management, intelligent publishing, intelligent terminal. SMTA 2020 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community. The topics include, but not limit to:
• Mobile Communication Net
• UHD Video Technology
• Internet of Things
• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Storage
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Media
• Intelligent Voice
• Intelligent Writing
• Intelligent Editing
• Intelligent Asset Management
• Intelligent Publishing
• Intelligent Terminal
• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
Important Dates
Full Paper Submission: March 10, 2021
Acceptance Notification: March 18, 2021
Camera-Ready Papers & Registration: March 25, 2021
All the submitted papers should be in English, using the IEEE two-column template, include all tables, figures and references (See http://acisinternational.org/conferences/csii-2021/). All papers must be submitted electronically in WORD or PDF format and be mailed to address: rebeccazhang@cuc.edu.cn with the subject of “SMTA 2021 Submission”.
Publications
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the CSII Proceedings if they have paid for registration fee, which will be indexed by EI. Excellent papers will be recommended for publication in SCI/EI-indexed journals.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Jiefeng Liu, Department of Laboratory and Equipment Management, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China, Email: jfliu@cuc.edu.cn
Xin Zhang, Department of Laboratory and Equipment Management, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China, Email: rebeccazhang@cuc.edu.cn
Special Session 1: Quality Engineering
Topics
Information systems and ICT products are increasingly used to perform a wide variety of organizational functions and personal activities. The quality of these products and systems enable and impact various business, regulatory and information technology stakeholders including direct and indirect users, developers, maintainers, acquirers, independent evaluators, system integrators, implementers, operations engineers, architects, trainers, business owners, auditors, managers, and the society at large. High-quality information systems and ICT products are hence essential to provide value, and avoid potential negative consequences, for the stakeholders.
However, the current manner of developing the information systems and ICT products are drastically changed:
- More agile based
- More integration based (combination of services consumed and components)
- Increase of importance of data
- Unclear responsibility for its quality (laid in severalorganization)
These changes make quality engineering more and more complicated and important for the current ICT products and services.
This special session focuses on methods, techniques and tools for the quality engineering, to overcome such difficulties. The intended research topics include:
- Quality models and measures, and their application to various targets
- Quality consideration on
- system of systems,
- emerging technologies such as AI, Big data, Blockchain, etc., and
- new types of development processes such as Agile, DevOps, etc.
- Quality engineering education
Organizers
Tsuyoshi Nakajima (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, tsnaka@shibaura-it.ac.jp)
Toshihiro Komiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan，t-komiyama@bk.jp.nec.com)
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad (Karlstad University, Sweden, Ovais.Ahmad@kau.se)
Important Dates
Special session proposal due (to PC chair): February 4th, 2021
Selected papers (to PC chair): March 26th, 2021
Acceptance notification: April 12th, 2021
Camera-Ready Papers & Pre-Registration: April 26th, 2021
Special Session 2: Empirical Software Engineering
Topics
In the past two decades, empirical research has gradually played an important role in the research of software engineering, namely empirical software engineering. Empirical studies usually involve the collection and analysis of data and experience that can be used to characterize, evaluate and reveal relationships between software development deliverables, practices, and technologies. Over time, it is expected that such empirical results will form a body of knowledge leading to widely accepted and well-formed theories. This session will cover a broad set of research topics about empirical software engineering, including but not limited to the following:
- Application of empirical research in software engineering
- Methods and techniques of software metrics & test
- Empirical research of software processes and products
- Software model based on empirical research
- Research on software reliability model
- Empirical software engineering research framework
- Software prediction models and metrics
- Empirical Research and Software Engineering Process Improvement
- Evidence-based software engineering
- Mining data from software repositories
Organizer
Jianxin Ge (Hebei Software Test Center, China, gejianxin3@outlook.com)
Important Dates
Special session proposal due (to PC chair): February 4th, 2021
Selected papers (to PC chair): March 26th, 2021
Acceptance notification: April 12th, 2021
Camera-Ready Papers & Pre-Registration: April 26th, 2021
Special Session 3: Industrial Application Software
Topics
Different from industrial basic software, industrial application software focuses on business logic in specific industrial scenarios, which is a product of combining industrial technology and ICT technology. With the rapidly development of Industrial Internet, Internet of things, Intelligent manufacturing, etc., industrial application software research will attract more attention. This session will cover a broad set of research topics about industrial application software, including but not limited to the following:
- Engineering methods and techniques of industrial application software
- Testing and validation methods and techniques of industrial application software
- Current information technology application study in industrial application software
- Industrial micro-service framework
- Model-based software and system engineering
- Software product line engineering
- Quality and performing study on industrial application software
- Interface and connectivity study on industrial application software
- Best practice of industrial application software and industrial Internet platform
- Standardization on industrial application software and industrial Internet platform
Organizers
Yangyang Zhang (China Electronic Standardization Institute (CESI), China, zhangyy@cesi.cn)
Wenyuan Zhang (China Electronic Standardization Institute (CESI), China, zhangwy@cesi.cn)
Important Dates
Special session proposal due (to PC chair): February 4th, 2021
Selected papers (to PC chair): March 26th, 2021
Acceptance notification: April 12th, 2021
Camera-Ready Papers & Pre-Registration: April 26th, 2021
Special Session 4: Software Crowdtesting
Topics
Crowdsourced software testing refers to the use of crowdsourcing techniques in the domain of software testing. It is an emerging paradigm which can improve the cost-effectiveness of software testing and accelerate its process. Crowdtesting entrusts testing tasks to online crowdworkers whose diverse testing environments, background, and skill sets could significantly contribute to more reliable, cost-effective, and efficient testing results. It is an emerging area with its applications rapidly increasing in the last decade. For instance, it has been not only adopted by many software organizations, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, but also applied to many software testing activities such as usability testing, functional testing, compatibility testing and performance testing. accepted by more and more researchers. More and more researchers and practitioners are doing in-depth research on crowdtesting process.
Hence, this special session focuses on methods, techniques, and tools for software crowdtesting. We invite high-quality submissions, from both industry and academia, describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. The intended research topics include, but are not limited to:
- crowdtesting task/worker/report management
- crowdtesting quality assessment
- empirical study on crowdtesting
- intelligent method in crowdtesting
- general type of crowdsourcing practice
Organizer
Dandan Wang, Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Email: dandan@iscas.ac.cn
Important Dates
Selected papers (to PC chair): March 26th, 2021
Acceptance notification: April 12th, 2021
Camera-Ready Papers & Pre-Registration: April 26th, 2021