Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Συνέδριο WoSAR 2025: 17th International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation
For more information, see https://www.wosar.net
WoSAR is the premier international venue for discussing the recent advances and discoveries in the theoretical and practical aspects of software aging and rejuvenation research. This year, we encourage submissions targeting interdisciplinary research, in particular those listed in the topics of interest.
WoSAR is organized in conjunction with the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 21 – 24, 2025. Both the conference and the workshops will be “in presence only”, with all presenters of accepted papers required to attend the conference physically in São Paulo.
The workshop will be followed by a journal special issue on IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.
— TOPICS OF INTEREST—
This call for papers addresses all researchers and practitioners interested in the performance and dependability degradation of software systems. Topics addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to:
• Progressive degradation of performability / availability / reliability / scalability / “-ilities” in software systems.
• Online feedback control view of software rejuvenation.
• Modeling and characterization of the software aging phenomenon.
• Design and evaluation of rejuvenation techniques.
• Analysis of aging-related faults/bugs, errors, and failures.
• Software test strategies for detecting aging-related bugs.
• Monitoring, detection, and data analysis of software aging effects (e.g., memory leaks, database index fragmentation, unterminated processes/threads, accrual of round-off errors).
• New classes of software aging effects.
• Software aging and rejuvenation applied to anomaly detection and security intrusions.
• Software aging and rejuvenation in Big Data and IoT Apps.
• Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) interactions with software aging and rejuvenation approaches.
• Environment-dependent bugs and their mitigation techniques.
• Metrics for software performance and degradation.
• Fault localization and testing for aging-related bugs.
• Software refactoring for aging-related software problems.
• Clone detection in aging software.
• Machine learning techniques for aging-related bugs.
• Tools for the detection and repair of memory leaks.
• Software aging monitoring and software rejuvenation techniques for unmanned vehicles like drones or cars.
• Software aging and rejuvenation techniques for humans in safety-critical environments, like large warehouses.
• Other software-aging-related phenomena, such as the age of information.
• Analytical, empirical, and experimental studies of any of the above topics.
For all the above topics, WoSAR is a unique forum to discuss the software aging and rejuvenation impacts on systems from different domains of applicability, such as:
Cloud computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog computing, Mobile, Machine learning systems, Embedded, Medical, Cyber-physical systems, Cyber-Security, Industrial control systems such as SCADA, Smart Grids, Smart Infrastructures, Smart Cities, Transportation, Telecommunication, Banking, Military, System of systems, Databases, High Performance Computing, Software Defined Networks, and others.
— IMPORTANT DATES—
Paper submission deadline: July 21, 2025
Paper notification: August 11, 2025
Camera-ready papers: August 18, 2025
— RESEARCH PAPER SUBMISSION—
Authors are invited to submit high-quality, unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental software aging and rejuvenation research. All the accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE authoring guidelines . Full papers should not exceed seven pages in IEEE style. Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair .
— SPECIAL SESSION ON INVITED JOURNAL PAPERS —
There will be a special session titled “Invited Journal Papers” at WoSAR 2025. During this session, researchers will have the opportunity to present any of their recently published peer-reviewed journal articles. For an article to be considered in this session, it must have been published between January 1, 2021 and August 15, 2025.
Researchers interested in presenting their work in this session, must send email to romagnolir at duq dot edu with the following information by 11:59 pm Pacific Time on July 21, 2025:
1. A copy of the refereed journal article;
2. One paragraph description of the technical significance of this article in the fields related to SAR;
3. Short biography of the presenting author.
Authors whose papers are selected must be registered for the conference in order to present their paper. Note that the selected papers will NOT be reprinted nor archived by WoSAR 2025. Paper notification: August 11, 2025.
— POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION—
Authors are invited to submit position papers describing challenges and work in progress in software aging and rejuvenation research. All the accepted position papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Position papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE authoring guidelines. Position papers should not exceed four pages in IEEE style. Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair.
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