March 15, 2022 Honolulu - Hawaii

ADEVOPS4IoTSYS

The 1st International Workshop on Advanced DevOps, Analysis Tools and Reengineering Practices for AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems

co-located with SANER 2022

Much of the increasing complexity of advanced ICT systems is being driven by the more distributed and heterogeneous nature of these systems, with AI-based, Cyber-Physical, and Distributed Systems accounting for an increasing portion of Software Ecosystems. Up to a few years ago, the software development process of such systems relied on the well established V model. However, these systems are already being well established, and their lifecycle lasts for year, their software requiring maintenance and the V model being not valid.

Program

Keynote Speaker: Patrizio Pelliccione

Keynote Title: Software certification: Lessons Learned from the Development of a Mechanical Ventilator for COVID-19
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, around the middle of March 2020, a group of physicists, engineers, and physicians offered their time and competencies to develop a simplified mechanical lung ventilator, called MVM (Mechanical Ventilator Milano), to answer the high request of ventilators for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in intensive care units. A prototype was ready in around one month. Since medical software malfunctions can lead to injuries or death of patients, before marketing MVM ventilators and distributing them in hospitals, software certification in accordance with the IEC 62304 standard was mandatory to guarantee system reliability. The team was then complemented by computer scientists specifically devoted to this task. The software re-engineering process, which lasted around two months from the end of the prototype, brought to a strong re-implementation of the device software components, which involved all the stakeholders in a continuous integration setting. In this talk, I will report the experience of the MVM control SW re-engineering necessary to show evidence that the SW adheres to the standards and to consequently obtain the certification. I will share results and lessons learned from this social project, where more than 100 volunteer researchers worked towards software certification at the extreme of their strength to get a real device finished in a rush since strongly required to support physicians in treating COVID-19 patients.
Bio
Patrizio Pelliccione is a Professor in Computer Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI). His research topics are mainly in software engineering, software architecture modeling and verification, autonomous systems, and formal methods. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of L'Aquila in Italy. Thereafter, he worked as a senior researcher at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg, then assistant professor in the University of L'Aquila in Italy, then Associate Professor at both Chalmers | University of Gothenburg in Sweden and University of L'Aquila. He has been on the organization and program committees for several top conferences and he is a reviewer for top journals in the software engineering domain. He is very active in European and National projects. In his research activity, he has collaborated with several companies. More information is available at http://www.patriziopelliccione.com.


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Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

ADEVOPS4IoTSYS 2022 solicits contributions targeting all aspects of DevOps, Analysis Tools and Reengineering Practices to further contribute to software quality in the context of tomorrow's AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems development and evolution. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• DevOps approaches and studies in the context of AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems
• Reengineering Practices and Tools for AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems
• Analysis and Monitoring techniques for AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems
• Cloud-based testing in the context of AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems
• Testing and debugging in AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems
• Traceability Engineering in AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems

Paper Submission

We invite submission of papers of the following types:
- Regular papers (8 pages, IEEE format): Full papers presenting research results or industrial practices related to AdevOps in any of the areas of testing, debugging, and monitoring of AI-based, Cyber-Physical and distributed systems. Work with empirical focus are also welcome, as soon as they provide practical insights on the aforementioned topics.
- Short papers (4 pages, IEEE format): Short papers presenting early-stage research results or industrial practices related to AdevOps in any of the areas of testing, debugging, and monitoring of AI-based, Cyber-Physical and distributed systems.
- Position and Experience Papers (2 pages, IEEE format): Short papers introducing challenges, visions, positions or preliminary results within the scope of the workshop. Experience reports and papers on open challenges in the industry are especially welcome.

Submission Link


Organization

Program Chairs

Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), Switzerland
Aitor Arrieta, Mondragon University, Spain

Program Committee


Alberto Martín, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Alessio Gambi, University of Passau, Germany
Annibale Panichella, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Claudio Menghi, McMaster University, Canada
Fabrizio Pastore, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Gabriela Eugenia Lopez Magaña, Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), Switzerland
Jabier Martinez, Tecnalia, Spain
Gunel Jahangirova, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Jon Ayerdi, University of Mondragon, Spain
José A. Galindo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Mahyar Moghaddam, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Nargiz Humbatova, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Orlando Avila-García, Arquimea Research Center, Spain
Patrizio Pelliccione, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy
Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Pouria Derakhshanfar, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Victoria Nadone, University of Sannio, Italy
Vincenzo Riccio, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Yu Zhou, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Venue

As part of SANER 2022, the workshop will run, in principle, in person.

Registration

Please, visit the SANER registration page: https://saner2022.uom.gr/registration