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International Conference on Microservices: Call for Papers
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Third International Conference on Microservices
September 8th-10th 2020, Bologna, Italy
https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/
Important dates
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- Submission deadline: May 15th, 2020 (AoE)
- Notification to authors: June 26th, 2020 (AoE)
- Camera-ready due: August 7th, 2020 (AoE)
- Early bird registration until: August 7th, 2020
Theme and Topics
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The theme of this edition is the interplay between microservices and the cyber
security.
- On the one hand, the adoption of microservices is fostering the adoption of
new architectural patterns and software construction practices; understanding
the security properties (or the emerging vulnerabilities) of the resulting
constructs calls for the development of a fresh mindset in analysts, designers
and testers alike. In addition, the additional middleware and infrastructure
typically proposed for the management of microservice-based architectures could
expand the attack surface of the systems.
- On the other hand, the same frameworks could instead prove valuable allies to
collect security-relevant information and to coordinate defenses. The above
considerations concern the intrinsic interplay between the fields of
microservices and security. The broader application context is peculiarly
sensitive to them: microservices are often adopted as an accelerator of digital
transformations as the successful past edition(s) of the conference have shown.
In this light, security issues should be a primary concern for microservices
researchers and practitioners, as they provide an opportunity to integrate
security-by-design into the recent advances in software development - triggered
and amplified by microservices principles, patterns, and technologies.
Topics of interest are not limited to our cyber security theme. We are
interested in all aspects and phases of the design and implementation of
microservice architectures:
- Software engineering methods for microservices, specifically (but not limited
to) agile service design practices, behavior- and domain-driven design
- Identification, specification, and realization of candidate services
- Patterns for IDEAL cloud-native application architectures; service API design
and management
- Microservices infrastructure components: API gateways, side cars, and service
meshes; reactive messaging brokers; service registries; service containers and
cluster managers; infrastructure as code
- Function-as-a-service and serverless cloud offerings; service-based event
sourcing and data streaming architectures
- Security and other service quality concerns (consistency, availability,
recoverability) in microservices; dealing with General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) compliance and other data privacy requirements
- Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and
regression tests, test-driven service development
- Formal models for microservices
- Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems
- DevOps for microservices, in particular (but not limited to) continuous
deployment and distributed monitoring
- Microservice management: fault, configuration, accounting, performance,
security
- Discovery/recovery and reverse engineering of microservices solutions
- Microservice evolution
- Programming languages, notations, and techniques for microservices
- Empirical studies of microservices adoption
We solicit contributed talks based work in progress, scientific work published
or submitted for publication, or practical experience reports. Authors wishing
to present their work are invited to submit extended abstracts following the
submission guidelines. Abstracts and presentations must be in English.
Submissions Guidelines
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A submission should describe a talk to be given at the conference in the form
of extended abstracts with a maximum of two pages.
Submissions can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or
submitted for publication, practical experience reports, or practical tool
demonstrations.
They must further be prepared using the EasyChair template (LaTeX, MS Word), be
in PDF format, printable in black and white on A4 paper, and interpretable by
common PDF tools. Submissions must be in English.
Contributions will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. Extended
abstracts of accepted contributions will be available electronically before the
conference.
Organisation
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General Chair:
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna (IT)
Program Chairs:
Marco Prandini, University of Bologna (IT)
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna (IT)
Olaf Zimmermann, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland,
Rapperswil (HSR OST) (CH)
Industrial Liaison Chair:
Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware (IT)
Publicity Chair:
Marco Peressotti, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
Local Chairs:
Davide Berardi, University of Bologna (IT)
Andrea Melis, University of Bologna (IT)
Program Committee
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TBA
Note about COVID-19
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We are continuously monitoring the COVID-19 situation from local authorities
and the World Health Organization. Microservices 2020 is half a year away, and
we are hopeful that COVID-19 emergency will pass over and the conference will
be held in September, as planned. And, if necessary, alternative solutions,
such as postponement, remote presentations, etc will be looked into and
identified.
Contact Information
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Please contact us if you have questions:
https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/contact/
