CfP: Advances in Dependability and Maintenance for Software Systems
As technological advancements like cloud computing and AI evolve, they bring new challenges in maintaining and ensuring thereliability, security, and availability of these systems. This issue aims to highlight innovative research, practical challenges, andadvanced methodologies that enhance software dependability and maintenance. It will serve as a critical resource for both academic
society and industrial world, fostering a synergy between theoretical research and practical application, thereby contributing to morerobust and resilient software systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The special issue aims to gather contributions that advance the field of dependability and maintenance analysis for softwaresystems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

System reliability and reliability modeling◆ Software testing, verification, and validation◆ Human reliability, Bayesian reliability, and Fuzzy reliability◆ Techniques and approaches for safety-critical systems◆ Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, andtools◆ Dependability techniques and methodologies for complexsystems◆ Dependable systems design◆ Self-healing, self-protecting, and self-adaptive systems◆ Fault-tolerant techniques◆ Studies on non-deterministic bugs, aging-related bugs, etc.
◆ Big data and computing◆ Accelerated degradation testing◆

Quality assurance in server systems, cyber-physicalsystems, learning-based systems, etc.
◆ Internet of things (IoT) architectures, protocols,
security and privacy◆ Network reliability and optimization◆ Estimation and statistical testing◆ Survival analysis and warranty analysis◆ Modeling and simulation of complex systems◆ Analysis of software faults/bugs, errors, and failures◆ Fault localization for complex bugs
◆ Maintenance optimization, maintainability andavailability◆ Repairing and re-engineering for complex systems◆ Analytical, empirical, and experimental studies ofany of the above topics◆

IMPORTANT DATESThe important dates for the special issue are:
Paper submission due: October 31, 2024
◆ Reviewing due: December 31, 2024
◆Author revision due: January 31, 2025
◆ Final notification due: February 28, 2025◆

GUEST EDITORS
Junjun Zheng is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan.
His research interests include software reliability, performance evaluation, and dependable computing. He is a co-author of over 70
journal and conference publications, including IEEE TR, RESS, Stoch. Models, Perform. Eval., SQJ, QE, and so on. He serves for
DCCS 2022-2024, DeIS 2023, and GCCCE English Paper Track as PC Co-Chairs. He is an Editorial Board Member of theInternational Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS, 2021-), and Guest Editor of the Software Quality Journal (SQJ, 2023-). He holds
memberships in several professional organizations, including the Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ), the Reliability
Engineering Association of Japan (REAJ), the Institute of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (Email: jzheng@hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Hiroyuki Okamura is a Full Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan.
His research interests include performance evaluation, dependable computing, and applied statistics. He is a co-author of over 200
journal and conference publications, including IEEE TR, IEEE/ACM TON, RESS, IEEE TDSC, JSS, Stoch. Models, Perform. Eval.,
SQJ, QE, and so on. He serves for WoSAR 2013 and ICECCS 2022 as PC Co-Chairs, ISSRE 2011 and ISSRE 2024 as Finance CoChairs, as well as APARM 2024 as General Chair. He holds memberships in several professional organizations, including theOperations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ), the Reliability Engineering Association of Japan (REAJ), the Institute of Electrical,
Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JSIAM), theInformation Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (Email: okamu@hiroshima-u.ac.jp)