Open Calls

Panels and Keynotes

QualITA panel track is meant to be a unique academic and industrial forum to discuss different viewpoints concerning gaps and challenges to be addressed by the CINI WG on System and Service Quality community. QualITA panels are planned to be delivered in a session of 30 minutes or 1 hour. The conference is intended to be self-funded, and not requiring any registration fee. For this reason, there will be no economical support, unless a sponsor is found. Nevertheless, should there be the possibility of having a volunteer and self-funded Keynote speaker, a Keynote session could be introduced.

Open Contributions (blue sky basic research free speech)

The main reason for the QualITA meeting will be to strengthen the CINI WG on System and Service Quality community, by sharing to the participants the most recent results and achievements. For this reason there will be the opportunity of presenting a 20 minutes free speech contribution, which can be based on recent talks given in international conferences, on internal presentations, project meetings, summary of the activities of a research group or brand new ideas (blue sky). PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to present their research and experiences.

Case Study and Industrial Practice

QualITA 24 launches the Quantitative methods in Industrial practice session in the spirit of highlighting the importance and the impact of quantitative information technology in the landscape of research partnerships with companies, especially those located in Italy. Teams/laboratories/research groups and companies are invited to report their experiences of collaboration on industrial case studies in the context of the workshop topics of interest. Experiences that are generating or have generated “added value”, that is a positive impact both on research and on the activities generated and products resulting from collaborations, are particularly welcome. Presentations of experiences, from which instead emerge critical elements or particular lessons that may be of interest to both industry and researchers engaged in the various application and theoretical aspects of Quantitative Methods in Informatics are also welcome. Alongside speeches by the academic researchers, it is also strongly recommended the participation of company representatives, who are invited to participate in the workshop/session to introduce themselves to the entire community.

Outlook 2030 Proposal

The concept of quality of computer systems and services has evolved many times and in many directions since the beginning of computer science and engineering, following the trajectories and the progress of corresponding technologies as well as new application domains and avenues. From microchips and microprocessors, to mainframe and workstations and thus to distributed systems, Cloud, Fog, Edge, mixed paradigms, architectures, and infrastructures. From machine languages to higher level one, to low-no code, microservices, containers, virtualized environments, with layers of software on top of layers of software, or even to hybrid, embedded, cyber-physical, socio-technical systems or systems of systems. This radically changed the quality landscape, pushing to revise concepts of performance, reliability, dependability, and security accordingly or even to add new concepts such as scalability, resilience, sustainability. We are however witnessing a maturity process moving ideas to technologies faster and faster, where the focus is quickly moving from functional to non-functional aspects, to quality ones. Essentially, the question this meeting is willing to address is “What’s next?”

The goal of the session is to stimulate the discussion around topics, proposed by researchers and practitioners, which will guide the next evolution of digital system and service quality in the upcoming years. One of the main outcomes of the meeting will be an initial draft of a manifesto – to be finalized in the following period as a scientific paper for a top journal in the field – helpful for our community.

We call for you to participate in this gathering with the key objectives of:

Submission Instructions

QualITA 24 accepts contributions covering all aspects of quality, such as monitoring, benchmarking, measuring, modeling, assessing, capacity planning, workload characterization, operational analysis, verification, validation, and testing. Both methodological and practical aspects are taken into account, including any technique (e.g. analytical models, simulators, statistical analysis, machine learning, formal methods, soft computing) and tool, in any possible digital system and service application domain (e.g. real-time, blockchain, systems of systems, cyber-physical systems, IoT, Cloud, Fog, Edge, Intelligent transportation systems, fintech, digital health, blockchain). According to the spirit of the conference, the review process will be aimed at providing comments that could be used by the authors mostly for strengthening the contribution form, making them accessible and useful for the broad audience, and increasing the likelihood of generating fruitful discussions.

Panel and Keynote proposals, Industrial, Outlook 2030, and blue sky contributions and ideas. To such a purpose, the following information should be submitted:

No copyright will be required, nor an indexed publication will be produced. The collection of extended abstracts will be however made available to the participants as a reference.

Contributions should be submitted in electronic format (PDF) through the Google Form available at:

submission form

Registration Instructions

To be announced.