CFP: Special Issue on Software Aging and Rejuvenation in Emerging Computing Systems

Important dates 

• Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2027
• First decision (accept/reject/revise, tentative): 15 April 2027
• Submission of revised papers: 15 June 2027
• Notification of final decision (tentative): 15 August 2027
• Journal publication: First half of 2028 (individual articles posted to IEEE Early Access  immediately upon acceptance)

Authors are invited to submit a manuscript to the Special Section on Software Aging and Rejuvenation in  Emerging Computing Systems. Relevant topics of interest to this special section include (but are not limited to):

1. Theory and implementation of techniques to identify and address the progressive degradation of  performability / availability / reliability / scalability in long-running software systems.
2. Software methodologies and their implementations for the detection, localization, testing, and monitoring  of aging-related bugs / errors / failures / information obsolescence, including learning-based and code analysis-based prediction of aging-related bugs.
3. Real-life frameworks and their implementations for modeling, detecting, characterizing, and addressing the  software aging phenomenon (analytical, measurement-based, and hybrid approaches). 4. Design, evaluation, and implementation of rejuvenation techniques, including micro-rejuvenation, live  migration, and checkpoint/restore in cloud-native, microservice, and serverless architectures. 5. Hardware, operating-system, runtime, and hypervisor support to mitigate software aging in computing  systems, including the role of memory-safe languages and managed runtimes.
4. Industrial techniques, operational experience, and large-scale deployment studies of software rejuvenation. 7. Software aging and rejuvenation methodologies in support of Cyber-Physical Systems and autonomous  systems (e.g., anomaly detection, security intrusions, testing, fault localization, on-line feedback control, and  safety guarantees under rejuvenation).
5. Software aging and rejuvenation in AI systems: degradation of long-running inference services and LLM serving stacks, memory and KV-cache bloat, aging in agentic and multi-model pipelines, model and data drift  as an aging phenomenon, and rejuvenation of learning-enabled components.
6. Software aging and rejuvenation at the edge and in resource-constrained, intermittently connected, or  unattended deployments.
7. Energy, cost, and sustainability implications of aging and rejuvenation; SLO/SLA-aware and workload-aware  rejuvenation scheduling.
8. Optimization, control, and learning approaches for software aging and rejuvenation, including adaptive  rejuvenation scheduling, runtime optimization, feedback control, model predictive control, reinforcement  learning, and resilient resource management.
9. Software aging and rejuvenation in quantum information systems and quantum computing infrastructures. 13. Vision and position papers on emerging aspects of software aging and rejuvenation and on the open  challenges of the next decade.

Submission Guidelines:

Submitted papers must include new significant research-based technical contributions in the scope of the  journal. Purely theoretical, technological, or lacking methodological-and-generality papers are not suitable to  this Special Section. The submissions must include clear evaluations of the proposed solutions (based on  simulation and/or implementation results) and comparisons to state-of-the-art solutions. For additional  information please contact the Guest Editors by sending an email exclusively to tetc-sar@duq.edu. Papers  under review elsewhere are not acceptable for submission. Extended versions of published conference papers  (to be included as part of the submission together with a summary of differences) are welcome but there must  be at least 40% new impacting technical/scientific material in the submitted journal version and there should  be less than 50% verbatim similarity level as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef).

For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, please visit the Author Information Page. Please submit papers through the IEEE Author Portal, and be sure to select the "Special Section on Software Aging and Rejuvenation in Emerging Computing Systems" subject. As per TETC policies, only full-length papers (10-16 pages with technical material, double column – papers beyond 12 pages will be subject to MOPC, as per CS policies) can be submitted to special sections. The bibliography should not exceed 45 items and each Author’s bio should not exceed 150 words.

Guest Editors

• Raffaele Romagnoli, Duquesne University, USA (Member, IEEE)
• Michael Grottke, NIQ and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany (Member, IEEE)
• Jianwen Xiang, Wuhan University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE)
• Corresponding TETC Editor: Bjorn De Sutter, Gent University, Belgium