Computing - Call for Papers: Pivoting Quantum Computing Using Software Engineering Best Practices
Aims and Scope
To utilize the power of quantum computers, developers are building new quantum software systems, which contain both quantum and classical components. To prevent re-inventing the wheel, they should incorporate the past 50 years of lessons learned and best practices from conventional software engineering to accelerate the integration of quantum and classical software systems.
We invite original, novel, and high-quality contributions in the whole quantum software development lifecycle, including but not limited to requirements engineering, system modeling, implementation, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance. We seek research work on fundamental and applied methodologies, applications, surveys, and experiential reports of quantum software engineering and quantum software systems.
The objective of this Special Issue is to bridge the gap between Conventional and Quantum Software Engineering by utilizing best practices from the classical world, as well as to explore the new trends in Quantum Software Engineering and foster future academic and academia-industry collaborations. We hence seek original, novel, and high-quality contributions across the full spectrum of Quantum Software Engineering, being inclusive of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Paradigms for developing quantum software
- Quantum software design
- Quantum software testing
- Quantum software verification
- Quantum software coding practices
- Quantum software reuse
- Quantum software experimentations
- Quantum software execution
- Quantum programming languages
- Service-oriented quantum software
- Industrial applications
- Empirical evaluations
Important Dates
Submissions Open: May 1, 2024
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Guest Editors
Jose García-Alonso, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Computing website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site here (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI Pivoting Quantum Computing Using Software Engineering Best Practices" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at Q-SE 2024 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of Q-SE 2024 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.