Guest Editorial: Special Section on IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS) 2020

Abstract

The IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020.We received 156 submissions to the regular and short articles tracks. After the process of desk rejection, all remaining submissions were reviewed by three or more program committee members. Each submission was discussed online by the respective reviewers. Finally, the program chairs recommended six submissions of top quality out of the accepted articles to the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY for potential publication. We invited the authors of the six submissions to submit the corresponding revised versions that had addressed the reviewers’ comments to the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY for further evaluation. We invited the original reviewers of these QRS submissions to review these revised articles using the standard of the journal for article acceptance. In addition, the abstracts of these six selected articles were published in the QRS 2020 conference proceedings. The six articles we invited span the topics of both reliability and security in hardware and software with a new focus on AI-assisted techniques. The first three articles were published in theMarch 2021 issue; the fourth and fifth articles appear in this issue; and the last article will be included in the September 2021 issue.