The list of relevant topics include but is not limited to:

• Modeling, design, and engineering of SoSs
• Architectures, architectural styles, and middlewares for SoSs
• Foundations and formal methods for SoSs
• Methods for architecture synthesis, coordination and adaptation patterns
• Online V&V techniques for functional and non-functional assessment and dependability
• Online and Offline testing techniques for SoSs and Complex Systems
• Context-awareness and context-aware adaptation techniques
• Reconfiguration and optimization techniques
• Self-* mechanisms
• Techniques for extracting behavior models from streams of continuos observations
• Applications of SoSs
• Distributed Software Engineering: strategies, processes, testing and methods
• SoSs experiences, case studies, benchmarking, evaluations, testing, and industrial perspectives
• Models of functional and non functional requirements, context and governance policies to support integration of SoSs
• Knowledge management and Decision-making process in SoSs
• Ambient Intelligent Systems
• MultiAgents solutions for SoSs
• Interaction Platforms enabling heterogeneous entities participation
• Knowledge bases integration support and exploitation for semantic interoperability
• Autonomic coordination, negotiation and interactions for MultiAgents and Complex systems
• Blockchain technology for distributed and heterogeneous systems
• Internet of Things-based SoSs
• Adaptive and Reactive systems