Message from the QRS 2022 Steering Committee Chairs, General Chairs, and Program Chairs
2022
Message from the QRS 2022 Steering Committee Chairs, General Chairs, and Program ChairsQRS 2022 (The 22 nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security) was originally planned to be held in Guangzhou, China from 5-9, December.However, due to the ongoing pandemic, certain districts of Guangzhou were listed as COVID-19 high-risk infectious areas during the conference dates.As a result, all the in-person sessions were cancelled and the entire conference was moved to online via Zoom.Similar to the previous QRS conferences, this year's focus remained the same with Q representing Quality, R for Reliability, and S for Security.We received more than 300 submissions (273 regular papers and 30 short papers), not including workshop and fast abstract submissions.After the process of desk rejection, all remaining papers were reviewed by at least three program committee members and the majority by four based on their originality, contribution, soundness, presentation, and relatedness.No specific acceptance rate was communicated as a guideline to the program committee members.They were free to recommend any paper deemed strong and novel.In addition to the review comments, an extensive online discussion was conducted and monitored by the Program Chairs before a decision of acceptance or reject was made.Of all the regular submissions, seventy-five (75) were accepted as regular papers.The acceptance rate was 27.47%.Some of the regular submissions, although not accepted as regular papers but still with high quality, were recommended as short papers or to appropriate workshops co-located with the main conference.