SAM 2025
Oct 6-7, 2025
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Co-located with MODELS 2025
Call for papers: Systems modeling and analysis for trustworthy AI
https://sdl-forum.org/Events/SAM2025


### Call for papers ###

The System Analysis and Modelling (SAM) conference provides an open arena for participants from academia and industry to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in modeling, specification, analysis, and realization of complex systems using ITU-T's Specification and Description Language (SDL-2010) and Message Sequence Chart (MSC) notations, as well as related system design languages — including but not limited to UML, ASN.1, TTCN-3, SysML and the User Requirements Notation (URN).


### Scope and Topics ###

The 2025 edition of SAM focuses on "Systems modeling and analysis for trustworthy AI." The scope includes advancements/usage of languages/methods standardized by the ITU-T and domain-specific languages for state-of-practice domains like artificial intelligence, digital twins, no code, low code, DevOps, and metaverse. Also included are software engineering technologies, such as agile methods, and development aspects, such as requirements engineering, software verification and validation, model checking, code generation, tool support, and training. Authors are invited to submit papers related to this year’s theme, including the following non-exclusive list of topics:

* Evolution of languages: Domain-specific languages, modular language design, semantics, and evaluation, languages for artificial intelligence systems, high-level modeling languages, ModelOps.

* Model-driven development: AI-supported system modeling, agile modeling, analysis and transformation of models, reduce coding by reuse, verification and validation of models, testing based on and applied to models, automated verification by model checking, approaches to increase quality and efficiency in teams.

* System engineering models: Semantics of system models, refinement of system designs into implementations, automated code generation, integration of system and software design models, non-functional aspects in system models, creation of digital twins from models, and applying hardware/software-in-the-loop to model simulation.

* Industrial applications and tools: Industrial usage reports, standardization activities, tool support, and frameworks, domain-specific applicability, modeling and analysis in machine control and monitoring, model-based creation of immersive web spaces.

### Program ###

The conference program will include a keynote presentation by Prof. Betty H. C. Cheng, presentations of research papers, presentations of industrial experiences, and tool demonstrations.


### Submissions ###

SAM 2025 welcomes academic and industrial submissions in the following categories: full papers (max 10 pages) and short papers (max 6 pages) with unpublished results. We also encourage submitting papers that describe negative results and replication studies.

All accepted papers that will be presented at the conference will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after going through a thorough review process.

The program committee chairs and members will select one of the presented papers for a Best Paper Award. The best SAM 2025 papers will be invited to submit an extension of their work to Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering ISSE NASA Journal published by Springer (pending approval).


### Important Dates ###

Paper submission deadline: 24 July 2025
Notification of acceptance: 24 August 2025
Camera-ready version deadline: 5 September 2025
SAM Conference: Mon 6 - Tue 7 October 2025


### General chairs ###

Eugene Syriani - Université de Montréal, Canada Erik Fredericks - Grand Valley State University, MI, United States


### About the SDL Forum Society ###

The SDL Forum Society that runs the conference is a non-profit organization established by language users and tool providers to promote the Specification and Description Language (SDL-2010), Message Sequence Charts (MSC) and related System Design Languages (including but not limited to ASN.1, TTCN-3, SysML and URN), to provide and disseminate information on the development and use of the languages, to support education on the languages and to plan and organize the SAM conference series and events to promote the languages.