The next version of Internetware (The 12nd symposium on Internetware, Internetware 2020) will be held in Singapore at 1-3 November, 2020. Internetware 2020 will be organized by Prof. Jinsong Dong (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University). Another event that was also co-founded by PKU-SEI, AWASE 2020, will be co-located with Internetware 2020.

The series of Internetware symposium was co-founded by Prof. Hong Mei (of PKU-SEI) and Prof. Jian Lv (Nanjing University) in 2009. The purpose of this symposium is creating a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and make proposals on the topics about software in Internet, which can perceive the changes of the open and dynamic environment, Internet, respond to the changes in the way of architectural transformation, and exhibit context-aware, adaptive and trustworthy behaviors in order to meet its flexible design objectives. A portmanteau term “Internetware” was coined to denote the software-web in Internet, the open and dynamic environment. The term can be understood as: an Internetware system is a software system consists of the self-contained, autonomous entities situated in the distributed nodes of Internet and the coordinators connecting these entities statically and dynamically in various kinds of interaction styles (passively and actively). Internetware challenges many aspects of software technologies, from operating platforms, programming models, to engineering approaches, etc.

More information about the previous versions of Internetware can be found at https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/internetware/index.html