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).

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. SAM 2025 welcomes academic and industrial submissions in the following categories:

• Full papers (max 10 pages)
• Short papers (max 6 pages)

We also encourage submitting papers that describe negative results and replication studies.

List of 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.

Organizers

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

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Betty H. C. Cheng, Michigan State University, U.S.A.

Publication

All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after 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).

Venue

SAM 2025 is co-located with the 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2025) at the University of Michigan - 1109 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor MI, 48109-1079, United States.

To register for SAM 2025, participants need to go through the MODELS 2025 website.

Sponsors

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.