From erika.asnina at rtu.lv Mon Jun 1 10:36:02 2009 From: erika.asnina at rtu.lv (Erika Asnina) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:36:02 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Book Chapters [MD DA&SD] Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (EXTENDED) ------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 18, 2009 (EXTENDED) FULL CHAPTERS DUE: July 20, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- MODEL-DRIVEN DOMAIN ANALISYS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: ARCHITECTURES AND FUNCTIONS A book edited by Dr. Janis Osis and Dr. Erika Asnina, Riga Technical University, Latvia To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=614 [1] Introduction ------------- Software developers use different techniques for identification and specification of a domain’s characteristics and requirements for a planned application. Primarily these techniques are aimed at application analysis, while the problem domain is regarded almost as a black box describing a number of aspects of the system. The fact that system requirements are constraints set by real world phenomena not vice versa is underestimated. Software developers implement not what the customer needs, but what the customer wants. The reason is that proper problem domain analysis requires additional time and effort, while customers want to receive a working application as soon as possible. However, the customer’s needs and wants can differ. Thus a gap between the application and real world exists, creating the question of what domain is to be modeled at the beginning: the domain of today’s reality or the domain of customer’s expected reality. It is impossible to be highly efficient with a weak beginning, even with a strong end of the software development life cycle. In order to develop software to be used for real-world purposes, we must know how it will affect this world, where the implications can be far-reaching. This understanding has critical importance for mechatronic, embedded and high risk systems as well, where failure could cost human lives. It is also important for complex business systems, wherein failures could lead to huge financial losses. Developers must not ignore modeling the existing domain, where the planned application will work within, because this application placed in operation will certainly change the existing domain. OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) uses a principle of the separation of concerns. MDA utilizes three independent but related views: Computation Independent View, Platform Independent View, and Platform Specific View. Two latter views are related to customer’s expected reality. The theoretical foundation of the first view is not sufficiently clear. Considering its definition, we can assume that it is related not only to customer’s expected reality, but also to the domain of today’s reality. Thus to get really model-driven development this model should be formal (should reduce inaccuracies and ambiguities of specifications), and transformable. However, there is not enough research on this area. Another issue is application of MDA for advanced domains such as e-commerce, finance, manufacturing, web-services, enterprise computing etc. There exists a need for an edited collection of publications on keeping and improving the mechanisms of MDA for business modeling and advanced domains. Objective of the Book ------------------------ This book will aim to provide theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in improving model-driven domain analysis and software development. The viability of the proposed topics is provided by the viability of Model Driven Architecture that is still young and growing. It will be written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the important role of the domain modeling in model-driven software development to make its models more formal and, thus, automatically transformable; to enable developers not to avoid proper problem domain analysis and to promote them (and tool vendors) to include formal construction and analysis of the problem domain into the industrial software development process using MDA. Target Audience -------------------- This book is primarily intended for three groups of people: computer science students who ought to become practicing software engineers, users of the most advanced methods and approaches, experienced software developers who wish to acquire knowledge in applying Model Driven Architecture, and people interested in improvements to productivity of software development or quality of software products. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Model Driven Architecture and Means for Domain Modeling: What is a Domain Model? *Domain Modeling: A Problem, Requirements and Solutions *Business Models and Requirements Models A Domain Model and Model-Driven Architecture *MDA Computation Independent (Domain) Model VS Requirements Model *The Role of Domain Model in Traditional and MDA Software Development Life Cycles Means for Domain Modeling *Business Modeling Approaches Proposed by OMG *Use Case Driven Modeling Approaches *Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Approaches *Quality of Domain Models Improvement of MDA Domain Modeling by a Formal Business Model MDA for Advanced Application Domains: Contributions for E-Commerce *Model-Driven Engineering for E-Commerce *Business Patterns for E-Commerce Contributions for Finance *Business-Focused Models for Financial Services *Model-Driven Engineering in a Large Financial Institution *MDA Application for Business Applications in Financial Organizations Contributions for Manufacturing *Model Driven Engineering for Product Lines *Model Driven Manufacturing Systems *Holistic Model-Driven Manufacturing Systems *Model Driven Engineering for Flexible Manufacturing Systems Contributions for Enterprise Computing *Model Driven Web-Services *Model-Driven Enterprise Computing *Model-Driven Business Integration *Model-Driven Distributed Systems Submission and Review Procedure ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit chapters describing original, high-quality research on topics of relevance for this book. A 3-5 pages chapter proposal (in Word format) should be sent by e-mail to both editors at janis.osis at cs.rtu.lv [2] and erika.asnina at rtu.lv [3], with Subject “IGI Book Chapter Proposal” on or before June 18, 2009. A chapter proposal should contain title, author details (names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses), and an extended abstract, suggested chapter structure, an explanation of relevance for this book and brief biographies of the authors. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their chapter proposals on or before June 25, 2009 and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 20, 2009. If authors need an additional time to complete full chapters, we would like to ask them to submit their requests to our approval. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The process for selecting which submitted chapters will be accepted will be competitive. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher ------------ This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com [4]. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010. Important Dates ---------------- JUNE 18, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline JUNE 25, 2009: Notification of Acceptance JULY 20, 2009: Full Chapter Submission Deadline August 15, 2009: Review Result Returned September 15, 2009: Revised Chapter Submission Deadline September 30, 2009: Final Acceptance Notification October 15, 2009: Final Chapter Submission Deadline Editorial Advisory Board Members: ------------------------------------ Eduardo Fernandez-Medina Paton, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Stan Hendryx, Hendryx & Associates, USA Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Ricardo J. Machado, University of Minho, Portugal Sjir Nijssen, PNA, The Netherlands Dilip Patel, London South Bank University, UK Juan-Carlos Trujillo Mondejar, University of Alicante, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Janis Osis Department of Applied Computer Science Faculty of Computer Sciences and Information Technology Riga Technical University Meza iela 1/3, Riga, LV 1048, Latvia Email: janis.osis at cs.rtu.lv [2] Tel. 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(2001-2003), one on ?Legacy Transformation? (2004) and one on ?Semantic-Based Systems Development? (2007). The main theme of the workshop is Ontology-Driven Software Engineering (ODiSE). ODiSE here refers to the different ways in which ontologies (i.e., formalized conceptual models of real world domains) can contribute to improving Software Engineering ? its processes and its artifacts. This use of the term encompasses different and interrelated aspects of Software Engineering as a discipline. For example: (1) ontological principles can be used as the basis of improved development languages; (2) ontologies can help improve the way in which software development projects are organized; and (3) ontological domain models can drive or refine typical development phases, such as requirements, design and implementation. The motivation for organizing a workshop on ODiSE derives from the increased interest that ontologies have generated in recent years within the software community. The relevance of ontologies in Software Engineering is exemplified, for instance, by the successful OOPSLA 2007 workshop on ?Semantic-Based Systems Development?, various OMG and W3C initiatives, and commercial products based on ?semantic technologies?. However, regardless of such developments, these efforts still represent pioneering initiatives in the field of Software Engineering. As the state-of-the-art stands, ODiSE is still in its infancy. The adoption of theory and technologies developed by the Semantic Web community to enhance Software Engineering appears promising, with many areas that are worth investigating and exploring. The workshop therefore aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds in order to discuss and analyze the different perspectives, issues and challenges of Ontology-Driven Software Engineering. Researchers and practitioners are invited to provide contributions in the form of research/case study (max. 15 pages) or position/idea papers (2-3 pages) related to the workshop theme. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: Topics include, but are not limited to the following: - Novel ODiSE lifecycle models (for example, dual-lifecycles as in domain engineering). - Project/risk management of ontology-based software systems. - Ontology-driven guidance of software processes. - New methodologies, techniques and tools or specializations of existing ones. - Languages: RDF, OWL, UML and novel ontology-based development/ programming languages. - Integrated modeling (e.g., UML and OWL). - Ontological modeling paradigms (e.g., endurantism vs. perdurantism) and resolution of their semantic mismatches. - Persistence, indexing and mapping of semantic models. - Relationships between ontology, epistemology and system behavior/ performance. - Semantic discovery from legacy sources. - Model Driven Architecture/Development with ontologies. - Automated ontology generation and management for software development purposes. - Traceability of software artifacts with ontologies. Revised versions of the best workshop papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal 'Applied Ontology'. For the submission process and further information please visit the ODiSE 2009 Web site at http://fluidity.org.uk/ConferenceCalls/ODiSE2009.html Important Dates: - Intent to submit (optional) - anytime. - Paper submission deadline - August 21, 2009. - Notification to authors - at least one week prior to early bird registration deadline (to be confirmed). - Submission of revised papers - October 2, 2009. - Accepted papers uploaded to website - October 9, 2009. - Workshop - either October 25 or 26, 2009 (to be confirmed). Organizers: Sergio de Cesare, (Brunel University, U.K.). Guido L. Geerts, (University of Delaware, U.S.A.). Grant Holland, (Sun Microsystems, Inc., U.S.A.). Mark Lycett, (Brunel University, U.K.). Chris Partridge, (BORO Solutions Ltd., U.K). From ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl Mon Jun 1 19:05:45 2009 From: ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl (Krzysztof Szczypiorski) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:05:45 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009 (10 days to deadline) Message-ID: <4A240A69.4030806@tele.pw.edu.pl> Call for Papers [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. Please circulate this CfP among your colleagues.] ************************************************************************** First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009 November 18-20, 2009, Wuhan, Hubei, China co-located with International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES 2009) http://stegano.net/workshop ************************************************************************** Network steganography is part of information hiding focused on modern networks and is a method of hiding secret data in users' normal data transmissions, ideally, so it cannot be detected by third parties. Steganographic techniques arise and evolve with the development of network protocols and mechanisms, and are expected to used in secret communication or information sharing. Now, it becomes a hot topic due to the wide spread of information networks, e.g., multimedia service networks and social networks. The workshop is dedicated to capture such areas of research as steganography, steganalysis, and digital forensics in the meaning of network covert channels, investigate the potential applications, and discuss the future research topics. Research themes of workshop will include: - Steganography and steganalysis - Covert/subliminal channels - Novel applications of information hiding in networks - Political and business issues in network steganography - Information hiding in multimedia services - Digital forensics - Network communication modelling from the viewpoint of steganography and steganalysis - New methods for eliminating network steganography PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers will be accepted based on peer review and should contain original, high quality work. All papers must be written in English. A paper should not exceed 5 pages (two columns IEEE format), including figures and references with 10-12 point font. Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mines2009 The papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, available in the conference (MINES 2009), and indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP. The extended versions of high-quality papers selected from the workshop will be published in a special issue of Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management by Springer-Verlag GmbH (indexed by ISI Master Journal List). DATES Manuscript Due: June 10, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2009 Registration Due: August 10, 2009 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) Beijing, China Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland PROGRAMM COMMITTEE Krzysztof Cabaj, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Steve Chapin, Syracuse University, USA Costas Constantinou, University of Birmingham, UK Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London, UK Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand Paul Kiddie, University of Birmingham, UK Piotr Kijewski, NASK/CERT Polska, Poland Jerzy Konorski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw University of Technology and IPPT PAN, Poland Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw Universtity of Technology, Poland Ke Liao, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Guangjie Liu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China David Llamas, University of St Andrews, UK Jozef Lubacz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Norka Lucena, Syracuse University, USA Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia Janusz Stoklosa, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Jinwei Wang, The 28th Research Institute of CETC, China Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Konrad Wrona, NATO C3 Agency, Netherlands Xiaoyi Yu, Peking University, China From ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl Mon Jun 1 19:15:52 2009 From: ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl (Krzysztof Szczypiorski) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:15:52 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 4th International Workshop on Secure Information Systems - SIS 2009 (15 days to deadline) Message-ID: <4A240CC8.8000903@tele.pw.edu.pl> ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th International Workshop on Secure Information Systems - SIS 2009 Warsaw, Poland, 18th September, 2009 co-located with 25th National Symposium of Telecommunications and Computer Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------- SIS website: http://secgroup.pl/sis2009 Call for papers The SIS workshop is envisioned as a forum to promote the exchange of ideas and results addressing complex security issues that arise in modern information systems. We aim at bringing together a community of security researchers and practitioners working in such divers areas as networking security, antivirus protection, intrusion detection, cryptography, security protocols, and others. We would like to promote an integrated view at the security of information systems. As information systems evolve, becoming more complex and ubiquitous, issues relating to security, privacy and dependability become more critical. At the same time, the global and distributed character of modern computing - typically involving interconnected heterogeneous execution environments - introduces many new and challenging engineering and scientific problems. Providing protection against increasingly sophisticated attacks requires strengthening the interaction between different security communities, e.g. antivirus and networking. New technologies lead to the emergence of new threats and attack strategies, involving smart mobile devices, peer-to-peer networks, instant messaging, VoIP, mesh networks or even networked consumer devices, such as house appliances or cars. Furthermore, the increasing openness of the communications infrastructure results in novel threats and can jeopardize critical enterprise and public infrastructure, such as industrial automation and process control systems. Not only it is estimated that half of all Web applications and Internet storefronts still contain some security vulnerabilities, but secure commerce applications are also exposed to increasingly elaborate attacks, including spyware, phishing and other social engineering methods. In order to develop a secure system, security has to be considered in all phases of the lifecycle and adequately addressed in all layers of the system. At the same time, good engineering has to take into account both scientific and economic aspects of every solution: the cost of security has to be carefully measured against its benefits - in particular the expected cost of mitigated risks. Most companies and individuals treat security measures in information system as a necessary, but often uncomfortable, overhead. The increasing penetration of computing in all domains of everyday life means that security of critical business systems is often managed and maintained by personnel who are not knowledgeable in the field. This highlights the importance of usability and ease of configuration of security mechanism and protocols. - Access control - Adaptive security - Cryptography - Copyright protection - Cyberforensics - Honeypots - Information hiding - Intrusion detection - Network security - Privacy - Secure commerce - Security exploits - Security policies - Security protocols - Security services - Security evaluation and prediction - Software protection - Trusted computing - Threat modeling - Usability and security - Viruses and worms - Zero-configuration security mechanisms Chairs Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Konrad Wrona, NATO C3 Agency, Netherlands Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Authors are invited to prepare papers of no more than ten (10) pages in style presented on: http://www.kstit.pl/uploads/file/Format_referatu.pdf including results, figures, and references. Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sis2009 The papers will be published on CD available at the workshop. The extended versions of high-quality papers selected from the workshop will be published in a special issue of Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management by Springer-Verlag GmbH (indexed by ISI Master Journal List). Dates Manuscript Due: June 15, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2009 From Jianguo.Ding at iet.ntnu.no Tue Jun 2 11:36:52 2009 From: Jianguo.Ding at iet.ntnu.no (Jianguo Ding) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:36:52 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [Tccc][CFP] 2 weeks reminder: IEEE MENS2009: International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE MENS 2009 International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009/ in conjunction with International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009) Technically sponsored by IEEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009 Camera ready version: August 15, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Workshop: More recently, requirements in network management and control have been amended by emerging network and computing models, including wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, overlay networks, Grid networks, optical networks, multimedia networks, storage networks, the convergence of next generation networks (NGN) or even nanonetworks etc. Increasingly ubiquitous network environments require new management strategies, which can cope with resource constraints, multi-federated operations, scalability, dependability, context awareness, security, mobility and probability etc. To bring complex network systems under control, it is necessary for the IT industry to move to autonomic management, context-aware management and self-management systems in which technology itself is used to manage technology. New theoretical approaches are needed in resolving the challenging problems in network management. This workshop will provide a forum to researchers to propose theories and techniques on the management of emerging networks, share their experience of IT and telecommunications industries and discuss future management solutions for emerging networks. Topics: Authors are invited to submit papers in theories and techniques for the management of emerging networks or related areas: - Management of Emerging Networks and Services - Management of Next-Generation Networks - Management of Ad-hoc/Mesh Networks - Management of 3G/4G Networks - Management of Sensor Networks - Resource Management of Wireless Networks - Management of Overlay Networks - Management of VPN - Management of P2P Networks - Management of Grid Architecture - Management of Multimedia Networks - Management of Satellite Networks - Management of Optical Networks - Management of Cognitive Networks - Management of Future Internet - Policy-based Network Management - Bio-inspired Network Management - AI Approaches for Network Management - Control Theory for Network Management - New Theories for Network Management - Autonomic Management - Self-management (Self-*) - Context-aware Management - Converged Networks and Services - Application Reports in IT and Network Industries The workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI-indexed. Guidelines for Submission: Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explorer. Papers are restricted to a maximum length of 8 pages, including text, figures, references, and appendices, and must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system (http://edas.info/N7849). Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-spaced, double-column pages using the IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.htmlThe cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register and attend the conference. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue. Workshop Chair: Jianguo Ding (Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Technical Program Committee: Finn AAGESEN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Ilangko BALASINGHAM, University of Oslo, Norway Girma BERHE, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pascal BOUVRY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Luca CAVIGLIONE, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Serge CHAUMETTE, University of Bordeaux, France Chao CHEN, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Zesheng CHEN, Florida International University, USA Gregoire DANOY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Franco DAVOLI, University of Genoa, Italy Jianguo DING, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Djamel DJENOURI, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Haibing GUAN, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Frederic Guinand, Le Havre University, France Haiwu HE, INRIA, France Shanshan JIANG, SINTEF, Norway Yuming JIANG, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Yevgeni KOUCHERYAVY, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Peter KROPF, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Xuedong LIANG, University of Oslo, Norway Luoming MENG, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Herwig UNGER, University of Hagen, Germany Alexey VINEL, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the workshop: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009 and the conference: http://www.icumt.org. 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The continuous and independent evolution of readily available components suggested that open platforms can better accommodate and manage them as normally happens in systems like open source software distributions, Eclipse, and J2EE, just to mention a few. The critical mass represented by such software components requires organizations, such as companies, research groups, and open source communities, to collaborate on custom software development, implementation and shared services. Such infrastructures can be regarded as ecosystems, i.e., collections of software projects that possibly belong to organizations, developed in parallel by the organizations, and able to integrate each other at assembly time, during the configuration, and/or dynamically after the deployment. The capability of modeling, analyzing, and predicting the component behavior during these stages is intrinsically difficult and requires techniques, algorithms, and methods which are both expressive and computationally convenient in order to be engineered and conveyed in practical projects. Moreover, when analyzing software ecosystems, exploration and visualization cannot be neglected because of the large amounts of information that are available about the ecosystem. Scope ----- The goal of the workshop is to gather together both researchers and practitioners active in open source software engineering, software composition, algorithms, constraint programming, and model-driven engineering to discuss, debate, exchange ideas, and outline common solutions to the problem of static and dynamic component aggregations in software ecosystems. IWOCE 2009 will be held in Amsterdam as a satellite event of the 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2009). IWOCE 2009 will host invited talks, technical sessions, and panels. As a workshop, IWOCE 2009 will foster the interactions between the participants, stimulating lively debates and discussions around the topics of interest of the workshop. Topics ------ Contributions are solicited from both academia and industry about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: - Open source software engineering - Design of software ecosystems - Infrastructures and services for software ecosystems - Formal analysis of component systems - Component composition, configuration, and adaptation techniques - Verification, validation, and testing techniques - Predictability of component upgrade, installation, and removal - Constraint programming and constraint solvers applied to component systems - Model-driven techniques and metamodels for describing component systems - Components systems and generative approaches - Exploration and visualization techniques for complex software systems - Global measurement, prediction, and monitoring of distributed and service components - Industrial experience using open source and component-based software development - Components in open source software distributions (eg. GNU/Linux packages, Eclipse plugins, ...) Submission guidelines --------------------- All submissions will be formally evaluated by at least three (3) reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF and strictly adhere to the ACM SIG proceedings format. Papers must not exceed ten (10) pages in such format, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Paper submissions will be made electronically via the workshop submission web page, using the EasyChair service. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication, elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the conference and participate in the workshop. Important dates --------------- Paper submission 8 June 2009 Notification of acceptance 20 June 2009 Camera-ready version due 26 June 2009 Workshop date 24 August 2009 Organizing committee -------------------- Contact iwoce2009 at easychair.org Program co-chairs - Roberto Di Cosmo Universit? Paris Diderot (France) - Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila (Italy) Program committee - Alfonso Pierantonio University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Angelo Gargantini University of Bergamo (Italy) - Arald Gall Universit?t Zurich (Switzerland) - Daniel Le Berre Universit? d?Artois (France) - Ivica Crnkovic Malardalen University (Sweden) - Jeff Gray University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) - Laurie Tratt Bournemouth University (UK) - Massimo Tivoli University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Patrick Albert ILOG/IBM (France) - Ralf Treinen Universit? Paris Diderot (France) Publicity chair - Stefano Zacchiroli Universit? Paris Diderot (France) ==================================================================== Further information about the IWOCE 2009 workshop can be found at: http://www.iwoce.org Write to iwoce2009 at easychair.org for further questions. ==================================================================== From romanvi at ifi.uio.no Tue Jun 2 19:33:24 2009 From: romanvi at ifi.uio.no (Roman Vitenberg) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:33:24 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] International Summer School on Events, Publish/Subscribe and Systems Message-ID: <4A256264.3060302@ifi.uio.no> International Summer School on Events, Publish/Subscribe and Systems August 16th-21st, 2009, Oslo, Norway CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE) and EuroSys, the European chapter of ACM SIGOPS http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW AND TOPICS The summer school aims at bringing together graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in event processing, publish/subscribe, and systems research. Topics covered by the school include: * Events, event processing, and CEP applications * Event stream processing and applications * Publish/subscribe, messaging, real-time data distribution * Smart grids and sense-and-response systems * Lessons learned from developing large-scale systems Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners, and combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, and experience reports and lessons learned. Lectures also feature advanced topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis is put on encouraging active participation in discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster presentations. The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the oldest Norwegian hotels. The area's picturesque landscape is enclosed by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain. At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport). The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems Group at the University of Oslo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIRMED SPEAKERS K. Mani Chandy, Caltech, U.S. Towards a Discipline of "Smart" Systems: Event-Driven Sense and Response Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mohammed and the Mountain: Distributing Data, or Moving to the Data? Angelo Corsaro, PrismTech, France Real-Time Data Distribution Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Content Routing and Filtering in the Large Scale Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S. High-performance Event Stream Processing Infrastructures and Applications Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada Event Processing and Publish/Subscribe Algorithms Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Replicating for Performance: Case Studies John Reumann, Google, U.S. Pub/Sub at Google Other speakers to be determined --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION The registration fee is 6175 NOK (about 705 Euro / $US 960) for shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 7175 NOK (about 819 Euro / $US 1115) for one person in a single room. Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights), and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks). Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis. The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel. Registration will open in a few days; additional announcements will follow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE INFORMATION http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school Contact: canoe-administrator at ifi.uio.no From didier.donsez at imag.fr Tue Jun 2 21:51:50 2009 From: didier.donsez at imag.fr (Didier Donsez) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:51:50 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP M-MPAC 2009 International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing Message-ID: <4A2582D6.9000503@imag.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Apologies for multiples receptions ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Papers --------------- M-MPAC 2009 International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC A Workshop of Middleware 2009 Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA November 30 - December 4, 2009 Problem Space Building on the success of the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid, this event combines the thematic areas of the two workshops and aims to develop a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions and platforms for pervasive mobile and embedded systems. In recent years, the rise of relatively powerful mobile communication devices like mobile phones, mobile Internet devices, and netbooks, as well as several types of embedded devices, like TV set-top boxes, iPods, Kidle, etc, has enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive applications, such as healthcare monitoring, sport tracking, context-aware collaborative computing, etc. Moreover, with the rise of cloud computing infrastructures developers have also started exploring the possibility of empowering resource-constrained mobile devices with such infrastructures offering unlimited storage and computing resources. Developing practical applications for this kind of devices is still in most cases a complex and time-consuming process. Many of the existing applications have been built in an ad-hoc manner and without any possibility for code reuse. As the number and type of mobile and embedded devices, and pervasive applications increases, so does the need to enable interoperability among them. Identifying appropriate middleware abstractions and organizing successfully used protocols, algorithms, and software modules into generic middleware platforms can facilitate application development, foster software reuse, and enable rapid prototyping of pervasive applications. It is unclear and in many respects still an unexplored research area to what extent traditional middleware services can be provided on these devices. Porting existing middleware architectures to these new computing platforms turns out to be often infeasible. Instead, a thorough reconsideration of middleware abstractions and their supporting infrastructure is needed to allow applications to make effective use of the available computational power, memory, communication technologies, integrated sensors, etc. An ideal middleware platform should be capable of handling the resource constraints of these devices but at the same time exploit their unique features such as availability of location information, embedded sensors, mobility, spontaneous interaction, context-awareness, etc. Topics The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Device platforms Virtualization technologies and applications Distributed ensembles Interaction paradigms and protocols Emerging mobile platforms (e.g., Android) Virtual machines (J2ME, .NET, etc.) * Networking Emerging wireless technologies and platforms Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc) Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network Quality of service and network selection * Data issues Data formats and encoding Availability and durability of data in personal networks Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics such as cameras, iPods, etc. Data portability * Adaptability Context-awareness, location monitoring Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage Autonomics and self-* properties * Security and Privacy Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions Security architectures balancing risk and utility Trust management in device ensembles Mobile device data security * Mobile Web Web architectures (REST, Ajax) in pervasive computing Context adaptation and management in pervasive computing Mobile web scalability and reliability in access Content adaptation on mobile devices * Applications Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, etc. Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks Application development on mobile and embedded devices Programming models * Experiences and case studies Lessons from deployments User experiences Performance studies Submission Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and should be formatted using the ACM proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at http:/www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2009/openconf/ Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion. All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the best workshop submissions and the research roadmap in the style of previous events is under investigation. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: August 1 2009 * Notification of acceptance: September 15 2009 * Final camera ready papers due: October 1 2009 * Workshop date: November 30 2009 Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Cristian Borcea, NJIT, US Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy Didier Donsez, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France (Publicity Chair) Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France Fabio Kon, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Workshop Co-Chair) Lu?s Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Romain Rouvoy, Universit? Lille 1, Fance Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair) Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Proceedings Chair) Lin Zhong, Rice University, US -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Didier DONSEZ Laboratoire LIG, Equipe ADELE Universite Joseph Fourier Bat. 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URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090602/104426d9/attachment-0001.html From jbe at sofismo.ch Tue Jun 2 23:41:18 2009 From: jbe at sofismo.ch (Jorn Bettin) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:41:18 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] KISS workshop @ Code Generation 2009, 2nd call for position papers, extended deadline In-Reply-To: <4634aa660906021435q7a0191f2ie633e863845dca03@mail.gmail.com> References: <4634aa660906021435q7a0191f2ie633e863845dca03@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4634aa660906021441x3a92fb7ep2bbeba1539b07b90@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers --------------- Dear all, The main goal of the KISS workshop at Code Generation 2009 consists of reaching agreement on a set of fundamental principles for modeling language design, such that the most costly and time consuming interoperability problems can be avoided. In order to promote lively discussion and to solicit constructive feedback, a set of strawman principles for modeling language design has been proposed at http://www.industrialized-software.org/fundamental-principles-for -modeling-language-design. I'd like to invite you to submit a position paper (2 to 13 pages) and to attend the upcoming workshop at 1. Code Generation 2009 in Cambridge, United Kingdom (workshop 16. June, extended submission deadline 15. June!) http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-cg-2009 and additionally to consider presenting updates of your work at one of the subsequent KISS workshops at 2. Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications in Orlando, Florida (25. or 26. October 2009) http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-oopsla-2009 3. Automated Software Engineering in Auckland, New Zealand (16. or 17. November, submission deadline 31. July) http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-ase-2009. 4. Further venues to be confirmed (Q1/Q2 2010) http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-initiative In contrast to yearly events, the KISS workshops are intended as working sessions that are used to iteratively present work in progress, and to incorporate the feedback received in practical implementations that conform to KISS values and fundamental principles. Lastly, please don't forget disseminating information about the planned KISSworkshops to your colleagues. A formal CfP for dissemination within your organization is attached below. Best regards, -- Jorn Jorn Bettin www.sofismo.ch - Software is Models! Saegestrasse 50, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland --------------- Call for Papers --------------- KISS Workshop on Fundamental Aspects of DSL Interoperability Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16 June 2009 @ Code Generation 2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-cg-2009 Orlando, Florida, 25. or 26. October 2009 @ OOPSLA 2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-oopsla-2009 Auckland, New Zealand, 16 or 17 November 2009 @ ASE 2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-ase-2009 Background and Aims ------------------- The main motivation for the use of a DSL is the desire to express problems in a compact form that reflects the natural terminology of human domain experts, and that is easily accessible to software tools. In short, DSLs are raising the level of abstraction of software specifications and of knowledge representation in general. When DSLs are used to formalize the results of domain analysis, the result is a clean separation of concerns in the problem space. The value of a DSL increases with the intuitiveness of the concrete syntax. Visual and graphical elements may be needed to increase usability, and often such languages are referred to as domain specific modelling languages (DSML). The level of interoperability between current DSL tools is comparable to the level of interoperability between CASE tools in the 90s. To increase the popularity of DSL based approaches, this needs to change. With the extensive use of outsourcing and with the increasing investment in open-source software, software development has become highly decentralized, and an assumption that all parties in a global software supply chain will use identical tooling is simply not realistic. As a result today's software supply chains are much less automated than supply chains in other, more mature industries. In order to increase awareness about the role that domain specific modeling languages can play in capturing, preserving, and exploiting knowledge in virtually all industries, it is necessary to establish a strong consensus on the fundamental values and principles that underpin the use of domain specific modeling languages. KISS aims to provide guidelines to support the use of domain specific methods and technologies in industry. In particular, KISS will support the construction of tool-chains that are built by third parties using components consisting of a mixture of commercial and open-source DSL tools. The KISS series of conference workshops and related events is used to incrementally create a consensus that can be expressed in a form similar to the agile manifesto and the fundamental agile principles. Objectives ---------- 1. To achieve a strong consensus on fundamental values and principles for designing and using Domain Specific Languages. 2. To progress towards interoperability between DSL tools through the use of open-source technologies. Topics of Interest ------------------ * Fundamental values and principles for designing and using domain specific modeling languages (DSMLs). * Classification of the different kinds of DSML tool components, and the artefacts created and exchanged between DSML tool components. * Descriptions of existing or planned industrial projects that illustrate the need for improved DSML tool interoperability. * Evaluations of existing meta-meta model implementations, comparisons of meta-meta model implementations, and proposals of new meta-meta models that are conducive for improving DSML tool interoperability. * Proposals for useful levels of DSML tool interoperability. * Case studies of attempts (successful or not) to increase interoperability between two or more DSML tools. * Concrete tool interoperability requirements from organizations that use DSMLs. * Building an open community that owns interoperability standards for DSML tools. * Approaches that can be used for practical certification of tools with respect to interoperability levels. Important Dates --------------- See schedules published on the workshop web pages http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-cg-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-oopsla-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-ase-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-initiative Submission Guidelines --------------- The workshop accepts two types of submissions within the aims and scope of KISS: reflective and proposals. A reflective submission describes research or experience within the topics of interest of the workshop. A proposal submission describes an approach or a framework that the authors claim will contribute to the overall objectives of KISS. * For both types of papers, the length of the paper should be at least 2 pages and should not exceed 13 pages using the correct style (including references and appendices). * The first page should begin with the title of the paper, author names (contact author underlined), affiliations, and e-mail addresses, followed by an abstract of no more than 150 words. * In order to be considered for publication authors should use the Springer format: follow the instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). * Position papers may be submitted after the deadline and will be circulated as input to the workshop. Papers submitted after the deadline cannot be considered for publication in the workshop proceedings. Please mail your submission to Jorn Bettin (jbe at sofismo dot ch). Publication ----------- Accepted papers in the correct format will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be distributed on registration. The organizers are investigating the publication of the best papers in a special issue of a suitable journal. Workshop Organizers ------------------- See the list of organizers for specific events on the KISS web site http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-cg-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-oopsla-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-ase-2009 http://www.industrialized-software.org/kiss-initiative International Programme Committee (Provisional) ------------------------------ * Jorn Bettin, Sofismo, Switzerland. * Tony Clark, Thames Valley University, UK. * Craig Cleaveland, Whitebirch Software, United States. * William Cook, University of Texas Austin, United States. * Mark Dalgarno, Software Acumen, United Kingdom. * Keith Duddy, Smart Services CRC, Australia. * Jack Greenfield, Microsoft, United States. * John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand. * Pavel Hruby, CSC , Denmark. * Steven Kelly, MetaCase, Finland. * Anneke Kleppe, Capgemini, The Netherlands * Richard Paige, University of York, UK. * Derek Roos, Mendex, The Netherlands. * Bran Selic, Malina Software, Canada. * Shane Sendall, Snowie Group, Switzerland. * Peer T?rngren, IBM, Sweden. * Laurence Tratt, Bournemouth University, UK. * Jim van Dam, HiPeS, The Netherlands. * Markus V?lter, independent consultant, Germany. * Jos Warmer, Ordina, The Netherlands. * James Willans, Independent Consultant, UK. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090602/21c8e4a4/attachment-0001.html From eeide at cs.utah.edu Tue Jun 2 23:51:36 2009 From: eeide at cs.utah.edu (Eric Eide) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:51:36 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP: PLOS '09: 5th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems In-Reply-To: Eric Eide's message of Sunday, April 19 2009 <18923.48381.163946.627704@bas.flux.utah.edu> References: <18923.48381.163946.627704@bas.flux.utah.edu> Message-ID: <18981.40680.187490.727546@bas.flux.utah.edu> If you apply advanced programming language ideas in the implementation of operating systems, we hope you will consider submitting a paper to PLOS 2009. Note that the submission deadline is only a few weeks away! See the CFP below, or visit the Web site at http://plosworkshop.org/2009/ Best wishes --- Eric, Andreas, Gilles, and Olaf The PLOS 2009 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2009) October 11, 2009 Big Sky Resort / Big Sky, MT, USA http://plosworkshop.og/2009/ Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS In conjunction with SOSP 2009 http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/ Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 3, 2009 Final papers due: September 4, 2009 Workshop: October 11, 2009 Historically, operating system development and programming language development went hand-in-hand. Cross-fertilization was the norm. Challenges in one area were often approached using ideas or techniques developed in the other, and advances in one enabled new capabilities in both. Today, although the systems community at large retains an iron grip on C, modern programming language ideas continue to spark innovations in OS design and construction. Conversely, the systems field continues to provide a wealth of challenging problems and practical results that should lead to advances in programming languages, software designs, and idioms. This workshop will bring together researchers and developers from the programming language and operating system domains to discuss recent work at the intersection of these fields. It will be a platform for discussing new visions, challenges, experiences, problems, and solutions arising from the application of advanced programming and software engineering concepts to operating systems construction, and vice versa. Suggested paper topics include, but are not restricted to: * critical evaluations of new programming language ideas in support of OS construction * domain-specific languages for operating systems * type-safe languages for operating systems * object-oriented and component-based operating systems * language-based approaches to crosscutting system concerns, such as security and run-time performance * language support for system verification * language support for OS testing and debugging * static/dynamic configuration of operating systems * static/dynamic specialization within operating systems * the use of OS abstractions and techniques in language runtimes AGENDA The workshop will be a highly interactive event with an agenda designed to promote focused and lively discussions. Each potential participant should submit a paper as described below. The set of accepted papers will be made available to registered attendees in advance of the workshop. Participants should come to the workshop prepared with questions and comments. The workshop organizers will use the accepted papers and input from participants to compile a list of topics for working groups, to be held during the workshop. The set of topics may be extended or changed during the workshop, based on the presentation and discussion of the workshop papers. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PLOS welcomes research, experience, and position papers; papers describing industrial experience are particularly encouraged. All papers must be written in English and should be formatted according to the ACM proceedings format. Submissions must not be more than five (5) pages in length---this limit will be strictly enforced. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the workshop Web site. They will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated external reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and presentation. Accepted papers will be published electronically in the ACM Digital Library and in a special issue of Operating Systems Review (OSR). The authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright release forms. The publication of a paper in the PLOS workshop proceedings is not intended to replace future conference publication. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eric Eide, University of Utah Manuel A. Faehndrich, Microsoft Research Andreas Gal, Mozilla Corporation Robert Grimm, New York University Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Urs Hoelzle, Google Bernd Mathiske, Adobe Gilles Muller (chair), Ecole des Mines de Nantes Laurent Reveillere, ENSEIRB/LABRI ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Eide, University of Utah Andreas Gal, Mozilla Corporation Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes Olaf Spinczyk, Technische Universitaet Dortmund From nurcan at univ-paris1.fr Wed Jun 3 00:15:36 2009 From: nurcan at univ-paris1.fr (Selmin Nurcan) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:15:36 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Extended deadline Workshop on Service oriented EA for Enterprise Engineering (EDOC'09) Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20090603001446.015eb230@asterix.univ-paris1.fr> Dear Colleague, SoEA at EE'09 is organised in conjunction with the 13th International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) on September 1st, 2009, Auckland, New Zealand. Proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops will be published after the conference as ePub by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. High-quality papers can be selected from the workshop, and (after extension) will be published as a special issue in the following international journal: International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association - www.igi-global.com/ijisss Listed in Cabell's Directory of Refereed Publications (AACSB Standard) and indexed in many professional databases. Please submit your paper to Selmin.Nurcan at univ-paris1.fr before June 14th. The goal of the SoEA at EE'09 workshop is to clarify the relationship between business process management and service provisioning. The objective is twofold: (i) To characterise the strong relationship existing between Business Process Management (BPM) and Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (SoEA) (ii) To develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of Service-Oriented Enterprise Architectures (SoEA) and their support systems. The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the SoEA at EE'09 Web site : http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA at EE_2009/ Best regards, Selmin Nurcan SoEA at EE'09 co-organiser **************************************************************************** ******************* Call for Papers First International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA at EE) in conjunction with EDOC 2009 September 1st, 2009, Auckland, New Zealand Organizers: Selmin Nurcan ? University Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt ? University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany Papers submission deadline: June 14, 2009 Detailed Call for Papers is below. It is also available at http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA at EE_2009/SoEA at EE_2009_flyer.pdf **************************************************************************** ******************* -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- 8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- SoEA at EE 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS (http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA at EE_2009/SoEA at EE_2009_flyer.pdf) First International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA at EE) in conjunction with EDOC 2009 September 1st, 2009, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/ Papers submission deadline: May 31, 2009 Organizers: Selmin Nurcan ? University Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt ? University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany SCOPE: Services have become an impressive factor for growth and the creation of jobs. 93% of the new jobs created in the U.S. between 1970 and 2000 are jobs in services . Leading enterprises in the U.S. derive more than 50% of their revenues from services. This applies not only to pure services such as transportation but also for material products that are augmented by services such as maintenance, consulting and training. Through services, enterprises stabilize their revenues. There is no accepted general definition of service, but many definitions contain the idea, that a service is ?the application of specialized competences (knowledge and skills) for the benefit of another entity, rather than the production of units of output? . Services are more and more considered as part of a so-called service system. A service system is defined ?as a value co-production configuration of people, technology, other internal and external service systems, and shared information (such as language, processes, metrics, prices, policies, and laws)?. Therefore it is no surprise that the term service has also become very popular in enterprise computing. However, the term service may have different meanings in enterprise computing. Three flavours of services can be differentiated: technology services, software-services, and business services. 1. Technology services are more hardware flavoured services which are provided using computers. They may have a human addressee but contain many infrastructure services such as providing computing power, storage etc. They are an important topic in management and practice collections such as ITILV3 or standards such as ISO/IEC 20000 have gained a high popularity. 2. Software services are managed in so-called Service-Oriented-Architectures that are a popular paradigm for creating enterprise software. A service in the context of SOA is a special kind of interface for an encapsulated unit of software. 3. Business services are services which directly support business processes. They may be further differentiated into those visible to the customer and those that are not. Business processes can also be developed dynamically (on-the-fly) using business services which are available in a repository for a given business domain. In the field of Information Systems and -in a broader sense- Enterprise Computing, the notion of ?Enterprise modelling? refers to a collection of conceptual modelling techniques for describing different facets of the organisation including operational (IS), organisational (business processes, actors, flow of information etc), and teleological (purposes) considerations. Existing enterprise modelling frameworks stress the necessity of representing and structuring enterprise knowledge taking into account all these facets in order to develop IS and IT architectures that enterprises need. The contribution of the software systems to the realization of the business processes and consequently to the objectives of the company is of primary importance. A change in one of these facets of the organization implies multiple impacts on the two other facets. In other words, it seems unrealistic to consider an organizational change without any impact on the information system or an evolution of the IS which does not call into question the processes or even the objectives of the organization. An enterprise architecture,,defines the interactions and articulations between business and information technology and their alignment or congruence. A service-oriented enterprise architecture uses services to describe the articulations of business and information technology. It has to identify the business services needed to support the business processes of the enterprise, and to map the business services to technology and software services . Technology and software services are both called IT services in the following. The enterprise computing systems which shall manage Service-oriented Enterprise Architectures have to support the creation, administration and execution of services. Thus, they must be able to store the service definitions and make them available for a consumer in a service catalogue. The same applies to the so-called service-level agreements that define the quality of service agreed upon with consumers. Upon a service request from a consumer entity, the service support system has to monitor the fulfilment of the service-level agreements and also to provide remediation procedures which contain so-called escalation mechanisms. Furthermore, based on the monitoring, improvement procedures shall be established. GOALS: The goal of the workshop is to clarify the relationship between business process management and service provisioning. The objective of this workshop is twofold: (i) To characterise the strong relationship existing between Business Process Management (BPM) and Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (SoEA) (ii) To develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of Service-Oriented Enterprise Architectures (SoEA) and their support systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST: During the workshop we will discuss the following topics: 1. Service engineering - Do we need new paradigms to cope with service engineering? - How are business services discovered, defined, composed, adapted? - How are business services assigned to business processes? - How are technology-services discovered, defined, composed, adapted? - How are technology-services assigned to business services? - Are there design patterns for developing service-oriented systems? - How can the MDA/MDD techniques and methods be applied for engineering SoEA? - Which test methods exist for technology-services? - How are business services and technology-services rolled out? - Which change management procedures have to be applied during the deployment of SoEA? 2. Service management - Which benchmarks and key performance indicators should be applied to services? - Which information system architectures are adequate for services? - Which approaches exist for mastering the migration of legacy systems to SoEA? - Which triggers exist and what mechanisms should be applied for escalation? - Which approaches exist for the continual improvement of services? - Which evaluation and validation techniques can be applied for SoEA? 3. Alignment with business strategy - Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy? - Which concepts and methods are necessary to align services with the business strategy? - Which new potentials to reengineer business processes are created by services? - How are services aligned with compliance requirements? - How are compliance and governance requirements enforced? SUBMISSION: Full papers (8-10 pages in the IEEE-CS format) describing mature results are sought. In addition, short papers (4 pages in the IEEE-CS format) may be submitted to facilitate discussion of recent research results and ongoing projects. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All papers published in the EDOC 2009 workshop proceedings must be in the IEEE Computer Society double-column format (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html). It is strongly recommended that all papers are already in this format when they are first submitted to workshops. This gives precise picture of the paper length and avoids rework if the paper is accepted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 workshop Program Committee members. Please submit your paper to Selmin.Nurcan at univ-paris1.fr Proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops will be published after the conference as ePub by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. There will be one electronic volume containing proceedings from all workshops. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2009 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. Analogously to previous years, there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2009. If a paper is not presented in the workshop, it will be removed from the workshop proceedings published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. EXPECTED RESULTS: All papers will be published in the workshop wiki before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. A workshop report will be created collaboratively using the workshop wiki. High-quality papers can be selected from the workshop, and (after extension) will be published as a special issue in the following premium international journal: International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association - www.igi-global.com/ijisss Listed in Cabell's Directory of Refereed Publications (AACSB Standard) and indexed in many professional databases IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 14, 2009 Author notification: July 12, 2009 Camera-ready: July 24, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida - Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil Karim Ba?na - ENSIAS, Morocco Judith Barrios - Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela Claudio Bartolini - Palo Alto HP Labs, USA Khalid Benali - Loria, Nancy, France Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden Remco Dijkman - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Chiara Francalanci - Politechnico Milano, Italy Francois Habryn - KSRI, University Karlsruhe, Germany Sung-Kook Han - Won Kwang University, South Korea Dimka Karastoyanova - University Stuttgart, Germany Ron Kenett - KPA Ltd., Israel Peter Kueng - Cr?dit Suisse, Switzerland Lin Liu - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Christof Lutteroth - University of Auckland, New Zealand Hui Ma - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Herv? Pingaud - Ecole des Mines, Albi, France Gil Regev - EPFL & Itecor, Switzerland Sebastian Richly - University Dresden, Germany Shazia Sadiq - University of Queensland, Australia Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel Marco von Mevius - FZI Karlsruhe, Germany -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- 8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Selmin NURCAN Ma?tre de Conf?rences / Associate Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne jointly with the Sorbonne Graduate Business School (IAE) has been running for the last 11 years, a highly successful 2-year Masters programme that is now open to Foreign students http://www.iksem.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submit a paper to the Second International Workshop on Business Process Management & Social Software (BPMS2'09) in conjunction with BPM'09 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/BPMS2_2009/ Deadline: May 22, 2009 All workshop papers will be published by Springer in the LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing) series ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submit a paper to the First International Workshop on Service oriented Architecture Enterprise for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA at EE'09) in conjunction with EDOC'09 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA at EE_2009/ Deadline: May 31, 2009 All workshop papers will be published in IEEE Computer Society Proceedings ---------------------------------------------------------------- Don't miss (BPMDS'09) in conjunction with CAISE'09 http://lams.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds09 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Universit? 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However, adaptability also incurs overhead in terms of system complexity and resource requirements. For example, an adaptive system requires some means for reconfiguration. These means and their mechanisms introduce additional complexity to the design and the architecture, and they also require additional resources such as computation, power, and communication bandwidth. Consequently, adaptive systems must be diligently planned, designed, analyzed, and built to find the right tradeoffs between too much and too little flexibility. The issue is how to provide the adaptability to the application, because it affects all aspects of the development process (e.g., capturing, methodologies, modeling, analysis, testing, and implementation), the chosen system technologies (e.g., computation and communication models, interfaces, component-based design, programming languages, dependability, and design patterns) and the system itself (e.g., operating system, middleware, network protocols, and application frameworks). In many systems, flexibility and the resulting tradeoffs is usually ignored until a very late stage. Many try to retrofit existing prototypes, middleware, operating systems, and protocols with concepts and means for flexibility such as run-time system reconfiguration or reflexive diagnostics and steering methods. Such retrofitting typically leads to disproportionate overhead, unusual tradeoffs, and in general it leads to less satisfactory results. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss new and on-going research that is centered on the idea of adaptability as first class citizen and consider the involved tradeoffs. The workshop will provide an open forum to discuss ideas and approaches, and intends to give the attendees a chance to discuss them in a relaxed environment. The target audience includes people from academia, tool vendors, system suppliers, and users in industry interested in the all aspects of the mentioned topics. The workshop will be based on presentations of selected works with sufficient time for feedback from the audience and discussions. We encourage all the prospective participants to submit short papers, work-in-progress reports, or position papers. Information on the previous edition of the workshop can be found here http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/APRES08.html Topics The following topics provide examples of what fits into the workshop, however, the list is not exhaustive and submissions not precisely falling into these categories are also welcome. -Capturing and modeling of flexible application and reconfiguration requirements -Tradeoff analysis and modeling -Programming-language support for adaptability -Middleware support for adaptability -Operating system support for adaptability -Computation and communication models for adaptability -Policies and algorithms for single and multi-resource reconfiguration -Verification and certification of reconfigurable systems -Case studies and success stories -Taxonomies and comparative studies -Diagnostic and steering of embedded systems -System architecture and design patterns for adaptability -Probabilistic reconfiguration techniques -Scalability, reusability, and modularity of reconfiguration mechanisms -Dependability and adaptability across the architectural levels -Quality of service management -Application frameworks for reconfigurable embedded systems Submission Guidelines Prospective participants should submit a 4 page paper in PDF format through the submissions page referred below. The submissions should conform to the proceedings publication format (IEEE Conference style). They should explain the intention of the work, the prospective results, and make clear the current status of the work. The submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The papers will be published in a Proceedings volume that will be available for download and print on the Internet, after the event. A draft printout will be distributed at the workshop to all participants. Submissions page: https://www.softconf.com/starts/apres2009/submit.html Important Dates Deadline: 28th June Notification: 6th September Final versions: 13th September Workshop: 11th October 2009 Organizers Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Julian Proenza, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Spain Karl-Erik Arzen, University of Lund, Sweden Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Sebastian Fischmeister, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Program Committee Anton Cervin, Lund University, Sweden Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Arnaldo Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Carlos Eduardo Pereira, UFRG, Brazil Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble, France Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jean-Dominique Decotignie, CSEM, Switzerland Jorg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany Joseph Sifakis, VERIMAG, France Lucia LoBello, University of Catania, Italy Madhukar Anand, Cisco, USA Marga Marcos, University of the Basque Country, Spain Marisol Garcia-Valls, Univ. 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Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MTECS 2009 EDOC 2009 Thirteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference 31 August - 4 September 2009, Auckland, New Zealand ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mobile Technologies in Enterprise Computing Systems MTECS 2009 http://mtecs2009.victoria.ac.nz/mtecs2009.html The purpose of MTECS 2009, the International Workshop on Mobile Technologies in Enterprise Computing Systems is to bring together researchers, IT decision makers, system architects, solution designers and engineers and practitioners interested in enterprise information systems and its applications in the context of mobile technologies. ++++++++++++++++++ Call For Papers ++++++++++++++++++ With the proliferation of wireless infrastructure, mobile devices and platforms, enterprise information systems are becoming pervasive in nature. The ability to capture and access enterprise information anytime and anywhere and support mobile enterprise services access is becoming critical for the success of the organisation and its users. This workshop seeks contributions on the design, analysis and implementations of mobile integrated solutions for the capture and delivery of enterprise information systems. Papers describing new design methodologies or technologies, requirements analysis, advanced prototyping techniques, system tools, software and techniques, evaluations methodologies and case studies discussing future state-of-the-art directions are encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. ++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop Topic Areas ++++++++++++++++++++ Mobile Enterprise Systems Mobile Business Intelligence Mobile Design Framework Mobile System Design Methodologies Mobile Implementation Architectures Mobile Context Management Mobile and Wireless Networking Technologies for Enterprise Mobile Web services for Enterprise Systems Software for Mobile Service Mobile Event-based Systems for the Enterprise Security aspects of Mobile Service Privacy-aware Mobile Middleware Mobile Applications Development Environment & Tools Rapid Development Techniques for Mobile Enterprise Methodology for Mobile Evaluation and Trials Mobile Usability Mobile Enterprise Strategies and Case studies Emerging Technologies ++++++++++++++++++++ Guides for authors ++++++++++++++++++++ MTECS workshop accepts 2 types of papers. Full papers should be limited to 8-10 pages and Short papers should be limited to 4 pages. All papers submitted to MTECS workshop will be peer reviewed by three reviewers. Workshop proceedings from past EDOC conferences were published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. It is expected (but this still has to be confirmed) that workshop proceedings from EDOC 2009 will also be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library after the conference. All papers published in the EDOC 2009 workshop proceedings must be in the IEEE Computer Society double column format http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html. It is strongly recommended that all papers are already in this format when they are first submitted to workshops. At least 1 author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the EDOC 2009 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. If a paper is not presented in the workshop, it will be removed from the workshop proceedings.. Submission of paper is via the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtecs2009 You will need to create an EasyChair account, in case you don't have one already. Workshop site: http://mtecs2009.victoria.ac.nz/mtecs2009.html ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop papers due: 14 June 2009 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 12 July 2009 Camera-ready workshop papers due: 24 July 2009 Contacts If you have any queries you can email to the workshop chair at mtecs2009 at vuw.ac.nz ++++++++++ Committee ++++++++++ Dr Tiong-Thye Goh (chair)- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Siddhartha Bose (co-chair)- Motorola India Research Labs, Bangalore, India Professor Wee Keong Ng (co-chair) - Nanyang Technological University,Singapore Professor Vincent C S Lee (co-chair) - Monash University, Australia Professor Longbing Cao (co-chair) - University of Technology Sydney, Australia Dr Minoru Nakayama - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Shrikant Naidu - Motorola India Research Labs, Bangalore, India Vicky Liu - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Adam Hall - Microsoft, New Zealand Floriano Scioscia - Politecnico Di Bari, Italy David Parsons - Massey University, New Zealand Eusebio Scornavacca - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Professor Hans Lehmann - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Nitendra Rajput - IBM Research, India ++++++++++++++++++++++++ MTECS 2009 Chair _______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090603/0170f76a/attachment-0001.html From iswc2009publicity at covad.net Wed Jun 3 03:24:28 2009 From: iswc2009publicity at covad.net (iswc2009publicity) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:24:28 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ISWC 2009: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <4A25D0CC.5090804@covad.net> The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University. ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, ISWC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings. The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, and Tutorials (Workshops is now closed). Calls for each of these tracks is below. The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ). See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full ISWC 20009 for conference details and http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Calls for specifics on calls for papers. =========================================== ISWC 2009 Research Track -- Call for Papers =========================================== The most important information first ------------------------------------ Deadlines: - Abstracts: Monday, June 8, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Papers: Sunday, June 21, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time Detailed submission information is now available at: http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/Submission_instructions The submission system is now open at https://precisionconference.com/~semantic/ . Please read the submission instructions before submitting a paper. General Information =================== The web continues to grow and increasing amounts of data are available for human and machine consumption, processing, and re-dissemination. As Semantic Web technologies (including linked data approaches) mature and become usable by end-users we can expect to encounter new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications that enable us to "surf" this web of data. These new approaches give rise to new challenges - both from a technical and human-computer interaction perspective. The goal of the research track at ISWC is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users from the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction to discuss the biggest challenges and proposed solutions. It solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments and share with the community their data and test harnesses. General Information ==================== ISWC 2009 calls for papers for its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - User Interfaces - Interacting with Semantic Web data - Semantic Web content creation and annotation - Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes - Novel interaction paradigms aimed at linked data - Semantic web applications to Web-2.0 sites - Natural Language Interfaces - Information Visualization - Data Semantics and Ontologies - Beyond Description Logic: New formalisms for semantics (such as probabilistic approaches) - Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc). - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Searching and ranking ontologies - Ontology evaluation - Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations - Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware - Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering - eGovernment - Mobile Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for life sciences and healthcare - Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web - Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes - Principles & Applications of very large semantic data bases - Semantic Wikis - Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security General questions can be sent to iswc2009 semanticweb.org Evaluation of Submitted Research Papers ======================================= ISWC is a highly attractive and competitive conference series. From all previous ISWC conferences, we have seen researchers and practitioners making best use of the methods and technologies reported at the event for their own research and practice. We are very eager to maintain this high level of impact achieved by ISWC papers in the future. For this purpose, all papers will be critically reviewed by 3 reviewers and one vice chair. To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the Semantic Web, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers. Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to upload full proofs of theorems (as supplementary data), empirical work may want to upload training/test data, experimental results, or supporting movies (as supplementary data), case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner. Submission of Abstracts and Papers ================================== Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the Precision Conference reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts will be a strict requirement. Final papers can be submitted until 21 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Note the we made a special effort to cut all slack from the reviewing schedule in order to assure that we will have the newest results presented at the conference. We will, therefore, be unable to make any extensions to this submission deadline! Detailed submission instructions are available now. Format ====== Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Important Dates - Research Track ================================ - Abstracts due: Monday, June 8, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Submissions due: Sunday, June 21 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Rebuttal phase: July 15 - July 20 - Notification: August 4 - Camera ready: To be determined Program Committee ================= - Chairs - Abraham Bernstein, Switzerland - David Karger, USA - Vice Chairs - Ed Chi - Phillip Cimiano - Claudia d'Amato - Stefan Decker - Steven Drucker - Jerome Euzenat - Jennifer Golbeck - Claudio Gutierrez - Siegfired Handschuh - David Huynh - Georg Lausen - Thomas Lukasievicz - David Martin - Peter Mika - Natahsa Noy - Bijan Parsia - mc shraefel - Umberto Straccia - Heiner Stuckenschmid ===================================== Semantic Web In Use - Call for Papers ===================================== Semantic Web technologies continue to make the transition from research labs into mainstream adoption. The Semantic Web In Use track at ISWC 2009 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts, such as industry, science, society, government or entertainment. Submissions to the Semantic Web In Use track may employ scientific methods (qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the application of Semantic Web technologies, or present novel practical approaches that are relevant to the deployment of Semantic Web technologies but may not otherwise gain an outlet in the ISWC series. We therefore invite the submission of original, principled papers organized around some of or all of the following aspects: * Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution. * Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web technologies in a specific domain. * Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a specific domain. * Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using conventional or competing technologies. * Learned best practices for deploying an application based on Semantic Web technologies. * Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, e.g. time and cost of implementation and deployment, integration with legacy IT systems, user acceptance, returns on investment. * Assessment/evaluation of usage and uptake of a deployed Semantic Web application. The Semantic Web In Use track is open to submissions based on a wide-range of hypotheses, methodologies and conclusions. However priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate rigor in the methodology and analysis on which conclusions are based. Submissions/Format Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts is preferred but not required. Final papers can be submitted until 15 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept papers to the Semantic Web In Use track that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Authors of papers submitted to the Semantic Web In Use track (whether accepted or not) are encouraged to also consider submitting their work to the ISWC2009 Poster and Demo track, where appropriate. Please note that such submissions must be made separately to In Use track submissions and must adhere strictly to the submission requirements for Posters and Demos. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Semantic Web in Use ===================================== * Submission Deadline: Monday, June 21, 2009 (23:59 Hawaii Time) * Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2009 * Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: August 14, 2009 Program Committee ================= Chairs ------ ? Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics, USA Tom Heath, Talis, UK =============================================== Posters and Demonstrations - Call for Proposals =============================================== ISWC 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions/Format - Posters & Demonstrations ============================================= Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the Research Track and for the Semantic Web In Use track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2009 may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the other track. For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. Poster and demo papers must be submitted in ACM format. For complete details, see ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please remove the ACM copyright box from the first page of your submission. Poster/Demo papers must be submitted in PDF format, and no other format will be accepted. Poster/Demo papers that exceed the page limit could be rejected without review. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit papers at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Important Dates - Posters & Demonstrations ========================================== * August 7, 2009: Deadline for submissions * August 24 , 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 8, 2009: Camera ready abstracts due Time for all deadlines above will be 23:59 pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10). Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Tania Tudorache and Harith Alani. Organizing Chairs =================? Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK Program Committee ================= * To be announced ==================================== Industry Track - Call for Proposals ==================================== ISWC 2009 is hosting an Industry Track to enable the business community to present products that utilize or enrich the Semantic Web. We invite industry vendors to submit brief presentations for this track. No formal accompanying paper is required. We encourage product and service vendors who may or may not be exhibiting at ISWC 2009 to give a presentation about their products or services. While such presentations can explicitly focus on vendor-branded products and services, we seek to allow vendors to (1) give more in-depth discussion about the specific aspects of Semantic Web technologies in their products and services; (2) explain how their products and services are helping transition clients into the Semantic Web; and (3) describe the innovative plans for their products and services that lead to greater adoption of Semantic Web standards and interoperability. The key dates for the Call for Presentations are close to the conference date to encourage vendors to include last-minute updates and innovations of general interest to ISWC attendees. We want to provide a venue for companies who might otherwise not submit a formal paper to ISWC, but nevertheless have valuable insights and engineering acumen regarding various Semantic Web technologies and their applicability. Submissions/Format ================== Authors must submit a presentation for consideration. It is recommended that each submission also include an abstract of a maximum of 200 words. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions for acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions should be in one of the following formats: ----------------------------------------------------- * HTML * PowerPoint (PPT) slides * PDF slides * MPEG2 or MPEG4 (Screencasts) No formal paper is required. While it is difficult to handle the entire range of presentation technologies, we are willing to negotiate accommodations if one of the above formats is not suitable. If your technology is not listed and is critical to your presentation, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs. Presentations may be fully automated (e.g. screencasts) or narrated live during the conference. Submissions should also include presentation needs (e.g. projector, Internet connectivity). You may submit hyperlinks to your presentation (including the final presentation), but if you require Internet access for your presentation, please submit a backup final presentation in the unlikely event of connection problems. Presentations are expected to be either 20 or 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. A presentation may be mixed media (any of the above formats) and include demonstrations, but must adhere to the 20 or 50 minute limit. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit presentations at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Topics ====== Potential topics are listed below but are not inclusive. See the Research Track for additional topic areas. * Ontology Management * Reasoning Engines * Collaboration and the Semantic Web * Open Data on the Semantic Web * Open Source Strategies for Semantic Web Businesses Important Dates ? Industry Track ================================ * August 1, 2009: Draft presentations due * August 31, 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 10, 2009: Final presentations due Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs Matthew Fisher and John Callahan. Program Committee ================ Chairs ------ Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems, USA John Callahan, JHUAPL, USA ===================================== Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers ===================================== Introduction ------------ The ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC. Alongside the plenary sessions which afford opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of the Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to meet other postgraduate students in the field. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for PhD students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (peer researcher and expert in the field) will be assigned to each student of an accepted paper, to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium should give an overview of the student?s dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Some papers will be accepted as posters rather than full papers, depending on the nature of the submission. The poster session will take place as part of the Doctoral Consortium. Topics ====== The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2009 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: ? Applications of the Semantic Web ? Applications with clear lessons learned ? Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies ? Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains ? Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content ? Personal Information Management ? Management of Semantic Web Data ? Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data ? Database technologies for the Semantic Web ? Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web ? Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web ? Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web ? Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction ? Ontologies ? Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution ? Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment ? Evaluation and tanking of ontologies ? Ontology search ? Semantic Web Architecture ? Semantic Web middleware ? Semantic Web services ? Agents on the Semantic Web ? Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids ? Social Semantic Web ? Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web ? Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation ? Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submissions/Format ================== Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. They should indicate at what stage of the PhD the author is at. All submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions. Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Doctorial Consortium ====================================== ? June 15, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due ? July 21, 2009: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification ? August 7, 2009: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due ? October 24, 2009: Doctoral consortium ? October 25-29, 2009: ISWC conference Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair Diana Maynard. For more information about ISWC 2009, please contact the ISWC General Chair. Program Committee ================= ? Chair Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK ============================== Tutorials - Call for Proposals ============================== The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, qualitatively changing our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are becoming apparent and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC?09 aims to feature a tutorial program that would address the interests of its varied audience: novices to the Semantic Web, representatives of government and funding agencies, Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn new technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to Semantic Web research, including, but not limited to those of relevance for ISWC?09 (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/). We expect proposals of the following types of tutorials: ? Tutorials providing an introduction to the Semantic Web; ? Tutorials describing the application of Semantic Web technology in specific domains (e.g., business intelligence, life-sciences, health care). Applications to government and e-government are especially encouraged; ? Tutorials presenting concrete Semantic Web technologies and trends. We encourage proposals describing both established technologies that are increasingly used by the community and novel, ground-breaking technologies. ? Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research. (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Important Organizers? Responsibilities ====================================== Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes other relevant information. The URL of the tutorial site should be submitted to the tutorial chair by 14 August 2009. The description should make it clear that the tutorial is open to all members of the ISWC community. It should also mention that all tutorial participants must pay the ISWC?09 conference registration fee, as well as the tutorial fee. The tutorial organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their tutorial, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). Organizers are also responsible for the production and distribution of all technical material to be used for teaching the tutorial (slides, notes, technical papers, etc.) except for the reproduction of hard copies of printed materials, which will be handled by ISWC. In the case of a hands-on tutorial requiring software, it is strongly recommended that the organizers provide CDs from which the participants can install the software needed on their computers. (It is not realistic to expect tutorial attendees to download the software at the beginning of the tutorial!) Tutorial presenters will need to submit the material for printed hand-outs to the tutorial organizers for pre-printing. (The deadline for this is given below.) The ISWC 2009 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: ? Providing publicity for the tutorial as a whole on the conference?s web page. The ISWC 2009 page will include the tutorial abstract and provide a link to the tutorial?s local page. ? Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. ? In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. ? Production of sufficient copies of printed tutorial materials provided by the tutorial organizers. Submissions/Format ================== ISWC?09 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Although t tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and should contain the following information: ? An abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on the ISWC?09 website); ? A justification of the tutorial, including its relevance to this conference and its relation to similar tutorials presented at other events; ? A brief description of tutorial, including aims, overview of content, presentation style, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge; ? An indication of full- or half-day, and a draft outline of the tutorial content and schedule ? Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements; ? For a hands-on tutorial, please briefly describe the software that will be used for the hands-on activities, the planned procedure to allow the participants to install the software on their computers, and any special technical requirements related to these activities. Please note that any software needed for hands-on activities, and download sites for the software, must be provided by the tutorial presenters. ? Information on presenters (name, affiliation, contact info, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation). Please indicate which presenter is the primary contact. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit tutorial proposals by email to Jennifer Golbeck at jgolbeck at umd.edu. Important Dates - Tutorials =========================== ? June 19, 2009: Tutorial proposals due ? July 10, 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance ? August 14, 2009: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page ? September 25, 2009: Deadline for sending the tutorial notes (handouts) to the tutorial chair for reproduction (PDF preferred) ? October 25-26, 2009: Presentation of Tutorial Program Program Committee ================= Chairs ------ o Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, jgolbeck at umd.edu o Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK, r.m.sabou at open.ac.uk From j.b.dietrich at massey.ac.nz Wed Jun 3 04:58:49 2009 From: j.b.dietrich at massey.ac.nz (Jens Dietrich) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:58:49 +1200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ASE 2009 Call for Research Tool Demonstrations Message-ID: <4A25E6E9.3000801@massey.ac.nz> The deadline for submissions is closing fast: tools track for ASE 2009 deadline is June 15. ASE 2009 Call for Research Tool Demonstrations Software Engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software systems. Automated software engineering focuses on how to automate these tasks in order to achieve improvements in quality and productivity. Tool support, therefore, is central to this. The 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland 16-20th November 2009) invites submissions for its tool demonstrations track. The ASE tool demonstrations track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, experiences, and challenges in the field of automated software engineering with the goal of allowing live presentation of new research tools. Tools can range from research prototypes to in-house or pre-commercialized products. The demonstrations are intended to highlight underlying scientific contributions. Whereas a scientific paper is intended to give the background information and point out the scientific contribution of a new software engineering approach, the tool demonstration provides a good opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been transferred into a working tool. Demonstrators will be expected to give a presentation that will be scheduled into the conference program. There will also be a demonstration area open to attendees at scheduled times during the conference, during which demonstrators are expected to be available. Accepted demonstrations will be allocated 2 pages in the main conference proceedings. Presentation at the conference is a requirement for publication. Authors of regular research papers are also welcome to submit an accompanying tool paper. Submissions of proposals for formal tool demonstrations must: - adhere to the conference proceedings format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html - have a maximum of 2 pages that describe the technology or approach, how it relates to other industrial or research efforts, including references, and describe what the expected benefits are (these two pages will appear in the proceedings) - have an appendix (not included in the proceedings, but used by the committee to evaluate potential demonstrations) that provides a description of how the presentation will be conducted, screenshots that may be used in the presentation, information on tool availability and maturity, and a pointer to a web-page for the tool (if one exists) - For submission details, see the ASE 2009 submissions page: https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/ase09/submissionSystem.php Tool Demonstration Organizing Committee Co-chairs: Andr? van der Hoek, (University of California, Irvine, USA) Tim Menzies, (West Virginia University, USA) Review Committee: Ewen Denney (NASA Ames Resaerch Center, USA) Bernd Fischer (University of Southampton. UK) Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Jim Jones (University of California, Irvine, USA) Moonzoo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea) Leonardo Murta (Universidade Federal Fluminese, Brazil) Nachiappan Nagappan (Microsoft Research, USA) Tien N. Nguyen (Iowa State University, USA) Martin Robillard (McGill University, Canada) John Penix (Google, USA) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Important dates June 15, 2009: Tool Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline July 26, 2009: Tool Demonstration Paper Notification August 31, 2009: Camera-ready Deadline Tool Demonstration Papers November 16-20, 2009: ASE Conference -- ******************************************* Dr Jens Dietrich Senior Lecturer Computer Science School of Engineering and Advanced Technology Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand Phone: +64 6 350 5799 ext 2212 Email: J.B.Dietrich at massey.ac.nz Web: http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/JBDietrich/ ******************************************* From tudorache at stanford.edu Wed Jun 3 06:01:00 2009 From: tudorache at stanford.edu (Tania Tudorache) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:01:00 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] KCAP-2009: Deadlines for posters, demos and workshops approaching: June 15, 2009 Message-ID: <4A25F57C.8010105@stanford.edu> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ==================================================================== K-CAP 2009 The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture 1-4 September, 2009 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA http://kcap09.stanford.edu DEADLINES APPROACHING: ------------------------------------- Posters and demos submission: June 15, 2009 (2 weeks from today) Workshop paper submission: June 15, 2009 (2 weeks from today) See the call for posters and demos and call for workshops below INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Daniel Weld (University of Washington) ==================================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS --------------------------- Web version: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/cfd.html K-CAP 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on knowledge capture software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative knowledge capture related implementations and technologies. Suggested topics include: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the call for papers (http://kcap09.stanford.edu/cfp.html). Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. Important Dates for Posters and Demos: ------------------------------ * June 15, 2009: Paper and demo submission * July 5, 2009: Author notification CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS --------------------------- K-CAP 2009 will host three workshops: - Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM) http://saakm2009.semanticauthoring.org - K-CAP'09 Workshop on Social Media Analysis http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/soma09.html - First International Workshop on Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation - CKCaR'09 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/CKCaR09/ Important Dates for Workshops: ------------------------------ * June 15, 2009: Workshop paper submission * July 15, 2009: Author notification Please check out the individual workshop webpage for more details. http://kcap09.stanford.edu/workshops.html From nikolaos.georgantas at inria.fr Wed Jun 3 11:21:38 2009 From: nikolaos.georgantas at inria.fr (Nikolaos Georgantas) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:21:38 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Demonstrations at ESEC/FSE'09 Message-ID: <01fb01c9e42c$b3928df0$ad2a5d80@rocq.inria.fr> Dear all, I invite you to submit a demonstration proposal to ESEC/FSE'09. ESEC/FSE is an internationally renowned conference in the domain of software engineering and offers an excellent opportunity for submitting a platform or tool demo. You can check at http://www.esec-fse-2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/, http://www.esec-fse-2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/node/6 and http://www.esec-fse-2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/node/24 for more information. The submission deadline (extended) is June 12, before which you should submit a short paper of two pages. For the demo session at the conference, you should additionally prepare an illustrating poster. Best regards, Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA ESEC/FSE'09 Demonstrations and Posters Co-Chair From ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt Wed Jun 3 20:10:02 2009 From: ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt (Ricardo Rocha) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:10:02 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'09 Call for Participation Message-ID: <1244052602.27751.85.camel@phobia.dcc.fc.up.pt> ************************************************************************ * * * Call for Participation * * * * 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009) * * Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 * * http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009 * * Co-located with IJCAI 2009 (http://ijcai-09.org) * * * ************************************************************************ We are pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, to be held in the city of Pasadena, California, USA (http://www.pasadenacal.com/visitors.htm), in July 2009, at the Pasadena Convention Center (http://www.pasadenacenter.com). On-line registration for the conference is now open at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/iclp09reg.html The deadline for early registration is June 20, 2009. ******************************************** There are a lot of good reasons to be part of ICLP 2009. This year, the technical program will include 38 regular and short presentations, 4 invited talks, 4 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, 6 associated workshops and the traditional Prolog programming contest. The list of accepted papers can be found on the conference website at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/submission_accepted.html Invited talks and tutorials include the following presentations (http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/talks-and-tutorials.html): * Taisuke Sato - Generative Modeling by PRISM * Paulo Moura - From Plain Prolog to Logtalk Objects: Effective Code Encapsulation and Reuse * Chris Mungall - Experiences using logic programming in bioinformatics * Marc Denecker - A Knowledge Base System project for FO(.) * Luc De Raedt - Probabilistic Logic Learning * Jan Wielemaker - Enabling serendipitous search on the Web of Data using Prolog * Mireille Ducasse - (C)LP tracing and debugging * Andy King - Untangling Reverse Engineering with Logic and Abstraction The associated workshops are: * ASPOCP - Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms * CHR - Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules * CICLOPS - Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems * CULP - Workshop on Commercial Users of Logic Programming * WG17 - Workshop on ISO Prolog * WLPE - Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments We really look forward to welcoming you at ICLP 2009 in Pasadena under the southern California sunshine! ************************************************************************ From Filippo.Bonchi at cwi.nl Wed Jun 3 20:01:02 2009 From: Filippo.Bonchi at cwi.nl (Filippo Bonchi) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:01:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICE09: Extended Deadline Message-ID: <4A26BA5E.50908@cwi.nl> ****************************************** --- Extended deadline: June 10 --- ****************************************** 2nd Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE'09) Structured Interactions Satellite workshop of CONCUR 2009 31st of August 2009 Bologna, Italy Homepage: http://ice09.dimi.uniud.it/ -- Invited Speakers -- - Farhad Arbab (CWI) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is intended as a series of international scientific meetings oriented to researchers in various fields of theoretical computer science. The timeliness and novelty of these events relies both on the variety of the topics that will be treated on each event and on the adopted paper selection mechanism. Every experience will focus on a different specific topic which affects several areas of computer science. A thorough scientific debate among PC and authors of submitted papers will parallel the reviewing process. After the paper selection phase, papers will be published on the web and the discussion will be extended to perspective participants. -- Scope of ICE'09 -- The general scope is to include theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among actors of concurrent/distributed systems. The workshop intends to attract researchers interested in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives concerning such structured interactions. The theme of ICE09 will be structured interactions by which we mean the class of synchronisations that go beyond the "simple" point-to-point synchronisations. A few examples of such structured interactions are: multicast or broadcast synchronisations, even-notification based interactions, time dependent interactions, distributed transactions, stateless/statefull interactions. Not only structured interactions have been studied "in isolation", but researchers have also considered mutual relations and theoretical frameworks featuring uniform representations and/or co-existence of different structured interactions. As a matter of fact, different structured interactions are typically required when specifying views of a distributed system or when considering it at different levels of abstraction. For instance, multicast or broadcast interactions (desirable at a high level of abstraction) have to be mapped on more basic kind of interactions like point-to-point asynchronous synchronisations. The interest in such interactions is growing due to the recent trend in providing abstractions that allow one to master the complexity of distributed systems. Remarkable research lines in this area are the use of types or behavioural equivalences to guarantee properties of concurrent/distributed systems (eg., progress properties) or the use of model-driven approaches in order to achieve correctness "by construction" (eg., graceful termination), or else the relations among interactions, mobility and spatial aspects (eg., bigraphs). -- Topics -- Topics of interest include, but shall not be limited to: - models, logic and types for structured interactions; - expressiveness results; - timed and hybrid interactions; - verification, analysis and tools; - programming primitives for structured interactions; - structured interactions as coordination mechanisms; - structured interactions inspired by emerging computational models (systems biology, quantum computing, etc.). -- Selection Procedure -- The workshop proposes an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. As shown by the past edition of ICE, this considerably improves the quality of the papers, the reviews and the discussion during the workshop. We continue by detailing the selection procedure. After the submission deadline expires, each PC member selects a number of suitable papers to review before the start of the discussion phase. At the beginning of the discussion, each submitted paper is published on a Wiki and associated with a discussion forum whose access will be restricted to the authors and to all the PC members. The latter will be able to post comments/questions which the authors will reply to (authors will obviously have access only to forums associated with their own papers). Thus, the discussion on forums (and hence the reviewing process of papers) may be enhanced by the additional comments of interested PC members. -- The Public Wiki -- After the notification, the accepted papers will be published on a public forum, the rationale being to initiate public discussions that will trigger and stimulate the scientific debate of the workshop. We argue that this will drive the workshop discussions and let perspective participants to interact with each other well in advance with respect to the modus operandi of more traditional events. -- Submission Guidelines -- Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted to another conference/workshops with refereed proceedings. Programme Committee members, barring the co-chairs, may (and indeed are encouraged) to contribute. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. Details of the submission mechanism will follow in due course. -- Dissemination -- The ICE09 post-proceeding will be published in a novel series: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. -- Important Dates -- - Reviews due: 26 June 2009 - Discussion: from 29 June to 11 July 2009 - Notification to authors: 13 July 2009 - Workshop: 31 August 2009 -- Program Committee -- * Simon Bliudze (CEA LIST, France) * Eduardo Bonelli (LIFIA, University of LaPlata, Argentina) * Andrea Bracciali (University of Pisa, Italy) * Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) * Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Bob Coecke (Oxford University, UK) * Vincent Danos (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Erik de Vink (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) * Georgios Fainekos (NEC Laboratories, USA) * Goran Frehse (Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Verimag,France) * Carlo A. Furia (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa, Italy) * Ichiro Hasuo (Kyoto University, Japan) * Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS, Lyon, France) * Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) * Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Dimitris Mostrous (Imperial College, London, UK) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai mathematical Institute, India) * Dejan Nickovic (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) * Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Hugo Torres Vieira (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) * Angelo Troina (University of Torino, Italy) * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College, London, UK) * Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College, London, UK) -- ICEcreamers -- - Filippo Bonchi (CWI) - Davide Grohmann (Universita' di Udine) - Paola Spoletini (Universita' dell'Insubria) - Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) From patrick.maeder at tu-ilmenau.de Thu Jun 4 02:36:44 2009 From: patrick.maeder at tu-ilmenau.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrick_M=E4der?=) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:36:44 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Participation: SEAFOOD 2009 Message-ID: <458147EA-7D76-4E26-A1E1-79C4C156F80A@tu-ilmenau.de> Call for Participation 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD 2009) July 2-3, 2009 - ETH Zurich, Switzerland www.seafood.ethz.ch --------------- KEYNOTES --------------- ++ Professor Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ++ "Decentralized Software Development: Pitfalls and Challenges" ++ Dr Narayan Ramasubbu, Singapore Management University ++ "An Empiricist View of Managing Globally Distributed Software Development" Please see the conference website for the full program: http://seafood.inf.ethz.ch/2009/program.html --------------- Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs --------------- Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core business. A profound transformation has been affecting this model over recent years: a massive transfer of development activities from the US and Europe to a skilled labour force in service-providing countries. This transformation has been driven by the demands of a global business climate seeking to increase the value delivery of IT investment. However, the ability to realise this value can prove problematic in practice. Of particular concern are the hidden costs of globally distributed models of working, such as understanding and communicating the true business needs across organisational and cultural boundaries. To address such issues, offshore outsourcing needs quite different support from in-house development and this means adapting familiar techniques, processes and tools to this setting, as well as perhaps creating innovative new ones. Coupled with this industry transformation there is hence a pressing need to re-examine those software engineering approaches that either facilitate or impede this model of working. With an inevitable focus on the economy in 2009, business decisions regarding the sourcing of software development projects will come under close scrutiny. It will become increasingly critical to design global partnerships that both clarify cost/bene?ts and enable delivery on business needs. --------------- ABOUT SEAFOOD --------------- The aim of the SEAFOOD series of conferences is to examine offshore and outsourced software development from a software engineering perspective. SEAFOOD strives to: highlight problems faced by industry and provide a forum to share good practices; spotlight new processes, models, techniques and tools emerging from research efforts that are crucial to distributed development, and provide an opportunity for industry transfer; and build a community of educators either offering or planning to offer global software development experiences for students. SEAFOOD is co-located with TOOLS EUROPE (http://tools.ethz.ch), so the use of object technology, component-based and/or model-based software development in globally distributed settings is a synergistic theme. SEAFOOD aims to provide an intimate, highly structured and interactive forum for its participants through pre-assigned discussants for the various conference sessions. --------------- REGISTRATION --------------- Early registration: May 31st, 2009 or earlier. Regular registration: June 24th, 2009 or earlier. After the regular registration date, registration will be on site only. The registration form can be found on the TOOLS website: http://tools.ethz.ch/registration.html --------------- CONFERENCE ORGANISATION --------------- ++General Co-Chair++ Bertrand Meyer, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland ++General Co-Chair++ Mathai Joseph, Tata Consultancy Services, India ++Program Chair++ Olly Gotel, Pace University, New York City, USA ++Industry Track Chair++ David Michael, United Business Media, USA ++Education Track Chair++ Christelle Scharff, Pace University, New York City, USA ++Publicity Chair++ Patrick Maeder, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany ++Local Arrangements++ Martin Nordio, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland ++Local Arrangements++ Claudia Guenthart, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------- Pamela Abbott, Brunel University, UK Kay Berkling, Inline Internet Online GmbH, GERMANY Manfred Broy, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, GERMANY Val Casey, Bournemouth University, UK Oliver Creighton, Siemens AG, GERMANY Jean-Pierre Corriveau, Carleton University, CANADA Al Davis, University of Colorado and The Davis Company, USA Barry Dwolatzky, Wits University, SOUTH AFRICA Patricia Ensworth, Harborlight Management Services, USA Samuel Fricker, University of Zurich and FUCHS-INFORMATIK AG, SWITZERLAND Don Gause, SUNY Binghamton and Savile Row, LLC, USA Matt Ganis, IBM Hawthorne, USA Victor Gergel, University of Nizhni Novgorod, RUSSIA Tony Gorschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Amar Gupta, University of Arizona, USA David Klappholz, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Vidya Kulkarni, University of Delhi, INDIA Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, INDIA Liz Q. Li, Motorola Inc., USA Christine Mingins, ucube, AUSTRALIA Cornelius Ncube, Bournemouth University, UK Uolevi Nikula, Lappeenranta University of Technology, FINLAND Dragutin Petkovic, San Francisco State University, USA Moniphal Say, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, CAMBODIA Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Mahidol University, THAILAND Gary Thompson, Sun Microsystems and San Francisco State University, USA Rainer Todtenhoefer, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, GERMANY Hiroshi Tsuji, Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN Ye Yang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates, Inc., JAPAN Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA From paolo.bellavista at unibo.it Thu Jun 4 14:04:02 2009 From: paolo.bellavista at unibo.it (Paolo Bellavista) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:04:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE GIIS'09 Call for Participation: June 23-25, Tunisia Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple posting] ****************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****************************************************************************** IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009) June 23th ~ 25th, 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.ieee-giis.org/ Scope and Overview: The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international (global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical for and international standards. GIIS 2009 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of national and international information infrastructures. The conference also aims at providing a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions on specific information infrastructure topics. Information infrastructure brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems. The program of GIIS 2009 will include invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, panel and discussion sessions. The technical issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The policy issues addressed by the conference are those with a large technical element, including protection of intellectual property, privacy and security, international use of encryption technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The conference is specifically interested in ubiquity, open source/equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural openness. The program of GIIS 2009 will include Keynote talks, panel, tutorials, workshops and a Technology Track and a Policy Track. [Keynote Talks] title: "NANO-SENSOR NETWORKS USING MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION" speaker: Prof. IAN F. AKYILDIZ Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA title: "FROM RURAL VILLAGE TO GLOBAL VILLAGE: Strategies for Bridging Digital Divides in the Developing World" speaker: Prof. HEATHER E. HUDSON Communications Technology Management Program, University of San Francisco, USA title: "ENABLING UBIQUITOUS MOBILE SERVICES" Speaker: Prof. HOSSAM HASSANEIN Telecommunications Research Lab, Queen?s University, Kingston, Canada [Panel] Title: Technical and Economical Solutions for Providing Telecom Access in Developing Regions. Chair: Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus, General Communication, Inc., Alaska, USA Panelists: Ian F. Akyildiz, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Heather E. Hudson, Professor, University of San Francisco, USA Mehmet Ulema, Professor, Manhattan College, New York, USA Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus, General Communication, Inc., Alaska, USA TBD, African Development Bank, Tunisia [Tutorials] Title: Wireless Sensor Networks Speaker: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Title : Peer-to-Peer Networking : State of the art and research challenges speaker : Prof. Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Title : Challenges in Network Virtualization speaker : Prof. Omar Cherkaoui, Univ. du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada [Program] The technical program includes 40 full papers and 32 short papers covering a range of topics that include Wireless Communication and Security Management, Multimedia Networking, Policy and regulation issues. Papers from 5 continents, 22 countries with an acceptance rate of 32%. The full programme can be seen @ http://www.ieee-giis.org/program.html [Workshop] UBIROADS : Int. Workshop on Intelligent Transportation System for an Ubiquitous ROADS. The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program is a universal initiative whose objective is to add information and communication technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles. It aims to manage different factors in order to improve safety and comfort to drivers/passengers, and reduce transportation times and fuel costs. http://www.ieee-giis.org/ubiroads2009/ [Dates & Registration] Symposium Dates: 23-25 June 2009 Early-bird Registration Deadline: 10 June 2009 Registration can be found @ http://www.ieee-giis.org/registration.htm [Location] The symposium will be held in the Kartagho Hammamet Hotel, in the heart of the city of Hammamet, Tunisia. Further information on the venue and accommodation options can be found @ http://www.ieee-giis.org/avenue.html [Organization] General Chair : Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Program Co-Chairs Technology Track : ----------------------------------- Ahmed Mehaoua, University Paris Descartes, France Sami Tabbane, SUPCOM, Tunisia Program Co-Chairs Policy Track ----------------------------------- Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Robert Walp, GCI, Alaska, USA Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Universit? degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista at unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Models allow engineers to precisely capture relevant aspects of a system from a given perspective and at an appropriate level of abstraction. As models grow in use for developing IT systems, transformations between models grow in importance. Model transformations allow the definition and implementation of operations on models, and also provide a chain that enables the automated development of a system from its corresponding models. Furthermore, model transformations may also be realized using models, and are, therefore, an integral part of any model-driven approach. There are already several proposals for model transformation specification, implementation, and execution, which are beginning to be used by Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) practitioners. However, model transformations require specialized support in order to realize their full potential: we also must understand their foundations, their semantics, and their structuring mechanisms and properties (e.g., modularity, composability, and parameterization). We should find effective and efficient ways to treat transformations as first-class assets in MDE, allowing them to be stored, managed, discovered and reused. At the same time, we must be able to chain together and combine model transformations in order to produce new and more powerful transformations, and to be able to implement new operations on models. Finally, model transformations must have methodology support, i.e., they need to be integrated into software development methodologies supported by appropriate tools and environments. SCOPE ICMT 2009 will bring together researchers and practitioners to share experiences in using model transformations. ICMT 2009 combines a strong practical focus with theoretical approaches required in any discipline that supports engineering practices. Of particular interest to the organisers of ICMT 2009 are papers that describe challenges for model transformation technology, e.g., large-scale experiments in transformation, or problems that are thought to be difficult in model transformation in general, or for specific classes of model transformation tools. ICMT 2009 will be held at the ETH premises in Zurich, Switzerland, and will host invited talks, technical sessions, and panels. As a working conference, ICMT 2009 will foster the interactions between the participants, stimulating lively debates and discussions around the topics of interest of the conference. A new feature planned for ICMT 2009 is a dedicated session for tools presentations and demonstrations, designed to inform the community of the state-of-the- art in tooling for model transformation. ICMT 2009 participants will explore the practical problems of existing languages, tools, and environments for transforming models, and discuss the new challenges ahead. In particular, the conference will address questions about the nature and features of model transformations, their composability and combination to build new model transformations and implement high-level model management operations (e.g., merge, union, difference). The conference will also address the classification of languages for expressing transformations, the measurement of the quality and extra-functional requirements of model transformations (e.g., scalability, robustness, adaptability, reusability), and the definition of development methodologies that allow exploiting all their potential benefits. A special interest of the conference is on the relationships between model transformation theory and tools, and transformations in other domains, e.g., data transformation, program transformation. Papers that relate model transformation to other domains are particularly welcome. ACCEPTED PAPERS * Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara and Fernando Orejas. Pattern-Based Model-to-Model Transformation: Handling Attribute Conditions * Yingfei Xiong, Hui Song, Zhenjiang Hu and Masato Takeichi. Supporting Parallel Updates with Bidirectional Model Transformation * G?bor Bergmann, ?kos Horv?th, Istvan Rath and Daniel Varro. Efficient Model Transformations by Combining Pattern Matching Strategies * Perdita Stevens. A simple game-theoretic approach to checkonly QVT Relations * Thomas Hettel, Michael Lawley and Kerry Raymond. Towards Model Round-trip Engineering: An Abductive Approach * Sagar Sen, Benoit Baudry and Jean-Marie Mottu. Automatic Model Generation Strategies for Model Transformation Testing * Andr?s Vignaga, Fr?d?ric Jouault, Mar?a Cecilia Bastarrica and Hugo Bruneli?re. Typing in Model Management * Roy Gr?nmo, Stein Krogdahl and Birger M?ller-Pedersen. A Collection Operator for Graph Transformation * Iv?n Garc?a-Magari?o, Jorge G?mez-Sanz and Rub?n Fuentes-Fern?ndez. Model transformation by-example: an algorithm for generating many-to-many transformation rules in several model transformation languages * Andreas Petter, Alexander Behring and Max M?hlh?user. Solving Constraints in Model Transformations * Guillaume Hillairet, Fr?d?ric Bertrand and Jean-Yves Lafaye. Rewriting Queries By Means of Model Transformations from SPARQL to OQL and vice-versa * Sven Apel, Florian Janda, Salvador Trujillo and Christian Kaestner. Model Superimposition in Software Product Lines * Antonio Cicchetti, Davide Di Ruscio and Alfonso Pierantonio. Managing dependent changes in coupled evolution * Juan Manuel Vara, Bel?n Vela, Veronica Andrea Bollati and Esperanza Marcos. Supporting Model-Driven Development of Object-Relational Database Schemas: a Case Study * Marcel van Amstel, Christian Lange and Mark van den Brand. Using Metrics for Assessing the Quality of ASF+SDF Model Transformations * Jes?s S?nchez Cuadrado, Fr?d?ric Jouault, Jesus Garcia-Molina and Jean Bezivin. Experiments with a High-Level Navigation Language * Marcos Didonet Del Fabro, Patrick Albert, Jean Bezivin and Fr?d?ric Jouault. Achieving rule interoperability using chains of model transformations REGISTRATION Registration is handled by ETH Zurich. Details can be found at http://tools.ethz.ch/registration.html Early registration deadline is *7 June 2009* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Chair Richard Paige University of York (UK) Publicity Chair Dennis Wagelaar Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Further information about the ICMT 2009 conference can be found at: http://www.model-transformation.org/ICMT2009/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INVITED SPEAKER Benjamin Pierce U. Pennsylvania (USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Rummler SAP (Germany) Andreas Winter Koblenz University (Germany) Andy Sch?rr TU Darmstadt (Germany) Bernhard Rumpe TU Braunschweig (Germany) Charles Consel INRIA / LaBRI (France) Daniel Varro University of Budapest (Hungary) Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila (Italy) Dimitrios Kolovos University of York (UK) Ed Willink Thales Research (UK) Esperanza Marcos U. Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) Francisco Parisi-Presicce University of Rome (Italy) Fr?d?ric Jouault INRIA (France) Gabriele Taentzer Philipps-U. Marburg (Germany) Gerti Kappel TU Vienna (Austria) Gregor Engels U. Paderborn (Germany) G?nter Kniesel University of Bonn (Germany) Hans Vangheluwe McGill University (Canada) Howard Ho IBM Almaden Research (USA) Ivan Porres ?bo Akademi (Finland) Jean-Marie Favre University of Grenoble (France) Jens Weber University of Victoria (Canada) Jes?s Garc?a-Molina Universidad de Murcia (Spain) Jim Steel Queensland U. (Australia) Jon Whittle Lancaster University (UK) Jordi Cabot Open Univ. of Catalonia (Spain) Laurence Tratt Bournemouth University (UK) Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Marc Pantel University of Toulouse (France) Martin Gogolla University of Bremen (Germany) Nicolas Rouquette NASA/JPL (USA) Orlando Avila-Garcia Open Canarias (Spain) Piero Fraternali Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Reiko Heckel University of Leicester (UK) Thomas Kuehne V.U. Wellington (New Zealand) Vicente Pelechano U. Polit?cnica de Valencia (Spain) Vinay Kulkarni Tata R&D (India) Yasemin Topaloglu Ege University (Turkey) STEERING COMMITTEE Alfonso Pierantonio University of L?Aquila (Italy) Antonio Vallecillo University of M?laga (Spain) Jean B?zivin Univ. Nantes/INRIA (France) Jeff Gray Univ. Alabama at Birmingham (USA) From avocs09 at swansea.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 18:53:40 2009 From: avocs09 at swansea.ac.uk (AVoCS09) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:53:40 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] AVoCS'09 - Final call for papers Message-ID: <4A27FC14.2070201@swansea.ac.uk> (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Final call for papers AVoCS 2009 Ninth International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/avocs09/ Swansea, UK, 23.9. - 25.9.2009 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of AVoCS 2009 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems (safety-critical, security-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of invited talks and contributed talks and will also allow for short presentations of ongoing work. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion. Previous AVoCS workshops were held at the University of Oxford (2001 and 2007), the University of Birmingham (2002), the University of Southampton (2003), the Royal Society in London (2004), the University of Warwick (2005), LORIA, Nancy (2006) and the University of Glasgow (2008). TOPICS Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: - Model Checking, - Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving, - Abstract Interpretation, - Specification and Refinement, - Requirements Capture and Analysis, - Verification of Software and Hardware, - Verification of Security-Critical Systems, - Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems, - Verified System Development, and - Industrial Applications. INVITED SPEAKERS - Ulrich Berger, Swansea, United Kingdom: Proofs-as-programs in computable analysis. - Christoph Lueth, Bremen, Germany: User Interfaces for Theorem Provers. PUBLICATIONS At the workshop, a draft of the workshop proceedings will be available in the form of a Technical Report of Swansea University; this report will also include the short contributions. After the workshop, the authors of accepted papers will have about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst. The authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/description (Guest editor: Markus Roggenbach). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - David Aspinall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Muffy Calder, Glasgow, United Kingdom - Michael Goldsmith, Warwick, United Kingdom - Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States - Gerald Luettgen, York, United Kingdom - Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University, Utah, United States - Stephan Merz, INRIA, Nancy, France - Alice Miller, Glasgow, United Kingdom - Paritosh Pandya, IIT Mumbai, India - Silvio Ranise, Verona, Italy - Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom - Markus Roggenbach (Chair), Swansea, United Kingdom - Bill Roscoe, Oxford, United Kingdom - Helen Treharne, Surrey, United Kingdom - Markus Wenzel, TU Muenchen, Germany - Sergio Yovine, Verimag, France IMPORTANT DATES 26 June 2009 Deadline for submission of full papers 24 July 2009 Author notification for full papers 27 July 2009 Deadline for submission of short contributions 31 July 2009 Author notification for short contributions 28 August 2009 Deadline for final version of full papers & short contributions 23-25 September 2009 Workshop SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages (excluding the title page) in the LaTeX EASST format available at the AVoCS09 website. Submission via easychair is now open under: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?iid=11542 SUBMISSION OF SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS AVoCS 2009 encourages the submissions of short contributions in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select short contributions on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Short contributions must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages (excluding the title page) in the EASST format. Short contributions will be included in the Technical Report available at the conference, however, they will not be part of the Workshop Proceedings published by EASST. Submission will be organized via easychair. LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION AVoCS 2009 will be organised by Swansea University and held at the conference centre Gregynog. Gregynog is situated six miles north of Newtown in Mid Wales. It is surrounded by the beautiful Montgomeryshire countryside and Gregynog Hall is set in fabulously landscaped gardens that provide extensive grounds for peace and relaxation. The conference centre will host all participants of the workshop and will provide all catering. The workshop will start on Wednesday 23/09/2009 with lunch and conclude on Friday 25/09/2009 with lunch. ORGANIZATION The local organisers are: * Erwin R. Catesbeiana (Jr) * Phillip James * Temesghen Kahsai * Liam O'Reilly * Markus Roggenbach From florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 19:43:55 2009 From: florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk (CRACIUN F.) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:43:55 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] TASE 2009 - Call for Participation References: <8405C0D818720A45A8C69862358075EE03E3E4@DURMAIL3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: <8405C0D818720A45A8C69862358075EE03E3F0@DURMAIL3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> TASE 2009 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************** * 3rd IEEE International Symposium on * Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering * (TASE 2009) * 29-31 July 2009, Tianjin, China * http://www.dur.ac.uk/ieee.tase2009 * * Early Registration Deadline : 18 June 2009 * For more information email: IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk ***********************=********************************** TASE 2009 Invited Speakers ========================== Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Zhong Shao, Yale University, USA Jin-Song Dong, National University of Singapore TASE 2009 Programme ==================== Day 1: 29 July 2009 ------------------- Invited Talk: Verification and Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University) Session 1 : Real-Time and Embedded Systems Improving Responsiveness of Hard Real-Time Embedded Systems Hugh Anderson (Wellington Institute of Technology) and Siau-Cheng KHOO (National University of Singapore) Environmental Simulation of Real-Time Systems with Nested Interrupts Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Shoji Yuen (Nagoya University) and Masakazu Adachi (Toyota Central R&D Labs. INC.). Semantics for Communicating Actors with Interdependent Real-Time Deadlines Istv??n Knoll (Aalborg University), Anders P. Ravn (Aalborg University) and Arne Skou (Aalborg University). An Efficient Algorithm for Finding Empty Space for Reconfigurable Systems Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University) and Yan Xiao (Xidian University). Session 2 : Semantics State Visibility and Communication in Unifying Theories of Programming Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin), Pawel Gancarski (Trinity College Dublin) and Jim Woodcock (University of York). Semantics of Metamodels in UML Lijun Shan (National University of Defence Technology) and Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University). Refinement Algebra with Explicit Probabilism Tahiry Rabehaja (UNU/IIST) and Jeffrey Sanders (UNU/IIST). Session 3 : Model Checking Environment Abstraction with State Clustering and Parameter Truncating Hong Pan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yi Lv (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Huimin Lin (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Verification of Population Ring Protocols in PAT Yang Liu (National University of Singapore), Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg), Jun Sun (National University of Singapore) and Jianhua Zhao (Nanjing University). Bounded Model Checking of ACTL Formulae Wei Chen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Wenhui Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Day 2, 30 July 2009 ------------------- Invited Talk: Modular Development of Certified System Software Zhong Shao (Yale University) Session 4: Specification and Security Coarse Grained Retrenchment and the Mondex Denial of Service Attacks Richard Banach (Manchester University). Specifying and Enforcing Constraints of Artifact Life Cycles Xiangpeng Zhao (Peking University), Jianwen Su (University of California at Santa Barbara), Hongli Yang (Beijing University of Technology) and Zongyan Qiu (Peking University). Consistency Checking for LSC Specifications Hai-Feng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Wen Zheng (University of Nebraska at Omaha) and Mahadevan Subramaniam (University of Nebraska at Omaha). Integrating Specification and Programs for System Modeling and Verification Jun Sun (National University of Singapore), Yang Liu (National University of Singapore), Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) and Chunqing Chen (National University of Singapore). Session 5 : Software Testing I A Framework and Language Support for Automatic Dynamic Testing of Workflow Management Systems Gwan-Hwan Hwang (National Taiwan Normal University), Che-Sheng Lin (National Taiwan Normal University), Li-Te Tsao (National Taiwan Normal University), Kuei-Huan Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) and Yan-You Li (National Taiwan Normal University). Fault-based Test Case Generation for Component Connectors Bernhard Aichernig (Graz University of Technology), Farhad Arbab (CWI), Lacramioara Astefanoaei (CWI), Frank de Boer (CWI), Meng Sun (CWI) and Jan Rutten (CWI). Test Data Generation for Derived Types in C Program Zheng Wang (East China Normal University), Xiao Yu (East China Normal University), Tao Sun (East China Normal University), Geguang Pu (East China Normal University) and Zuohua Ding (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University). Session 6 : Software Models Program Repair as Sound Optimization of Broken Programs Bernd Fischer (University of Southampton), Ando Saabas (Tallinn University of Technology) and Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology). Modeling Web Applications and Generating Tests: A Combination and Interactions-guided Approach Bo Song (Shanghai University) and Huaikou Miao (Shanghai University). Merging of Use Case Models: Semantic Foundations Stephen Barrett (Concordia University), Daniel Sinnig (Concordia University), Patrice Chalin (Concordia University) and Greg Butler (Concordia University). Day 3, 31 July 2009 ------------------- Invited Tutorial: Towards Expressive Specification and Efficient Model Checking Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) Session 7 : Verification Verifying Semistructured Data Normalization using SWRL Yuan Fang Li (University of Queensland), Jing Sun (University of Auckland), Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland), Scott Uk-Jin Lee (University of Auckland) and Hai H. Wang (Aston University). Verifying Self-stabilizing Population Protocols with Coq Yuxin Deng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Jean-fran?ois Monin (Universit?? de Grenoble 1). The Logical Approach to Low-level Stack Reasoning Xinyu Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yu Guo (University of Science and Technology of China) and Yiyun Chen (University of Science and Technology of China). Constructing Program Invariants via Solving QBF Shikun Chen (National University of Defence Technology), Zhoujun Li (Beihang University) and Mengjun Li (National University of Defence Technology). Session 8 : Concurrency Using Architectural Constraints for Deadlock-Freedom of Component Systems with Multiway Cooperation Moritz Martens (University of Mannheim) and Mila Majster-Cederbaum (University of Mannheim). Formal Reasoning about Concurrent Assembly Code with Reentrant Locks Ming Fu (University of Science and Technology of China), Yu Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China) and Yong Li (University of Science and Technology of China). Algorithms for Computing Weak Bisimulation Equivalence Weisong Li (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Session 9 : Software Testing II Interpreting a Successful Testing Process: Risk and Actual Coverage Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente) and Mark Timmer (University of Twente). Automated Test Case Generation based on Coverage Analysis Tim A. Majchrzak (University of Muenster) and Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster). Exploring Topological Structure of Boolean Expressions for Test Data Selection Lian Yu (Peking University), Wei Zhao (IBM China Research Lab), Xiangdong Fan (Peking University) and Jun Zhu (IBM China Research Lab). On Testing 1-Safe Petri Nets Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa) and Gregor von Bochmann (University of Ottawa). The programme also include two poster sessions, comprising of 23 selected poster presentations. 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URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090604/2f680197/attachment.html From yletraon at irisa.fr Fri Jun 5 08:57:48 2009 From: yletraon at irisa.fr (Yves Le Traon) Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:57:48 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verificationand, Validation (ICST 2010) Message-ID: <4A28C1EC.7000004@irisa.fr> ========================= CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2010) April 6-9 2010, Paris, France Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) http://vps.it-sudparis.eu/icst2010/ Validation, testing and verification activities are already flourishing areas with an active participation of a large community of researchers, experts and industrials. This community is highly aware of the importance and impact of testing on the future deployment and use of software and software intensive systems. As illustrated during the two previous successful ICST editions, intensive research activities are being carried out in software testing, verification and validation areas. Many new important issues and challenges are constantly being raised leading to new research and industrial projects. The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST) is the premier conference in these areas. ICST welcomes research papers as well as industrial experience reports from software development and testing practitioners. Two tracks will be organised to select the accepted papers. For the research papers, we are looking for high quality papers presenting original work. Industrial papers should address practical software testing and quality improvement, challenges and implementationspresenting empirical results or reporting on open problems/challenges. All papers should discuss broader implications and usage of the topics addressed. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, a Wiley journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Software testing theory and practice ? Model-based testing ? Domain specific testing including, but not limited to, security testing, web services testing, database testing, embedded software testing, and OO software testing ? Verification & validation ? Quality assurance ? Model checking ? Empirical studies ? Metrics ? Fuzzing testing ? Inspections ? Tools ? Testability and diagnosability ? Design for testability ? Testing education ? Testing in multidisciplinary applications ? Technology transfer ? Model-Driven Testing ? Agile/iterative/incremental processes ? Open source software/3rd party software testing ? Novel approaches to software reliability assessment Important dates Papers Submission of abstracts: September 25, 2009 Submission of full papers: October 2, 2009 Notification: December 18, 2009 Camera-ready: January 15, 2010 Workshops Submission of proposals: September 25, 2009 Notification: November 2, 2009 General Chair Marie-Claude Gaudel, Univ. Paris-Sud XI, France Program Chairs Ana Cavalli, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Paul Ammann, George Mason University, USA Benoit Baudry, IRISA, France Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunh?fer Institute, Germany For further details regarding the conference, please consult http://vps.it-sudparis.eu/icst2010/ ========================= -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you need a grant to attend the school, please do not register on-line but first apply for a grant by sending an application letter to aosdsc09 at emn.fr until June 15th, 2009. ==================================== ABOUT THE AOSD SUMMER SCHOOL Following on from three successful editions in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the fourth AOSD-Europe summer school on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) provides an intensive and exciting week of lectures on advanced aspect-oriented topics in the context of programming languages, analysis and design, formal methods and application domains. The summer school brings together PhD students and lecturers as well as other researchers and practitioners who are interested in aspect-oriented software development. The tutorials are given by renowned representatives of each domain of expertise. Each tutorial combines foundations, examples and advanced topics as well as hands-on sessions when appropriate. PROGRAM A precise schedule is on-line! Monday August 24th - Introduction to AOSD Concepts (Awais Rashid, Wouter Joosen) - Introduction to AOP Languages (Mira Mezini) - AOP Languages (Mira Mezini, lab session) - Feature Interaction and AOSD: Status and Future (Eddy Truyen) Tuesday August 25th - AOP Languages (Mira Mezini) - AO Requirements Engineering (AORE I): Identifying Crosscutting Concerns in Requirements (Awais Rashid) - AORE II - Hands-on Identification of Aspects in Requirements (AwaisRashid, lab session) - AORE III - Aspect Dependencies and Interactions (Awais Rashid) - AO Software Architectures (Mehmet Aksit) Wednesday August 26th - AO Software Architectures (Mehmet Aksit) - AO Modeling (Jean-Marc Jezequel) - Formal Methods (Remi Douence) Thursday August 27th - Aspect-Oriented Technologies for Distributed Software: Results and Challenges (Mario Sudholt, Wouter Joosen) - Demonstrations - Poster Session Friday August 28th - AOSD in Industry - Predicate Dispatch as a Generalization of AOP (Christoph Bockisch) - Workshops PARTNERSHIP The AOSD Summer School is organized with the support of GDR GPL CNRS (http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr/) and the participation of INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (http://www.inria.fr/rennes/) and LINA (http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/). ORGANISATION The fourth Summer School on AOSD is an organisation of the European Network of Excellence on AOSD (AOSD-Europe - http://www.aosd-europe.net). General Chair: - Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Program Co-chairs: - Christoph Bockisch, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil Local Organizing Chair: - Remi Douence, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Thomas Ledoux, Inria, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Catherine de Charette, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Mireille M?chineau, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Fr?d?rique Pinson, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Summer School Board: - Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Pierre Cointe, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain - Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy REGISTRATION PROCEDURE Information on how to register is available on the web site: http://www.aosd-europe.net/summerschool A few grants covering the registration fees are available. If you need a grant to attend the school, please do not register on-line but first apply for a grant by sending an application letter to aosdsc09 at emn.fr Deadline for grant application is June 15th! Any further inquiries about the summer school registration can be sent to aosdsc09 at emn.fr From bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr Fri Jun 5 15:09:31 2009 From: bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr (Bruno Monsuez) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:09:31 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] VECoS 2009 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <028901c9e5de$ddd9aae0$998d00a0$@monsuez@ensta.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Participation] ==================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems http://www.vecos-world.org Rabat, Morroco July, 2-3, 2009 ==================================== IMPORTANT Registration Deadline: Friday, Juni 26th, 2009 Additional informations on http://vecos.ensta.fr/2009/registration.html ==================================== The VECoS'2009 Workshop will be held in the city of Rabat in Morroco. It will be hosted by the laboratory of mathematics, computer science & Applications (MIA) at the Facult? des sciences Mohammed V University-Agdal. The International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VECoS) was created by an Euro-Maghrebian network of researchers in computer science. The first edition tooks place in Algiers 5-6 May 2007 (VECoS'2007), the second edition in Leeds 2-3 July 2008 ( VECoS'2008). The aim of VECoS workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, in the areas of Verification, Control, Performance, Quality of service, Dependability evaluation and Assessment, to discuss the state of the art for solving the challenges facing us today in various modern computer and communication systems in which functional and extra functional properties are strongly interrelated. ==================================== SATELLITE EVENTS Wednesday, July 1rst, 2009 Tutorial on "Some Important Aspects of Real-Time Systems" ==================================== PROGRAMME Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Invited speaker 1: Guy Juanole LAAS Toulouse, France Talk: Networked Control Systems Session 1: Wireless networks -. Optimal Sensors Placement for Failures Detection and Isolation Sabrina ABID, Hafid HAFFAF -. Confidentiality in the UMTS Radio Access Network, Simulation approach under OPNET Ghizlane ORHANOU, Said EL HAJJI -. Discrete Events Simulator for wireless sensor networks Fouzi SEMCHEDINE, Louiza BOUALLOUCHE, Sofiane MOAD, Rafik MAKHLOUFI, Djamil AISSANI -. Orthogonal and Non-orthogonal Cooperative protocols in WLANs Jun CHEN, Karim DJOUANI, Kamel BARKAOUI Invited speaker 2: Joel Ouaknine Oxford University, United Kingdom Talk: Verifying Probabilistic Programs: Three Easy Pieces Session 2: Timed Systems & Model Checking -. Specification and Verification of Real-Time Systems using the POLA tool Florent PERES, Pierre-Emmanuel HLADIK, Francois VERNADAT -. Distributed CTL Model-Checking and counterexample search Cherif BOUKALA, Laure PETRUCCI -. Timed SystemC Waiting-State Automata Harrath NESRINE, Bruno MONSUEZ -. On combining the ready sets with the covering steps methods Hanifa BOUCHENEB, Kamel BARKAOUI Friday, July 3rd, July 2009 Invited speaker 3: Assaf Kfoury, Boston University, USA Talk: Lightweight Formal Methods for the Development of High-Assurance Networking Systems Session 3: Control & Dependability -. Improving Testbench Evaluation using Normalized Formal Properties Martin OBERKOENIG, Martin SCHICKEL, Hans EVEKING -. Dependability Evaluation of Complex Embedded Systems and Microsystems Olaf MALASSE, et al. -. Controller Synthesis by Petri Nets Modelling Hassane ALLA, Abbas DIDEBAN Invited speaker 4: Mario Bravetti, Universita di Bologna, Italy Talk: Foundational aspects of contract compliance and choreography conformance Session 4: Model & System Design -. Validating time-constrained systems using UML Statecharts Patterns and Timed Automata Observers Ahmed MEKKI, Mohamed GHAZEL, Armand TOGUYENI -. A generic formal model for fission of modalities in output multi-modal interactive systems Yamine AIT AMEUR, Linda MOHAND OUSSAID Mohamed AHMED NACER From tswift at cs.sunysb.edu Fri Jun 5 23:54:46 2009 From: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu (Terrance Swift) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ecoop-info] RR 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti Univ. of Naples Frederico II (IT) Carlos Damasio Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) ` National University of Ireland, Galway Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: axel.polleres at deri.org Email: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifer at cs.sunysb.edu From lc2009 at fmi.uni-sofia.bg Sat Jun 6 21:47:51 2009 From: lc2009 at fmi.uni-sofia.bg (Logic Colloquium 2009) Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:47:51 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] [LC-09] LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2009 - third announcement Message-ID: <4A2AC7E7.5020704@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) ********************************************************************* Third Announcement Logic Colloquium 2009 Sofia 31 July - 5 August Deadline for early registration: 30 June, 2009 http://lc2009.fmi.uni-sofia.bg ********************************************************************* The Logic Colloquium is the annual European conference on logic, organised under the auspices of the Association for Symbolic Logic(ASL). News 1. The deadline for early registration is approaching: 30 June, 2009. You can register online at http://lc2009.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/registration.html 2. Titles of tutorials, plenary lectures and the G?del lecture can be found at http://lc2009.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/program.html 3. Special session speakers and titles of their lectures can be found at http://lc2009.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/sessions.html 4. A list of confirmed speakers at the satellite event The Workshop on Computability Theory, Sofia 6-7 August, can be found at http://lc2009.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/workshop.html Please remember to notify the organizers per email if you wish to attend the satellite event. The Programme Committee: Samson Abramsky, Klaus Ambos-Spies, Joan Bagaria (Chair), Fernando Ferreira, Martin Goldstern, Erich Graedel, Ehud Hrushovski, Tapani Hyttinen, Yiannis Moschovakis, Margarita Otero, Stewart Shapiro, Ivan Soskov and W. Hugh Woodin and Organizing Committee: Alexandra Soskova (Chair), Dimitar Dobrev, Dimitar Guelev, Lyubomir Ivanov, Stela Nikolova, Solomon Passy, Dimitar Shiyachki, Mariya Soskova, Mitko Yanchev, Anton Zinoviev cordially invite everyone interested in Logic to attend the conference and satellite meeting. From mcarro at fi.upm.es Sun Jun 7 20:50:52 2009 From: mcarro at fi.upm.es (Manuel Carro) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:50:52 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Initial Call for Papers: PADL 2010 Message-ID: <18988.3084.942164.925360@clip.dia.fi.upm.es> [We apologize in advance for the reception of duplicate messages] [Please feel free to redistribute to interested colleagues] CALL FOR PAPERS Twelfth International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2010 (PADL'10) http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/PADL-2010 Pasadena, California, USA January 18-19, 2010 Co-located with ACM POPL'10 Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages. * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications. * Practical applications of theoretical results. * New language developments and their impact on applications. * Declarative languages and Software Engineering. * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications. * Practical experiences and industrial applications. * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom. PADL'10 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. PADL'10 will be co-located with POPL 2010. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: August 31, 2009 Paper Submission: September 4, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera-ready: October 26, 2009 Symposium: January 18-19, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in English) in Postscript (Level 2) or PDF, in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/ ). The submission will be done through EasyChair at the URL http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl10 . PADL'10 will accept both technical and application papers. Technical Papers Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished results, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submission must be written in English, and include three to four keywords, which will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Application Papers Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than computer science. Application papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag conference proceedings, and will be presented in a separate session. Application papers, are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 3 pages in Springer LNCS format. Most Practical Paper Award The Most Practical Paper award will be given to the technical submission that is judged by the program committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality, and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an award, or to make multiple awards. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chairs Manuel Carro (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Ricardo Pe?a (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Program Committee (not yet complete) Mar?a Alpuente (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain) Olaf Chitil (University of Kent, UK) Mar?a Garc?a de la Banda (Monash University, Australia) Haifeng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians Universit?t, Germany) John Launchbury (Galois, USA) Rita Loogen (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany) Erik Meijer (Microsoft Research, UK) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA) V?tor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Terrance Swift (CENTRIA, Portugal) Paolo Torroni (Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Roland Yap (National University of Singapore, Singapore) CONTACTS: For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Manuel Carro PC co-Chair - PADL 2010 School of Computer Science Technical University of Madrid Campus de Montengancedo E-28660 Boadilla del Monte, Spain Email: mcarro fiupmes Ricardo Pe?a PC co-Chair - PADL 2010 Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Complutense de Madrid c/ Profesor Jos? Garc?a Santesmases s/n E-28040 Madrid, Spain Email: ricardo sipucmes For other information about the conference, please contact: Manuel Carro General Chair - PADL 2010 School of Computer Science Technical University of Madrid Campus de Montengancedo E-28660 Boadilla del Monte, Spain Email: mcarro fiupm.es WITH THE COOPERATION OF: The University of Texas at Dallas ACM Sigplan (Pending) From ecmda2009 at ewi.utwente.nl Tue Jun 9 22:13:18 2009 From: ecmda2009 at ewi.utwente.nl (ECMDA Organisers) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:13:18 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: FM 2009 Doctoral Symposium (Deadline July 24) Message-ID: <4A2EC25E.2050500@ewi.utwente.nl> Call for Papers FM 2009 Doctoral Symposium November 6, 2009. Eindhoven, The Netherlands ****************************** For the third time in its history, Formal Methods Symposium will feature a Doctoral Symposium. Students are invited to submit papers describing their work (in progress). The authors of the accepted papers will present their work at the symposium in the presence of the members of the Examination Committee, who will act as "friendly examiners", providing detailed feedback. Students whose submissions are accepted will be able to participate in the Doctoral Symposium and the FM 2009 Symposium at the student registration rate and they will be invited by the FME association to participate in the conference dinner free of charge. Moreover, the FME association has generously provided a few travel grants to partially support those student authors whose institutes cannot fully support their travel expenses. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a technical report of Eindhoven University of Technology and will be distributed among the participants. Like the FM 2009 conference itself, the Doctoral Symposium welcomes submissions on all aspects of formal methods research, both theoretical and practical. The broad topics of interest of the Doctoral Symposium include, but are not restricted to: * Theoretical foundations * Specification and modeling * Refinement * Static analysis * Model-checking * Verification and testing * Algebraic and logical methods * Reusable domain theories * Experience with introducing formal methods in industry * Case studies * Formal methods in hardware and system design * Method integration * Development process * Tools and environments Submission Guidelines ===================== Extended abstracts reporting on the current status of doctoral theses should be submitted by July 24, 2009, using the EasyChair submission system, available via the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm09ds Submissions are limited to 6 pages and must follow the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, which can be found in http://www.springeronline.com/lncs . Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee according to their originality, significance, soundness, quality of presentation, and relevance with respect to the main topics of the symposium. Since the major purpose of the symposium is to provide feedback to doctoral students, possibly influencing the direction of their research, work in progress _with some results_, but still with some open issues, is in the ideal stage for submission. We encourage papers solely authored by students. Best Defence Award ================== The best combination of paper and defence will be selected by the Examination Committee during the symposium and will be announced and acknowledged on the same day. If its quality warrants it, the author(s) of the best paper will be invited to submit a full version of the paper for inclusion in a special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing Journal (FACJ). The journal paper will undergo additional review and the authors will receive extra feedback to bring the paper into shape for journal publication. Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: July 24, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance / Rejection: August 21, 2009 * Camera-Ready Version of Papers and Abstract: September 18, 2009 * Applications for Travel Grants: September 18, 2009 * Doctoral Symposium: November 6, 2009 Authors who wish to receive a travel grant should send an application letter for the travel grant (of up to 500 euros) to the co-chairs of the symposium along with a letter from their respective institute, in which the (lack of) contribution from the institute is clearly stated. Symposium Format ================ The Doctoral Symposium will take a full day, including around 8 presentations of 45 minutes each (20-25 minutes for presentation and 20-25 for discussion and feedback). The participating students and committee members will stay together during the entire day, including the presentations, discussions, coffee-breaks and lunch, giving plenty of opportunity for informal interaction. Program Committee ================= * S. Arun-Kumar (IIT, India) * Paulo Borba (UFPE, Brazil) * Michael Butler (Southampton, UK) * Jin Song Dong (NUS, Singapore) * Wan Fokkink (VU, The Netherlands) * Ichiro Hasuo (Kyoto, Japan) * Anna Ingolfsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland) * Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH, Germany) * Ian Mackie (Sussex, UK) * MohammadReza Mousavi (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Co-Chair) * Mila Dalla Preda (Verona, Italy) * Emil Sekerinski (McMaster, Canada, Co-Chair) * Sandeep Shukla (VT, USA) * Bernd-Holger Schlingloff (Humboldt U. Berlin, Germany) * Elena Troubitsyna (Abo Akademi, Finland) * Tarmo Uustalu (Inst. of Cybernetics, Estonia) * Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) * Husnu Yenigun (Sabanci, Turkey) From dominik.stein at uni-due.de Mon Jun 8 09:46:01 2009 From: dominik.stein at uni-due.de (Dominik Stein) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:46:01 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 14th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling @ MoDELS'09 Message-ID: <4A2CC1B9.2070301@uni-due.de> AOM at MODELS'09 14th International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling held in conjunction with MoDELS'09 Denver, Colorado, USA, October 4, 5, or 6 2009 http://dawis2.icb.uni-due.de/aom/ Call for Papers *Workshop Description* Aspect-orientation is a rapidly advancing technology. New and powerful aspect-oriented programming techniques are presented at many international venues every year. However, it is not clear what features of such techniques are "common aspect-oriented concepts" and what features are rather language-specific specialties. Research in aspect-oriented modeling has the potential to help find such common characteristics from a perspective that is at a more abstract level (i.e., programming language-independent). The Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from two communities, aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and model-driven engineering. This workshop provides a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the state of research and practice in modeling various kinds of crosscutting concerns at different levels of abstraction. The goals of the workshop are to identify and discuss the impacts of aspect-oriented technologies on model engineering to provide aspect-oriented software developers with general modeling means to express aspects and their crosscutting relationships onto other software artifacts. *Workshop Topics* We are interested in submissions on all topics related to aspects and model engineering including, but not limited to: - Aspect-Oriented Modeling - defining essential characteristics of a crosscutting concern that need to be modeled; - verification and validation of aspect-oriented models; - composition of aspect-oriented models; - modeling of aspects at different stages of software development (requirements engineering, architecture, design, implementation); - application of AOM to modeling notations that are not tied to UML. - Aspect-Oriented UML - identification of UML elements that can be used to model aspects; - identification of UML elements that can NOT be used to model aspects; - aspect-oriented support in UML; - extensions to UML for supporting AOSD. - AOSD Method and Tool Support - aspect-oriented and model-based software development methods; - using existing UML tools in AOSD life-cycles; - new tools and extensions to existing tools to support AOM; - Model-Oriented AOP and JPM - join point selection at model levels; - MOF, UML, MDA, etc. as a support to the JPM; - model-based aspect evolution; - model weaving: from abstract to low-level; - model engineering tools for supporting aspect-oriented techniques; - model-based aspect interference and composition management. *Paper Submission* Prospective participants are invited to submit 4-6 page position papers following ACM Format Guidelines. Submission instuctions can be found at http://dawis2.icb.uni-due.de/aom/workshop:models2009:submission All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee for quality and relevance. Submissions must be original; simultaneous submissions are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. *Workshop Organizers* Omar Aldawud Lucent Technologies, USA Walter Cazzola University of Milano, Italy Thomas Cottenier Hengsoft, USA Jeff Gray University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA J?rg Kienzle McGill University, Canada Dominik Stein University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany *Program Committee* Mehmet Aksit University of Twente, The Netherlands Aswin van den Berg Hengsoft, USA Frank Fleurey SINTEF, Norway Sudipto Ghosh Colorado State University, USA Stefan Hanenberg University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Philippe Lahire University of Nice, France Gunter Mussbacher University of Ottawa, Canada Alfonso Pierantonio University of Aquila, Italy Ella Roubtsova Open University, The Netherlands Pablo S?nchez University of Malaga, Spain Bedir Tekinerdogan University of Bilkent, Turkey Julie Vachon University of Montreal, Canada Markus V?lter Consultant for SW Technology, Germany Jon Whittle Lancaster University, United Kingdom Steffen Zschaler Lancaster University, United Kingdom *Important Dates* Submission deadline: July 25, 2009 Notification date: August 30, 2009 Camera-ready deadline: September 15, 2009 Workshop date: October 4, 5, or 6, 2009 *Contact* For questions and issues on the workshop drop a message at aomwsoc at lists.uni-due.de From gjbarthe at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 14:39:38 2009 From: gjbarthe at gmail.com (Gilles Barthe) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:39:38 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call For Papers: VMCAI 2010, Madrid, January 17-19, 2010 Message-ID: <22c136d20906090539h5c182c47h45fd78d47b775fae@mail.gmail.com> =============================================================== ------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------- VMCAI 2010 The Eleventh International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation Madrid, Spain, January 17-19, 2010 http://software.imdea.org/events/vmcai10/ ================================================================ VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods. VMCAI'10 is co-located with the POPL'10 conference. The program of VMCAI'10 will consist of invited lectures, invited tutorials, refereed research papers, and tool demonstrations. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: program verification program certification model checking debugging techniques abstract interpretation abstract domains static analysis type systems deductive methods optimization Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The page limit for submissions is 15 pages in Springer's LNCS format. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers. Formatting style files can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Please visit the conference website for more information. Important Dates: - Submission of abstracts: August 14, 2009 - Submission of papers: August 21, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: October 2, 2009 - Final version due: October 30, 2009 - Conference: January 17-19, 2010 Program Chairs: Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software, Spain Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Software and T. U. of Madrid, Spain Program Committee: Christel Baier, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Patrick Cousot, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, France Javier Esparza, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research, USA Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Ken McMillan, Cadence, USA Markus M?ller-Olm, Universit?t M?nster, Germany Hanne Riis Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Xavier Rival, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure and INRIA, France David Sands, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden David Schmidt, Kansas State University, USA Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Kwangkeun Yi,Seoul National University, Korea Greta Yorsh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY, USA Steering Committee: Tino Cortesi, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy Patrick Cousot, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, France E. Allen Emerson, University of Texas at Austin, USA Giorgio Levi, University of Pisa, Italy Andreas Podelski, Universit?t Freiburg, Germany Thomas W. Reps, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA David Schmidt, Kansas State University, USA Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA From ja at di.fct.unl.pt Tue Jun 9 22:15:03 2009 From: ja at di.fct.unl.pt (Joao Araujo) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:15:03 +0100 (WEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Onward! 2009 Message-ID: <54870.193.126.102.54.1244578503.squirrel@www.di.fct.unl.pt> ***************** Call For Contributions ***************** Onward! 09 The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software. Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with SIGSOFT Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009 http://www.onward-conference.org *** Deadline approaching *** June 26, 2009 Submission of short research papers July 2, 2009 Submission of films *********************************************************** Onward! is a place for highly original ideas about how technological advances and new applications are going to shape computational fabrics of the future. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to not so well proven but well argued ideas. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming languages and software engineering research. Onward! takes a broad and inclusive view of computation and seeks contributions from all fields represented at OOPSLA and other software conferences. Onward! particularly encourages contributions influenced by other disciplines such as art, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, economics, communities, politics, ethics, or any other human endeavor. Anything to do with programming and software can be submitted. Anything! Onward! is innovative not only with regard to its topics and ideas but also to the contribution formats. This year, we seek high quality submissions in one of the following categories: *** RESEARCH PAPERS (Due June 26, 2009) *** While regular research papers tell what work has been done and validated in recent years, Onward! papers show what exciting work is being done right now. Onward! accepts papers that talk about innovative research work that is early in its life or is not in the mainstream. We request submissions of position papers that propose bold directions of research and advocate nontraditional methodologies. An Onward! paper does not need to contain a fully worked out theory or implemented system, but must be well-thought-out and compelling in its vision or uniqueness of thinking. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Proceedings, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. *** FILMS *** Years ago, sophisticated software systems had to be constructed by highly trained programmers who understood the ins and outs of software development. Today, with the advent of new mashup technologies and service architectures, these barriers have been lowered. The goal of this track is to explore new developments in how film and other narrative multimedia technologies can be used to enrich the software development process. Descriptions of accepted films will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Companion, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. *** ESSAYS (submission closed) *** *** WORKSHOPS (submission closed) *** *** HOW TO SUBMIT *** Electronic submission is required through the Onward! homepage. Text submissions must follow the standard ACM SIGPLAN format. Research papers should not exceed 8 pages. Submissions must not have been previously published, and must not be concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). Violation of this policy will result in desk-rejection of the submission. *** GENERAL CHAIR *** Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada (chair) Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dilma Da Silva, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Maja Dhondt, IMEC, Belgium Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation, USA Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland Bruce Horn, Powerset, USA Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA Caitlin Kelleher, Washington University St. Louis, USA Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Rick McGeer, HP Labs, USA Linda Northrop, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, Germany Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, Germany *** FILM COMMITTEE *** Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand (chair) Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany Ralph Guggenheim, Allegator Planet, USA Andrew Long, University of Otago, New Zealand A detailed version of this call for each submission category is available on http://onward-conference.org/calls/ An Onward! ad is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcIjUSpwspk From mailing at ntms-conf.org Mon Jun 8 22:20:08 2009 From: mailing at ntms-conf.org (mailing at ntms-conf.org) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:20:08 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] [IFIP NTMS 09 - CAIRO] : Third IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security Message-ID: <126a3129b070f7a9ea67b0b110208e0a@www.ntms-conf.org> Third IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security December 20 - 23, 2009 - Cairo - Egypt http://www.ntms-conf.org/ Overview -------- NTMS'2009 is the Third IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security that will be held from 20 to 23 December 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. NTMS'2009 conference is technically sponsored by IFIP TC6 WG. NTMS'2009 aims at fostering advances in the areas of New Technologies, Wireless Networks, Mobile Computing, Ad hoc and Ambient Networks, QoS, Network Security and E-commerce, to mention a few, and provides a dynamic forum for researchers, students and professionals to present their state-of-the-art research and development in these interesting areas. The event will be combined with tutorial sessions and workshops. Tutorials will precede the main program, aiming at the dissemination of mature knowledge and technology advances in the field. Two or more Workshops will immediately follow the main conference, offering the opportunity for a more focused exchange of ideas and presentation of on-going research relevant to following tracks (More information and the full call-for- papers can be found on the conference web): Track 1 : Mobility ------------------ Mobile 3G, 4G, LTE (Long Term Evolution), convergence (IMS, etc.) WiMAX, WLAN, DVB, WiFi PAN, BAN, WSN, UWB Wireless MAC protocols Media sensor and ad hoc networks Self-organizing of wireless networks Mesh networks and autonomic systems Optical networks and switching (new generation SDH, OTN) Satellite Systems Vehicular Communication Technologies and Systems Mobility management and Handover Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems Routing, QoS and scheduling Resource allocation management Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation Cross-layer network design and optimization Cognitive radio and smart antenna Testbed experiments, Mobile/Wireless Applications and Services Wireless and mobile multimedia systems Integration of heterogeneous mobile, wireless and wireline networks Mobility, location and handoff management Wireless services and middleware platforms Track 2: Security ----------------- Authentication protocols and services authorization Data and system integrity and confidentiality Availability of secure services Key Distribution and management, PKI and security management Trust models and Trust establishment Identity management, authentication and access control Deployment and management of computer/network security policies Monitoring Design for security, distributed Intrusion Detection Systems & Countermeasures Single and multi-source intrusion detection and response Traffic filtering and Firewalling IPv6 security, IPSec, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Privacy, contract agreements, and payment systems Prevention, Detection and Reaction Design, and Revocation of malicious parties Light-weight cryptography Quantum Cryptography and QKD Applications of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in communications security Mobile code security & Security management Secure PHY, MAC, Routing and upper layer protocols Secure Cross layer design Secure naming and addressing (Privacy and anonymity) Network security metrics and performance evaluation Security modelling and protocol design Smart cards and secure hardware Biometric security: technologies, risks and vulnerabilities Information hiding and watermarking Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and countermeasures Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Web, e-mail , m-commerce, e-business and e-commerce security Testbeds, performance evaluation and formal specification methods Virtualization for security and reliability Track 3: New Technologies & services ------------------------------------ New generation Internet, Post IP and IPv6 NGN architectures, protocols and services management and delivery Web 2.0 applications and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) Next generation systems & Service-oriented techniques IPTV and content distribution networks User-centric networking and services multimedia indexing and retrieval Personalized access to media systems Context/content-aware services Smart Homes and E-Health Web Commerce & Services, Data models, Web searching & querying Web Mining & Web Semantics Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Advanced identification techniques (Biometrics, RFID, etc.) Virtualization technologies for grid and parallel computing. Interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services VoIP protocols and services Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency Mobile/wireless content distribution * * * * * Submission Instructions ----------------------- Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages (3,000 words), in Adobe PDF format (which is the only accepted format for NTMS 2009). To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit: http://www.ntms-conf.org IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Draft papers should be submitted by August 23, 2009 Authors will receive the acceptance notification by October 5, 2009 Final papers for presentation should be sent before October 26, 2009 Tutorial Workshop (Instructor) Submission due : June 28, 2009 Deadline Notification of Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance : July 6, 2009 PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES ---------------------------- The best papers of the Moblity Track will be considered for publication in Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications, Special issue on WiMAX, LTE and WiFi Interworking. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Khaldoun Al Agha - University of Paris XI, France Gregory B. Newby - University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Azzedine Boukerche - University of Ottawa, Canada Mohamad Badra - LIMOS Laboratory, CNRS, France Pascal Urien - TELECOM ParisTech, France Stamatios Kartalopoulos - University of Oklahoma, USA Houda Labiod - Telecom ParisTech, France TRACKS & TRACK CHAIRS --------------------- Mobility: Pascal Lorenz - University of Haute Alsace, France -------- Joel Rodrigues - Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal Security: Albert Levi - Sabanci Univ, Turkey -------- Roberto Di Pietro ??? University of Roma Tre, Italy New Technologies: Hassnaa Moustafa - France Telecom, Orange Labs, France ---------------- Amr El-Kadi - AUC, Egypt KEYNOTE CHAIRS -------------- James Hughes, Huawei, USA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ------------------ Nicolas Sklavos - Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece Ayman Ibrahim - Orange Lab, Egypt TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS ------------------ Bertrand du Castel - Schlumberger, USA Ayman Hassan - Orange Lab, Egypt SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS --------------------- Amr Ibrahim - AUC, Cairo FINANCE CHAIR ------------- Ibrahim Hajjeh - NEOVATION, France LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR ---------------------------------- Ahmed Sameh - AUC, Egypt PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Sherif Ali - AUC, Egypt -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- From tap2009 at inf.ethz.ch Mon Jun 8 13:34:21 2009 From: tap2009 at inf.ethz.ch (Tests and Proofs 2009) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:34:21 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for participation: TAP 2009 Message-ID: <4A2CF73D.3050009@inf.ethz.ch> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP) 2009 Co-located with TOOLS EUROPE 2009 July 2-3 2009 - ETH Z?rich, Switzerland http://tap.ethz.ch/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PURPOSE AND SCOPE The TAP conference is devoted to the convergence of proofs and tests. It combines ideas from both sides for the advancement of software quality. To prove the correctness of a program is to demonstrate, through impeccable mathematical techniques, that it has no bugs; to test a program is to run it with the expectation of discovering bugs. The two techniques seem contradictory: if you have proved your program, it's fruitless to comb it for bugs; and if you are testing it, that is surely a sign that you have given up on any hope to prove its correctness. Accordingly, proofs and tests have, since the onset of software engineering research, been pursued by distinct communities using rather different techniques and tools. And yet the development of both approaches leads to the discovery of common issues and to the realization that each may need the other. The emergence of model checking has been one of the first signs that contradiction may yield to complementarity, but in the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. The conference will include a mix of invited and submitted presentation, and a generous allocation of panels and informal discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS * Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research) * Boutheina Chetali (Security Research Group Manager at Gemalto) ACCEPTED PAPERS * "Development of a generic voter under FoCal" by Philippe Ayrault, Th?r?se Hardin and Fran?ois Pessaux * "Combining Satisfiability Solving and Heuristics to Constrained Combinatorial Interaction Testing" by Andrea Calvagna and Angelo Gargantini * "Incorporating Historical Test Case Performance Data and Resource Constraints into Test Case Prioritization" by Yalda Fazlalizadeh, Alireza Khalilian, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi and Saeed Parsa * "Complementary Criteria for Testing Temporal Logic Properties" by Gordon Fraser and Franz Wotawa * "Could we have chosen a better Loop Invariant or Method Contract?" by Christoph Gladisch * "Consistency, Independence and Consequences in UML and OCL Models" by Martin Gogolla, Mirco Kuhlmann and Lars Hamann * "Dynamic Symbolic Execution for Testing Distributed Objects" by Andreas Griesmayer, Bernhard K. Aichernig, Einar Broch Johnsen and Rudolf Schlatte * "Combining Model Checking and Testing in a Continuous HW/SW Co-Verification Process" by Paula Herber, Florian Friedemann and Sabine Glesner * "Symbolic execution based model checking of open systems with unbounded variables" by Nicolas Rapin * "Finding Errors of Hybrid Systems by Optimising an Abstraction-Based Quality Estimate" by Stefan Ratschan and Jan-Georg Smaus * "Nitpick: A Counterexample Generator for Higher-Order Logic Based on a Relational Model Finder" by Jasmin Christian Blanchette and Tobias Nipkow * "Tool demonstration: Euclide" by Benjamin Cama, Arnaud Gotlieb and Guillermo Andrade-Barroso * "Incremental, two-level deadlock analysis for incomplete Java Card 3.0 programs" by Rebekka Neumann, Michael Thies and Uwe Kastens REGISTRATION Details can be found at http://tap.ethz.ch/2009/registration.html The early registration deadline is *7 June 2009*. CHAIRS AND COMMITTEES CHAIRS * Conference chair: Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Program chair: Catherine Dubois, Evry, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria * Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany * Patrice Chalin, Concordia University, Canada * Yoonsik Cheon, University of Texas at El Paso, USA * Koen Claessen, Chalmers, Sweden * Gilles Dowek, ?cole Polytechnique, France * Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo, Italy * Arnaud Gotlieb, IRISA, France * Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research, USA * Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers, Sweden * Ewen Maclean, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Karl Meinke, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Sam Owre, SRI International, USA * Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA * Mark Utting, Waikato University, New Zealand ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Yi Wei, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Stephan van Staden, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Claudia G?nthart, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Further information about the TAP 2009 conference can be found at: http://tap.ethz.ch/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Marie-Claude.Gaudel at lri.fr Tue Jun 9 17:18:55 2009 From: Marie-Claude.Gaudel at lri.fr (Marie-Claude.Gaudel at lri.fr) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:18:55 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] First call for contributions to IEEE ICST 2010, Paris Message-ID: <20090609151856.55B46E0584@smtp.lri.fr> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2010) April 6-9 2010, Paris, France http://vps.it-sudparis.eu/icst2010/ Validation, testing and verification activities are already flourishing areas with an active participation of a large community of researchers, experts and industrials. This community is highly aware of the importance and impact of testing on the future deployment and use of software and software intensive systems. As illustrated during the two previous successful ICST editions, intensive research activities are being carried out in software testing, verification and validation areas. Many new important issues and challenges are constantly being raised leading to new research and industrial projects. The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST) is the premier conference in these areas. ICST welcomes research papers as well as industrial experience reports from software development and testing practitioners. Two tracks will be organised to select the accepted papers. For the research papers, we are looking for high quality papers presenting original work. Industrial papers should address practical software testing and quality improvement challenges and implementations, presenting empirical results or reporting on open problems/challenges. All papers should discuss broader implications and usage of the topics addressed. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, a Wiley journal. Important dates Papers Submission of abstracts: September 25, 2009 Submission of full papers: October 2, 2009 Notification: December 18, 2009 Camera-ready: January 15, 2010 Workshops Submission of proposals: September 25, 2009 Notification: November 2, 2009 Date of conference: April 6-9 2010 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software testing theory and practice - Model-based testing - Domain specific testing including, security testing, web services testing, database testing, embedded software testing, and OO software testing - Verification & validation - Quality assurance - Model checking - Empirical studies - Metrics - Fuzz testing - Inspections -Tools - Testability and diagnosability - Design for testability - Testing education - Testing in multidisciplinary applications - Technology transfer - Model-driven engineering and testing - Agile/iterative/incremental testing processes - Open source software/3rd party software testing - Novel approaches to software reliability assessment General Chair : Marie-Claude Gaudel, Univ. Paris-Sud XI, France Program Chairs Ana Cavalli, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Paul Ammann, George Mason University, USA Beno?t Baudry, IRISA, France Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunh?fer Institute, Germany Ph.D. Symposium Chairs Atif Memon, University of Maryland, USA Manuel Nu?ez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Spain Fatiha Zaidi, Univ. Paris-Sud XI , France Industry Chairs Paul Baker, Motorola, UK Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA Dominique Potier, System at tic, France Andreas Ulrich, Siemens Publicity Chairs Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary, Canada Yves Le Traon, Telecom Bretagne, France Eliane Martins, UniCamp, Brazil Local Arrangements Chairs Jean Leneutre, Telecom ParisTech, France Amel Mammar, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Webmaster Stephane Maag, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Steering Committee Anneliese Andrews , USA Benoit Baudry (vice-Chair), France Lionel Briand, Norway Mark Harman, UK Rob Hierons, UK Yves Le Traon, France Jeff Offutt (Chair), USA Per Runeson, Sweden Clay Williams, USA From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Mon Jun 8 09:02:26 2009 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:02:26 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009) Message-ID: <4A2CB782.7000908@csd.auth.gr> [Apologies for multiple postings] Call for Papers RuleML 2009 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://2009.ruleml.org/ co-located with the 12th Business Rules Forum ---------------------------- Latest news * Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration * Keynote by Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Contact - The Future of Rule Interchange * New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes * Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, and joint BRF/RuleML lunch panel on Web Rules Sponsored by =================================================================== Franz Inc NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd Corporate Semantic Web Logic Programming Associated Ltd ruleCore JBoss Modelsystems Ltd =================================================================== Overview and Aim =================================================================== The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks, and thus will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. Conference Theme =================================================================== This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: Track Topics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule Transformation and Extraction - Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and OCL - Extraction of rules from code - Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM (Knowledge Discovery meta-model) - Extraction of rules from natural language - Transformation or rules from one dialect into another Rules and Uncertainty - Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules - Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with uncertain or incomplete information - Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty - Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules, reactive rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or transformation rules Rules and Norms - Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules - Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among rule - The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes - Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation - Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning - E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies Rule-based Game AI - Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design - Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality - Rules for multi-agent/character games - Rules for serious games - Rule-based agent design Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules - Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies) - State management approaches and frameworks - Concurrency control and scalability - Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination, lifecycle management - Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule- based CEP) - Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture those - Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Processes Modeling and Management - Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.) Rules and Cross Industry Standards - Rules in Current Industry Standards, including: - XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language - MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org - FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language - FpML: Financial products Markup Language - HL7: Health Level 7 - Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (Insurance Industry) - Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk, etc - Rules and Corporate Actions General Rule Topics - Rules and ontologies - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - From rules to FOL to modal logics - Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification - Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming - Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Miscellaneous rule topics Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged. RuleML-2009 Challenge =================================================================== The RuleML-2009 Demo Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. We invite submissions of demo papers and demos where rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Submissions are solicited in these categories: - Benchmarks (test cases, suites) with evaluations of (their own, other) rule engines and/or rule translators, possibly drawing on our growing pool at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw - Case studies (use cases) implemented via engines/translators employing rule standards such as RIF, RuleML, CLIPS, Common Logic, SBVR, and ISO Prolog. We welcome all demos about tools and applications using rules such as: - Derivation rules, including query and integrity rules - ECA rules, including production rules, reaction rules, and rule-based CEP languages Authors of demo are also invited to submit a Challenge demo paper for publications in the conference proceedings, see the submission section below for submission details. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A submission to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that: Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the RuleML conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. For more details and the demo site web link please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge website: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw Student Grant Awards =================================================================== Two travel grants are available to students who are authors or co-authors of papers or demos accepted for presentation at the symposium. The grants include free registration and cover travel expenses up to 1000 dollars. Conference Language =================================================================== The official language of the conference will be English. Submission =================================================================== Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009 as: Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9, 2009 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2009. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. In case of product demos, the link can be password-protected: please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest and preferably exhibit some of the additional desiderata. The more desiderata are met by an application, the higher the score will be. The demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009 Program Committee and prizes will be awarded to the two best applications, sponsored by the RuleML Inc. non-profit organization. Review Process =================================================================== The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission. Important Dates: =================================================================== Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009 Paper Submission deadline: June 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009 Camera ready due: August 9, 2009 Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009 RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009 Conference Venue =================================================================== RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the Business Rules Forum. Keynote Speakers =================================================================== - Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact The Future of Rule Interchange - TBA Programme Committee =================================================================== General Chair -------------------- Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Program Chairs -------------------- Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia John Hall, Model Systems, UK Liaison Chair -------------------- Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publicity Chair -------------------- William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada Track Chairs Rule Transformation and Extraction -------------------- Erik Putrycz, Canada Mark Linehan, IBM, USA Rules and Uncertainty -------------------- Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy Rules and Norms -------------------- Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy Rule-based Game AI -------------------- Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules -------------------- Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany Rules and Cross Industry Standards -------------------- Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA Robert Golan, DBMind, USA RuleML Challenge -------------------- Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH, Austria Program Committee Members -------------------- http://2009.ruleml.org/pc RuleML 2009 Sponsors =================================================================== Silver Sponsors -------------------- NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd Corporate Semantic Web Franz Inc Bronze Sponsors -------------------- Logic Programming Associated Ltd ruleCore jBoss Modelsystems Ltd RuleML 2009 Partners =================================================================== W3C, World Wide Web Consortium OMG, Object Management Group ACM, Association for Computer Machinery AAAI ECCAI International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law ACM SigMis ACM SigArt Belgian Business Rules Forum MIT Sloan CIO Symposium EPTS, Event Processing Technical Society BPM Forum Belgium October Rules Fest SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems From paolo.bellavista at unibo.it Tue Jun 9 11:41:26 2009 From: paolo.bellavista at unibo.it (Paolo Bellavista) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:41:26 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE NetSCAN'09 cfp: deadline extended to June 29 Message-ID: =================================================================== Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP =================================================================== Dear Colleagues, Please find below the call for papers of the IEEE NetSCAN 2009 Workshop. Many thanks for submitting your manuscripts and for the supportive efforts like advertisement of the event. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Network Science for Complex and Advanced Networks (NetSCAN) October 12 - 14, 2009 - Saint Petersburg - Russia http://netscan.netmode.ntua.gr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE OF NetSCAN ---------------- Network Science has emerged as a self-contained field of study devoted to the modeling and analysis of complex networks in various and diverse application scenarios. Telecommunications, social, biological and economic networks, among others, exhibit common structures and properties that can be uniformly studied. Network Science offers a common analysis platform that allows drawing connections and mappings between different research areas and transferring knowledge, experience and techniques among them. The objective of this workshop is to present theoretical advances and practical applications in the field of complex and evolving networks with imminent implications for telecommunications networks. The workshop will be highly interested in efficient methodologies, frameworks and approaches inspired by other network disciplines, such as social and biological networks, for solving efficiently problems appearing in telecommunications networks and vice-versa. This workshop aspires to provide a forum to share experience, propose new ideas and promote discussion and collaboration in the field of Network Science in general and specifically in the subject of evolving complex networks that are closely related to next generation communications networks. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ - Complex/evolving networks - Interweaved telecommunications-social networks - Applications of communications networks and social networks - Topology characterization and inference - Novel network topologies/architectures - Resilience and fault-tolerant networks - Self-organizing networks - Self-optimized autonomic networks - Network control - Trust & privacy establishment in complex/evolving networks - Bio-inspired networks - Distributed network computation - Distributed network optimization - Simulation and modeling tools for networks - Performance assessment criteria and methodologies IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): June 29 Notification of acceptance: July 20 Camera-ready due: August 15 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and published in IEEE Explore. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EDAS system in pdf format, not to exceed 6 pages, and they should follow the IEEE conference format. WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Symeon Papavassiliou - NTUA, Greece TPC CHAIRS ------------------ Vasileios Karyotis - NTUA, Greece Ivan Stojmenovic - Univ. of Ottawa, Canada PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Paolo Bellavista - University of Bologna, Italy TPC MEMBERS ----------- Antonakopoulos Spyridon Columbia University Bi Wei Barclays Capital/Princeton University Chaporkar Prasana IIT Bombay Cheng Xiuzhen (Susan) The George Washington University De Swades IIT Delhi Fazio Maria University of Messina Guha K. 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These paradigms expose applications to numerous, ever-growing security threats. However, many areas of security are still only partially addressed w.r.t. middleware. Examples are identity management, privacy and anonymity, accountability, application protection, and so on. While more conventional research results in the above-mentioned areas of middleware security are appreciated, this year the MidSec workshop will particularly welcome papers in the area of security measures for lightweight composition. Papers are sought after from two complementary angles: middleware platforms and software architectures. Mashup editors provide an easy-to-use facility that brings the power of software composition at the fingertips of any Internet-connected user. The mashup model is catching the enterprise world as well; it all started with situational applications and it is currently spreading further. Ready or not, here it comes. We are about to face times where application composition will be less and less rigid and hence will more and more resemble organized chaos. Enforcing sound security principles in such a muddled environment is an interesting research challenge for both the middleware and the software architecture communities. On one hand, software architectures modeling techniques must provide suitable abstractions to represent and address the above (and many other) security concerns. On the other hand, middleware platforms should support such abstractions in a natural, usable way. The topics of interest for papers include, but are not limited to: * Middleware security and privacy * Security and privacy in agent-based platforms * Context-sensitive security middleware * Security and privacy in aspect-based middleware * Security and privacy in service-oriented architectures * Middleware-level security monitoring and measurement * Middleware-driven lightweight secure composition * Architecture-driven lightweight secure composition * Security and privacy in enterprise mashups * Usability and security in lightweight composition IMPORTANT DATES Submission of paper: August 1, 2009 Acceptance notification: September 15, 2009 Submission of camera-ready: October 1, 2009 Workshop: November 30, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The workshop solicits original research papers in any of the above-mentioned topics. The workshop organizers also solicit relevant experience results from industry experts. Papers should not exceed 6 pages and should be prepared according to the standard ACM format. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and made available through the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZERS Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE Giovanni Russello, CREATE-NET, IT WEB CHAIR Tom Goovaerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK David Chadiwck, University of Kent, UK Bart De Win, Ascure, BE Changyu Dong, Imperial College, UK Naranker Dulay, Imperial College, UK David Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Fabio Martinelli, National Research Centre, IT Federica Paci, University of Trento, IT Anand Ranganathan, IBM Watson Centre, US Andreas Schmidt, Create-net, IT Roshan Thomas, Cobham Analytic Solutions, US Simon Tsang, Telecordia, US Tine Verhanneman, Atos, BE Ian Welch, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From icse2010 at yahoo.com Wed Jun 10 22:53:06 2009 From: icse2010 at yahoo.com (Frances Paulisch) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Submissions of Papers, Workshops, Tutorials - ICSE 2010 (Cape Town, South Africa) Message-ID: <601233.52455.qm@web111820.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Call for Submissions of Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals ? 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) ? May 2-8, 2010 Cape Town, South Africa ?NEW HORIZONS ? ICSE is the premier international event for software engineering. It provides a world class forum for software engineering professionals from industry, government and academia to hear about and discuss the latest developments, trends and innovations in software engineering. ? ICSE encompasses a conference programme, technical tutorials and workshops, a programme of demonstrations and an exhibition along with social functions to provide an ideal opportunity to learn and network with like-minded colleagues from around the world. ? ICSE 2010 will take place in Cape Town, one of the world's most beautiful cities, at a world-class Convention Centre, organised by a top international team. ? The ICSE 2010 includes: - Technical/Research Papers Track - Workshops - Tutorials - Software Engineering Education Track - Software Engineering in Practice Track - Doctoral Symposium - Emerging Faculty Symposium - Research Demonstrations - New and Emerging Results Track ? The submission deadlines are: - Technical/Research Papers: Sept. 6, 2009 - Workshop Proposals: Sep. 17, 2009 - Tutorial Proposals: Oct 5, 2009 - Education Papers: Oct. 5, 2009 - Software Engineering in Practice Track: Oct 5, 2009 - Doctoral Symposium Papers: Nov. 26, 2009 - Emerging Faculty Symposium Participation: Nov. 26, 2009 - Research Demonstration Papers: Jan. 7, 2010 - New and Emerging Results Papers: Jan. 7, 2010 ? All information on the ICSE 2010 including the various Calls for Submissions can be found at ?Topics of interest for ICSE include, but are not limited to: - Agile software development - AI and knowledge based software engineering - Aspect-orientation and feature interaction - Computer supported cooperative work - Empirical software engineering - End user software engineering - Engineering for mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive systems - Engineering of distributed/parallel software systems - Engineering of embedded and real-time software - Engineering secure software - Human-computer interaction - Internet and information systems development - Patterns and frameworks - Program comprehension and visualization - Programming languages - Reverse engineering and maintenance - Software architecture and design - Software components and reuse - Software configuration management and deployment - Software dependability, safety and reliability - Software economics and metrics - Software policy and ethics - Software processes and workflows - Software requirements engineering - Software testing and analysis - Software tools and development environments - Theory and formal methods ? GENERAL CHAIRS: Jeff Kramer, Imperial College, London, UK Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa ? PROGRAM CHAIRS: Prem Devanbu, University of California at Davis, USA Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College, London, UK / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina ? TUTORIAL CHAIRS: Harold Ossher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Frances Paulisch, Siemens AG, Germany ? WORKSHOP CHAIRS Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Peri Tarr, IBM, Watson Research Centre (Hawthorne), USA Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy ? WARM-UP WORKSHOP CHAIRS Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA Tesuo Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan ? MOST INFUENTIAL PAPER OF 2000 CHAIR Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK ? DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM Matthew Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA Shing-Chi Cheung, University of Hong-Kong, Hong Kong ? EMERGING FACULTY SYMPOSIUM Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, Canada Andreas Zeller, University of Saarland, Germany ? SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano, Switzerland ? RESEARCH DEMONSTRATIONS TRACK Andrea Zisman, City University, London, UK Cornelius Ncube, University of Bournemouth, UK ? EXHIBITS CHAIRS Peter Aspinall, SBS, South Africa Tony Parry, CSSA, South Africa ? SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN PRACTICE TRACK CHAIRS Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Ingolf Krueger, University of California at San Diego, USA ? NEW AND EMERGING RESULTS TRACK Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research, USA Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada ? AWARDS CHAIR Leon Osterweil, University of Massachussets, USA ? STUDENT VOLUNTEERS CHAIR Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Clara, USA ? PUBLICITY CHAIR Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada ? LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS and CONFERENCE DIRECTOR Peter Aspinall, SBS, South Africa ? PROGRAM COMMITTEE (of Research/Technical Track) Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy Victor Braberman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Lionel Briand, Simula Research Lab / University of Oslo, Norway Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland Satish Chandra, IBM Research, USA Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Jin-Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore? Matthew Dwyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Wolfgang Emerich, Univeristy College London, UK Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dimitra Giannakopoulou, CMU / NASA Ames, USA Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University, Austria John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand Ahmed Hassan, Queen's University, Canada James Herbsleb, CMU, USA Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ingolf Kruger, University of California San Diego, USA Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Emanuel Letier, University College London, UK Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs Research, USA Amy L. Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation-IRST, Italy Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research,?USA Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK Allesandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA? Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research, India Yannis Smargadakis, University of Massachusetts, USA Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada Zhendong Su, University of California - Davis, USA Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia, USA Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Alexander Wolf, Imperial College London, UK Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany ? Sponsored by: ACM SIGSOFT IEEE Computer Society Technical Council of Software Engineering Computer Society of South Africa ? 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URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090610/e5278e99/attachment-0001.html From patrick.maeder at tu-ilmenau.de Thu Jun 11 03:38:40 2009 From: patrick.maeder at tu-ilmenau.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrick_M=E4der?=) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:38:40 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Participation: RE'09 Message-ID: Call for Participation 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09) 31 August - 4 September 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA www.re09.org The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference provides the premier international forum for researchers, educators, industrial practitioners and students to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering. The RE'09 conference program includes 4 internationally recognized keynote speakers, 13 cutting edge tutorials, 8 leading workshops and a full program of research and industrial papers. For details of the full conference program, please visit: www.re09.org. ------------ REGISTRATION ------------ Register NOW at www.re09.org. Early registration fees apply to registrations made before July 20th, 2009. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RE'09 CONFERENCE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ---------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------- ++ James D. Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University ++ "On the Diminishing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Requirements" ++ Daryl Plummer, Gartner Inc. ++ "Cloud Computing: Engineering the Requirements for 'Everything as a Service'" ++ Alistair Sutcliffe, University of Manchester ++ "People, Machines and Domains: Bridging the Gulfs between Worlds" ++ Dave West, Forrester Research Inc. ++ "Delivering Business Value with Agile Approaches to Requirements" --------- TUTORIALS --------- Tutorials are either full day or half day and include a range of cutting edge topics. -- Monday, August 31st, 2009 -- ++ Design science research methodology: Principles and practice ++ Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, full day ++ Reducing omission errors using cross product models ++ Shmuel Ur, IBM Haifa, full day ++ Product Management for Software and Systems ++ Christof Ebert, Vector, full day ++ The User Requirements Notation (URN) and Aspects ++ Gunter Mussbacher and Daniel Amyot, SITE, University of Ottawa, full day ++ Change Agency for Requirements Engineers ++ Erik Simmons, Intel, full day -- Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 -- ++ Selective Homeworkless Reviews ++ Shmuel Ur, IBM Haifa, full day ++ Roadmap to Success: Scope Modeling ++ Mary Gorman, EBG Consulting Inc., full day ++ Risk Focused Requirements Management, Discovering the opportunities, exposing the hazards ++ Donald C. Gause, Consultant, full day ++ The "Physics" of Notations: A Scientific Approach to Designing Visual Notations in Requirements Engineering ++ Daniel Moody, University of Twente, full day ++ Use of Quality Models in Requirements Engineering and their Application on OTS Components Selection ++ Juan Pablo Carvallo, Etapatelecom, Ecuador, Xavier Franch, UPC, Spain, 1/2 day (am) ++ Modeling the Flow of Requirements: Improved Communication and Documentation in Software Projects ++ Kurt Schneider and Kai Stapel, University of Hannover, 1/2 day (pm) ++ Good RE for Interface Requirements and Allocation and Traceability ++ Ivy Hooks, CEO Compliance Automation Inc. (CAI), 1/2 day (am) ++ Requirements Engineering for Large and Very Large Scale Systems ++ Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research, 1/2 day (pm) ---------------------- WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------- Workshop paper submission is STILL open -- please look at the website www.re09.org for specific details and dates. -- Monday, August 31st, 2009 -- ++ CIRCUS'09 ++ First International Workshop on Collaboration and Intercultural Issues on Requirements: Communication, Understanding and Softskills Papers due: June 21, 2009 ++ REET'09 ++ Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training Papers due: June 29, 2009 ++ REV'09 ++ Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization Papers due: June 22, 2009 ++ RE-Vote'09 ++ First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for E-voting Systems Papers due: 4 July, 2009 -- Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 -- ++ IWSPM'09 ++ Third International Workshop on Software Product Management Papers due: June 26, 2009 ++ MaRK'09 ++ Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge Papers due: June 15, 2009 ++ RELAW'09 ++ Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law Papers due: 10 July, 2009 ++ RHET'09 ++ First International Workshop on The Rhetoric of Requirements Papers due: June 25, 2009 -------------- RESEARCH TRACK -------------- ++ Research papers presenting the latest results in requirements engineering research ++ ++ Panels, posters and research tool demonstrations ++ ------------------ PRACTITIONER TRACK ------------------ In parallel to the scientific program, RE'09 has a track that specifically addresses practitioners, featuring invited talks by industrial experts, mini-tutorials, tool experience talks and industrial practice papers. ------------------------------------ CALL FOR TOOL EXHIBITION SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------ Companies who wish to exhibit and demonstrate requirements engineering support tools should contact Richard Welke (rwelke at ceprin.org). Space will be available in the exhibition area and tool demonstrations will be scheduled during coffee breaks and as part of the demonstrations session. There will be charge for commercial tool exhibits depending on the space required. Exhibition proposals will be considered whilst there is room in the conference exhibition space. ------------------ DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ------------------ The Doctoral Symposium is a one-day workshop that gives Doctoral students the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback in a constructive and international atmosphere. ------------------ STUDENT VOLUNTEERS ------------------ We are looking for Masters and PhD students to help us run the conference. In return for about 12-16 hours of their time, student volunteers will receive a complimentary registration. Apply by June 15 to Carl Stucke (cstucke at gsu.edu). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RE'09 THEME & ORGANIZATION... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ---------------------------------------------- REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING: the Essential Bridge ---------------------------------------------- The world is becoming ever more dependent on software intensive systems. They are central to our economy, to our society, to the services we depend upon and, increasingly to the very survival of the global ecosystem. Despite many failures, some of them very well publicized, the engineering of such systems has improved consistently over the past few decades. However many challenges remain. Every computer-based system involves relating the myriad, informal facets of the real world to the intricate and formal specifics of a software system. Understanding potentials or details of software systems is not expected of stakeholders, who have their own specialized concerns. Similarly, the eager and technologically capable developers are not expected to understand the nuances of the many domains where software applies. Requirements Engineering (RE) is the essential capability that can bridge the two perspectives. The RE activity is multi- disciplinary. When defining the requirements of major systems we must bring to bear expertise from a wide range of specialisms such as Human- Computer Interaction, Systems Modeling, and Security. The RE research field builds the effective bridges between these and other sub- disciplines of the Computer Science and Information Systems fields. The many computer-based system needs of business and society are often contradictory, inadequately defined, and rapidly changing. RE helps stakeholders communicate, helping to reconcile their conflicts, clarify their goals, and reflect their priorities. If our society is to seek a better future we will need all of the models, methods, and tools that RE can provide. -------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- ++General Chair++ William Robinson, Georgia State University, USA ++Program Chair++ Kevin Ryan, Lero - University of Limerick, Ireland ++Local Arrangements++ Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA ++Financial Chair++ Thomas A. Alspaugh, UCI, USA ++Practitioner Track++ Brian Berenbach, Siemens, USA Erik Simmons, Intel, USA ++Workshops++ Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA Marjo Kauppinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ++Tutorials++ Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada ++Doctoral Symposium++ Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ++Posters++ Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada Andrea Zisman, City University, UK ++Publicity++ Olly Gotel, Pace University, USA Patrick Maeder, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany ++Proceedings++ Susan Mitchell, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland ++Local Organization++ Yi Ding, Webmaster David McDonald, Registration Carl Stucke, Student Volunteers Radu Vlas, Demos -------- SPONSORS -------- Institutional Support: IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGSOFT, Atlanta SPIN, INCOSE, IFIP WG 2.9, Georgia State University, and Lero - University of Limerick. Corporate Sponsors: ABB, IREB, Siemens, Cisco, NSF, and Springer. ------------- PROGRAM BOARD ------------- Jane Cleland-Huang, USA Carlo Ghezzi, Italy Martin Glinz, Switzerland Olly Gotel, USA Mats Heimdal, USA Patrick Heymans, Belgium Neil Maiden, UK Klaus Pohl, Germany Bjoern Regnell, Sweden Colette Rolland, France Alistair Sutcliffe, UK Tetsuo Tamai, Japan Roel Wieringa, The Netherlands ----------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Ian Alexander, UK Annie Anton, USA Mikio Aoyama, Japan Brian Berenbach, USA Daniel Berry, Canada Jaelson Castro, Brazil Marsha Chechik, Canada Lawrence Chung, USA Daniela Damian, Canada Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Christof Ebert, Germany Martin Feather, USA Anthony Finkelstein, UK Xavier Franch, Spain Donald Gause, USA Michael Goedicke, Germany Connie Heitmeyer, USA Ann Hickey, USA Marina Jirotka, UK Haruhiko Kaiya, Japan Kyo Kang, Korea Marjo Kauppinen, Finland Soeren Lauesen, Denmark Julio Leite, Brazil Michel Lemoine, France Emmanuel Letier, UK Peri Loucopoulos, UK Robyn Lutz, USA Kalle Lyytinen, USA Nazim Madhavji, Canada John Mylopoulos, Canada Andreas Opdahl, Norway Oscar Pastor, Spain Norah Power, Ireland Bala Ramesh, USA Suzanne Robertson, UK Motoshi Saeki, Japan Camille Salinesi, France Erik Simmons, USA Guttorm Sindre, Norway Eric Yu, Canada Wei Zhang, China Andrea Zisman, UK Didar Zowghi, Australia For additional information please contact the general chair William Robinson (wrobinson at gsu.edu) or program chair Kevin Ryan (kevin.ryan at lero.ie). From Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Fri Jun 12 00:40:26 2009 From: Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:40:26 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] Thirty years of the Ada User Journal, Ada-Europe Reports Message-ID: <200906112240.n5BMeQr07380@bollie.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thirty years of the Ada User Journal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BREST, France (June 11, 2009) - On the occasion of Ada-Europe 2009, the 14th annual Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes the knowledge and use of Ada in European academia, research and industry, inaugurated the celebrations of the 30th Anniversary of the Ada User Journal. Ada User Journal, the quarterly publication of Ada-Europe, keeps its readership abreast of developments in the standardization, use and promotion of the Ada programming language and technology, as well as issues related with reliable software technologies and engineering in Europe and the rest of the world. The Journal also currently maintains an on-line accessible archive of past editions since early 2002. The origins of the Ada User Journal date back to the birth of Ada UK News, which started publication in March 1980. As the first Editor, Prof. Ian Pyle, at the time Chair of Computer Science at the University of York, UK, put it in his inaugural Editorial, Ada has elicited interest in both the industrial and academic worlds. Perhaps for the first time we can find ourselves pulling in the same direction to the benefit of us all. This is an opportunity for bridging the industrial/academic gulf which we must not lose. And in fact this vision is still one of the cornerstones of the Journal Editorial policy. The current name of the Journal first appeared in Volume 15 in the year 1994, when it was still published by Ada UK. Ada-Europe published the Ada-Europe News since June 1989, until it was merged with the Ada User Journal in March 1998. From that time onward, Ada-Europe and Ada UK jointly published the Journal until Ada-Europe took over as the sole publisher from Volume 23 in 2002. To mark this anniversary celebration, the March 2009 issue of the Ada User Journal features a special article entitled Thirty years of the Ada User Journal, which recalls its three decades of history. Celebratory posters were also exhibited at the Ada-Europe 2009 conference. A special issue of the Journal, to be released in March 2010, will reprint a selection of the best articles published in the Journal over the past 30 years. About Ada-Europe Ada-Europe is the international non-profit organization that promotes the knowledge and use of Ada into academia, research and industry in Europe. Current member organizations of Ada-Europe are: Ada-Belgium, Ada in Denmark, Ada-Deutschland, Ada-France, Ada-Spain, Ada in Sweden and Ada-Switzerland. Ada-Europe also includes and welcomes individual members from other European countries with no national organization, and has a total membership in the region of 300. Press contact Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe Vice-President Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be A PDF version of this press release is available at www.ada-europe.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From romain.rouvoy at lifl.fr Thu Jun 11 16:12:29 2009 From: romain.rouvoy at lifl.fr (Romain Rouvoy) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:12:29 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware - Call For Papers Message-ID: Apologizes for multiple receptions of this announcement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'09) December 1st 2009, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA collocated with Middleware 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~gracep/ARM2009 Call For Papers Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT-8 (US Pacific Time) * Paper, poster and demo submissions: August 1st, 2009 * Aceptance notification: September 15th, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: October 8th, 2009 * Workshop: December 1st, 2009 Theme ----- Next generation middleware systems will require a high degree of flexibility with regards to the diversity of situation they can be used for (from wireless sensor networks to large-scale grids). The challenges for these middleware solutions therefore consists in adapting to the diversity of platforms and networks as well as the fluctuating operating conditions while preserving their quality of service. The goal of the ARM workshop series ( RM2000, RM2003, ARM'04, ARM'05, ARM'06, ARM'07, ARM'08) is to bring together researchers working on techniques and middleware platforms to engineer dynamic adaptations in distributed systems. In particular this 8th incarnation welcomes contributions about the following issues related to adaptive middleware in the face of increasing scale and complexity of distributed systems (e.g. from the emergence of Systems of Systems and Cloud computing): * Heterogeneity: middleware solutions enabling the adaptation of systems-of-systems, i.e., systems spanning different technologies and environments, and/or covering the system layers (e.g., devices, OSs, networks, applications); * Dependability: middleware techniques enabling adaptive dependability and/or dependable adaptations to improve the resilience of adaptive systems to software and/or hardware faults; * Sustainability: middleware platforms enhancing the sustainability of systems to support the diverse evolutions of a system. This topic also includes the definition of reusable methodologies and techniques for adapting various systems; * Scalability: middleware techniques to support the large-scale adaptations of systems, including: peer-to-peer platforms; network- centric systems; grid computing; cloud computing; sensor networks; and pervasive and mobile applications. * Security: middleware mechanisms tackling the issues related to the security of adaptive systems. This topic encloses mechanisms to improve the security of adaptive systems or to apply adaptation technics to enhance security solutions. For each of these issues, the workshop is interested in contributions to the scenario, the indicators, and in particular the metrics used to assess the quality of the proposed solutions. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and performance of adaptive and/or reflective middleware platforms; * Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in specific domains-e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, mobile computing, grid computing, P2P, Systems-of-Systems etc; * Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms including network, OS and device level techniques; * Adaptation and reflection in heterogeneous execution paradigms e.g. P2P networks, network-centric computing; * Incorporating non-functional properties into middleware-real- time, fault-tolerance, security, trust, privacy, etc.; * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as it relates to middleware; * Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective techniques; * Evaluation methodologies for adaptive and reflective middleware; * Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies; * Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware; * Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive and reflective mechanisms; * Software engineering methodologies for the design and development of adaptive middleware. Submission Guidelines --------------------- We invite the following three types of submission to the workshop: * Research papers should not exceed 6 pages of text on letter paper in ACM format without page numbers. * Poster submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract describing the poster content in ACM format without page numbers; this offers the opportunity to present and receive feedback at the workshop about work still in its early stages. * Demo submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract in ACM format without page numbers describing the contribution and content of the demo; we are particularly interested in demonstrations of adaptive middleware tools and solutions. Papers will be peer-reviewed (by at least 3 reviewers), and selected based on their originality, technical strength and topical relevance. One of the authors of an accepted submission must attend the workshop and present their work as a condition of publication. A dedicated session of the workshop will be held for the presentation of posters and demos. Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All papers and abstracts should be submitted in either PDF or PS format to the ARM'09 EasyChair online submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arm2009. Program Chairs -------------- * Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway * Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK Contact: p.grace(at)lancaster(dot)ac(dot)uk Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Anders Andersen, University of Troms?, Norway * Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK * Licia Capra, University College London, UK * Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil * Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias, Brazil * Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK * Edward Curry, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland * Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway * Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Francisco Jose da Silva e Silva , Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil * Peter Komisarczuk, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil * Thomas Ledoux, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France * Joseph Loyal, BBN Technologies, USA * Philippe Merle, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France * Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA * Richard Staehli, Expeditors International, Seattle, Washington, USA * Alexandre Sztajnberg, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Luis Veiga, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal * Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA * Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA * Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Organising Committee -------------------- * Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil * Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK * Fabio M. Costa, Federal U. of Goias, Brazil * Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK * Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA From s.crone at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Jun 10 20:09:05 2009 From: s.crone at lancaster.ac.uk (Forecasting Training) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:09:05 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Workshop on Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction, Stellenbosch, South Africa Message-ID: <20090610.OHEFIIITEVWFXBIG@lancaster.ac.uk> Call for participation ================================================ 1st Hands-on Training Workshop on Forecasting & Time Series Predictions with Artificial Neural Networks 17-19 September 2009 Wallenberg Centre, Institute of Advanced Study Stellenbosch University, South Africa www.bis-lab.com/tutorials/orssa09_tutorial.html ================================================= You are invited to participate in a 3-day training workshop on Forecasting and Time Series Prediction with Artificial Neural Networks, to be held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA'09), Stellenbosch, South Africa (www.orssaconf.co.za). ===================== Course description: ===================== Artificial neural networks (NN) have revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners solve complex, real-world problems in business, finance, economics, and engineering. Today, NNs are being routinely used by specialists in a wide range of predictive tasks such as forecasting electrical load, financial data, consumer packaged goods in retail and supply chain management, call volumes in call centres etc. However, their modelling and specification requires expert knowledge often not available in companies. We are pleased to announce the first 3-day NN training workshop on time series prediction and forecasting to be held right here in South Africa. ===================== Course design: ===================== The course will be 3 full days of maths-lite lectures and hands-on exercises using a free NN software simulator ? so bring along your laptop to run experiments! ===================== Target audience: ===================== Whether you are a demand planner, engineer, financial analyst, researcher, or student, the course is designed to help you acquire the knowledge, the skills and the competence you need to utilize this cutting-edge technology for solving predictive problems. You will be exposed to the theoretical concepts and hands-on applications of NN that will be invaluable in your day-to-day decision-making processes. The hands-on format will allow you to follow the course even without a sound mathematical or statistical background. Even if you are already familiar with ANN, you will learn tricks-of-the-trade and explore or develop your own. Don?t miss out! Get your organisation ahead of the competition by equipping yourself with this futuristic technique. ===================== Course Coverage: ===================== History of neural networks, specifying neural network architectures (number of layers, number of nodes, feedback etc.), Backpropagation and other learning algorithms for neural networks, Applications of neural networks in function approximation, linear and nonlinear time series prediction, and nonlinear system identification, hands-on examples in time series and causal modelling, Fundamentals of time series forecasting, Modelling neural networks for smoothing and regression, Evaluating Neural Network forecasting accuracy, Out-of-Sample Empirical Design of Neural Network Experiments ===================== Your Lecturer: ===================== The course will be taught by Dr. Sven F. Crone, Assistant Professor in Management Science at Lancaster University Management School and deputy director of the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, one of the world?s largest research units dedicated to forecasting. With a PhD in neural forecasting, he frequently speaks at international conferences and runs forecasting competitions. Sven regularly teaches forecasting, both at university, in practitioners courses and in tutorials for IBF and IEEE CIS. He has over 8 years of corporate experience, having consulted with companies incl. retailer Tesco UK, manufacturer of FMCG Beiersdorf GER, Chemicals producer Celanese USA, copper producer Codelco Chile, and insurance AXA Switzerland etc. ===================== Software to be used: ===================== Intelligent Forecaster offers industry-grade software (made in Germany) developed exclusively and specifically for time series forecasting with the most up-to-date and advanced methods from Artificial Intelligence: Support Vector Regression (SVR) and artificial Neural Networks (NN). These allow unprecedented accuracy from nonlinear, data-driven and non-parametric prediction. The software provides various expert features (i.e. input-variable & lag-identification, data-preprocessing, ensembles) for multiple forecasting horizons across fixed forecasting horizon, rolling origin evaluation across a set of multiple error measures). [Read more ...] ===================== Acknowledgement: ===================== The workshop is supported by the NRF under the KISC grant scheme. The idea of hosting the NN workshop in South Africa was conceptualised by Dr. Chipo Mlambo during her time as a lecturer in Business Forecasting at the Universiy of Stellenbosch (USB), and it is here that the funding was initially granted. We are grateful to the NRF and colleagues at USB for their kind support of the workshop. ===================== Costs & Registration ===================== Registration Fee for 3 full days: ZAR 3000 (ca. ?260/$365), before 31 July 2009 ZAR 3900 (ca. ?340/$475), after 31 July 2009 The fee includes a NN software simulator on CD for experiments, data, stationery & coffee/tea & lunches. Accommodation is not included - for a list of accommodations please visit the ORSSA conference website (see left) held at the same venue For any enquiries and reservations please contact Dr. Chipo Mlambo via email: Dr Chipo Mlambo University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business Tel: +27 (0)21 406 1442 Fax: +27 (0)21 406 1412 chipo.mlambo at gsb.uct.ac.za From vivien.quema at inrialpes.fr Thu Jun 11 09:03:18 2009 From: vivien.quema at inrialpes.fr (Vivien Quema) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:03:18 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Eurosys 2010: April 13-16, Paris, France Message-ID: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups. ================= ============== EUROSYS 2010 =============== EUROSYS is organised by EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS, sponsored by ACM SIGOPS. It is organized in cooperation with INRIA, CNAM and ACM SIGOPS France (ASF). The EuroSys conference series brings together professionals from academia and industry. It has a strong focus on systems research and development: operating systems, data base systems, real-time systems and middleware for networked, distributed, parallel, or embedded computing systems. As a highly recognized conference - rank 11 out of 581 in terms of 2007 CiteSeer impact factor - EuroSys has become a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software research and development, including implications related to hardware and applications. EuroSys 2010 will follow the pattern established by the previous EuroSys conferences, by seeking papers on all aspects of computer systems. EuroSys 2010 will also include a number of workshops to allow junior and senior members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a conference. ---------------- Submission deadline: October 19, 2009 Conference dates: April 13-16, 2010 Conference location: Paris, France ---------------- General page: http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr Call for papers: http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/calls.html#papers Call for workshops: http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/calls.html#workshops Call for tutorials: http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/calls.html#tutorials ---------------- General chair: Christine Morin, INRIA, France Program chair: Gilles Muller, EMN/INRIA, France Program committee: Emmanuel Cecchet, University of Massachusetts Amherst Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Sasha Fedorova, Simon Fraser University Pascal Felber, University of Neuch?tel Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto Jacob Gorm Hansen, VmWare Robert Grimm, New York University Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales Michael Hohmuth, AMD Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA Rennes Kristoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg Jim Larus, Microsoft Research Redmond Julia Lawall, University of Copenhagen Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano John Regher, University of Utah Wolfgang Schr?der-Preikschat, University of Erlangen Marc Shapiro, INRIA Paris Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstad Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Cambridge Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisboa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Techniques for Software Quality Analysis of Binaries: Applied to Windows and Linux Nathaniel Ayewah and Bill Pugh. Using Checklists to Review Static Analysis Warnings Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk. "Days of the Week" Effect in Predicting the Time taken to Fix Defects [Short Paper] 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 "Unconference"/Discussion 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Program Analysis Cristina Cifuentes, Christian Hoermann, Nathan Keynes, Lian Li, Simon Long, Erica Mealy, Michael Mounteney and Bernhard Scholz. BegBunch -- Benchmarking for C Bug Detection Tools Ian Darwin. AnnaBot: A Static Verifier for Java Annotation Usages Daryl Shannon, Indradeep Ghosh, Sree Rajan and Sarfraz Khurshid. Efficient Symbolic Execution of Strings for Validating Web Applications Fadi Zaraket and Wes Masri. Property Based Coverage Criterion [Short Paper] 17:30-17:35 Workshop Wrap-up THE VENUE DEFECTS 2009 will take place at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza 350 West Mart Center Drive, Chicago, IL 60654, USA http://www.martplaza.com/ To obtain special room rates, a reservation must be made by June 19, 2009. See the ISSTA 2009 Web site for details. REGISTER NOW To register, visit the ISSTA 2009 Web site http://www.cse.msu.edu/issta09/#Registration Early registration ends on June 19, 2009. From Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org Thu Jun 11 19:34:16 2009 From: Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org (Jianguo Ding) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:34:16 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [Tccc] CFP extended to June 30: IEEE MENS2009: International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE MENS 2009 International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009/ in conjunction with International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009) Technically sponsored by IEEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2009 (extended) Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2009 Camera ready version: August 10, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Workshop: More recently, requirements in network management and control have been amended by emerging network and computing models, including wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, overlay networks, Grid networks, optical networks, multimedia networks, storage networks, the convergence of next generation networks (NGN) or even nanonetworks etc. Increasingly ubiquitous network environments require new management strategies, which can cope with resource constraints, multi-federated operations, scalability, dependability, context awareness, security, mobility and probability etc. To bring complex network systems under control, it is necessary for the IT industry to move to autonomic management, context-aware management and self-management systems in which technology itself is used to manage technology. New theoretical approaches are needed in resolving the challenging problems in network management. This workshop will provide a forum to researchers to propose theories and techniques on the management of emerging networks, share their experience of IT and telecommunications industries and discuss future management solutions for emerging networks. Topics: Authors are invited to submit papers in theories and techniques for the management of emerging networks or related areas: - Management of Emerging Networks and Services - Management of Next-Generation Networks - Management of Ad-hoc/Mesh Networks - Management of 3G/4G Networks - Management of Sensor Networks - Resource Management of Wireless Networks - Management of Overlay Networks - Management of VPN - Management of P2P Networks - Management of Grid Architecture - Management of Multimedia Networks - Management of Satellite Networks - Management of Optical Networks - Management of Cognitive Networks - Management of Future Internet - Policy-based Network Management - Bio-inspired Network Management - AI Approaches for Network Management - Control Theory for Network Management - New Theories for Network Management - Autonomic Management - Self-management (Self-*) - Context-aware Management - Converged Networks and Services - Application Reports in IT and Network Industries The workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in relevant databases. Guidelines for Submission: Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explorer. Papers are restricted to a maximum length of 8 pages, including text, figures, references, and appendices, and must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system (http://edas.info/N7849). Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-spaced, double-column pages using the IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.htmlThe cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register and attend the conference. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue. Workshop Chair: Jianguo Ding (Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Co-Chairs: Yevgeni KOUCHERYAVY, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Alexey VINEL, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Technical Program Committee: Finn AAGESEN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Ilangko BALASINGHAM, University of Oslo, Norway Girma BERHE, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pascal BOUVRY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Luca CAVIGLIONE, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Serge CHAUMETTE, University of Bordeaux, France Chao CHEN, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Zesheng CHEN, Florida International University, USA Gregoire DANOY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Franco DAVOLI, University of Genoa, Italy Jianguo DING, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Djamel DJENOURI, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Haibing GUAN, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Frederic Guinand, Le Havre University, France Haiwu HE, INRIA, France Shanshan JIANG, SINTEF, Norway Yuming JIANG, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Yevgeni KOUCHERYAVY, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Peter KROPF, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Xuedong LIANG, University of Oslo, Norway Luoming MENG, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Herwig UNGER, University of Hagen, Germany Alexey VINEL, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the workshop: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009 and the conference: http://www.icumt.org. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ==================================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: 10 August 2009 http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ==================================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports Submission guidelines --------------------- Papers submitted to the workshop must follow the same submission guidelines of the ISWC'09 conference. Submissions must be in PDF format in Springer format (for instruction see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0) We solicit in this workshop two types of contributions: 1. Research papers analysing the process of collaborative construction, management and linkage of structured knowledge; the requirements for supporting technologies and the field of exploitation of such knowledge. Formatted papers must not be longer than 10 pages. 2. Demos papers describing relevant tools and prototypes. Formatted papers must not be longer than 2 pages. Important dates ---------------- Paper submission: 10 August 2009 Notification : 31 August 2009 Workshop : 25 October 2009 Organizing committee --------------------- Tania Tudorache (co-chair), Stanford University Gianluca Correndo (co-chair), University of Southampton Natasha Noy, Stanford University Harith Alani, University of Southampton Mark Greaves, Vulcan inc. Program Committee ------------------ Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, UK S?ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Ken Baklawski, Northeastern University, US Simone Braun, FZI, Germany Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Vinay Chaudhri, SRI international, USA Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA Martin Hepp, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA Peter Mika, Yahoo Research, Spain Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR, Italy Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Gerd Stumme, Universit?t Kassel, Germany Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Germany Anna Zhdanova, FTW, Austria From jlloret at dcom.upv.es Thu Jun 11 23:59:08 2009 From: jlloret at dcom.upv.es (Jaime Lloret Mauri) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:59:08 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ComputationWorld 2009, November 15-20, 2009 - Athens, Greece Message-ID: <200906112159.n5BLx76W024981@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= ComputationWorld 2009, November 15-20, 2009 - Athens, Greece see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ComputationWorld09.html ComputationWorld 2009 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning the areas of computation. The target topics cover future computing techniques (strategies, mechanisms, technologies), service computation (ubiquitous, web services, societal), cognitive support (AI, agents, learning, autonomy), adaptiveness (component/systems, self-features, metrics), creative content technologies, and patterns. Submission (full paper) deadline: June 30, 2009. Submissions must be electronically done using the ?Submit a Paper? button on the entry page of each conference. For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers. Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org). All topics are open to both research and industry contributions. >> FUTURE COMPUTING 2009, The First International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/FUTURECOMPUTING09.html >> SERVICE COMPUTATION 2009, The First International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/SERVICECOMPUTATION09.html >> COGNITIVE 2009, The First International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/COGNITIVE09.html >> ADAPTIVE 2009, The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ADAPTIVE09.html >> CONTENT 2009, The First International Conference on Creative Content Technologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CONTENT09.html >> PATTERNS 2009, The First International Conferences on Pervasive Patterns and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/PATTERNS09.html >> SELFTRUST 2009, The First Workshop on Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/SELFTRUST.html -------------------------------- IARIA Publicity Board ComputationWorld Advisory Committees ------------------------------- From ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl Fri Jun 12 11:26:37 2009 From: ksz at tele.pw.edu.pl (Krzysztof Szczypiorski) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:26:37 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009 (deadline is extended) Message-ID: <4A321F4D.1000203@tele.pw.edu.pl> Call for Papers [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. Please circulate this CfP among your colleagues.] ************************************************************************** First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009 November 18-20, 2009, Wuhan, Hubei, China co-located with International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES 2009) http://stegano.net/workshop ************************************************************************** Network steganography is part of information hiding focused on modern networks and is a method of hiding secret data in users' normal data transmissions, ideally, so it cannot be detected by third parties. Steganographic techniques arise and evolve with the development of network protocols and mechanisms, and are expected to used in secret communication or information sharing. Now, it becomes a hot topic due to the wide spread of information networks, e.g., multimedia service networks and social networks. The workshop is dedicated to capture such areas of research as steganography, steganalysis, and digital forensics in the meaning of network covert channels, investigate the potential applications, and discuss the future research topics. Research themes of workshop will include: - Steganography and steganalysis - Covert/subliminal channels - Novel applications of information hiding in networks - Political and business issues in network steganography - Information hiding in multimedia services - Digital forensics - Network communication modelling from the viewpoint of steganography and steganalysis - New methods for eliminating network steganography PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers will be accepted based on peer review and should contain original, high quality work. All papers must be written in English. A paper should not exceed 5 pages (two columns IEEE format), including figures and references with 10-12 point font. Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mines2009 The papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, available in the conference (MINES 2009), and indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP. The extended versions of high-quality papers selected from the workshop will be published in a special issue of Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management by Springer-Verlag GmbH (indexed by ISI Master Journal List). DATES Manuscript Due: June 22, 2009 (extended) Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2009 Registration Due: August 10, 2009 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) Beijing, China Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland PROGRAMM COMMITTEE Krzysztof Cabaj, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Steve Chapin, Syracuse University, USA Costas Constantinou, University of Birmingham, UK Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London, UK Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand Paul Kiddie, University of Birmingham, UK Piotr Kijewski, NASK/CERT Polska, Poland Jerzy Konorski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw University of Technology and IPPT PAN, Poland Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw Universtity of Technology, Poland Ke Liao, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Guangjie Liu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China David Llamas, University of St Andrews, UK Jozef Lubacz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Norka Lucena, Syracuse University, USA Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia Janusz Stoklosa, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Jinwei Wang, The 28th Research Institute of CETC, China Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Konrad Wrona, NATO C3 Agency, Netherlands Xiaoyi Yu, Peking University, China From Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr Fri Jun 12 11:50:18 2009 From: Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr (Jean-Yves Marion) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:50:18 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ** Extended deadline** - Call for Papers : Malware 2009 Message-ID: <8C44E3FD-C144-4889-8078-1A068C19208B@loria.fr> >> EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 26th << ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Malware 2009) Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 13th-14th, 2009 OVERVIEW The conference is designed to bring together experts from industry, academia, and government to present and discuss the latest advances and discoveries in the field malicious and unwanted software, the techniques, economics and legal issues behind their use, and the methods to detect and control them. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: June 26th, 2009 23:59:59 EST Notification of acceptance: August 3rd 2009 Final papers due: August 23rd, 2009 TOPICS The organizers solicit original contributions addressing the issues facing the anti-malware community: (1) Case studies based on recent malware events, describing large-scale responses strategies used, tools and techniques employed, quantitative measurements used and their interpretation,... (2) Traditional research contributions of a theoretical nature (including modeling, simulations,...) or of a more practical nature (including in- vitro laboratory experiments, tool and technique development,...) Contributions of both types, case studies and research, addressing one of following non-exclusive list of topics are equally welcome: - Infection vectors: - Malware detection worms, virus, spam - Vulnerability prevention - Information theft: - Malware economy spyware, rootkits - Phishing and frauds - Botnets: analysis + economics - Human aspects: propagation - Collection methodologies: - Forensics and law enforcement Honeypots, Honeyclients - Malware analysis and - Case studies: reverse-engineering analysis and measurements - Arms race: - National and international laws malware vs. anti-malware SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts must have at least 10-point font size, and should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages in length, including the abstract, figures, and references, formatted in two columns. Only original papers, unpublished or submitted for publication, can be submitted. All submissions will be reviewed by experts. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (paper and CD) that will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Two extra pages (10 pages) would be allowed for an extra charge. Thus, the IEEE Templates for Conference Proceedings will have to be used for the final version. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Virology, published by Springer. These extended papers will undergo a separate review process. GENERAL CHAIR Fernando C. Colon Osorio Wireless Systems Security Lab TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Jos? Fernandez Ecole Polytechnique de Montr?al Jose Nazario Arbor Networks PROGRAM COMMITTEE Saeed Abu-Nimeh Websense Security Labs John Aycock University of Calgary Eric Filiol Ecole superieure et d'application des transmissions Jason Geffner Next Generation Security Software Vitaly Kamluk Kaspersky Lab Christopher Kruegel UC Santa Barbara Arun Lakhotia University of Louisiana at Lafayette Jean-Yves Marion Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine Charles Miller Security Evaluator Phil Porras SRI International Jean-Marc Robert Ecole de technologie superieure Anil Somayaji Carleton University Shambhu Upadhyaya SUNY Buffalo Thomas Vinoo McAfee Avert Labs Vinod Yagneswaran SRI International Bojan Zdrnja University of Auckland Cliff Zou University of Central Florida LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS Jos? Fernandez Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Jean-Marc Robert Ecole de technologie superieure PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Industrial: Pierre-Marc Bureau ESET Academic: Jean-Yves Marion Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine SPONSORSHIP The 4th International Conference on Malicious Software and Unwanted Software (MALWARE ?09) is held with technical sponsorship from IEEE. For more information and instructions go to http://malware2009.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The event will be devoted to the combination of technologies that have emerged as a result of object technology becoming "mainstream". Like its predecessors, TOOLS EUROPE 2009 combines an emphasis on quality with a strong practical focus. Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Eastern Europe, have played a major role in the development of object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first presented at TOOLS. After twenty years of existence, TOOLS is a yearly event that gathers the research community to discuss practical topics in OO technologies and Software Engineering. Contributions focus on all aspects of object technology and neighboring fields, in particular model-based development, component- based development, and patterns (design, analysis and other applications). For a preview of the program, please refer to the webpage of the conference. All contributions were subject to a rigorous selection process - acceptance rate of 25% - by the international Program Committee, with a stress on originality, practicality and overall quality. The proceedings should be published in Springer LNBIP. The conference will also host keynotes from internationally recognized scientist including Gerti Kappel, Benjamin Pierce, JanVitek, St?phane Ducasse, Paul Klint, Carlo Ghezzi, Narayanasamy Ramasubbu. Important Dates Conference: June 29 - July 3, 2009 Advance registration: 24 June 2009 or before After the advance registration date, registration will be on site only. The registration form can be found on the TOOLS website. Accommodation A list of suggested hotels can be found on the TOOLS website at the following URL http://tools.ethz.ch/venue.html Chairpersons Conference chair : Bertrand Meyer, Zurich Program chair: Manuel Oriol, York Workshop Chair: Alexandre Bergel, Lille and Johan Fabry, Santiago Publicity Chair: Philippe Lahire, Nice and Marcus Denker, Santiago Program committee Patrick Albert, Balbir S. Barn, Mike Barnett, Claude R. Baudoi, Bernhard Beckert, Alexandre Bergel, Judith Bishop, Phil Brooke, Cristiano Calcagno, Ana Cavalcanti, Dave Clarke, Bernard Coulette, Jing Dong, Stephane Ducasse, Gregor Engels, Patrick Eugster, Manuel Fahndrich, Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Michael Franz, Judit Nyekyne Gaizler, Benoit Garbinato, Carlo Ghezzi, Tudor Girba, Martin Glinz, Martin Gogolla, Jeff Gray, Pedro Guerreiro, Joseph Kiniry, Ralf Laemmel, Philippe Lahire, Mingshu Li, Dragos Manolescu, Erik Meijer, Peter Mueller, Jonathan Ostroff, Richard Paige, Marc Pantel, Alfonso Pierantonio, Alexander Pretschner, Bran Selic, Anatoly Shalyto, Perdita Stevens, Eric Tanter, Dave Thomas, Laurence Tratt, Antonio Vallecillo, Roel Wuyts, Amiram Yehudai, Andreas Zeller From m.casadei at unibo.it Fri Jun 12 14:54:19 2009 From: m.casadei at unibo.it (Matteo Casadei) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:19 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfP] Coordination Models, Languages, and Applications (CM) Special Track at SAC 2010 Message-ID: <39800ACC-0BA1-47A9-BD69-8A0E136F3630@unibo.it> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination Models, Languages, and Applications (CM) Special Track at the 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010) Sierre, Switzerland March 22 - 26, 2010 (http://sac2010.apice.unibo.it/) ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Sep. 08, 2009: Paper submissions Oct. 19, 2009: Author notification Nov. 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy ===================================================================== For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. COORDINATION MODELS, LANGUAGES, AND APPLICATIONS TRACK (http://sac2010.apice.unibo.it/) Building on the success of the eleventh previous editions (1998-2009), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2010. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of, possibly heterogeneous, components (processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as multi-agent systems, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems and related middleware platforms. Furthermore, the concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas such as workflow systems, cooperative information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and internet technologies. After more than a decade of research, the coordination paradigm is gaining increased momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigms such as multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case, coordination abstractions are perceived as essential to design and support the working activities of agent societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration, and choreography are going to be essential aspects of the next generations of systems based on Web services. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques - Applications of coordination technologies - Industrial points of view: experiences, applications, open issues - Internet- and Web-based coordinated systems - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Coordination in Service-oriented architectures and Web Services - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - Modern Workflow Management Systems and Case-Handling - Coordination in Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Coordination Middleware and Infrastructures - Coordination in GRID systems - Self-Organization-Based Approaches to Coordination such as Those Based on Swarm and Stigmergy - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint), programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) ===================================================================== PROCEEDINGS Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2010 proceedings and in the Digital Library. ===================================================================== PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information Submitted papers should be no longer than 5 pages, and should be in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). It will be possible to have up to 3 extra pages in the proceeding at a charge of $80 per page (total 8 pages maximum). Submission is entirely automated by an eCMS paper management tool, which is available from the main SAC Web Site:http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/ . Authors must first register their own account by obtaining a password, and then follow the instructions. ===================================================================== TRACK CO-CHAIRS Matteo Casadei, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di Bologna, Italy Alan Wood, University of York, UK Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Email contact : cm.at.sac at gmail.com ===================================================================== From robert at grid.chu.edu.tw Sat Jun 13 11:00:54 2009 From: robert at grid.chu.edu.tw (Robert C. Hsu) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:00:54 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] ISPAN\'09 Announcement and CFP Message-ID: <200906130900.n5D90s5F025029@grid.chu.edu.tw> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090613/f2d95d1c/attachment-0001.html From mfeldman at gwu.edu Sat Jun 13 21:10:52 2009 From: mfeldman at gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:10:52 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] REMINDER: Approaching Submission Deadline June 30, 2009 for SIGAda 2009 Message-ID: <4A33F9BC.8060701@gwu.edu> Hello, This is a brief and gentle reminder of the approaching submission deadline -- June 30, 2009 -- for technical contributions to SIGAda 2009 ACM Annual International Conference on Ada and Related Technologies: Engineering Safe, Secure, and Reliable Software This conference will take place Nov. 1-5, 2009, in St. Petersburg, Florida (Tampa Bay area), at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront hotel. We're soliciting Technical Articles, Extended Abstracts, Experience Reports, Panel Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials on the Ada programming language and related technologies for developing, analyzing, and certifying reliable, safe, secure software. We are especially interested in experience in integrating these concepts into the instructional process at all levels. Please visit the conference website at http://sigada.org/conf/sigada2009 for further details. Thank you very much for your time, and thank you in advance for your contribution! Yours truly, Prof. Michael B. Feldman Publicity Chair, SIGAda 2009 From shireesh at ieee.org Sat Jun 13 21:50:24 2009 From: shireesh at ieee.org (Shireesh Verma) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:50:24 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] HLDVT 2009 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to June 26 Message-ID: <7c32c8640906131250u2db91578qc91075dd6a3a4082@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, ============================================================= We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ============================================================== HLDVT 2009 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to June 26 *************************************************************** HLDVT 2009 IEEE International High-Level Design, Validation and Test Workshop http://www.hldvt.com/09/ Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, California, November 4-6, 2009 *************************************************************** HLDVT 2009 is the fourteenth in a series of annual workshops designed to bring together a community of researchers in the areas of design, validation, and test. The workshop revolves around a common theme of addressing the integration of multiple functions on-chip at higher levels of design abstraction, and the techniques and methodologies for modeling, analyzing, and validating such systems. In particular, the workshop has become a unique forum in recent years for researchers and practitioners to discuss the practical issues associated with simulation and validation of extremely large designs. For detailed information, please visit http://www.hldvt.com/09/ Authors of selected HLDVT'09 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of Springer Journal of Electronic Testing, to be published in 2010. The topics of interest for HLDVT09 include (but not limited to): Simulation-Based Validation Formal Verification Specification-based Design and Validation Error Trace Analysis and Debug Hybrid SAT/BDD/ATPG Methods On-Chip and Core-Based Testing Coverage-driven Test Generation Design/Synthesis for Test Hardware/Software Co-Validation Prototyping and Emulation Post-silicon Validation and Debug The Program Committee invites authors to submit papers not to exceed 8 pages (10pt minimum font size with reasonable margins and line spacing) describing original and unpublished work. Proposals for panels and special sessions are also invited. All submissions must be made electronically in PDF format using the paper submission webpage: http://www.hldvt.com/submissions Extended Sumbission Deadline: June 26, 2009 (final and firm deadline) Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2009 (final manuscript due: Sept 07) During paper submission the authors must commit to register and attend the workshop to present the paper if it is accepted. Every accepted paper must have at least one of the authors pre-registered for the workshop during submission of camera-ready version to ensure that the paper appears in the final program and conference proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Questions regarding paper submissions and the program may be addressed to the program chair: Prabhat Mishra, programchair at hldvt.com. Other questions may be addressed to the general chair: Priyank Kalla, generalchair at hldvt.com. Organizing Committee: General Chair: Priyank Kalla, University of Utah Program Chair: Prabhat Mishra, University of Florida Past Chair: Prab Varma, Blue Pearl Software Finance Chair: Zeljko Zilic, McGill University Publications Chair: Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation Web Publicity Chair: Ismet Bayraktaroglu, Sun Publicity Chair: Shireesh Verma, Conexant Local Arrangements Chair: Kiran Ramineni, Marvell Semiconductor Program Committee Mark Aagaard, University of Waterloo Jacob Abraham, UT Austin Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan Pankaj Chauhan, Calypto Tim Cheng, UC Santa Barbara Franco Fummi, University di Verona Malay Ganai, NEC Labs Eric Hennenhoefer, Obsidian Software Ian Harris, UC Irvine John Hayes, University of Michigan Michael Hsiao, Virginia Tech Alan Hu, University of British Columbia Torsten Schober, IBM Jai Kumar, Sun Priyadarsan Patra, Intel Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Tubingen Univ. Pablo Sanchez, University of Cantabria Sandeep Shukla, Virginia Tech Wei Qin, Boston University Li-C. Wang, UC Santa Barbara Hao Zheng, University of South Florida Avi Ziv, IBM Steering Committee: Bernard Courtois, CMP-TIMA Sujit Dey, UC San Diego Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo Prab Varma, Blue Pearl Software HLDVT 2009 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council and IEEE CS Design Automation Technical Committee. Regards, Shireesh Verma Conexant Systems Inc. 4000 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach CA 92660 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible benefit. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following. Formal model-based development and code generation Abstraction and refinement Specification, verification and validation Formal testing approaches Integrated methods and theories for different programming paradigms Formal methods for object and component systems Tool development and integration Experiments involving verified systems Applications of formal methods There will be a special track on UML (but in the scope of the ICFEM remit as described above). ICFEM'09 will have a five-day technical programme, including two days for tutorials and workshops, and three days for a conference. INVITED SPEAKERS Manfred Broy, Germany - FME Invited Lecture Augusto Sampaio, Brazil SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a SPECIAL ISSUE OF SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 20 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers will be processed through the EasyChair conference management system. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem09. All queries should be sent to the e-mail address icfem09 at inf.puc-rio.br. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: 13 July, 2009 Full-paper submission deadline: 20 July, 2009 Acceptance notification: 8 September, 2009 Final version due: 21 September, 2009 STEERING COMMITTEE Keijiro Araki, Japan Jin Song Dong, Singapore Chris George, China He Jifeng (Chair), China Mike Hinchey, Republic of Ireland Shaoying Liu, Japan John McDermid, UK Tetsuo Tamai, Japan Jim Woodcock, UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE Karin Breitman, Brazil Paulo Rosa, Brazil Vera Werneck, Brazil Jim Woodcock, UK (Conference chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luca Aceto, Iceland Nazareno Aguirre, Argentina Bernhard Aichernig, Austria Keijiro Araki, Japan Karin Breitman, Brazil (Chair) Michael Butler, UK Andrew Butterfield, Republic of Ireland Ana Cavalcanti, UK (Chair) Rance Cleaveland, USA Jim Davies, UK Jin Song Dong, Singapore Neil Evans, UK Colin Fidge, Australia John Fitzgerald, UK Joaquim Gabarro, Spain Alex Garcia, Brazil Stefania Gnesi, Italy James Harland, Australia Hermann Haeusler, Brazil Mike Hinchey, Republic of Ireland Thierry Jeron, France Steve King, UK Kim Larsen, Denmark K. Rustan M. Leino, USA Michael Leuschel, Germany Shaoying Liu, Japan Zhiming Liu, China Patricia Machado, Brazil Tiziana Margaria, Germany Tom Maibaum, Canada Ana Melo, Brazil Dominique Mery, France David Naumann, USA Ken Robinson, Australia Markus Roggenbach, UK Helen Treharne, UK T.H. Tse, China Mark Utting, New Zealand Marcel Verhoef, The Netherlands Farn Wang, Taiwan Heike Wehrheim, Germany Wang Yi, Sweden Fatiha Zaidi, France From arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Jun 15 11:40:03 2009 From: arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (ARCOE-09) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:40:03 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ARCOE-09: Call for Registration Message-ID: <52c479f40906150240l15a41095p71ed89077b34f698@mail.gmail.com> ================================ ARCOE-09 at IJCAI-09 July 11-12, 2009 Pasadena, CA, USA CALL FOR REGISTRATION Register on http://ijcai-09.org/ ================================ ARCOE-09 is an IJCAI-09 workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ARCOE-09 Program ** Day 1 (July 11th 2009) 08h00 to 08h45: Registration 08h45 to 09h00: Introduction to ARCOE Track 1: COMMON SENSE AND NON-MONOTONIC REASONING 09h00 to 10h00: Invited talk: Small is again beautiful in Description Logics Baader ---Coffee Break (30min)--- 10h30 to 11h00: Inconsistent-Tolerant DL-Lite Reasoning: An Argumentative Approach Moguillansky, Wassermann 11h00 to 11h30: Forgetting for Knowledge Bases in DL-Lite_{bool} Wang, Wang, Topor ---Lunch (2h)--- 13h30 to 14h00: AGM Revision in Description Logics Ribeiro, Wasserman 14h00 to 14h30: First Steps in EL Contraction Booth, Meyer, Varzinczak Track 2: CONTEXT AND ONTOLOGY 14h30 to 15h00: Shifting Valence Helps Verify Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions Ptaszynski, Dybala, Shi, Rzepka, Araki ---Coffee Break (30min)--- 15h30 to 16h00: Context Discovery via Theory Interpretation Kutz, Normann 16h00 to 16h30: Contextualized OWL-DL KB for the management of OWL-S effects Redavid, Palmisano, Iannone, Doran (presentation) 16h30 to 17h30: Panel discussion: Theme TBA ** Day 2 (July 12th 2009) 09h00 to 10h00: Invited talk: Title TBA McGuinness ---Coffee break (30min)--- 10h30 to 11h00: Modeling the External Quality of Context to Fine-tune Context Reasoning in Geo-spatial Interoperability Sboui, Bedard, Badard 11h00 to 11h30: A Conflict-based Operator for Mapping Revision Qi, Ji, Haase ---Lunch (2h)--- Track 3: AUTOMATED ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION 13h30 to 14h00: Unite: A New Plan for Automated Ontology Evolution in Physics Bundy 14h00 to 14h30: An Architecture of GALILEO: A System for Automated Ontology Evolution in Physics Chan, Bundy 14h30 to 15h00: A Case Study of Ontology Evolution in Atomic Physics as the Basis of the Open Structure Ontology Repair Plan Lehmann ---Coffee break (30min)--- 15h30 to 16h00: Atypicalities in Ontologies: Inferring New Facts from Topological Axioms Jouis, Habib, Liu Track 4: LINKS AND INTEGRATION BETWEEN TRACKS 1 TO 3 16h00 to 17h00: Participants Scientific Discussion 17h00 to 18h00: Plenary Business Meeting, closing of the workshop followed by social activities ================================ Please note thatProgram may be subject to variations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090615/59ef1c7a/attachment.html From Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk Mon Jun 15 13:17:03 2009 From: Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk (Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:17:03 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CFP for VLL 2009: Workshop on Visual Languages and Logic Message-ID: <19975A316C67744D9720DD2F6AB1FC6608C95D63@EXCHANGE1.university.brighton.ac.uk> Our apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday 22nd June 2009. NEW, INVITED TALK: A Brief Survey of Venn/Euler Diagrams by Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria, Canada. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Workshop on Visual Languages and Logic (VLL) Corvallis, OR, USA, 20 September 2009 http://www.cs.dal.ca/~vll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diagrams of one sort or another have always been used as aids to abstract reasoning. Although many are informal mnemonics, reminding their authors about structures and relationships they have observed or deduced, considerable re- search effort has been expended on formalising graphical notations so that they may play a more central role in the application of logic to problems. While early work concentrated on diagrammatic representations of logic as a more intuitive or revealing paper-based replacement for textually represented logic, research in this area now mostly involves notations specifically designed for computer implementation either as computational models or interface languages. Examples include relational and existential graphs (C.S. Peirce), conceptual graphs (J.F. Sowa), various flavours of semantic networks, such as conceptual dependency graphs (R. Schank), graphical deduction systems, such as clause interconnectivity graphs (S. Sickel), Venn diagrams, Euler diagrams, constraint diagrams, and visual logic programming languages. The purpose of the VLL workshop is to explore the current state of research at the intersection of logic and visual languages, examining notations or software in which a graphical structure provides the foundation for, or a visualisation of, a system of logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit original, unpublished research papers that examine some combination of visual tools, representations or languages with logic. Topics of interest in- clude, but are not limited to: * Graphical notations for logics (either classical or non-classical, such as first or higher order logic, temporal logic, description logic, independence friendly logic, spatial logic) * Diagrammatic reasoning * Theorem proving * Formalisation (syntax, semantics, reasoning rules) * Expressiveness of visual logics * Visual logic programming languages * Visual specification languages * Applications * Tool support for Visual Logics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATED EVENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VLL runs directly before the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/vlhcc09/). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions should be in ENTCS format (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html), and no longer than 12 pages. Please email submissions in PDF format to the workshop email address VLL at cs.dal.ca and use the first named author's surname as the filename, appended with a number if there is more than one submission from the same author. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee. Publication of the proceedings will be in ENTCS or similar, and authors of top-ranked papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for journal publication. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: June 22, 2009 Notification: July 20, 2009 Final papers: August 3, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-CHAIRS Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK John Howse, University of Brighton, UK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gerry Allwein, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Omid Banyasad, IBM Canada Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Alexander Knapp, Ludwig-Maximilians Universit??t, Munich, Germany Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Nathaniel Miller, University of Northern Colorado, USA Mark Minas, Universit??t der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany Julia Padberg, Technische Universit??t Berlin, Germany Ian Pratt-Hartman, University of Manchester, UK Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Nik Swoboda, Universidad Polit??cnica de Madrid, Spain Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please email VLL at cs.dal.ca From gicca at adacore.com Mon Jun 15 14:14:26 2009 From: gicca at adacore.com (Greg Gicca) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:14:26 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] SIGAda 2009 Message-ID: <4A363B22.2040406@adacore.com> SIGAda Conference: (Let me apologize if you receive this or similar messages more than once as I had a problem with my e-mail verification) Let me introduce myself. I am Greg Gicca and am the conference chair for this years SIGAda conference. The conference will be held the first week of November in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. We will in fact be right on the bay at a location that is easily accessible from the Tampa international airport and only 1-1/2 hour drive away from Orlando for those that might find it more convenient to fly into that airport. We have 3 very interesting expert keynote speakers that will speak to issues involved in: 1) Developing and maintaining large safety critical systems with experience with NASA, Home Land Security and the FAA. 2) Developing certified applications for both safety critical medical systems and high security research projects for the NSA. In this case using the statically verifiable SPARK language. 3) Lastly we have a presentation on a dual perspective from a Raytheon CTO who has worked on both the government and contractor side of the street. This presentation will provide an understanding as to why a program manager may view the use of Ada as a benefit in a contract proposal and how a contractor may make a case that it is advantageous to propose the use of Ada in new project development. For further details on these speakers, their backgrounds and presentations, see: http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2009/ We're actively seeking Technical Articles, Extended Abstracts, Experience Reports, Panel Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials on the Ada programming language and related technologies for developing, analyzing, and certifying reliable, safe, secure software. The full set of topics can be found at the below link: http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2009/CFP-SIGAda2009-A4.pdf Please contact the SIGAda 2009 Program Chair, Lt. Col. Jeff Boleng (Jeff.Boleng at usafa.edu) if you are interested in submitting a paper. Abstracts must be submitted by the deadline listed. Final papers may then be submitted up until July 15th. Following an abstract submission and acceptance, presentations must be available 1 month prior to the conference date. Feel free to contact myself or Jeff if you have any questions regarding the conference or paper/presentation abstract submissions. -- ------------------ Greg Gicca SIGAda 2009 Conference Chair gicca at adacore.com 646-375-0734 office 727-944-5197 fax 603-785-5920 cell From ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Jun 15 21:18:37 2009 From: ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt (Ricardo Rocha) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:18:37 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'09 Call for Participation Message-ID: <1245093517.27751.219.camel@phobia.dcc.fc.up.pt> ************************************************************************ * * * Call for Participation * * * * 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009) * * Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 * * http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009 * * Co-located with IJCAI 2009 (http://ijcai-09.org) * * * ************************************************************************ We are pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, to be held in the city of Pasadena, California, USA (http://www.pasadenacal.com/visitors.htm), in July 2009, at the Pasadena Convention Center (http://www.pasadenacenter.com). On-line registration for the conference is now open at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/iclp09reg.html The deadline for early registration is June 20, 2009. ******************************************** There are a lot of good reasons to be part of ICLP 2009. This year, the technical program will include 38 regular and short presentations, 4 invited talks, 4 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, 6 associated workshops and the traditional Prolog programming contest. The list of accepted papers can be found on the conference website at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/submission_accepted.html Invited talks and tutorials include the following presentations (http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/talks-and-tutorials.html): * Taisuke Sato - Generative Modeling by PRISM * Paulo Moura - From Plain Prolog to Logtalk Objects: Effective Code Encapsulation and Reuse * Chris Mungall - Experiences using logic programming in bioinformatics * Marc Denecker - A Knowledge Base System project for FO(.) * Luc De Raedt - Probabilistic Logic Learning * Jan Wielemaker - Enabling serendipitous search on the Web of Data using Prolog * Mireille Ducasse - (C)LP tracing and debugging * Andy King - Untangling Reverse Engineering with Logic and Abstraction The associated workshops are: * ASPOCP - Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms * CHR - Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules * CICLOPS - Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems * CULP - Workshop on Commercial Users of Logic Programming * WG17 - Workshop on ISO Prolog * WLPE - Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments We really look forward to welcoming you at ICLP 2009 in Pasadena under the southern California sunshine! ************************************************************************ From roberto at zicari.de Tue Jun 16 00:16:22 2009 From: roberto at zicari.de (Roberto Zicari) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:16:22 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Public voting Awards Persistent Model Patterns. Message-ID: <4A36C836.59C386AE@zicari.de> Dear Colleague I`d like to encourage you and your colleagues to take part to the public voting for the ODBMS.ORG Awards - for the most valuable Persistent Model Patterns. You can free download 25 patterns: http://www.odbms.org/downloads.aspx#odbms_pp and Vote for the best pattern here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MqX1ZkUdF7enO6Y7UgLxMw_3d_3d For more info on the Awards: http://www.odbms.org/About/News/20090601.aspx Pls distribute this info as you see proper. Best Regards Prof. Roberto V. Zicari Editor ODBMS.ORG http://www.odbms.org From roberto at zicari.de Tue Jun 16 08:16:04 2009 From: roberto at zicari.de (Roberto Zicari) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:16:04 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Students/ICOODB 2009 Tutorials. Message-ID: <4A3738A3.4CBD1079@zicari.de> 25 free seats for BA and MSc students are available on a first come first serve base, for attending the tutorials at the International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB) on July 1, 2009, at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. More info at: http://www.odbms.org/blog/ and http://www.odbms.org/blog/labels/Tutorials.html Pls distribute it as you see proper... Best Regards Roberto V. Zicari From Antoine.Petit at inria.fr Tue Jun 16 11:06:02 2009 From: Antoine.Petit at inria.fr (Antoine Petit) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:06:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] European Computer Science Summit 2009, Call for submissions In-Reply-To: References: <02c601c9e47a$fc0181b0$f4048510$@Meyer@inf.ethz.ch> <4A27924A.1000303@inf.ethz.ch> <1AC0DDEE-53B5-4F83-99D0-76B30537243A@inria.fr> <4A27E110.9070001@inf.ethz.ch> <4A2D09CC.8030900@inf.ethz.ch> Message-ID: <5C88CA4C-D043-492E-81D4-27AFDAD57970@inria.fr> EUROPEAN COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMIT - ECSS 2009 5th Annual INFORMATICS-Europe Meeting 8-9 October 2009, Paris http://www.informatics-europe.org/ECSS09/ Call for Submissions Informatics Europe is the association of (PhD granting-) Computer Science and Informatics departments of universities and of top research laboratories in IT, public and private, in the European region and neighbouring areas. The 2009 Summit will be devoted to the many strategic issues in the development of research and teaching in Computer Science/Informatics at the European level. The theme of the 2009 Summit is: Informatics among the Sciences - Scientific principles in Informatics The Summit will consist of invited talks by prominent academics and professionals, panels, and contributed talks. The Summit is the unique yearly meeting place of heads of CS departments, faculties, academic and national research institutes, and leaders of industry in the European software and IT domain. Submit your proposed contributed presentation Informatics Europe invites position papers for presentation with views, insights, theories, challenges and best practices. Contributions are sought on all issues relevant to Computer Science/Informatics in Europe and ECSS 2009 in particular. Possible topics include e.g.: * Impact of Informatics on other Sciences. * What fundamental researchs in Informatics will be useful for other Sciences ? * Informatics and ethics. * What do other Sciences need in Informatics: engineers or researchers ? * New problems in Informatics arising from other Sciences. * What is a pluridisciplinary researcher ? How is one formed ? * How to evaluate pluridisciplinary researches ? * Multi-disciplinary curricula: myth or reality ? At which level: bachelor, master, PhD ? How to submit To contribute to the Informatics Europe 2009 Summit program, submit an abstract of your position paper by August 15th 2009. Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the ECSS 2009 program committee on the basis of relevance to (and capacity of) the program. Proposals may aim at a 20 minutes presentation or demonstration, and should consist of an abstract containing: * A header with a clear title of your contribution, your name, position, and affiliation * A clear text/summary describing your contribution * A total size not exceeding two A4 pages Submit your proposed contribution to ie-submissions at informatics-europe.org Accepted position papers will be included in the web record of ECSS 2009. Program committee of ECSS 2009 * Fr?d?ric Benhamou , Universit? de Nantes * Christine Choppy , Paris 13, France * Gregor Engels , Paderborn, Germany * Victor Gergel , Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia * Hans-Ulrich Heiss , TU Berlin, Germany * Andrew McGettrick , Strathclyde, UK * Bertrand Meyer , ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Enrico Nardelli , Universit? di Roma "Tor Vergata" and GRIN * Rumen Nikolov , University of Sofia * Antoine Petit , INRIA, France (Chair) * J?rgen Staunstrup , IT U. of Copenhagen, Denmark * Letizia Tanca , Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Jan van Leeuwen , Utrecht, the Netherlands Important dates * Abstract Submission: July 5th, 2009 * Notifications: July 20th, 2009 * Pre-Summit workshop for chairs and research leaders: October 7th, 2009 * ECSS 2009 Conference: October 8-9, 2009 Participation ECSS 2009 is open to all heads (deans, chairs, directors, etc.) and deputy heads of departments, institutes, laboratories, or comparable units in Computer Science (Informatics, Information Technology etc.) from PhD granting universities or research organizations in the European region. In addition, the conference is open to authors of accepted abstracts. If you do not fit these categories but would like to attend as an observer, please contact the organizers of ECSS 2009. Examples of observers include representatives from industry, government, university administration, and representatives from other organizations with related aims in Europe and other regions. We look forward to seeing you at the Informatics Europe ECSS 2009 Summit! ====================== Antoine Petit ECSS 2009 Program Committee Chair Antoine.Petit at inria.fr From susie.stephens at gmail.com Tue Jun 16 15:47:07 2009 From: susie.stephens at gmail.com (Susie Stephens) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:47:07 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse Message-ID: *CALL FOR PAPERS* * * *WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE* *held in conjunction with* *THE 8th INTERNATIONAL SEMANTIC WEB CONFERENCE * *OCTOBER 25-29, 2009* *WASHINGTON DC * Scientific research is becoming both increasingly interdisciplinary, and dependent on the Web for dissemination. Yet the form of the discourse has remained for the most part, a digital analog of the paper research article. This situation persists despite the emergence of Web 2.0 paradigms (blogs, wikis, online communities), application of Semantic Web technologies to problems in biomedicine, and the introduction of virtual research environments in certain areas. We will bring together experts in semantic technology, scientific informatics, virtual research environments, Web communities and scientific publishing to contribute to the development of new thinking on how scientific research can be communicated, characterized, annotated, searched and shared on the Web. The availability of Web 3.0 technologies (social web + Semantic Web) now makes it possible to fundamentally change the way scientific communications take place. This workshop is timely due to the rapidly changing publication model, and the volume of scientific knowledge that needs to be organized and managed to enable comprehension of scientific understanding and knowledge. *Audience: * The audience will be made up of individuals interested in Semantic Web, scientific publication, biomedical web communities, and information retrieval. This workshop will attract those interested in the convergence of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies, and their application to increase the velocity and breadth of scientific communications. This workshop will also be of interest to those interested in adopting these technologies to their own domains of discourse. *Topics of Interest: * - Semantic annotation of scientific publications - Metadata and annotation management for digital repositories - Structured digital abstracts - Semantically-enhanced search of the bibliome - Ontologies for biomedical methods and materials - Semantic bookmarking in science - Convergence of bottom-up and top-down ontology construction - Activity-based and pragmatics-based scientific ontologies *Submissions:* Prospective authors are invited to submit research papers in any of the areas listed above. Research papers should be 6-10 pages in length and must be formatted in the style of Springer. *Important Dates:* Paper submission: August 7, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2009 Final version of accepted papers: October 2, 2009 Workshop days: October 25-26, 2009 *Program Committee:* ? Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick ? Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry ? Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester ? Judy Blake, Jackson Labs ? John Breslin, NUI Galway ? Simon Buckingham Shum ? Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard ? Sudeshna Das, Harvard ? Anita de Waard, Elsevier ? Dave de Roure, University of Southampton ? Don Doherty, Brainstage ? Michel Dumontier, Carleton University ? Andrew Gibson, University of Manchester ? Carole Goble, University of Manchester ? William Hayes, BiogenIdec ? Vipul Kashyap, Cigna ? Phillip Lord, University of Newcastle ? John Madden, Duke ? Robin McEntire, Merck ? Mark Musen, Stanford ? Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics ? David Newman, University of Southampton ? Vit Novacek, DERI ? Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic ? Alex Passant, DERI ? Elgar Pichler, AstraZeneca ? Rosalind Reid, Harvard ? Thomas Rindflesch, NIH ? Patrick Ruch, University of Applied Sciences Geneva ? Matthias Samwald, DERI ? Nigam Shah, Stanford University ? Yimin Wang, Eli Lilly ? Katy Wolstencroft, University of Manchester ? Jenna Zhou, Eli Lilly *Organizing Committee: * ? Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School/MGH, tim_clark at harvard.edu ? Joanne Luciano, MITRE, jluciano at gmail.com ? M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, marshall at science.uva.nl ? Eric Prud'hommeaux, W3C, USA, eric at w3.org ? Susie Stephens, Johnson and Johnson, susie.stephens at gmail.com More information about the workshop will be made available at http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC2009/Workshop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090616/8aa576c2/attachment-0001.html From Karl.Goeschka at tuwien.ac.at Tue Jun 16 16:08:02 2009 From: Karl.Goeschka at tuwien.ac.at (Karl M. Goeschka) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:08:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ACM Middleware MW4SOC Workshop Call for papers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20090616160730.03c07d58@wheresmymailserver.com> CALL FOR PAPERS =============== +--------------------------------------------------------+ | 4th Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) | | Workshop at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference | +--------------------------------------------------------+ Nov 30 ? Dec 4, 2009 Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc09/ This workshop has its own ISBN and will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates =============== Paper submission: August 1, 2009 Author notification: September 15, 2009 Camera-ready copies: October 1, 2009 Workshop date: November 30, 2009 Call details ============ Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a computing paradigm broadly pushed by vendors, utilizing and providing services to support the rapid and scalable development of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. However, the influence of SOC today goes far beyond the concepts of the original disciplines that spawned it. Many would argue that areas like business process modelling and management, Web2.0-style applications, data as a service, and even cloud computing emerge mainly due to the shift in paradigm towards SOC. Nevertheless, there is still a strong need to merge technology with an understanding of business processes and organizational structures, a combination of recognizing an enterprise's pain points and the potential solutions that can be applied to correct them. While the immediate need of middleware support for SOC is evident, current approaches and solutions still fall short by primarily providing support for only the EAI aspect of SOC and do not sufficiently address issues such as service discovery, re-use, re-purpose, composition and aggregation support, service management, monitoring, and deployment and maintenance of large-scale heterogeneous infrastructures and applications. Moreover, quality properties (in particular dependability and security) need to be addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of integrated middleware support. Recently, massive-scale and mobility were added to the challenges for Middleware for SOC. The workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how specifically service oriented middleware can address the above challenges, to what extent it has to be service oriented by itself, and in particular how quality properties are supported. Topics of interest ================== * Architectures and platforms for Middleware for SOC. * Core Middleware support for deployment, composition, and interaction. * Integration of SLA (service level agreement) and/or technical policy support through middleware. * Middleware support for service management, maintenance, monitoring, and control. * Middleware support for integration of business functions and organizational structures into Service oriented Systems (SOS). * Evaluation and experience reports of middleware for SOC and service oriented middleware. Workshop co-chairs =============== Karl M. G?schka (chair) Schahram Dustdar Frank Leymann Helen Paik Organizational chair ==================== Lorenz Froihofer, mw4soc at dedisys.org Program committee ================= Sami Bhiri, DERI (Ireland) Paul Brebner, NICTA (Australia) Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Francisco Curbera, IBM (USA) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom (France) Harald C. Gall, Universit?t Z?rich (Switzerland) Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France) Chirine Ghedira, Univ. of Lyon I (France) Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF (Norway) Yanbo Han, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Val?rie Issarny, INRIA (France) Arno Jacobsen, Univ. Toronto (Canada) Mehdi Jazayeri, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Bernd Kr?mer, University of Hagen (Germany) Mark Little, JBoss (USA) Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research (USA) Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Labs (USA) Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research (India) Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Cesare Pautasso, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Fernando Pedone, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Florian Rosenberg, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Regis Saint-Paul, CREATE-NET (Italy) Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Bruno Schulze, National Lab for Scientific Computing (Brazil) Stefan Tai, Institut f?r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren - AIFB, Karlsruhe (Germany) Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle (UK) Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia (Canada) Raymond Wong, UNSW (Australia) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Liming Zhu, NICTA (Australia) From knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at Tue Jun 16 16:19:15 2009 From: knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at (Jens Knoop) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:19:15 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP SYNASC 2009 - September 26-29, 2009, Timisoara, Romania Message-ID: <200906161619.15681.knoop@complang.tuwien.ac.at> Call for Papers - SYNASC 2009 ----------------------------- 11th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 26-29, 2009, Timisoara, Romania http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/ Aim: ----- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing, with the purpose of exhibiting interesting applications of these areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of this topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary in order to make significant progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important dates: ----------------- EXTENDED DEADLINE 21 June 2009: Papers submission 15 August 2009: Notification of acceptance 01 September 2009: Registration 15 September 2009: Revised paper according the reviews 26-29 September 2009: Symposium period 30 November 2009: Final papers for post-proceedings Topics of interests: ------------------- * Symbolic Computation * Logic and Programming * Artificial Intelligence * Numerical Computing * Parallel Computing * Advances in the Theory of Computing Publication: ------------ The research papers accepted for the conference will be collected as post-proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (ISI Proceedings). Honorary Chairs: --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee: * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General chair: * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair: * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Sessions chairs: * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Dongming Wang, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Jens Knoop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Vasile Berinde, North University of Baia Mare, Romania + Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Parallel and Distributed Computing + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission: ----------- Papers (IEEE conference style), must be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2009. We invite submissions in the form of: * full research papers, (up to 8 pages). Accepted research papers will be presented at the conference and will be also published in the proceedings. * informal presentations (up to 4 pages). Accepted informal presentations will be presented at the conference but will not be published in the proceedings. =================================================== ACSys 2009 - 6th Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems in conjunction with SYNASC-2009 June 30, 2009: Papers submission http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/workshops/ACSys/ =================================================== GlobalComp - 2nd Workshop on Global Computing Models and Technologies in conjunction with SYNASC 2009 3 August 2009: Papers submission http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/workshops/globalcomp =================================================== NCA 2009 - Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications in conjunction with SYNASC 2009 June 30, 2009: Papers submission http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/workshops/nca =================================================== DMC 2009 - 1st Workshop on Data Management and Control August 3, 2009: Papers submission http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/workshops/dmc =================================================== SYNASC Tutorials on Software Verification and Theorem Proving Two-days programme of four tutorials, http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/tutorials ------------------------------------ SYNASC 2009 West University of Timisoara Dept. of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155 fax: + (40) 256 592316 e-mail: synasc09 at info.uvt.ro From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Tue Jun 16 18:28:27 2009 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:28:27 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Ph.D and Postdoc Positions available at the University of Oslo Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at the University of Oslo, in the Group of ``Precise Modelling and Analysis'' has open positions both at Ph.D level and at Post-Doc level in areas that could be of interest of readers of this email list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-3 PhD-positions and up-to 2 dost doctor positions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- starting 1. September. Application deadline: 10. August. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The general areas include: semantics of (object-oriented) programming languages, concurrency and distributed systems, formal methods, software engineering, and formal program analysis and verification. Detailed descriptions about the requirements, the topics of work, the projects the positions are related to, the work group, about salary and about Norway as work environment etc. can be found at the long version of the advertisement under: http://www.ifi.uio.no/forskning/grupper/pma/index_e.html From fsvweb at dimi.uniud.it Wed Jun 17 11:05:43 2009 From: fsvweb at dimi.uniud.it (fsvweb at dimi.uniud.it) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:05:43 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] GAMES 2009: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <20090617090543.930DE3FC381@sole.dimi.uniud.it> GAMES 2009 Annual Workshop of the ESF Networking Programme on Games for Design and Verification September 14 - 17, 2009 Udine, Italy http://games2009.dimi.uniud.it/ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS GAMES is an European Network pursuing research and training on the design and verification of computing systems, in a framework that is based on the interplay of finite and infinite games, mathematical logic, and automata theory. For details, see www.games.rwth-aachen.de/ PROGRAMME: As in previous years, GAMES 2009 will be an informal workshop, without proceedings. Its programme consists of three invited introductory tutorial (90 min), 5 invited advanced tutorials (90 min), contributed talks (30 min) and short presentations (15 min). Contributed talks and short presentations will be selected by the programme committee on the basis of submitted abstracts. GAMES 2009 will also feature an open problem session, which will consist of very short (10 min) descriptions of interesting open problems about games. SCOPE: The scope of the workshop includes the mathematical and algorithmic analysis of finite and infinite games, the interplay of games with automata theory and logic, and applications of games, automata, and logic for the design and verification of computing systems. SUBMISSIONS: Researchers who would like to present a talk at GAMES 2009 are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to two pages at https://fsv.dimi.uniud.it/Games2009_submission/ by July 15th 2009. Decision about acceptance will be made by August 1st 2009. SUPPORT: We will be able to cover travel and accomodation costs for a limited number of participants (especially students). For information, please contact games09-travel at dimi.uniud.it There will be no registration fee. INTRODUCTORY TUTORIALS: - Olivier Gossner, CNRS, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques, France - Christof L?ding, University of Aachen, Germany - Angelo Montanari and Nicola Vitacolonna, University of Udine, Italy ADVANCED TUTORIALS - Mikolaj Bojanczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland - Joseph Y. Halpern, Cornell University, USA - Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy - Guy McCusker, University of Bath, UK - Peter Bro Miltersen, Aarhus University, Denmark LOCATION: The workshop will be held at Udine Castle and at the University of Udine. The web site for the workshop is at http://games2009.dimi.uniud.it/. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala) - Erich Gr?del (Aachen) - Angelo Montanari (Udine) - Luke Ong (Oxford) - Wieslaw Zielonka (Paris) From ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt Thu Jun 18 01:19:12 2009 From: ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt (Ricardo Rocha) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:19:12 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'09 Call for Participation Message-ID: <1245280752.25319.11.camel@hp> ************************************************************************ * * * Call for Participation * * * * 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009) * * Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 * * http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009 * * Co-located with IJCAI 2009 (http://ijcai-09.org) * * * ************************************************************************ We are pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, to be held in the city of Pasadena, California, USA (http://www.pasadenacal.com/visitors.htm), in July 2009, at the Pasadena Convention Center (http://www.pasadenacenter.com). On-line registration for the conference is open at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/iclp09reg.html Remember that the deadline for early registration and for the hotel special rate reservations is June 20, 2009. ******************************************** There are a lot of good reasons to be part of ICLP 2009. This year, the technical program will include 38 regular and short presentations, 4 invited talks, 4 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, 6 associated workshops and the traditional Prolog programming contest. The list of accepted papers can be found on the conference website at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/submission_accepted.html Invited talks and tutorials include the following presentations (http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/talks-and-tutorials.html): * Taisuke Sato - Generative Modeling by PRISM * Paulo Moura - From Plain Prolog to Logtalk Objects: Effective Code Encapsulation and Reuse * Chris Mungall - Experiences using logic programming in bioinformatics * Marc Denecker - A Knowledge Base System project for FO(.) * Luc De Raedt - Probabilistic Logic Learning * Jan Wielemaker - Enabling serendipitous search on the Web of Data using Prolog * Mireille Ducasse - (C)LP tracing and debugging * Andy King - Untangling Reverse Engineering with Logic and Abstraction The associated workshops are: * ASPOCP - Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms * CHR - Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules * CICLOPS - Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems * CULP - Workshop on Commercial Users of Logic Programming * WG17 - Workshop on ISO Prolog * WLPE - Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments We really look forward to welcoming you at ICLP 2009 in Pasadena under the southern California sunshine! ************************************************************************ From calco09 at dimi.uniud.it Thu Jun 18 10:09:11 2009 From: calco09 at dimi.uniud.it (CALCO 2009) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:09:11 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CALCO 2009: Call for Participation Message-ID: *------------------------------------------------------------------* * Call for Participation * * * * CALCO 2009 * * * * 3rd Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science * * CALCO Tools Day * * CALCO-jnr * Symposium in honor of Prof. Peter Mosses * * * * September 6-10 2009, Udine, Italy * * * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN UNTIL JULY 22nd * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * http://www.dimi.uniud.it/calco09/ * *------------------------------------------------------------------* CALCO brings together researchers and practitioners to exchange new results about both traditional and emerging uses of algebras and coalgebras in computer science. This is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). The first and second CALCO conferences took place 2005 in Swansea, Wales (http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/calco/index.php), and 2007 in Bergen, Norway (http://www.ii.uib.no/calco07/). The second event will take place September 2009 in Udine, Italy. CALCO 2009 will be preceded by two events on September 6, 2009: * CALCO-jnr - a CALCO Young Researchers Workshop dedicated to presentations by PhD students and by those who completed their doctoral studies within the past few years. * CALCO Tools Day - providing the opportunity to give system demonstrations. See below for more information. CALCO 2009 will be followed on September 10, 2009 by the * Symposium in honor of Prof. Peter Mosses The CALCO 2009 programme includes the following invited speakers: ------------------ Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen, NL) Conor McBride (Strathclyde, UK) Prakash Panangaden (McGill, Canada) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh, UK) http://www.dimi.uniud.it/calco09/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes --- Eric, Andreas, Gilles, and Olaf The PLOS 2009 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (ABBREVIATED) CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2009) October 11, 2009 Big Sky Resort / Big Sky, MT, USA http://plosworkshop.og/2009/ Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS In conjunction with SOSP 2009 http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/ *EXTENDED* Paper submission deadline: June 24, 2009 Historically, operating system development and programming language development went hand-in-hand. Today, although the systems community at large retains an iron grip on C, many people continue to explore novel approaches to OS construction based on new programming language ideas. This workshop will bring together researchers and developers from the programming language and operating system domains to discuss recent work at the intersection of these fields. It will be a platform for discussing new visions, challenges, experiences, problems, and solutions arising from the application of advanced programming and software engineering concepts to operating systems construction, and vice versa. Please visit the Web site for more info: http://plosworkshop.org/2009/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Eide . University of Utah School of Computing http://www.cs.utah.edu/~eeide/ . +1 (801) 585-5512 voice, +1 (801) 581-5843 FAX From tskamal at sify.com Fri Jun 19 08:46:32 2009 From: tskamal at sify.com (tskamal .) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:16:32 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] [Mycolleagues] CfP: First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009 (deadline is extended) In-Reply-To: <4A321F4D.1000203@tele.pw.edu.pl> References: <4A321F4D.1000203@tele.pw.edu.pl> Message-ID: <3dc7ea390906182346o2527219eva480370132003ea3@mail.gmail.com> Dear Sir, Please find attached a first brochure of International Conference at Chandigarh(INDIA) on Dec 10-12,2010. With regards Professor(Dr.) TARA SINGH KAMAL FIE,FIETE,SrMIEEE(USA). Chairman Organising Committee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090619/e932275c/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Currently a high level of interest is being generated through the development of a wide and varied range of eSystems. There are many high profile projects, all around the world, seeking to transfer many services and facilities into state-of-the-art electronic technologies. DeSE*09 will cover a mix of topics aimed to address current research issues in the design, engineering and adoption of eSystems. The registration fee has been kept at minimum to encourage participation; even if you cannot make it to UAE you can still get it published, and present the paper online (in fact this particular option only cost $100) please see refer to this link for details http://cmsdlserver.cms.livjm.ac.uk/dese/dese09/default.aspx?id=58&fkPageID=58&Parent= The conference comprises an exciting spectrum of highly stimulating symposia, which include but not limited to: * e-Learning (Technology Enhanced Learning) * e-Systems and AI * e-Business and Management * e-Government systems, Autonomic Computing * e-Health and e-Medicine * e-Science and Technology * e-Entertainment and Creative Technologies * e-Security and e-Forensics * e-Built Environment * e-Systems Engineering, Design, Modelling and Simulation Please submit full papers describing original research on any aspect of eSystem Engineering, Modelling and Applications, to be presented at this three day conference in Abu Dhabi. Authors will have their submissions reviewed by international experts and accepted papers will be published in the IEEE for worldwide presence. The event provides authors with an outstanding opportunity for networking and presenting their work at an international conference. The location offers an especially attractive opportunity for professional discussion, socialising and sightseeing. All papers must be in English and the length should not exceed 6 pages for standard papers or 10 pages for long papers of A4 size and should conform to the IEEE Format. Accepted papers will have to be presented in the conference by at least one of the authors. Papers conforming to required specifications should be submitted through EDAS Conference Management System. Important dates are as follows: * Submission of papers June 25, 2009 * Notification of acceptance July 16, 2009 * Submission of camera-ready papers August 6, 2009 * Author online registration August 13, 2009 More information about the DESE09 conference can be found at www.dese.org.uk by following the DESE09 link (we intend for the conference website to be more complete with uptodate information in the next few days) Please feel free to forward any question or queries to me directly and hope to hear from you soon Best Regards Atulya K. Nagar, DeSE'09 Conference and TPC Chair. ............................................................................................................................................. Prof. Atulya K. Nagar, [Ph.D. (York), M.Phil., M.Sc., B.Sc. 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Nagar.vcf Url: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090619/4f0b8554/attachment-0001.pl From rossi at cs.unibo.it Fri Jun 19 16:17:02 2009 From: rossi at cs.unibo.it (Davide Rossi) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:17:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfP] Web Technologies Track at ACM SAC 2010 Message-ID: <4A3B9DDE.5000407@cs.unibo.it> WEB TECHNOLOGIES http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacwt10/ a Track of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/ 22 ? 26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------- Aims and scope ----------------------------- With the advent of new powerful and exciting concepts, protocols and languages, such as Social Software, Web Services, Semantic Web, Ajax, etc., Web-related technologies are becoming more and more pervasive and powerful, paving the ground to the evolution of Web applications, that are not just the easiest path to zero client install software but are becoming the founding elements of an emerging class of ubiquitous software systems, fostering the evolution of new cooperation paradigms among people. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications. This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on practical and foundational aspects related to Web technologies and other technologies that in the Web framework have found new and unexpected application fields. We seek original, unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on (but not necessarily limited to) the following aspects related to Web technologies: * Web engineering * Markup Languages and XML-related technologies * Cooperation on the Web: Social Software and Web 2.0 * Expanding the reach of Social Software: Enterprise 2.0, Social Software and Business Process Management, ... * (Process-aware) Web Information Systems * Semantic-enhanced Web applications * Web searching * Web Metrics, Monitoring and Analysis * Performance, scalability and quality of service on the Web * Web browser extensions * Emerging Web technologies ----------------------------- Proceedings and Post-Proceedings ----------------------------- Papers accepted for the Web Technologies track will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2010 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal (we have a pending agreement for a special issue of Springer's World Wide Web). ----------------------------- Paper Submission ----------------------------- Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2010 proceedings. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format via the eCMS web site at http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/ Submissions must adhere to the template available at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/downloads10.htm Please note: neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats such as letter and DIN A4. Please use a Postscript previewer such as Ghostview to check the portability of Postscript documents. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the ACM format (guidelines will be given on the SAC website). Accepted full papers should not exceed 5 pages in a double column format (with the option, at additional expense of USD 80 per page, to add three more pages). Accepted poster papers will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. ----------------------------- Relevant Dates ----------------------------- Sept. 8, 2009: Paper submission (strict deadline!) Oct. 19, 2009: Author notification Nov. 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy ----------------------------- Track chairs ----------------------------- Davide Rossi - Fabio Vitali Universit? di Bologna - Italy E-mail: sacwt10 at cs.unibo.it From joshep at cist.korea.ac.kr Fri Jun 19 16:43:26 2009 From: joshep at cist.korea.ac.kr (Jongsung Kim) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:43:26 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - International Workshop on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing - Submission Due: July 15, 2009 Message-ID: <01b701c9f0ec$50c62200$3a3e98a3@zzggoo> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students ============================================================= The 2009 FTRG International Workshop on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing (ACSA-09) http://www.ftrg.org/acsa2009/ Jeju, Korea, December 11-12, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------- ** Publication: The final version of all accepted and presented papers in ACSA-09 will be included in a Special Issue on COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS (Elsevier) indexed by SCI (About 20 papers). ** Submission Due: July 15, 2009 ** ============================================================== ------------ Overview ------------ The 2009 FTRG International Workshop on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing (ACSA-09) will be held in Jeju, Korea, December 11-12, 2009. ACSA-09 will be the most comprehensive workshop focused on advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing. ACSA-09 is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of cryptography, security and its applications for Future Computer Science (FCS). The FCS represents an interdisciplinary field with roots in mathematics and engineering with applications in future computing environments including ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, and P2P computing. It aims to solve the various problems of advanced computing and communication services using mathematics and computer science in future computing environments. The reliable security solutions that rely on in depth cryptography are required as a countermeasure, such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, and access control services. This workshop focuses on advances in cryptography, security and its application for FCS. This workshop will also serve as a landmark source for cryptography, security and its applications for FCS and will provide reader the most important state-of-the-art technologies in areas of applied mathematics for FCS. This workshop aims to address the importance of cryptography, security and its application for FCS and to encourage researchers to publish their results in CAM journal. It will accept both original research papers and review articles that enhance the state-of-the-art approaches and solutions in the area of advances in cryptography, security and its applications for FCS. The papers will be peer reviewed and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this workshop. -------- Topics -------- Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following: - Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations of Applied Cryptography for FCS - Authentication and Non-repudiation for FCS - Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols for FCS - Pairing Based Cryptography for FCS - Provable Security for Cryptographic Primitives Suitable for FCS - Information Security with Mathematical Emphasis for FCS - Identity and Trust Management for FCS - Database and System Security for FCS - Intrusion Detection, Tolerance and Prevention for FCS - Access control and DRM for FCS - Information assurance for FCS - New Security Issues for FCS ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Paper Submission Due: July 15, 2009. First Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2009. Revision Due: Sept 31, 2009. Second Acceptance Notification: October 31, 2009. Presentation Material Due (PPT): November 31, 2009. Workshop Day: December 13, 2009 Final Acceptance Notification: December 31, 2009. Camera Ready Due: January 15, 2010 Journal Publication Date: 2nd or 3rd Quarter, 2010 (Tentative) ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the "Submission Procedure" page at the journal website, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/301/authorinstructions In addition, Authors should submit full paper (ONLY PDF file) with 14-15 pages in length according to the instruction. Submission System : http://www.editorialsystem.net/acsa2009 **Short Requirements For Authors** -In order to continue the publication of professional quality special issues in our journal, the items listed below are the minimum requirements for accepting manuscripts for Special Issues submitted for publication in Computers and Mathematics with Applications. We ask you to be sure that your manuscript meets these requirements when it is submitted to us. We will be unable to proceed with the publication of the special issue until these requirements are met. We suggest that you use the following as a checklist before forwarding the final version of your article to the guest editor. -Addresses: Please make sure your manuscript has current and complete mailing and email addresses for all authors and co-authors. Also, please keep us updated on any address changes. -Electronic Versions: Either a TEX, AMS- TEX, LaTEX, or Word file for the text of the manuscript is necessary along with a pdf file of the final version of the article. The digital file (TeX or Word file) must match the pdf file exactly. Any discrepancies detected between the two files will cause delays in the publication of the special issue. -Abstracts: Your manuscript must contain an abstract. -Keywords: Five keywords should be provided for your manuscript. -Figures & Graphs: An electronic version of each figure is required. Each figure or graph should also appear in the pdf file of your manuscript. -The preferred format for figures and graphs is PostScript (ps) or encapsulated PostScript (eps). From with the TEX file of each paper, we import the eps figures. We will try to work with any electronic format that we receive. However, this may cause a delay, and at our discretion, we may require authors to re-submit the illustrations in ps or eps format, compatible with Adobe Illustrator. Each figure or graph should be a separate file. -References: References should be numbered sequentially in the order of their appearance in the text, not alphabetically. References should be cited in the text in square brackets. If the references in your manuscript are not in this format, you will be asked to redo them, causing a publication delay for the entire special issue. ---------------------------- Proceeding and Publication ---------------------------- First, Materials (PPT) for presentation of accepted papers will be included in a ACSA-09 workshop proceeding. After closing ACSA-09, final version of all accepted and presented papers in ACSA-09 will be included in a Special Issue of COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS (Elsevier) indexed by SCI (About 20 papers). ---------------- Organization ---------------- ==General Chairs== Prof. Jong Hyuk Park Department. of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea Email: parkjonghyuk1 at hotmail.com Website: http://parkjonghyuk.net Prof. Yi Mu School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia Email: ymu at uow.edu.au Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/~ymu/ ==Program Chairs== Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo Division of Computer Engineering Mokwon University, Korea Email: ssyeo at msn.com Website: http://www.ssyeo.net Prof. Deqing Zou Department of Information Security School of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Email: Deqingzou at hust.edu.cn Website: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/deqingzou/ Prof. Sajid Hussain Computer Science, Acadia University, Canada Email: dr.sajid.hussain at gmail.com Website: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/ ==International Advisory Board== Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Prof. Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Dr. Kyo Il Chung, ETRI, Korea Prof. Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Prof. Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Prof. Hyoung Joong Kim, Korea University, Korea ==Publication Chairs== Prof. Soo-Kyun Kim, PaiChai University, Korea Prof. Eun-Jun Yoon, Kyungpook National University, Korea ==Publicity Chairs== Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea Lei Shu, National University of Ireland, Ireland ==Program Committee== TBA ---------------------- Contact Information ---------------------- If you have any question about the CfP and papers submission, please email to Prof. Jong Hyuk Park (parkjonghyuk1 at hotmail.com) and Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (ssyeo at msn.com). - The End - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please send to interested colleagues and students ===========F2GC-09 CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================ The 2nd International Workshop on Forensics for Future Generation Communication environments (F2GC-09) December 10 ~ 12, 2009, Jeju, Korea. http://www.ftrg.org/F2GC2009/ In Conjunction with CSA 2009 (http://www.ftrg.org/CSA2009) ========================================================================== Future Generation Communication environments (FGC) are advanced communication and networking environments where all applications and services are focused on users. In addition, the FGC has emerged rapidly an exciting new paradigm to provide reliable and comfortable life services. Furthermore, the benefits of FGC will only be realized if security issues can be appropriately addressed. Specially, forensics for FGC is very important in the security fields. This workshop is intended to foster state-of-the-art research forensics in the area of FGC including information and communication technologies, law, social sciences and business administration. The F2GC-09 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of forensics. And the workshop will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in F2GC. Furthermore, we expect that the workshop and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. == Topics == Topics of interest include but are not limited to following: Digital forensics tools in FGC Digital Evidence Management in FGC Digital Evidence Analytics in FGC Digital Forensics Surveillance Technology and Procedures in FGC Digital evidence visualisation and communication for FGC Digital evidence storage and preservation in FGC Incident response and investigation in FGC Forensic procedures in FGC Portable electronic device forensics for FGC Network forensics in FGC Data hiding and recovery in FGC Network traffic analysis, traceback and attribution in FGC Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics in FGC Integrity of digital evidence and live investigations Multimedia analysis in FGC Trends and Challenges for FGC Evidence Protection in FGC Forensics case studies in FGC == Organization=== Steering Chairs ------------------- Jong Hyuk Park (Kyungnam University, Korea) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) General Chairs ------------------ Ryoichi Sasaki (Tokyo Denki University, Japan) Jeng-Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan) Program Chairs ------------------------ - Jongsung Kim (Korea Universtiy, Korea) K.P. Chow (University of Hongkong, Hongkong) International Advisory Board ----------------------------- Kyo-il Chung (ETRI, Korea) Jung-Shian Li (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Patrick Wang (Northeastern University, USA) Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Publicity Chairs ------------------------ Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI, Korea) Bo-Chao Cheng (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Antonio Savoldi (University of Brescia, Italy) Program Committee ------------------------------ Zeno Geradts (The Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands) Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Tzong-Chen Wu (National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan) Der-Tsai Lee (Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan) LF Kwok (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Damien Sauveron (University of Limoges, France) Edgar R. Weippl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Robert Erbacher (Utah State University, USA) Raymond Hsieh (California University of Pennsylvania, USA) Kyung-Hyune Rhee (Pukyong National University,Korea) Paris Kitsos (Hellenic Open University, Greece) Cosimo Anglano (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Phil Attfield (Northwest Security,Institute-USA, Canada) Jinn-Shing Cheng (National Kaohsiung First University, Taiwan) Yongjian Hu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Tetsutaro Uehara (Kyoto University, Japan) Sujeet Shenoi (University of Tulsa, USA) Golden G. Richard (University of New Orleans, USA) Jung-Shian Li (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Che-Yen Wen (Central Police University, Taiwan) Katrin Franke (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) Kyung-Soo Lim (Korea University, Korea) Yong Guan (Iowa State University, USA) Jill Salay (University of South Australia, Australia) George Mohay (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Richard Overill (King's College London, UK) Hilton Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) S.M. Yiu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Zichen Li (Bejing Electronic Science Technology Institute, China) Yang Ying (Shandong Computer Science Center, China) ==Important Dates== Submission due: July 17, 2009 Acceptance notification: August 31, 2009 Camera-ready due: August September 15, 2009 Conference: December 10 - 12, 2009 == Paper Submission== Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas of interest for this conference. The initial submission for evaluation should be in the form of a 6-10 page paper outline. Authors are strongly recommended to submit the full 10 pages English language version. Authors should submit full paper with 10 pages and regular paper with 6 pages by using online systems for review. Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE (Pendig). Please use the IEEE CS Proceedings format (MS-WORD or LaTeX) for submission. F2GC-09's submission web site : http://www.editorialsystem.net/em-com2009 Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the workshop, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. == Proceeding == Accepted papers will be published by IEEE. In addition, distinguished papers accepted and presented in F2GC-09, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious international journals (Pending). --- The End -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090619/d5d97899/attachment-0001.html From M.Sun at cwi.nl Fri Jun 19 17:15:44 2009 From: M.Sun at cwi.nl (Sun Meng) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:15:44 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] FACS'09: deadline extended to June 26 Message-ID: <4A3BABA0.5090602@cwi.nl> Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2009) Call for Papers 6th International Workshop on Formal Aspects of Component Software November 2-3, 2009 Eindhoven, the Netherlands http://www.iist.unu.edu/facs09/ Submission deadline June 26, 2009 Scope & Topics: Component-based software has emerged as a promising paradigm to deal with the ever increasing need for mastering systems' complexity, for enabling evolution and reuse, and for bringing sound production and engineering standards into software engineering. However, many issues in component-based software development remain open and pose challenging research questions. Formal methods consist of mathematically-based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems. They have shown their great utility for setting up the formal foundations of component software and working out challenging issues such as mathematical models for components, their composition and adaptation, or rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing and certification. The objective of FACS'09 is to bring together researchers in the areas of component software and formal methods to promote a deep understanding of this paradigm and its applications. The workshop will also be interested in defining the common aspects of components and component-based development. It is expected that formal paper presentations will be followed by lively discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - formal models for software components and component interaction - design and verification methods for component software - component composition and deployment: models, calculi, languages - component testing, re-engineering and reuse - specification of extra-functional properties in component software - certification of components and software architectures - component software vs. object orientation, multi-agent systems, and aspect oriented development - components for real-time, safety-critical, secure and/or embedded systems - standard models for software components (e.g. Fractal, GCM, etc.) - industrial or experience reports, and case studies in component software - partial behavior models for software components - update and reconfiguration of component architectures - component systems evolution and maintenance - formal methods and modeling languages for components - trust models for components - autonomic components and self-managed applications - formal / rigorous approaches to software adaptation and self-adaptive systems - formal aspects of Web services and business processes - component-based Web services and service-oriented architectures - QoS issues in web services, multi-agent systems and component-based systems FACS'09 is the 6th event in a series of workshops, founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The first FACS workshop was co-located with FM'03 (Pisa, Italy, September 2003). The following FACS workshops were organised as standalone events, respectively at UNU-IIST in Macau (October 2005), at Charles University in Prague (September 2006), at INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis (September 2007), and at University of M?laga in Spain (September 2008). FACS'09 is planned to be co-located with a number of events together under the heading of Formal Methods Week (Eindhoven, the Netherlands, October 2009). Submission & proceedings: Submissions to the workshop must present original research that is unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages in the ENTCS format. Note that to encourage submission of work still in progress, we may also accept promising papers to be presented at the workshop. The presenters of these papers will be entitled to submit a revised version for full review for inclusion in the formal (post-)proceedings to be published in ENTCS. Extended versions of all accepted papers will be eligible for selection for a journal special issue. The final version of the papers must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the ENTCS format (see http://www.entcs.org/final.html). Papers/abstracts can be submitted via the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=facs09 A special issue consisting of extended versions of selected papers from FACS 2009 will be published in Science of Computer Programming. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by the international program committee of FACS'09, which will decide on their suitability for final publication in the special issue. Important dates: Abstract submission: June 12, 2009 Paper submission (extended): June 26, 2009 Acceptance notification: July 31, 2009 Camera ready: August 28, 2009 Workshop: November 2-3, 2009 Keynote speakers: Jan Rutten (CWI, The Netherlands) Gert Doehmen (AIRBUS Deutschland GmbH, Germany) Program chairs: Bernhard Sch?tz and Sun Meng Program committee: Farhad Arbab (CWI, The Netherlands) Luis Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Frank S. de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Christiano Braga (Univesidade Federal Fliminense, Brazil) Carlos Canal (Universidad de Malaga, Spain) Paolo Ciancarini (Universita di Bologna, Italy) Rolf Hennicker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Einar Broch Johnsen (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) Ying Liu (IBM China Research, China) Markus Lumpe (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Eric Madelaine (INRIA, Centre Sophia Antipolis, France) Sun Meng (CWI, The Netherlands) Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames, USA) Frantisek Plasil (Charles University, Czech Republic) Anders Ravn (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ralf Reussner (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany) Bernhard Schaetz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Heinrich Schmidt (RMIT University, Australia) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland, University of Tehran, Iran) Volker Stolz (UNU-IIST, MACAU) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Naijun Zhan (IOS, China) Steering Committee: Zhiming Liu (IIST UNU, Macau, China, coordinator) Farhad Arbab (CWI, The Netherlands) Luis Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Carlos Canal (University of M?laga, Spain) Markus Lumpe (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Eric Madelaine (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France) Vladimir Mencl (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Sun Meng (CWI, the Netherlands) Bernhard Schaetz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Co-location: FACS'09 is part of the first Formal Methods Week (FMweek), which will bring together a choice of events in the area, including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), FMICS (Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems), PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation), FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe), CPA (Communicating Process Architectures), FAST (Formal Aspects in Security and Trust), FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects), and the REFINE Workshop. For the latest information on FMweek, see http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek. From tswift at cs.sunysb.edu Sat Jun 20 16:32:53 2009 From: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu (Terrance Swift) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:32:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ecoop-info] RR 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Reminder abstract submission is due June 28, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti Univ. of Naples Frederico II (IT) Carlos Damasio Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) ` National University of Ireland, Galway Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: axel.polleres at deri.org Email: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifer at cs.sunysb.edu From ipetre at abo.fi Sun Jun 21 22:05:35 2009 From: ipetre at abo.fi (Ion Petre) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:05:35 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CfP and deadline extension: Computational Models for Cell Processes 2009 Message-ID: <00b401c9f2ab$a387b880$ea972980$@fi> Second International Workshop on Computational Models for Cell Processes Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 3, 2009 http://combio.abo.fi/compmod09/ In conjunction with Formal Methods 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- === Deadline extended: July 15, 2009 === === Proceedings will be published in the new EPTCS series === -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MEETING ----------- Computational systems biology is an exciting new application area for applied mathematics and computer science. This workshop of the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods fosters an excellent platform gathering researchers in formal methods and related fields that are interested in the wealth of opportunities and challenges in systems biology. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We seek papers and extended abstracts in all areas that relate to the relevance and potential of formal methods and computational modeling/simulation in systems biology. In particular, we welcome contributions that present biological processes requiring special computational and formal techniques that have not been investigated so far in the context of formal methods, as well as extensions of formal methods formalisms introduced to improve their applicability to biology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal models for cellular pathways - Qualitative biological modeling - Quantitative formal methods - Theoretical comparison of formalisms for biological processes - Biologically-inspired extensions to formal methods, concurrency theory, or logical methods - Differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling languages - Reconstruction of biological networks based on empirical data - Decomposition and modularization of large biological networks - Applications of formal methods and computational modeling - Membrane systems as a modeling platform Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or full papers of up to 15 pages formatted according to EPTCS guidelines. Electronic submissions should be formatted in PDF. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. A special issue of a high-level international journal, based on the workshop, is planned after the workshop. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Hidde de Jong (INRIA Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes) - Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Deadline extended: July 15, 2009 - Notification: September 10, 2009 - Final version: October 1, 2009 - Workshop: November 2, 2009 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Ralph Back, Abo Akademi, Finland - Lubos Brim, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow, UK - Eugen Czeizler, Abo Akademi, Finland - Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh, UK - Russ Harmer, University of Paris 7, France - Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany - Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ina Koch, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany - Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy - Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy - Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan - Andrei Paun, Louisiana Tech University, US - Ion Petre, Abo Akademi, Finland - Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, the Netherlands - Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy - Erik de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands ORGANIZERS ---------- - Ion Petre, ipetre 'AT' abo.fi - Erik de Vink, evink 'AT' win.tue.nl - Ralph-Johan Back, backrj 'AT' abo.fi VENUE: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands From alessandro.dalpalu at unipr.it Mon Jun 22 11:08:51 2009 From: alessandro.dalpalu at unipr.it (Alessandro Dal Palu') Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:08:51 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for papers - WCB09 - Extended Deadline Message-ID: <200906220908.n5M98pxb025843@nautilus2.cce.unipr.it> (Apologies for multiple copies. Please, re-distribute.) ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE WCB09 Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/Events/WCB09/ September 20th, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal associated to CP 2009 ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bioinformatics is a challenging and fast growing area of research, which is of utmost importance for our understanding of life. Major contributions to this discipline can have thousands of positive effects in medicine, agriculture, or industry. To pick out only a few examples, Bioinformatics tackles problems related to: Recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences. For instance, haplotype/pedigree inference, motif localization, constrained and structural alignments, biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks), and structure prediction of proteins and RNA. All these problems can be naturally formalized using constraint programming. The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, to share recent results in this area. This includes new ideas and/or systems, relying on constraints, but also on other AI techniques like linear programming, mixed Integer Linear Programming, local search, and possibly combinations thereof. On the other hand, to present new challenging problems that were recently formalized and are well-suited for constraint-based methods. Here, we welcome problem proposals that motivate further developments in the field, even if they are still far from having effective solutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Submission Deadline: ** July 3rd, 2009 ** Notification to Authors: July 24th, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: August 14th, 2009 Workshop: September 20th, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rolf Backofen, Freiburg Univ., Germany Pedro Barahona, Univ. Nova de Lisbona, Portugal Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden Alessandro Dal Palu' (co-chair), Parma Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier, Udine Univ., Italy Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Ines Lynce, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Neil Moore, Univ. of St Andrews, UK Enrico Pontelli, NMSU, USA Sebastian Will (co-chair), Freiburg Univ., Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We appreciate submissions of * Extended Abstracts of new results * Abstracts of ongoing work * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop) * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results * Well-motivated proposals of bioinformatics problems for constraint based methods in any topic concerning bioinformatics and constraints and close techniques. Submission style is the standard llncs style. The page limit for submissions is 8 pages. Please send the pdf or ps to wcb09 at informatik.uni-freiburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the workshop and present the topic. Workshop participants must pay the workshop fee according to CP rules. From Thomas.Ledoux at emn.fr Mon Jun 22 15:13:51 2009 From: Thomas.Ledoux at emn.fr (Thomas Ledoux) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:13:51 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 4th Summer School on AOSD (program, dates, student grants) Message-ID: <4A3F838F.7010203@emn.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Participation] ==================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fourth Summer School on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) 24-28 August 2009, Nantes, France http://www.aosd-europe.net/summerschool An organisation of AOSD-Europe at Nantes, France ==================================== IMPORTANT Early Registration Deadline: Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Late Registration Deadline: Friday, July 31th, 2009 A few grants covering the registration fees are available. If you need a grant to attend the school, please do not register on-line but first apply for a grant by sending an application letter to aosdsc09 at emn.fr . ==================================== ABOUT THE AOSD SUMMER SCHOOL Following on from three successful editions in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the fourth AOSD-Europe summer school on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) provides an intensive and exciting week of lectures on advanced aspect-oriented topics in the context of programming languages, analysis and design, formal methods and application domains. The summer school brings together PhD students and lecturers as well as other researchers and practitioners who are interested in aspect-oriented software development. The tutorials are given by renowned representatives of each domain of expertise. Each tutorial combines foundations, examples and advanced topics as well as hands-on sessions when appropriate. PROGRAM A precise schedule is on-line! Monday August 24th - Introduction to AOSD Concepts (Awais Rashid, Wouter Joosen) - Introduction to AOP Languages (Mira Mezini) - AOP Languages (Mira Mezini, lab session) - Feature Interaction and AOSD: Status and Future (Eddy Truyen) Tuesday August 25th - AOP Languages (Mira Mezini) - AO Requirements Engineering (AORE I): Identifying Crosscutting Concerns in Requirements (Awais Rashid) - AORE II - Hands-on Identification of Aspects in Requirements (AwaisRashid, lab session) - AORE III - Aspect Dependencies and Interactions (Awais Rashid) - AO Software Architectures (Mehmet Aksit) Wednesday August 26th - AO Software Architectures (Mehmet Aksit) - AO Modeling (Jean-Marc Jezequel) - Formal Methods (Remi Douence) Thursday August 27th - Aspect-Oriented Technologies for Distributed Software: Results and Challenges (Mario Sudholt, Wouter Joosen) - Demonstrations - Poster Session Friday August 28th - AOSD in Industry - An Execution Model of Predicate Dispatch and Pointcut-Advice Languages (Christoph Bockisch) - Workshops PARTNERSHIP The AOSD Summer School is organized with the support of GDR GPL CNRS (http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr/) and the participation of INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (http://www.inria.fr/rennes/) and LINA (http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/). ORGANISATION The fourth Summer School on AOSD is an organisation of the European Network of Excellence on AOSD (AOSD-Europe - http://www.aosd-europe.net). General Chair: - Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Program Co-chairs: - Christoph Bockisch, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil Local Organizing Chair: - Remi Douence, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Thomas Ledoux, Inria, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Catherine de Charette, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Mireille M?chineau, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Fr?d?rique Pinson, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Summer School Board: - Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Pierre Cointe, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France - Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain - Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy REGISTRATION PROCEDURE Information on how to register is available on the web site: http://www.aosd-europe.net/summerschool A few grants covering the registration fees are available. If you need a grant to attend the school, please do not register on-line but first apply for a grant by sending a application letter to aosdsc09 at emn.fr Any further inquiries about the summer school registration can be sent to aosdsc09 at emn.fr From Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk Mon Jun 22 15:58:24 2009 From: Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk (Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:58:24 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] VLL 09 -- deadline extension (29th June) for Visual Languages and Logic Workshop Message-ID: <19975A316C67744D9720DD2F6AB1FC6608D2A996@EXCHANGE1.university.brighton.ac.uk> Our apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to several requests -- NEW, EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday 29nd June 2009. INVITED TALK: A Brief Survey of Venn/Euler Diagrams by Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria, Canada. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Workshop on Visual Languages and Logic (VLL) Corvallis, OR, USA, 20 September 2009 http://www.cs.dal.ca/~vll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diagrams of one sort or another have always been used as aids to abstract reasoning. Although many are informal mnemonics, reminding their authors about structures and relationships they have observed or deduced, considerable re- search effort has been expended on formalising graphical notations so that they may play a more central role in the application of logic to problems. While early work concentrated on diagrammatic representations of logic as a more intuitive or revealing paper-based replacement for textually represented logic, research in this area now mostly involves notations specifically designed for computer implementation either as computational models or interface languages. Examples include relational and existential graphs (C.S. Peirce), conceptual graphs (J.F. Sowa), various flavours of semantic networks, such as conceptual dependency graphs (R. Schank), graphical deduction systems, such as clause interconnectivity graphs (S. Sickel), Venn diagrams, Euler diagrams, constraint diagrams, and visual logic programming languages. The purpose of the VLL workshop is to explore the current state of research at the intersection of logic and visual languages, examining notations or software in which a graphical structure provides the foundation for, or a visualisation of, a system of logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit original, unpublished research papers that examine some combination of visual tools, representations or languages with logic. Topics of interest in- clude, but are not limited to: * Graphical notations for logics (either classical or non-classical, such as first or higher order logic, temporal logic, description logic, independence friendly logic, spatial logic) * Diagrammatic reasoning * Theorem proving * Formalisation (syntax, semantics, reasoning rules) * Expressiveness of visual logics * Visual logic programming languages * Visual specification languages * Applications * Tool support for Visual Logics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATED EVENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VLL runs directly before the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/vlhcc09/). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions should be in ENTCS format (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html), and no longer than 12 pages. Please email submissions in PDF format to the workshop email address VLL at cs.dal.ca and use the first named author's surname as the filename, appended with a number if there is more than one submission from the same author. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee. Publication of the proceedings will be in ENTCS or similar, and authors of top-ranked papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for journal publication. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: June 22, 2009 Notification: July 20, 2009 Final papers: August 3, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-CHAIRS Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK John Howse, University of Brighton, UK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gerry Allwein, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Omid Banyasad, IBM Canada Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Alexander Knapp, Ludwig-Maximilians Universit??t, Munich, Germany Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Nathaniel Miller, University of Northern Colorado, USA Mark Minas, Universit??t der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany Julia Padberg, Technische Universit??t Berlin, Germany Ian Pratt-Hartman, University of Manchester, UK Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Nik Swoboda, Universidad Polit??cnica de Madrid, Spain Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please email VLL at cs.dal.ca From ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Jun 22 16:27:54 2009 From: ricroc at dcc.fc.up.pt (Ricardo Rocha) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:27:54 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'09 Call for Participation Message-ID: <1245680874.27751.285.camel@phobia.dcc.fc.up.pt> [Early Registration period has been extended through June 25th] ************************************************************************ * * * Call for Participation * * * * 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009) * * Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 * * http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009 * * Co-located with IJCAI 2009 (http://ijcai-09.org) * * * ************************************************************************ We are pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, to be held in the city of Pasadena, California, USA (http://www.pasadenacal.com/visitors.htm), in July 2009, at the Pasadena Convention Center (http://www.pasadenacenter.com). On-line registration for the conference is open at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/iclp09reg.html Early Registration period has been extended through June 25th ******************************************** There are a lot of good reasons to be part of ICLP 2009. This year, the technical program will include 38 regular and short presentations, 4 invited talks, 4 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, 6 associated workshops and the traditional Prolog programming contest. The list of accepted papers can be found on the conference website at: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/submission_accepted.html Invited talks and tutorials include the following presentations (http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/talks-and-tutorials.html): * Taisuke Sato - Generative Modeling by PRISM * Paulo Moura - From Plain Prolog to Logtalk Objects: Effective Code Encapsulation and Reuse * Chris Mungall - Experiences using logic programming in bioinformatics * Marc Denecker - A Knowledge Base System project for FO(.) * Luc De Raedt - Probabilistic Logic Learning * Jan Wielemaker - Enabling serendipitous search on the Web of Data using Prolog * Mireille Ducasse - (C)LP tracing and debugging * Andy King - Untangling Reverse Engineering with Logic and Abstraction The associated workshops are: * ASPOCP - Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms * CHR - Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules * CICLOPS - Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems * CULP - Workshop on Commercial Users of Logic Programming * WG17 - Workshop on ISO Prolog * WLPE - Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments We really look forward to welcoming you at ICLP 2009 in Pasadena under the southern California sunshine! ************************************************************************ From bram at cs.queensu.ca Mon Jun 22 18:59:20 2009 From: bram at cs.queensu.ca (Bram Adams) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:59:20 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for TOOL demonstrations (WCRE 2009) Message-ID: <4AF8EBC6-08FE-4C1D-A6F8-2512F00E973F@cs.queensu.ca> [Apologies for multiple reception of this email] *** CALL FOR TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS *** WCRE '09: The 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering Lille (France), October 13-16, 2009. # Important dates Submission deadline: June 30, 2009 Notification: July 21, 2009 Camera ready: August 7, 2009 # Contact Website: http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/wcre2009/calls/cftd.htm Contact: wcre2009.demo at gmail.com Software Engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance of large software systems. WCRE 2009 (the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of reverse engineering. WCRE brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results, state of the art, and state of the practice. The Research Tool Demonstrations track is an important part of the conference with the goal to allow live presentation of new research tool prototypes. Tools are central to research in reverse engineering. Hence, tool demonstrations will have a prominent role within the conference. We solicit proposals for research tool demonstrations related to software engineering. Tools can range from mature prototypes to fully developed products that are being prepared for commercialization. Commercial products and products that are currently being commercialized cannot be accepted. The demonstrations are intended to highlight scientific contributions, and consequently should not be sales pitches. For further clarification, please contact the Tool Demonstrations Organizers (wcre2009.demo at gmail.com). We want to specially encourage tool demonstration proposals complementing full technical papers. Whereas a technical paper is intended to give the background information and point out the scientific contribution of a new software engineering approach, the tool demonstration provides a good opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been transferred into a running tool prototype. # How to submit Submissions of proposals for formal tool demonstrations must: * adhere to the conference proceedings format (IEEE style, see IEEE CS Press ftp site); * have a maximum of 2 pages that describe the technology or approach, how it relates to other industrial or research efforts, including references, and what the expected benefits are; * have an appendix (not included in the 2 page count) that provides a detailed description of how the presentation will be conducted (possibly illustrated with a number of snapshots), information on tool availability and maturity, and the web-page for the tool (if one exists); * be submitted before the Tool Demonstrations submission deadline; * be sent via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcre2009 ). # Review process The Research Tool Demonstrations Committee will review each submission using the standard WCRE criteria, which are originality and importance of contribution, soundness of rationale, quality of written and graphic presentation, and appropriate consideration of relevant literature. # Presentation Accepted demonstrations will be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceedings (the proposal appendix will not be included in the proceedings). In addition, demonstrators will be expected to give a presentation that will be scheduled into the conference program. There will also be a demonstration area open to attendees at scheduled times during the conference. Demonstrators are expected to be available to give their demonstrations during those times. Demonstrators are expected to provide their own equipment. The conference organization will provide an Internet connection. For supplemental wishes please contact the Tool Demonstrations Organizers (wcre2009.demo at gmail.com ). # Organization Martin Pinzger, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Bram Adams, Queen's University (Canada) From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Jun 22 22:40:05 2009 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:40:05 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CFP: 3rd Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) Message-ID: <20090622224005.fvm3cm3hso4s8oo8@webmail.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti, Univ. of Naples Frederico II(IT) Carlos Damasio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent, IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni, Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian Univ.of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo, DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz, Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May, Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce, Universidad Politde Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi, Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou, National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure, AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi, Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits, Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) National University of Ireland, Galway IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Email: axel.polleresderi.org Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: tswiftcs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifercs.sunysb.edu From inap2009 at di.uevora.pt Mon Jun 22 23:54:10 2009 From: inap2009 at di.uevora.pt (INAP 2009) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:54:10 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] INAP 2009: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <200906222154.n5MLsAqo007953@host.di.uevora.pt> [apologies for cross-posting; please distribute] --- (PLEASE DISTRIBUTE) ------------------------------------------------------------ Second Call for Papers INAP 2009 18th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management November 5-7, 2009 Evora, Portugal http://www.di.uevora.pt/inap2009/ http://inap.dialogengines.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Organized by the Portuguese AI Society (APPIA), the INAP Committee and the Society of Logic Programming (GLP e.V.) == Overview == Declarative Programming is a family of advanced paradigms for the modeling and solving of complex problems. These specification and implementation methods have attracted more and more attention over the past years, e.g. in the domains of databases and natural language processing, for modeling and the processing of combinatorial problems, and for establishing systems for the web. == INAP 2009 == INAP is a communicative and dense forum for intensive discussion of applications of important technologies related to Prolog, Logic and Constraint Programming as well as closely related advanced software. It comprehensively covers the impact of programmable logic solvers in the Internet Society, its underlying technologies, and leading edge applications in industry, commerce, government, and societal services. INAP 2009 continues a tradition of successful workshops cast around the applications of declarative programming, which were held in Kobe (1997), Tokyo (1995, 1996, 1998 - 2001), Potsdam (2004), Fukuoka (2005) and Wuerzburg (2007). We invite the submission of high quality papers on the described topics, especially, but not exclusively, on different aspects of Declarative Programming, Constraint Processing and Knowledge Management as well as their use for Distributed Systems and the Web: - Knowledge Management, e.g. Data Mining, Decision Support, Deductive Databases - Distributed Systems and the Web, e.g. Agents and Concurrent Engineering, Semantic Web - Constraints, e.g. Constraint Systems, Extensions of Constraint (Logic) Programming - Theoretical Foundations, e.g. Deductive Databases, Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Systems and Tools for Academic and Industrial Use - Knowledge-based Web Services - Logic Solvers and Applications == Workshop Format == The technical program of the workshop will include invited presentations (to be announced), regular technical sessions with presentations of the accepted papers, system demonstrations and a panel discussion. == Conference Venue == The conference will be held at the University of Evora, Portugal in November 5-7, 2009. Evora is a nice and quiet historical city located in the south of Portugal that can be reached from Lisbon by train or coach in under 2 hours. It is a small city of 60.000 inhabitants, 120 km inland from Lisbon and classified by Unesco as World Heritage. The University of Evora was established in the 16th Century and is the 2nd oldest Portuguese University. The social program is promising since the region is very rich in historical sites (Stone Age, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance remains) and also offers a very special gastronomy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vora for more information. == Important Dates == Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009 Notifications to Authors: August 17, 2009 Camera-ready Version Deadline: September 14, 2009 INAP 2009 Workshop: November 5-7, 2009 == Submission Guidelines == Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages, PDF format), describing their work in topics relevant to the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. At least one author of an accepted contribution is expected to register for the workshop, and present the paper. All submissions should include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, and email address. Authors are requested to prepare their submissions, following the LNCS/LNAI Springer format. Please see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for further details. The submission should be submitted through the electronic submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inap2009 The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 29, 2009. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Eligible papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified via email of the results by August 17, 2009. Authors of accepted papers are expected to improve their paper based on reviewers' comments and to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by September 14, 2009. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the participants. As in previous editions, we plan to publish selected papers in a proceedings volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. == Organizing Committee == Vitor Nogueira vbn AT di.uevora.pt Salvador Abreu spa AT di.uevora.pt Pedro Salgueiro pds AT di.uevora.pt Universidade de Evora Portugal == Program Committee == Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal (co-chair) Sergio Alvarez, Boston College, USA Philippe Codognet, CNRS/JFLI, Tokyo, Japan Vitor Santos Costa, University of Porto, Portugal Daniel Diaz, University of Paris I, France Ulrich Geske, University of Potsdam, Germany Gopal Gupta, UT Dallas, USA Petra Hofstedt, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ulrich Neumerkel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Vitor Nogueira, University of Evora, Portugal Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Irene Rodrigues, University of Evora, Portugal Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Dietmar Seipel, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (co-chair) Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Portugal Hans Tompits, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Masanobu Umeda, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Armin Wolf, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany Osamu Yoshie, Waseda University, Japan == Contact Information == inap2009 at di.uevora.pt Universidade de Evora Departamento de Informatica Largo dos Colegiais, 2 7004-516 Evora - PORTUGAL From petfr at ida.liu.se Tue Jun 23 08:37:47 2009 From: petfr at ida.liu.se (Peter Fritzson) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:37:47 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Workshop EOOLT- Equation-based, Object-Oriented, in Como, Italy, Sept 23 Message-ID: Dear All, CFP: Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools (EOOLT) Call for Contributions EOOLT'2009 3rd Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools in conjunction with Modelica'2009 September 23, 2009 (Como, Italy) http://www.eoolt.org/2009/ (see also: http://www.modelica.org/events/modelica2009/) SCOPE Computer aided modeling and simulation of complex systems, using components from multiple application domains, such as electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, control, etc., have in recent years witnessed a significant growth of interest. In the last decade, novel equation-based modeling languages, (e.g. Modelica, gPROMS, Chi, Verilog-AMS, VHDL-AMS, and SysML) supporting acausal modeling using differential algebraic equations (DAEs) have ap-peared. Using such languages, it has become possible to model complex systems covering multiple application domains at a high level of abstraction through reusable model components. In the last couple of years the name equation-based object-oriented (EOO) language has been introduced to denote modeling languages within this category. The EOOLT Workshop addresses the current state of the art of EOO modeling languages as well as open issues that currently still limit the expression power, correctness, and usefulness of such languages through a set of full-length presentations and forum discussions. The workshop is concerned with, but not limited to, the following themes: * Acausality and its role in model reusability. * Component systems for EOO languages. * Database lookup and knowledge invocation. * Discrete-event and hybrid modeling using EOO languages. * Embedded systems related to EOO languages. * EOO language constructs in support of simulation, optimization, diagnostics, and system identification. * EOO mathematical modeling vs. UML or SysML modeling. * Equation-based languages supporting DAEs and/or PDEs. * Formal semantics of EOO related languages. * Model-driven development related to EOO languages. * Multi-resolution / multi-scale modeling using EOO languages. * Numerical coupling of EOO simulators and other simulation tools. * Parallel execution of EOO models. * Performance issues. * Programming / modeling environments. * Real-time simulation using EOO languages. * Reflection and meta-programming. * Reuse of models in EOO languages. * Table lookup and interpolation. * Type systems and early static checking. * Verification of EOO models. * Comparsion between EOO languages and closely related approaches, such as causal block-based languages or other hybrid formalisms. CONTRIBUTIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit full-length research papers (up to 10 pages) for consideration by the program committee. Papers are welcome that offer presentations and discussions of existing tools, their capabilities and limitations; reports on practical experience; demonstrations of tools, ideas, and concepts; positions related to relevant questions; and discussion topics. PUBLICATION If a paper has been accepted, the authors should present the paper at the workshop and also have the paper published in electronic proceedings (and a local conference paper version) at Link?ping University Electronic Press. The best of these papers will be selected and the authors will be asked to resubmit an extended version for review and to be possibly published, e.g. in the SIMPRA journal or SNE. Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 2 * Author notification: August 24 * Camera-ready: September 11 * Workshop in Como: September 23 Organizing Committee * Peter Fritzson (Chair), Link?ping University * Fran?ois E. Cellier (Co-Chair), ETH Zurich * Edward A. Lee (Co-Chair), U.C. Berkeley * Chris Paredis (Co-Chair), Georgia Institute of Technology * David Broman (Co-Chair), Link?ping University For questions regarding the workshop, please send an email to the organizing committe: 2009 at eoolt.org. Program Committee * Bernhard Bachmann - University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Bert van Beek - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Felix Breitenecker -Technical University of Vienna, Austria * Jan Broenink - University of Twente, Netherlands * David Broman - Link?ping University, Sweden * Peter Bunus - Link?ping University, Sweden * Francesco Casella - Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Fran?ois Cellier - ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Olaf Enge-Rosenblatt - Fraunhofer, Dresden, Germany * Alberto Ferrari - PARADES, Rome, Italy * Peter Fritzson - Link?ping University, Sweden * Edward A. Lee - U.C. Berkeley, California, USA * Petter Krus - Link?ping University, Sweden * Loucas Louca - University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Jakob Mauss - QTronic GmbH, Berlin, Germany * Pieter Mosterman - MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA * Toby Myers - Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia * Henrik Nilsson - University of Nottingham, United Kingdom * Dionisio de Niz Villasenor - Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Martin Otter - DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany * Chris Paredis - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia , USA * Russel Peak - Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA * Adrian Pop - Link?ping University, Link?ping, Sweden * Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - U.C. Berkeley, USA * Peter Schwarz - Fraunhofer, Dresden, Germany * Martin T?rngren - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden * Alfonso Urqu?a - UNED, Madrid, Spain * Hans Vangheluwe - McGill University, Canada * Johan ?kesson - Lund University, Sweden From Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org Tue Jun 23 11:39:36 2009 From: Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org (Jianguo Ding) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:39:36 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] One week reminder: IEEE MENS2009: International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE MENS 2009 International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009/ Conjunction with International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009) Technically sponsored by IEEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2009 (extended) Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2009 Camera ready version: August 10, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Workshop: More recently, requirements in network management and control have been amended by emerging network and computing models, including wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, overlay networks, Grid networks, optical networks, multimedia networks, storage networks, the convergence of next generation networks (NGN) or even nanonetworks etc. Increasingly ubiquitous network environments require new management strategies, which can cope with resource constraints, multi-federated operations, scalability, dependability, context awareness, security, mobility and probability etc. To bring complex network systems under control, it is necessary for the IT industry to move to autonomic management, context-aware management and self-management systems in which technology itself is used to manage technology. New theoretical approaches are needed in resolving the challenging problems in network management. This workshop will provide a forum to researchers to propose theories and techniques on the management of emerging networks, share their experience of IT and telecommunications industries and discuss future management solutions for emerging networks. Topics: Authors are invited to submit papers in theories and techniques for the management of emerging networks or related areas: - Management of Emerging Networks and Services - Management of Next-Generation Networks - Management of Ad-hoc/Mesh Networks - Management of 3G/4G Networks - Management of Sensor Networks - Resource Management of Wireless Networks - Management of Overlay Networks - Management of VPN - Management of P2P Networks - Management of Grid Architecture - Management of Multimedia Networks - Management of Satellite Networks - Management of Optical Networks - Management of Cognitive Networks - Management of Future Internet - Policy-based Network Management - Bio-inspired Network Management - AI Approaches for Network Management - Control Theory for Network Management - New Theories for Network Management - Autonomic Management - Self-management (Self-*) - Context-aware Management - Converged Networks and Services - Application Reports in IT and Network Industries The workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in relevant databases. Guidelines for Submission: Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explorer. Papers are restricted to a maximum length of 8 pages, including text, figures, references, and appendices, and must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system (http://edas.info/N7849). Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-spaced, double-column pages using the IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.htmlThe cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register and attend the conference. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue. Workshop Chair: Jianguo Ding (Jianguo.Ding at ieee.org), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Co-Chairs: Yevgeni KOUCHERYAVY, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Alexey VINEL, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Technical Program Committee: Finn AAGESEN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Ilangko BALASINGHAM, University of Oslo, Norway Girma BERHE, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pascal BOUVRY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Luca CAVIGLIONE, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Serge CHAUMETTE, University of Bordeaux, France Chao CHEN, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Zesheng CHEN, Florida International University, USA Gregoire DANOY, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Franco DAVOLI, University of Genoa, Italy Jianguo DING, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Djamel DJENOURI, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Haibing GUAN, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Frederic Guinand, Le Havre University, France Haiwu HE, INRIA, France Shanshan JIANG, SINTEF, Norway Yuming JIANG, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Yevgeni KOUCHERYAVY, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Peter KROPF, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Xuedong LIANG, University of Oslo, Norway Luoming MENG, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Herwig UNGER, University of Hagen, Germany Alexey VINEL, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the workshop: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009 and the conference: http://www.icumt.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks for submitting your manuscripts and for the supportive efforts like advertisement of the event. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Network Science for Complex and Advanced Networks (NetSCAN) October 12 - 14, 2009 - Saint Petersburg - Russia http://netscan.netmode.ntua.gr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE OF NetSCAN ---------------- Network Science has emerged as a self-contained field of study devoted to the modeling and analysis of complex networks in various and diverse application scenarios. Telecommunications, social, biological and economic networks, among others, exhibit common structures and properties that can be uniformly studied. Network Science offers a common analysis platform that allows drawing connections and mappings between different research areas and transferring knowledge, experience and techniques among them. The objective of this workshop is to present theoretical advances and practical applications in the field of complex and evolving networks with imminent implications for telecommunications networks. The workshop will be highly interested in efficient methodologies, frameworks and approaches inspired by other network disciplines, such as social and biological networks, for solving efficiently problems appearing in telecommunications networks and vice-versa. This workshop aspires to provide a forum to share experience, propose new ideas and promote discussion and collaboration in the field of Network Science in general and specifically in the subject of evolving complex networks that are closely related to next generation communications networks. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ - Complex/evolving networks - Interweaved telecommunications-social networks - Applications of communications networks and social networks - Topology characterization and inference - Novel network topologies/architectures - Resilience and fault-tolerant networks - Self-organizing networks - Self-optimized autonomic networks - Network control - Trust & privacy establishment in complex/evolving networks - Bio-inspired networks - Distributed network computation - Distributed network optimization - Simulation and modeling tools for networks - Performance assessment criteria and methodologies IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): June 29 Notification of acceptance: July 20 Camera-ready due: August 15 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and published in IEEE Explore. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EDAS system in pdf format, not to exceed 6 pages, and they should follow the IEEE conference format. WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Symeon Papavassiliou - NTUA, Greece TPC CHAIRS ------------------ Vasileios Karyotis - NTUA, Greece Ivan Stojmenovic - Univ. of Ottawa, Canada PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Paolo Bellavista - University of Bologna, Italy TPC MEMBERS ----------- Antonakopoulos Spyridon Columbia University Bi Wei Barclays Capital/Princeton University Chaporkar Prasana IIT Bombay Cheng Xiuzhen (Susan) The George Washington University De Swades IIT Delhi Fazio Maria University of Messina Guha K. Ratul Telcordia Technologies Koutsonikolas Dimitrios Purdue University Molinaro Antonella UniversitY MEDITERRANEA di Reggio Calabria Tahbaz-Salehi Alireza University of Pennsylvania Theodorakopoulos George EPFL Voulgaris Spyros Vrije Universiteit Yakimov Mikhail IITP, Russian Academy of Sciences Zhu Jin University of Northern Iowa Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Universit? degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista at unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090623/05b9a46b/attachment-0001.html From moca09 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jun 23 16:40:43 2009 From: moca09 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (MOCA'09) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:40:43 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: MOCA'09 - Fifth Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents Message-ID: <20090623144043.GB7165@rzdspc6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies.) __________________________________________________________________ MOCA'09 Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/ Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009 organised by the "Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group at the University of Hamburg Contact e-mail: moca09 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ The workshop is co-located with MATES 2009 The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home and CLIMA-X 2009 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009 Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009 Workshop: September 11, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design, simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex systems. Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process. Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research, the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools. Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives. Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The intention is to gather research and application directions to have a lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and experiences. The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to build architectures / general system structures and executing units / general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas. Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA). __________________________________________________________________ Topics We look for contributions describing original research in topics related to formal methods in combination with object-orientation, components, or agents addressing open problems or presenting new ideas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Uses of models of objects, components, and agents: design, specification, analysis, synthesis, composition, transformation, testing, validation, simulation, verification, assessment, software engineering, software development, re-engineering, code generation, prototyping, configuration, presentation, evolution, model checking, etc. * Concepts used within modelling of objects, components, and agents: objects (OOP, OOD, OOSE), components (CBD, CBSE), agents (AOP, AOSE, ABM), multi-agent systems (MAS), services, roles, interactions, organisations, processes, etc. * Concepts to be modelled with objects, components, and agents: software architecture, intelligence, coordination, negotiation, cooperation, organisation, encapsulation business objects, e-commerce, workflows, web services, flexible manufactoring, bio informatics, etc. * Techniques for modelling of objects, components, and agents: formal languages, visual languages, Unified Modelling Language (UML), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), object-oriented Petri nets (OOPN), agent-oriented Petri nets, graph grammars and transformations, process algebras, logics, domain-specific languages (DSL), architecture description languages (ADL), event-driven process chains (EPC), discrete event systems, comparisons between modelling techniques, heterogeneous designs, multi-formalism modelling * Properties of models of objects, components, and agents: concurrency, distribution, mobility, autonomy, emotions, complexity, adaptability, self-organising, reliability, consistency, safety, deadlock prevention, evolution, scalability, etc. * Modelling methodologies, paradigms and principles * Embedding of formal techniques in traditional software engineering approaches * Tools and implementation technology in the fields mentioned above __________________________________________________________________ Submissions The program committee invites submissions of full contributions (10 - 20 pages) or short contributions (up to 6 pages). For your submission in PDF format please use the online conference management system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moca09 Just create a new account and then upload your paper. (Later you will be able to see your reviews there.) Submission Guidelines Please use the LaTeX document class svmult.cls for your contributions. Please also use BibTeX for your references (in particular for the final papers). An up-to-date version of svmult.cls together with extensive documentation can be found at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/compgl/mult or directly at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/compgl/mult.zip Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings which will appear as a technical report of the Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, and which will be available at the workshop. The submissions will be evaluated by the international programme committee. It is planned to publish post proceedings after a further review process in a book, dedicated to the workshop topics. __________________________________________________________________ For further information on MOCA'09 contact the programme commitee by email at moca09 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Tue Jun 23 18:20:05 2009 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:20:05 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Future Internet Symposium 2009: call for participation Message-ID: <000c01c9f41e$7bade540$7309afc0$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> [sorry for cross-posting] *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* *********** Future Internet Symposium FIS 2009 1st - 3rd September | Berlin, Germany http://www.fis2009.org/ *********** CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS To read the call, please visit: http://www.fis2009.org/calls/research-papers - Abstract submission deadline: July 12, 2009 - Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2009 - Camera Ready: 26 August, 2009 - Conference: September 1-3, 2009 *********** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS To read the call, please visit: http://www.fis2009.org/calls/workshop-proposals - Proposal submission deadline: June 26, 2009 - Proposal acceptance: June 30, 2009 - URL for Workshop Web page: July 3, 2009 - Workshop paper submission deadline: August 1, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009 - Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009 - Workshop day: September 1, 2009 Interested parties are invited to submit Workshop proposals by email to Ning Wang (N.Wang at surrey.ac.uk). *********** CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS To read the call, please visit: http://www.fis2009.org/calls/tutorial-proposals Proposal submission deadline: July 17, 2009 Proposal acceptance: July 23, 2009 Handout PDF deadline: August 15, 2009 Conference: September 1-3, 2009 Interested parties are invited to submit Tutorial proposals by email to Mehrdad Dianati (M.Dianati at surrey.ac.uk) *********** CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMONSTARTIONS To read the call, please visit: http://www.fis2009.org/calls/posters-a-demonstrations - Deadline for submissions: July 27, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2009 - Camera ready abstracts due: August 21, 2009 For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Poster and Demonstration chair Vera Stavroulaki (veras at unipi.gr). *********** FIS2009 - BROUGHT TO YOU BY STI INTERNATIONAL (www.sti2.org) For general information please contact lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090623/a3cb597c/attachment-0001.html From nanbor at txcorp.com Tue Jun 23 17:57:37 2009 From: nanbor at txcorp.com (Nanbor Wang) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:57:37 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Paper: The 2009 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2009) Message-ID: The 2009 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2009) 15-16 November 2009 Portland, Oregon, USA Collocated with the [2]22^nd Supercomputing Conference (SC09) Overview Component and framework technology is mainstream for desktop environments, but has lagged in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The reasons for this stem partly from a general lack of awareness of component concepts in the community, but mostly from the fact that desktop component models sacrifice performance for ease-of-use. In addition, HPC uniquely requires component-based support for patterns special to parallel computing, such as the massively parallel single program multiple data pattern. Beyond the special requirements of HPC, component concepts promise to provide the same benefits as they do in the mainstream: participation by 10's or 100's of developers and the ability to support the software complexity that the simulation of natural phenomena demand. Likewise, with multi-core architecture becomes the norm and cloud computing gaining popularity, understanding requirements unique to HPC will enable a new class of commercial HPC applications. Following the success of past [3]HPC-GECO and CompFrame workshop series, the fourth installment of the workshop, CBHPC 2009, aims to bring together the developers and users of such technologies, and to build an international research community around these issues. This year's workshop focuses on the role of component and framework technologies in high-performance and scientific computing, and on high-level, component-based and innovative programming tools and environments to efficiently develop high performance applications and exploit them both on individual massively parallel systems and on the Grid. Topics of Interest CBHPC welcomes submissions of two types dealing with high-level and component-based approaches to HPC and Grid Computing: * Component models and frameworks * Component-based platforms for Grid, Clouds and large-scale facilities * Programming environments and paradigms * Analysis and comparison of existing programming approaches * Integration of different distributed/Grid/HPC programming frameworks * Tools and Environments for Coupling of Parallel Application codes * Application-level and support-level management of performance, QoS, faults, dynamicity, architecture heterogeneity * Application-level QoS contract description and enforcement * Advanced middleware systems as a device to efficiently exploit Grid resources (e.g. high-bandwidth, innovative networks) in high-level programming environments * Case studies and experiments of large and geographic scale high-level HPC applications, large-scale data/analysis * Applicability of software engineering techniques for restructuring and integration * High-level approaches for emerging HPC architectures, including clusters of reconfigurable computing units, multicore processors, and other hybrid, hardware accelerator techniques such as GPGPU, cell processors, and FPGA. * Approaches to component composition, development, deployment, repositories, debugging, and testing for components in HPC environments Submissions Guidelines and Workshop Proceedings CBHPC welcomes two types of submissions: 1. Full papers of up to 12 pages which include work not already published or under review for publication in other conferences of journals. 2. Extended abstracts of up to 4 pages describing work in progress, which is intended to foster discussions of the emerging trends in the component-based HPC and exchange of recent ideas as well as on-going applications. Submissions are accepted only electronically, in PDF format, and must conform to the ACM style. Full papers may not exceed 12 pages and extended abstracts of work in progress should be no more than 4 pages long including all figures, tables, references, and supplementary material. Information for authors and reference style files are available at [4]http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers and abstracts should be submitted via [5]workshop submission page at (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbhpc09). All full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by multiple program committee members. Accepted papers will be also published through the ACM Digital Library after the workshop. The committee also plans to invite selected full papers from the workshop to be extended and published as part of a journal special issue. The organizers plan to distribute in electronic form to the attendees additional material concerning the accepted works (e.g., software tools, demos, and prototypes). Interested authors should contact the workshop chairs no later than 18 September 2009. Important dates * Abstract submission: 31 July 2009 * Full paper or extended abstract submission: 7 August 2009 * Notification of acceptance: 4 September 2009 * Camera-ready papers and extended abstracts: 2 October 2009 * Related software (optional): 18 September 2009 Committees General Co-Chairs: * Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain * Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA Steering Committee: * Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy * Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster/CoreGRID, UK * Christian Perez, INRIA, France * Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory, USA Program Committee: (Tentative, pending acceptance) * Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan * Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain * Purushotham Bangalore, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA * Fran?oise Baude, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France * David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Francisco de Carvalho Junior, Universidade Federal do Cear? Brazil * Massimo Coppola, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, CNR, Italy * Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy * Kosta Damevski, Virginia State University, USA * Wael Elwasif, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster, UK * Madhu Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA * James Kohl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Fang Liu, Indiana University, USA * Stefan Muszala, Tech-X Corporation, USA * Boyana Norris, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Christian Perez, INRIA, France * Thierry Priol, INRIA, France * Rainer Schmidt, Austrian Research Centers, Austria * Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, USA * Aad van der Steen, HPC Research, The Netherlands * Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, France * Rainer Stotzka, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany * Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA * Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA References 1. http://sc09.supercomputing.org/ 2. http://sc09.supercomputing.org/ 3. http://compframe.org/ 4. http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 5. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbhpc09 From wieland at schwinger.at Wed Jun 24 17:09:09 2009 From: wieland at schwinger.at (Dr. Wieland Schwinger) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:09 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] UWA|2009: Call for Papers - Int. Workshop on Ubiquitous Web Applications, Kuala Lumpur, Malysia Message-ID: <4A424195.8030508@schwinger.at> ===== Call for Papers ======= UWA|2009 - International Workshop on Ubiquitous Web Applications Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 14 - 16 December 2009 http://www.schwinger.at/UWA2009 in conjunction with: 11th @WAS Int. Conf. on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009) 7th @WAS Int. Conf. on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2009) IMPORTANT DATES August 1, 2009: Full Paper Submission September 1, 2009: Acceptance Notification October 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Papers and Registration December 14-16, 2009: Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP E-commerce and m-commerce have dramatically boosted the demand for web applications and web services which enable ubiquitous access. Ubiquity offers new opportunities in terms of time-aware, location-aware, device-aware and personalized services not only extending traditional web applictions but even offering new kinds of application scenarios like mobile tourism guides and mobile healthcare. The unique character of ubiquitous web applications puts forward new challenges with respect to their development, requiring a holistic view on the issue of ubiquity. During the past 10 years, academia has provided various development approaches for web applications in general and ubiquitous web applications in specific, each aiming at counteracting technology-driven and ad-hoc development. However, further work towards methodological and engineering principles for developing ubiquitous web applications along the whole life cycle, backed up by appropriate real-world case studies is desirable, paving the way to a broader adoption of these approaches in industry. The goal of UWA|2009 is therefore to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and industry to address recent research results and to discuss their ideas and experiences on theoretical and practical issues arising in the field of ubiquitous web applications. UWA|2009 aims at supplementing other conferences and workshops in the fields of context-awareness and web engineering by its distinct focus on engineering, technology and empirical aspects of ubiquitous web applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Pursuing the overall goal, the workshop program will include peer reviewed technical papers around, but not limited to, the following topics: Engineering Aspects of Ubiquitous Web Applications * Model-driven development methodologies and domain specific languages (DSLs) * Generic, domain-, and application-specific context models and adaptivity modelling * Bridging conceptual design and implementation * Frameworks and architectures Technology Aspects of Ubiquitous Web Applications * Integration of context sources and context models * Employment of semantic web technologies for context-awareness * Ubiquity through aspect-oriented techniques * Exploitation of Web 2.0 techniques Empirical Aspects of Ubiquitous Web Applications * Experience reports on the (model-driven) development of ubiquitous web applications * Reference examples and usability studies * Systematic evaluations of development methods * Evaluation metrics and evaluation criteria PUBLICATION UWA|2009 papers will be published together with iiWAS 2009 and MoMM 2009 as printed proceedings by ACM Digital Library and Austrian Computer Society (OCG). Authors of distinguished papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the International Journal of Web Information Systems http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijwis.htm SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format as instructed at http://www.schwinger.at/UWA2009. The submitted papers may not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2009/cfp.htm). Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop. They will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. COMMITTES Workshop Chairs * Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Werner Retschitzegger, University of Vienna, Austria * Gustavo Rossi, La Plata National University, ARG * Vincente Pellechano, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, ESP Program Committee * Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, ITA * Alessandro Bianchi, Universit? di Bari, ITA * Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, ESP * Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BEL * Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, ITA * Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK * Valeria De Castro, Rey Juan Carlos University, ESP * Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BEL * Fernando S?nchez Figueroa, Universidad de Extremadura, ESP * Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, ITA * Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, GER * Irene Garrig?s, Universidad de Alicante, ESP * Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, ITA * Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, AUS * Paul Gr?nbacher, University Linz, AUT * Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, NLD * Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, AUT * Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, GER * Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia, ITA * San Murugesan, University of Western Sydney, AUS * Luis Olsina, University La Pampa, Argentina * Oscar Pastor, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, ESP * Vincente Pellechano, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, ESP * Alfonso Pierantonio, Universit? degli Studi di L'Aquila, ITA * Werner Retschitzegger, University Linz, AUT * Marco Ronchetti, Universit? di Trento, ITA * Gustavo Rossi, La Plata National University, ARG * Werner Retschitzegger, University of Vienna, Austria * Wieland Schwinger, University Linz, AUT * Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK * Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de M?laga, ESP ORGANIZATION iiWAS 2009 is endorsed by the International Organization for Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services (@WAS), organized by Asia e University ? Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). CONTACT Wieland Schwinger (Workshop Chair) Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Stra?e 69, A-4040 Linz Email: wieland.schwinger at jku.ac.at Phone: +43 (0)70 / 2468 - 9260 Web: http://www.schwinger.at/UWA2009 -- mvh - Wieland - Priv.Doz. Mag. Dr. Wieland SCHWINGER, MSc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Kepler University Linz , Department of Telecooperation Altenberger Stra?e 69, A-4040 Linz +43 (0)732 / 2468 - 9260, +43 (0)732 / 2468 - 9829 (fax) www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at, Wieland.Schwinger at jku.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From cecile.hardebolle at supelec.fr Wed Jun 24 19:34:16 2009 From: cecile.hardebolle at supelec.fr (Cecile Hardebolle) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:34:16 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling MPM09 at MODELS 2009 Message-ID: <4A426398.5050108@supelec.fr> [apologies for cross-posting; please distribute] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers MPM 09 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling: Concepts and Tools October 6, 2009 (Preliminary Date) Denver, Colorado, USA http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm09/ http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm09/mpm09cfp.pdf In conjunction with MODELS Conference, October 4-9, 2009 Denver, Colorado, USA http://modelsconference.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Context: ======== Modeling has become the norm in industry to remain competitive and be successful. As such, Model-Based Design of embedded software has enterprise-wide implications and modeling is not limited to isolated uses by a single engineer or team. Instead, it has reached a proliferation much akin to large-scale software design, with requirements for infrastructure support such as version control, configuration management, and automated processing. The comprehensive use of models in design has created a set of challenges beyond that of supporting one isolated design task. In particular, the need to combine, couple, and integrate models at different levels of abstraction and in different formalisms is posing a set of specific problems that the field of Computer Automated Multiparadigm Modeling (CAMPaM) is aiming to address. The essential element of multiparadigm modeling is the use of explicit heterogeneous models throughout. This leads to a framework with models to represent the syntax of formalisms used for modeling, models of the transformations that represent the operational semantics, as well as model-to-model transformations for mapping between formalisms. These models are then used to facilitate generative tasks in language engineering, such as evolving a domain specific modeling formalism as system's requirements change, but also in a tool engineering space, such as automatic generation of integrated development environments. Moreover, an explicit model of a model transformation allows analyses such as termination characteristics, consistency, and determinism. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: =============================================== Language engineering -------------------- * concepts for multiple paradigm composition * existing multiparadigm approaches - analysis - overview * composability and compositionality - generic reasoning techniques - scalability of compositions - model integration Tool engineering ---------------- * concepts for tool support of multiparadigm modeling * tool support for compositional language constructs * multiparadigm modeling tools Applications ------------ * modeling concrete and abstract syntax and their relation * integration of visual and textual modeling techniques * executability and support for code generation * model transformation modeling - modularity - textual or visual specification - declarative vs. imperative approaches - execution control - verification of properties * traceability * model composition in different formalisms at the syntax and semantics level Contributions should clearly address the foundations of multiparadigm modeling by demonstrating the use of models to achieve the stated objectives and discuss the benefits of explicit modeling. Important dates: ================ Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: September 12, 2009 Submission procedure: ===================== Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF via http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm09/. Papers should not exceed ten (10) pages and follow the style available at the workshop web site. Papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in Electronic Communications of the EASST. The authors of the best two papers will be invited for the LNCS volume (conference post-proceedings with the best papers of the workshops) to provide their extended versions including the workshop feedbacks and further research results. Program committee: ================== Fr?d?ric Boulanger, Sup?lec Peter Bunus, Link?ping University Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester Thomas K?hne, Victoria University of Wellington Juan de Lara, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley Florence Maraninchi, Verimag Pieter J. Mosterman, The MathWorks Inc. Jose Risco-Martin, universidad Complutense de Madrid Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Arizona State University Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona Mamadou K. Traor?, Blaise Pascal University Jeroen Voeten, Eindhoven University of Technology Hans Vangheluwe, MacGill University Workshop organizers: ==================== Tiham?r Levendovszky, Vanderbilt University L?szl? Lengyel, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University C?cile Hardebolle (Publicity), Sup?lec E-mail: mpm09--at--cvs--donotwritethis-dot-aut-dot-bme-dot-hu Web: http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm09/ CfP: http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm09/mpm09cfp.pdf From Karl.Goeschka at tuwien.ac.at Wed Jun 24 20:32:35 2009 From: Karl.Goeschka at tuwien.ac.at (Karl M. Goeschka) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:32:35 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] DADS Track at ACM SAC 2010 Call for papers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20090624203207.03d32100@wheresmymailserver.com> CALL FOR PAPERS =============== +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 5th Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems (DADS) | | of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'10) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ March 22 - 26, 2010 Sierre, Switzerland http://www.dedisys.org/sac10/ http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/ Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates: Paper submission: September 8, 2009 Author notification: October 19, 2009 Camera-ready copies: November 2, 2009 Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf format using the submission site http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages, but with more than 5 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. Call details ============ Dependability is no longer restricted to critical applications, but rather becomes a cornerstone of the information society. Dependability clearly is a holistic concept: Contributing factors are not only technical, but also social, cultural (i.e. corporate culture), psychological (perceived dependability), managerial (information management and processes), and economical. Fostering learning is a key, and simplicity is generally an enabler for dependability. Unfortunately, heterogeneous, large-scale, and dynamic software systems that typically run continuously often tend to become inert, brittle, and vulnerable after a while. The key problem is, that the most innovative mobile and pervasive systems and applications are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in (deterministic) dependability when compared to traditional critical systems, where dependability and security are fairly well understood as complementary concepts and a variety of proven methods and techniques is available today. In accordance with Laprie we call this effect the dependability gap, which is widened in front of us between demand and supply of dependability, and we can see this trend further fueled by an ever increasing cost pressure. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges such as cross-organisational heterogeneity, massive scale, and mobility. Of course, dependability and adaptiveness can not simply be added to a system like a plug-in module. Rather, for databases, services, middleware, and software development, application developers need tools, sound methodologies, common practices, standards, architectural principles, and middleware services, to tackle the inherent complexity and emerging behavior of distributed systems and to ensure trustworthy services. Therefore, the vision of this track is on the convergence of software development tools with middleware, traditional dependability, fault tolerance, security, and adaptivity concepts, together with social and psychological aspects, to compensate for dependability degradation of running software and services. Topics of interest ================== * Architectural and infrastructural principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems. * Adaptivity and dependability in service oriented architectures. * Trust and dependability as complementary and competing aspects. Integration of security and dependability concepts. Balancing and negotiation of dependability and security properties. * Dependability in complex service oriented environments, GRID-computing, and P2P-systems. Concertation, orchestration, coordination, and context-awareness (context-modeling). * Middleware support for reunification of network segments and reconciliation of divergent replicas. Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or reconfiguration. * New middleware protocols, that are able to work in a peer-to-peer manner in cross-organisational environments and to tackle the challenges of massive scale and mobility. * Data replication strategies, interfaces, and standards. Interaction of distributed databases with middleware systems. * Adaptive, optimistic replication models and protocols. * Group communication and group membership services in failure scenarios with network partitions. * Other fault tolerance techniques, including transactions and explicit control of quality of service properties. * Autonomous behaviour and self-* properties. * Partial and probabilistic approaches for replication, group membership, and distributed consensus in loosely-coupled and ad-hoc environments to improve dependability. * Support for dependability and adaptiveness in component-based systems (e.g. component frameworks, container services, deployment, composition and substitution of components, building trusted systems from untrusted components). * Trading of dependability and adaptability with other non-functional requirements like integrity (consistency) or performance. Approaches to improve the scalability of dependable and adaptive systems. * Foundations and formal methods (e.g., rigorous development of dependable systems, verification and refinement of fault tolerant systems, techniques and mechanisms ensuring application level fault tolerance). * System design, modeling, development and tool support for dependable and adaptive systems Track program co-chairs =============== Karl M. G?schka (chair) Svein O. Hallsteinsen Rui Oliveira Alexander Romanovsky Lorenz Froihofer, dads at dedisys.org Program committee ================= Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy) Stefan Beyer, ITI Valencia (Spain) Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel (Switzerland) Jacqueline Floch, Sintef (Norway) Christina Gacek, Newcastle University (UK) Kurt Geihs, Universit?t Kassel (Germany) Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut (Germany) Mats P. E. Heimdahl, University of Minnesota (USA) Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) Geir Horn, SINTEF (Norway) Marc-Ollivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain) Marin Litoiu, IBM (Canada) Jeff Magee, Imperial College London (UK) Istv?n Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) Francesc Daniel Mu?oz-Esco?, UP Valencia (Spain) Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain) Fernando Pedone, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Roland Reichle, Universit?t Kassel (Germany) Lu?s Rodrigues, University of Lisboa (Portugal) Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy) Giovanni Russello, Create-Net (Italy) Andr? Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland) Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Stefan Tai, Institut f?r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren - AIFB, Karlsruhe (Germany) Jan Tretmans, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Universit? degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle (UK) Paolo Verissimo, University of Lisboa (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Mario Zenha Rela, U. of Coimbra (Portugal) Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) From Dirk.Deridder at vub.ac.be Thu Jun 25 09:48:59 2009 From: Dirk.Deridder at vub.ac.be (Dirk Deridder) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:48:59 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP - Joint MoDSE-MCCM Workshop "Models and Evolution" Message-ID: <1C93C296-35D2-49E4-B1C0-88C9108A23B1@vub.ac.be> "Models and Evolution", Joint MoDSE-MCCM 2009 workshop www.modse.fr at the12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MoDELS 2009,Denver - Colorado, USA Program chairs: ============ Dalila Tamzalit, LINA, University of Nantes, France Dirk Deridder, System and Software Engineering Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Bernhard Sch?tz, TU M?nchen, Germany Objective: ======== The objective of the joint MoDSE-MCCM workshop is to discuss how models can help and guide software evolution and how it can enforce and reduce critical risks and important ressources (e.g., costs, personnel, time) involved in software evolution, by employing high- level abstractions. In addition to the objective to propose a presentation and discussion space and gather the MDE and software evolution communities (as well academic as industry), the joint workshop also encourages young researchers participation and attendance. Models and Evolution: ================= Soft ware Evo lu tion is a cru cial, com plex and very im por tant re search do main in soft ware en gi neer ing. It has been the topic of nu mer ous in ter na tion al con fer ences, work shops, books and sci en tif ic pub li ca tions. On the other hand, it rep re sents an om nipresent re cur ring prob lem for com pa nies and needs prac ti cal and scal able so?lu tions to en sure soft ware con fi dence, qual i ty and re li a bil i ty. This be comes even more cru cial and crit i cal in ap?pli ca tion do mains where soft ware is ge o graph i cal ly dis tribut ed and in volves mul ti ple stake hold ers (man agers, de sign ers, de vel op ers, clients, ?) and where ressources and re quire ments must be rec on ciled. Mod el-?driv en en gi neer ing (MDE) is a soft ware en gi neer ing method ol o gy that fo cus es on mod els as pri ma ry soft ware arte facts. It is meant to re duce com plex i ty and in crease pro duc tiv i ty and reuse by rais ing the level of ab strac tion. With the ad vent and widespread use of MDE in academia and in dus try, the re search topic of mod el-driv en soft?ware evo lu tion and co-? evo lu tion be comes more and more im por tant. Be cause of this, a suc cess ful se ries of an?nu al in ter na tion al work shops has been set up since 2007 for the MoDSE work shop and from 2008 for the MCCM work shop. Their main ob jec tive is to ex plore and strength en the in ter ac tion and syn er gy be tween the ac?tive re search do mains of Soft ware Evo lu tion, Co-?Evo lu tion, Con sis ten cy Man age ment and MDE. Joint MoDSE-MCCM 2009: ===================== The ob jec tive is to dis cuss how mod els can help and guide soft ware evo lu tion and how it can en force and re?duce crit i cal risks and im por tant ressources (e.g., costs, per son nel, time) in volved in soft ware evo lu tion, by em?ploy ing high-?lev el ab strac tions. In ad di tion to the ob jec tive to pro pose a pre sen ta tion and dis cus sion space and gath er the MDE and soft ware evo lu tion com mu ni ties (as well aca dem ic as in dus try), the joint work shop also en?cour ages young re searchers par tic i pa tion and at ten dance. The Joint MoDSE-?MC CM 2009 work shop will be held on 4-6th Oc to ber, co-?lo cat ed with the 12th ACM/IEEE MoD ELS 2009. This full-? day work shop will in clude an in vit ed keynote pre sen ta tion, tech ni cal pre sen ta tions ses?sions, tools demon stra tion ses sion, a mod er at ed panel ses sion with open dis cus sions on rel e vant re search top?ics in mod el-?driv en soft ware evo lu tion. A jour nal spe cial issue is con sid ered. Submission and Topics ================== For submission details, please refer to the workshop website. The main top ics of this work shop are, but not lim it ed to: * Formalisms, theories, formal approaches, methods and languages for expressing and understanding model-driven software evolution. * Co-evolution and co-adaptation of models, meta-models and modelling languages; classification of co-evolution scenarios. * Coordination of models, meta-models. * Supporting processes and tools for automating and managing model- driven software evolution. * Transformation techniques for evolving models: restructuring, refactoring, migration, translation ? * Traceability, verification and validation of evolving models and model transformations. * Evolution of software architectures and architecture description languages. * Runtime models and consistency validation; consistency and inconsistency management. * Conformance checking, inconsistency management, synchronization, differencing, comparison, versioning, product-line, impact analysis of evolving models. * Development and maintenance processes for model consistency management. * Model libraries and model reuse. * Challenging application scenarios and case studies for model evolution (e.g. embedded systems, real-time systems, legacy systems, web services?). * Industrial needs, case-studies and experiences. Important Dates ============ * Abstract submission: July 17, 2009 * Paper submission: July 24, 2009 * Notifications of acceptance: August 31, 2009 * Camera ready submission: September 15, 2009 Steering Committee =============== Dirk Deridder, Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Hubert Dubois, CEA LIST, France Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA Tom Mens, Universit? de Mons-Hainault, Belgium Alfonso Pierantonio, Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy Bernhard Sch?tz, TU M?nchen, Germany Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur, Belgium Dalila Tamzalit, LINA, University of Nantes, France Stefan Wagner, TU M?nchen, Germany Program Committee ================ Arnaud Albinet, Continental Automotive, France Benoit Baudry, IRISA, University of Rennes, France Jorn Bettin, Sofismo, Lenzburg, Switzerland Jean B?zivin, University of Nantes, INRIA, France Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Universit? de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Rubby Casallas, University of Los Andes, Colombia Jean-Michel Bruel, University of Toulouse, France Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK Mehdi Jazayri, University of Lugano, Switzerland Olivier Le Goaer, LINA, University of Nantes, France Jason Xabier Mansell, ESI, Spain Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom Awais Rashid, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona, USA Gabriele Taentzer, University of Marburg, Germany Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Communication Chair ================= Micha?l Hoste, Universit? de Mons, Belgium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To register, follow the registration link on the workshop's website (see above). PROGRAM ------- IWPSE-Evol'09 merges two established events, the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE) and the annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (Evol), and is therefore the premier event dedicated to software evolution in 2009. This anniversary edition features - Anniversary talk by Tom Mens (Chair of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution) The ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution: The Past and The Future - Anniversary talk by Katuya Takayama (Chair of the IWPSE Steering Committee) Learning Lessons from the Past: How IWPSE has started, and Where we should go - Keynote talk by Hausi M?ller Towards Self-Adaptive Software-Intensive Systems - 18 papers in 6 sessions on - Measuring, analysing and visualising evolution - Empirical studies and experience reports - Mining and Migration - Processes, paradigms and methodologies - Formal aspects, theories and principles - Social aspects A detailed program is available at the workshop's website (http://ssel.vub.ac.be/iwpse-evol/programme ). ORGANIZERS ---------- General Chair - Tom Mens, U. Mons (BE) Program Chairs - Michel Wermelinger, Open U. (UK) - Kim Mens, U. catholique de Louvain (BE) Communication Chair - Dirk Deridder, Vrije U. Brussel (BE) Contact: iwpse at planet-evolution.org ------------------------------------ From alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk Thu Jun 25 10:11:56 2009 From: alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk (Alexander Romanovsky) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:11:56 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] DADS Track at ACM SAC 2010 Call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems (DADS) of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'10) March 22 - 26, 2010 Sierre, Switzerland http://www.dedisys.org/sac10/ http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/ Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates: Paper submission: September 8, 2009 Author notification: October 19, 2009 Camera-ready copies: November 2, 2009 Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf format using the submission site http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages, but with more than 5 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. Call details Dependability is no longer restricted to critical applications, but rather becomes a cornerstone of the information society. Dependability clearly is a holistic concept: Contributing factors are not only technical, but also social, cultural (i.e. corporate culture), psychological (perceived dependability), managerial (information management and processes), and economical. Fostering learning is a key, and simplicity is generally an enabler for dependability. Unfortunately, heterogeneous, large-scale, and dynamic software systems that typically run continuously often tend to become inert, brittle, and vulnerable after a while. The key problem is, that the most innovative mobile and pervasive systems and applications are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in (deterministic) dependability when compared to traditional critical systems, where dependability and security are fairly well understood as complementary concepts and a variety of proven methods and techniques is available today. Follow J.-C. Laprie we call this effect the dependability gap, which is widened in front of us between demand and supply of dependability, and we can see this trend further fueled by an ever increasing cost pressure. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges such as cross-organisational heterogeneity, massive scale, and mobility. Of course, dependability and adaptiveness can not simply be added to a system like a plug-in module. Rather, for databases, services, middleware, and software development, application developers need tools, sound methodologies, common practices, standards, architectural principles, and middleware services, to tackle the inherent complexity and emerging behavior of distributed systems and to ensure trustworthy services. Therefore, the vision of this track is on the convergence of software development tools with middleware, traditional dependability, fault tolerance, security, and adaptivity concepts, together with social and psychological aspects, to compensate for dependability degradation of running software and services. Topics of interest * Architectural and infrastructural principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems. * Adaptivity and dependability in service oriented architectures. * Trust and dependability as complementary and competing aspects. Integration of security and dependability concepts. Balancing and negotiation of dependability and security properties. * Dependability in complex service oriented environments, GRID-computing, and P2P-systems. Concertation, orchestration, coordination, and context-awareness (context-modeling). * Middleware support for reunification of network segments and reconciliation of divergent replicas. Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or reconfiguration. * New middleware protocols, that are able to work in a peer-to-peer manner in cross-organisational environments and to tackle the challenges of massive scale and mobility. * Data replication strategies, interfaces, and standards. Interaction of distributed databases with middleware systems. * Adaptive, optimistic replication models and protocols. * Group communication and group membership services in failure scenarios with network partitions. * Other fault tolerance techniques, including transactions and explicit control of quality of service properties. * Autonomous behaviour and self-* properties. * Partial and probabilistic approaches for replication, group membership, and distributed consensus in loosely-coupled and ad-hoc environments to improve dependability. * Support for dependability and adaptiveness in component-based systems (e.g. component frameworks, container services, deployment, composition and substitution of components, building trusted systems from untrusted components). * Trading of dependability and adaptability with other non-functional requirements like integrity (consistency) or performance. Approaches to improve the scalability of dependable and adaptive systems. * Foundations and formal methods (e.g., rigorous development of dependable systems, verification and refinement of fault tolerant systems, techniques and mechanisms ensuring application level fault tolerance). * System design, modeling, development and tool support for dependable and adaptive systems Track program co-chairs Karl M. Goschka (chair) Svein O. Hallsteinsen Rui Oliveira Alexander Romanovsky Lorenz Froihofer, dads at dedisys.org Program committee Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy) Stefan Beyer, ITI Valencia (Spain) Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) Pascal Felber, Universite' de Neuchatel (Switzerland) Jacqueline Floch, Sintef (Norway) Christina Gacek, Newcastle University (UK) Kurt Geihs, Universit=E4t Kassel (Germany) Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut (Germany) Mats P. E. Heimdahl, University of Minnesota (USA) Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) Geir Horn, SINTEF (Norway) Marc-Ollivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain) Marin Litoiu, IBM (Canada) Jeff Magee, Imperial College London (UK) Istvan Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) Francesc Daniel Munoz-Escoi, UP Valencia (Spain) Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain) Fernando Pedone, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Roland Reichle, Universitat Kassel (Germany) Luis Rodrigues, University of Lisboa (Portugal) Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy) Giovanni Russello, Create-Net (Italy) Andre Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland) Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Stefan Tai, Institut fur Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren - AIFB, Karlsruhe (Germany) Jan Tretmans, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Universita' degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle (UK) Paolo Verissimo, University of Lisboa (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Mario Zenha Rela, U. of Coimbra (Portugal) Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) From roberto at zicari.de Thu Jun 25 17:56:54 2009 From: roberto at zicari.de (Roberto Zicari) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:56:54 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 3 Most Voted Persistent Model Patterns... Message-ID: <4A439E47.BC7C98E8@zicari.de> We now have the results of the Public Voting for choosing the most valuable Persistent Model Patterns! The 3 most voted patterns are: Bespoke Indexes Query Visitor Schema Builder The Awards ceremony will take place on July 2, 2009, at the ICOODB 2009 conference in Zurich. For more information: http://www.odbms.org/blog/ Best Regards Prof. Roberto V. Zicari Editor ODBMS.ORG http://www.odbms.org From scott_fowler at ymail.com Fri Jun 26 10:51:51 2009 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:51:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE NGWS 2009 Message-ID: <781462.56398.qm@web24507.mail.ird.yahoo.com> The First International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems will be held on October 12 ~ 14, 2009, Melbourne, Australia. NGWS 2009 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Next Generation Wireless Systems. Our Conference provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Next Generation Wireless Systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of the Wireless Systems. All accepted and registered papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS (as a Short Paper, 4 pages. Indexed by EI). And most presented papers at the conference, after revision and extension, will be included in CCIS (as a Full Paper, at least 12 pages. New LNCS sister-series, indexed by EI). And some papers selected will be included in some journals (pending). This conference will be organized and hosted by SERSC. Special Issue Distinguished papers accepted and presented in NGWS 2008, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley and Sons) Journal of Internet Technology (SCIE) International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering TOPICS The main topics include but will not be limited to: (Excellent surveying works in these areas are welcome, too.) ? Mobility Management ? Cross-layer schemes and optimizations ? End-to-End Quality of service support ? Mobility Management ? Handoff Techniques ? Resource management and admission control ? QoS routing and signaling ? QoS management in heterogeneous wireless systems ? Wireless Mesh Networks ? Pricing and Charging Models ? Multimedia delivery over wireless networks ? Security and Privacy in wireless systems ? Performance evaluation of wireless systems and protocols ? Mobil Ad-hoc Networks ? Wireless Sensor Networks ? Energy and power management in wireless systems ? Next Generation Wireless Systems ? Mobile Broadband Wireless Access ? Wireless Internet and All-IP integration ? Location based services and tracking ? Wireless network testbeds and applications ? Wireless LANs and PANs, WiMAX ? RFID protocols and systems ? Traffic Control and Engineering ? 3G, 4G, and beyond systems ? Experimental wireless systems and trials ? Cognitive radio networks ? Interworking heterogeneous wired/wireless networks ? Middleware support for wireless systems Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. The problematic (borderline) papers will be additionally evaluated by the members of the International Advisory Board and the Chairs of the conference. All accepted and registered papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS (as a Short Paper, 4 pages. Indexed by EI). And most presented papers at the conference, after revision and extension, will be included in CCIS (as a Full Paper, at least 12 pages. New LNCS sister-series, indexed by EI). Paper Submission All papers should be submitted by online system for review with IEEE CS paper format (at least 4 pages). Please use IEEE CS paper format: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/format.pdf All submissions should be done at: http://submission.sersc.org/NGWS2009/ Dates and Deadlines Submission of paper : 5th July, 2009 Notification of acceptance : 8th August, 2009 Submission of the camera ready: 23rd August, 2009 Regular Registration: 8th August-28th August, 2009 Committee Steering Co-Chairs: Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam Unviersity, Korea Byeongho Kang, University of Tasmania, Australia General Co-Chairs: Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University, Australia Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs: Sang-Soo Yeo, Hannam University, Korea Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA International Advisory Board: Wai Chi Fang, NASA JPL, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Publicity Co-Chairs: Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia Avinash Srinivasan, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA Scott Fowler, Aston University, United Kingdom Program Committee: http://www.sersc.org/NGWS2009/comm.php Submission System: http://submission.sersc.org/NGWS2009/ For general enquiries about NGWS 2009 Conference or in case of any difficulty, please contact: The NGWS Secretariat Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Korea. 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CEO) ** * RuleML in the top 100 venues for impact factor in CiteSeerX ** * Forthcoming RuleML special journal issue ** * Proceedings published in Springer LNCS ** * Tutorials about W3C RIF, Drools, Business Process Compliance ** * New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes ** * Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, lunch panel on Web Rules* * Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration ** * 20% RuleML-2009 Partner discounts - see registration page ** ********************************************************************** This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007, and is now in the top 100 venues for impact factor (71): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues. Supported by =================================================================== W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian Business Rules Forum MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium Sponsored by =================================================================== Franz Inc NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd Corporate Semantic Web Logic Programming Associated Ltd ruleCore JBoss Modelsystems Ltd (sponsoring opportunities: http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/sponsors) =================================================================== From maria at dsc.upe.br Fri Jun 26 15:26:17 2009 From: maria at dsc.upe.br (Maria Lencastre) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:26:17 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] RE-Track at ACMSAC'10 Call for papers Message-ID: <20090626102617.e8c0ndiq680kgo0c@webmail.dsc.upe.br> Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please distribute. CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= The Third Edition of Requirements Engineering Track (RE-TRACK?10 ) at The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010) Sierre, Switzerland March 22-26, 2010 http://www.dsc.upe.br/~sac2010 ------------ Overview ------------ For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. The Third Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'10) is part of the SAC 2010, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Further details may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/. Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering process. The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up to given point. ------- TOPICS ------- These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering: * Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas * Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation * Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools * Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints * Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains * Non-functional requirements * Requirements engineering and software architecture * Aspect-oriented requirements engineering * Agent-oriented requirements engineering * Requirements for COTS-based systems * Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering * Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering * Requirements engineering: education and Training * Requirements and Simulation * Requirements and Autonomic Systems --------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------- All deadlines will be strictly enforced. September 8, 2009: Paper submissions (submission deadline is strict) October 19, 2009: Author notification November 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy March 22-26, 2010: 25th ACM SAC, Sierre, Switzerland ---------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Authors are invited to submit ORIGINAL and UNPUBLISHED papers in all areas of Requirement Engineering. The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate the double blind review. The paper should not exceed 5 pages in ACM format. Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 5 pages (without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee). Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track. Paper submissions should be done electronically through the website http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010.Further information may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/. ------- CONTACT ------- For further information please contact the track organizer: Maria Lencastre Requirement Engineering Track Chair -------------------------------- Departamento de Sistemas e Computacao Universidade de Pernambuco Recife - PE - BRAZIL E-mail: maria at dsc.upe.br Phone: + 55 81 21193842 Fax: + 55 81 21193881 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr Fri Jun 26 16:14:09 2009 From: bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr (Noury Bouraqadi) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:14:09 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Open PhD Position on Software Dynamic Remodularization for Embedded Systems In-Reply-To: <62BEF0DA-2A1E-454F-B701-4B63DC9B2D04@inria.fr> References: <62BEF0DA-2A1E-454F-B701-4B63DC9B2D04@inria.fr> Message-ID: <46E54FDE-AE29-42DB-99EF-9662A9F4D438@ensm-douai.fr> Hi, We particularly target applications in mobile robotics http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/robotics Attached the description of the position. Noury -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Lyon, 19-21 Octobre 2009 http://bat710.univ-lyon1.fr/~sycosma/JFSMA09/ From rumpe at se.rwth-aachen.de Sat Jun 27 15:45:17 2009 From: rumpe at se.rwth-aachen.de (Bernhard Rumpe) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:45:17 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] SOFSEM 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <4A46226D.3070506@se.rwth-aachen.de> [This information is being posted to multiple lists; we apologize if you received it multiple times.] Please, pass the information on to everyone who may be interested. Thank you very much, the organizers. EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS SOFSEM 2010 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science January 23?29, 2010, Hotel Bedrichov, ?pindleruv Ml?n, Czech Republic http://www.sofsem.cz SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is the annual international winter conference devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. Its aim is to present the latest developments in research for professionals from academia and industry, working in leading areas of computer science. The SOFSEM program consists of Invited Talks by prominent researchers, Contributed Talks selected by the Program Committee from submitted papers and the Student Research Forum. SOFSEM is organized in plenary and parallel tracks, giving a unique opportunity to obtain an excellent overview of the selected research areas. All tracks are devoted to original research and leading developments. SOFSEM is the ideal conference for presenting new results, for scientific discussions, for establishing personal contacts with colleagues, and for exchanging ideas. SOFSEM is also well-suited for young computer scientists. SOFSEM 2010 consists of the following 4 tracks: * Foundations of Computer Science Chair: David Peleg (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Co-chair: Anca Muscholl (University of Bordeaux, France) * Principles of Software Construction Chair: Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Data, Knowledge, and Intelligent Systems Chair: Jaroslav Pokorn? (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) * Web Science Chair: David De Roure (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Moreover, for students, there is the * Student Research Forum (SRF) SRF Chair: Maria Bielikova (Bratislava) For details please have a look at the conference web site http://www.sofsem.cz IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Abstracts deadline: June 30, 2009 (Extended) Full papers deadline: July 7, 2009 (Extended) Accepted papers notification: September 15, 2009 Camera-ready papers: October 1, 2009 Conference: January 23?29, 2010 PROCEEDINGS ---------------- The proceedings of SOFSEM 2010 with the invited and contributed papers will be published in the Springer's series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as in the previous years. The proceedings will be distributed at the conference. LOCATION ------------ SOFSEM 2010 will be organized in Hotel Bedrichov, ?pindleruv Ml?n, a premier winter resort in Krkono?e (Giant Mountains) about 150 km from Prague. Its beautiful nature is ideal for many winter sport activities and relaxation. We are looking forward to seeing you at SOFSEM 2010. Jan van Leeuwen (General Chair) ================= DETAIL INFORMATION ======================== Foundations of Computer Science Track -------------------------------------------- The track is devoted to the recognized core areas of foundational computer science including the study of algorithms and their complexity, formal models, languages, programming semantics, and theory of software systems. ========================================================== Principles of Software Construction ------------------------------ The track is devoted to the application of novel and innovative technologies and principles to software construction including specification, modeling, code generation and architectural styles and patterns. ========================================================== Data, Knowledge, and Intelligent Systems --------------------------------------- The track is devoted to the challenges of modeling, storing, and extracting knowledge from large amounts of data and the theory, design and practice of (web-)information systems. =========================================================== Web Science ----------------------------------------------- The track is devoted to novel contributions in understanding, designing and engineering the technologies, services and applications that make up the World Wide Web. ============================================================= Student Research Forum ---------------------------- An integral part of the SOFSEM 2010 will be the Student Research Forum, organised with the aim to publish and discuss students' projects in the field of theory and practice of Computer Science. The forum will offer students the opportunity to receive feedback on both the originality of their scientific work results and the work in progress. The papers will be reviewed and selected by SOFSEM 2010 Program Committee. Sufficient space for discussion and exchange of experience will be provided during the forum itself and will continue throughout the conference. ============================================================= ORGANISERS --------------- The conference is organised by the - Institute of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague in cooperation with - Action M Agency, Prague, Czech Republic The conference is supported by: - Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics - Slovak Society for Computer Science -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rumpe Software Engineering Lehrstuhl Informatik 3 (Softwaretechnik) RWTH Aachen University Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany http://www.se-rwth.de Phone ++49 241 80-21301 / Fax -22218 From tswift at cs.sunysb.edu Sun Jun 28 06:02:11 2009 From: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu (Terrance Swift) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:02:11 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ecoop-info] RR 2009 Deadline Extended Message-ID: **** Deadline extended by one week! **** Apologies for multiple postings, due to various requests, we decided to extend the deadline for RR2009 by one week: Apologies for multiple postings. Reminder abstract submission is due June 28, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti Univ. of Naples Frederico II (IT) Carlos Damasio Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) ` National University of Ireland, Galway Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: axel.polleres at deri.org Email: tswift at cs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifer at cs.sunysb.edu From christa.schwanninger at siemens.com Mon Jun 29 08:44:52 2009 From: christa.schwanninger at siemens.com (Schwanninger, Christine) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:44:52 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] TAOSD Special Issue on Industrial Applications of Aspect Technology - Call for Papers Message-ID: <75681B1B97E01E408F901FE9B3AD73CA02247777@MCHP7I7A.ww902.siemens.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- * CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS * Special Issue on Industrial Applications of Aspect Technology for LNCS Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/TAOSD_IndustryIssue/ Submission Deadline: September 30, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- More than a decade of research on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) has leveraged a large variety of aspect languages, tools and methods across the entire software development life-cycle. Nonetheless, one of the major impediments for industry adoption is the lack of accessible success stories and experience reports on the application of AOSD in commercial software projects. This special issue on Industrial Applications of Aspect Technology aims at collecting such examples, experience reports and success stories of applications of aspect technologies in industry, as well as work that is inspired by AOSD but not explicitly named as such. We seek descriptions of successful solutions using, building, extending, or integrating AOSD technologies. This call explicitly solicits papers written from the perspective of applying AOSD in a real-world, industrial setting. Therefore, the criteria for acceptance are fundamentally different to those typically used in academic work, such as the novelty of the applied approach and the completeness of the literature study. Instead, the focus will be on industrial relevance, lessons learned, and the evaluation of these insights motivated through experience in a real-world setting. Topics of interest for the special issue on Industrial Applications of Aspect Technology include, but are not limited to: -Programming with aspects - Industrial applications built with AO languages or frameworks - Experience reports on adopting aspect oriented programming languages, tools and techniques -Aspects in Product Line Engineering - Aspects for implementing reusable core assets in domain engineering - Aspects for coping with evolution - Aspects to support product instantiation -Aspects in middleware - Middleware that is implemented with the help of aspects - Middleware that offers aspect technology to application developers -Aspects in modeling and Model Driven Development - Separation of concerns in models - Tools for modeling and weaving aspects and their application - Experience reports on combining MDD with AOSD -Aspects for program comprehension - Methods and tools for conceptual separation of crosscutting concerns -Aspects in requirements engineering - Methods and tools for mining aspects in requirements - Support for tracing crosscutting concerns from requirements to code -Aspects for quality assurance and testing IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: September 30, 2009 First Round Review Notification: November 30, 2009 Re-Submission Revised Papers: February 28, 2010 Second Round Review Notification: April 30, 2010 Submission of the Camera Ready: May 31, 2010 Special issue's publication: second half 2010 SUBMISSIONS ----------- Original manuscripts should follow LNCS formatting guidelines, and should be submitted as PDF or zipped PostScript files to christa.schwanninger at siemens.com and wouter.joosen at cs.kuleuven.be. Each submission will be reviewed by, at least, three referees. GUEST EDITORS ------------- Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090629/4eb1657b/attachment-0001.html From jlloret at dcom.upv.es Mon Jun 29 10:27:35 2009 From: jlloret at dcom.upv.es (Jaime Lloret Mauri) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:27:35 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] one more week || CfP | ComputationWorld 2009 / Athens-Greece, November 15-20, 2009 Message-ID: <200906290827.n5T8RZR0010839@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= ComputationWorld 2009, November 15-20, 2009 - Athens, Greece see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ComputationWorld09.html ComputationWorld 2009 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning the areas of computation. The target topics cover future computing techniques (strategies, mechanisms, technologies), service computation (ubiquitous, web services, societal), cognitive support (AI, agents, learning, autonomy), adaptiveness (component/systems, self-features, metrics), creative content technologies, and patterns. Submission (full paper) deadline: July 5, 2009. Submissions must be electronically done using the ?Submit a Paper? button on the entry page of each conference. For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers. Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org). All topics are open to both research and industry contributions. >> FUTURE COMPUTING 2009, The First International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/FUTURECOMPUTING09.html >> SERVICE COMPUTATION 2009, The First International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/SERVICECOMPUTATION09.html >> COGNITIVE 2009, The First International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/COGNITIVE09.html >> ADAPTIVE 2009, The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ADAPTIVE09.html >> CONTENT 2009, The First International Conference on Creative Content Technologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CONTENT09.html >> PATTERNS 2009, The First International Conferences on Pervasive Patterns and Applications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/PATTERNS09.html >> SELFTRUST 2009, The First Workshop on Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/SELFTRUST.html -------------------------------- IARIA Publicity Board ComputationWorld Advisory Committees ------------------------------- From International Mon Jun 29 14:49:40 2009 From: International (International) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:49:40 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] LOPSTR2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <200906291249.n5TCneY5021182@della.cs.kuleuven.be.> Our apologies if you receive this multiple times. Call for participation 19th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2009 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/conference/lopstr09/ September 9-11, 2009, Coimbra, Portugal (co-located with PPDP 2009 and CSL 2009) ====================================================================== Objectives: The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium, so authors can incorporate the feedback in the published papers. Topics: Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Papers describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: specification synthesis verification transformation analysis optimisation composition security reuse applications and tools component-based software development software architectures agent-based software development program refinement Programme: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/conference/lopstr09/program.html Invited speaker: German Vidal Technical University of Valencia Program Committee: Slim Abdennadher German University Cairo, Egypt Maria Alpuente Frasnedo Technical University of Valencia, Spain Roberto Bagnara University of Parma, Italy Danny De Schreye K.U.Leuven, Belgium (Chair) John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark Robert Glueck University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Hanus University of Kiel, Germany Reinhard Kahle Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Andy King University of Kent, UK Michael Leuschel University of Duesseldorf, Germany Fabio Martinelli Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Pisa, Italy Fred Mesnard Universite de La Reunion, France Mario Ornaghi Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy German Puebla Technical University of Madrid, Spain Sabina Rossi Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Tom Schrijvers K.U.Leuven, Belgium Petr Stepanek Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium From inap2009 at di.uevora.pt Mon Jun 29 18:05:38 2009 From: inap2009 at di.uevora.pt (INAP 2009) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:05:38 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] INAP 2009: DEADLINE EXTENSION and Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <200906291605.n5TG5cGS019109@host.di.uevora.pt> ------------------------------------------------------------------- (PLEASE DISTRIBUTE -- **DEADLINE EXTENDED** -- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers INAP 2009 18th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management November 5-7, 2009 Evora, Portugal http://www.di.uevora.pt/inap2009/ http://inap.dialogengines.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Organized by the Portuguese AI Society (APPIA), the INAP Committee and the Society of Logic Programming (GLP e.V.) == Overview == Declarative Programming is a family of advanced paradigms for the modeling and solving of complex problems. These specification and implementation methods have attracted more and more attention over the past years, e.g. in the domains of databases and natural language processing, for modeling and the processing of combinatorial problems, and for establishing systems for the web. == INAP 2009 == INAP is a communicative and dense forum for intensive discussion of applications of important technologies related to Prolog, Logic and Constraint Programming as well as closely related advanced software. It comprehensively covers the impact of programmable logic solvers in the Internet Society, its underlying technologies, and leading edge applications in industry, commerce, government, and societal services. INAP 2009 continues a tradition of successful workshops cast around the applications of declarative programming, which were held in Kobe (1997), Tokyo (1995, 1996, 1998 - 2001), Potsdam (2004), Fukuoka (2005) and Wuerzburg (2007). We invite the submission of high quality papers on the described topics, especially, but not exclusively, on different aspects of Declarative Programming, Constraint Processing and Knowledge Management as well as their use for Distributed Systems and the Web: - Knowledge Management, e.g. Data Mining, Decision Support, Deductive Databases - Distributed Systems and the Web, e.g. Agents and Concurrent Engineering, Semantic Web - Constraints, e.g. Constraint Systems, Extensions of Constraint (Logic) Programming - Theoretical Foundations, e.g. Deductive Databases, Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Systems and Tools for Academic and Industrial Use - Knowledge-based Web Services - Logic Solvers and Applications == Workshop Format == The technical program of the workshop will include invited presentations (to be announced), regular technical sessions with presentations of the accepted papers, system demonstrations and a panel discussion. == Conference Venue == The conference will be held at the University of Evora, Portugal in November 5-7, 2009. Evora is a nice and quiet historical city located in the south of Portugal that can be reached from Lisbon by train or coach in under 2 hours. It is a small city of 60.000 inhabitants, 120 km inland from Lisbon and classified by Unesco as World Heritage. The University of Evora was established in the 16th Century and is the 2nd oldest Portuguese University. The social program is promising since the region is very rich in historical sites (Stone Age, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance remains) and also offers a very special gastronomy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vora for more information. == Important Dates == Paper Submission Deadline: July 13, 2009 (EXTENDED!) Notifications to Authors: August 17, 2009 Camera-ready Version Deadline: September 14, 2009 INAP 2009 Workshop: November 5-7, 2009 == Submission Guidelines == Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages, PDF format), describing their work in topics relevant to the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. At least one author of an accepted contribution is expected to register for the workshop, and present the paper. All submissions should include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, and email address. Authors are requested to prepare their submissions, following the LNCS/LNAI Springer format. Please see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for further details. The submission should be submitted through the electronic submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inap2009 The deadline for receipt of submissions is July 13, 2009. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Eligible papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified via email of the results by August 17, 2009. Authors of accepted papers are expected to improve their paper based on reviewers' comments and to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by September 14, 2009. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the participants. As in previous editions, we plan to publish selected papers in a proceedings volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. == Organizing Committee == Vitor Nogueira vbn AT di.uevora.pt Salvador Abreu spa AT di.uevora.pt Pedro Salgueiro pds AT di.uevora.pt Universidade de Evora Portugal == Program Committee == Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal (co-chair) Sergio Alvarez, Boston College, USA Philippe Codognet, CNRS/JFLI, Tokyo, Japan Vitor Santos Costa, University of Porto, Portugal Daniel Diaz, University of Paris I, France Ulrich Geske, University of Potsdam, Germany Gopal Gupta, UT Dallas, USA Petra Hofstedt, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ulrich Neumerkel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Vitor Nogueira, University of Evora, Portugal Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Irene Rodrigues, University of Evora, Portugal Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Dietmar Seipel, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (co-chair) Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Portugal Hans Tompits, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Masanobu Umeda, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Armin Wolf, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany Osamu Yoshie, Waseda University, Japan == Contact Information == inap2009 at di.uevora.pt Universidade de Evora Departamento de Informatica Largo dos Colegiais, 2 7004-516 Evora - PORTUGAL From erlars at erlars.org Mon Jun 29 23:47:05 2009 From: erlars at erlars.org (ERLARS Workshop) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:47:05 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP: ERLARS 2009 - Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (IROS 2009 Workshop) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once!] THE SUBMISSION HAS BEEN OPENED ************************************************************************ ERLARS 2009 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS Held in conjunction with IROS 2009 in St. Louis, USA on October 15, 2009 Submission deadline: July 5, 2009 http://www.erlars.org/2009/ ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS Objectives Learning is essential for an autonomous robot system. The range of unexpected situations it can handle while performing its task depends on its ability to adapt. Recent developments have taken autonomous robots beyond industrial settings, for example at home as toys and cleaners. However, production models usually interact with their environment following a fixed control strategy, which limits their range of application. More adaptable robots require control strategies that learn more and better from interactions with their environment. The ERLARS workshop addresses the challenge to develop efficient and versatile learning architectures for autonomous robot systems, with the main focus on adequate evolutionary and reinforcement learning algorithms. Relevant Topics Papers are invited on all aspects of learning methods for the control of autonomous robot systems, including, but not limited to: * Model-free visual servoing * Mobile robot navigation by means of reinforcement learning * Combining offline- and online learning methods for robot control * Reinforcement learning by evolutionary algorithms of neural network-based and other robot controllers * Hybrid systems that combine modelling and parameter estimation by reinforcement learning * Learning from scratch and cascaded learning architectures * Developmental and epigenetic robotics * Balancing exploration and exploitation of acquired knowledge * Simulated environments for autonomous robot learning scenarios Important Dates * July 5, 2009: Paper submission deadline * August 10, 2009: Notification of paper acceptance * August 23, 2009: Camera ready paper submission * October 15, 2009: Workshop takes place Workshop Chairs Nils T Siebel Cognitive Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Kiel, Germany Josef Pauli Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany Programme Committee Andrew Barto (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Peter D?rr (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Christian Igel (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany) Yohannes Kassahun (DFKI Lab Bremen, University of Bremen, Germany) Takanori Koga (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Tim Kovacs (University of Bristol, UK) Jun Ota (University of Tokyo, Japan) Josef Pauli (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Jan Peters (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, T?bingen, Germany) Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK) Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Juergen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland) Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin, Germany) Nils T Siebel (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany) Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham, UK) ************************************************************************ More information on the workshop website: http://www.erlars.org/ ************************************************************************ From robert at grid.chu.edu.tw Tue Jun 30 17:03:54 2009 From: robert at grid.chu.edu.tw (Robert C. Hsu) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:03:54 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] ISPAN 2009 new announcement Message-ID: <200906301503.n5UF3saO010846@grid.chu.edu.tw> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20090630/6c3138b9/attachment.html From alphonce at cse.buffalo.edu Tue Jun 30 16:57:07 2009 From: alphonce at cse.buffalo.edu (Carl G. Alphonce) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:57:07 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] [OOPSLA'09 'Killer Examples' workshop] First call: Good Examples for Exposing Bad Practice Message-ID: <200906301457.n5UEv7Wp011506@the-who.cse.Buffalo.EDU> If you're a CS educator or trainer who is interested in sharing teaching techniques or exploring pedagogical issues in a workshop setting, the OOPSLA "Killer Examples" workshop may be for you! This year's workshop will focus on examples that expose bad practice and so lead to better appreciation of good practice, as obtained by following sound object-oriented principles. The workshop is held on Sunday, October 25, the day BEFORE the OOPSLA Educators' Symposium. Attend both! The workshop invites submissions of such examples. All participants in the workshop will constructively critique the examples and actively engage in refining them so that they support a clear and sound pedagogy. While there is a formal application procedure to guarantee admission to the workshop, we do accept walk-ins if space permits and if the walk-ins are determined to have adequate interest and background in the workshop theme to be able to contribute positively to the discussions. The deadline for submissions/applications is Tuesday September 8. Early submissions are encouraged. Decisions will be made before the OOPSLA early registration deadline. For more information see: www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/alphonce/KillerExamples/OOPSLA2009/ If you have questions about the workshop, do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail , with subject line "OOPSLA-2009 Workshop Query". We look forward to hearing from you! Dale Skrien, Colby College, USA Adrienne Decker, University at Buffalo, USA Michael Caspersen, Aarhus Univeristy, DK J?rgen B?rstler, Ume? University, Sweden Carl Alphonce, University at Buffalo, USA