[ecoop-info] CFP: COMPSAC 2007 in Beijing

[Huang Gang]

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                                 CALL FOR PAPERS
     
             The 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference 
                                       (COMPSAC 2007)      
     		               Beijing, China, July 24 - 27, 2007 
		                 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
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COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss the state of art, new advances, and future trends in software technologies and practices. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of workshops on emerging important topics. 

The creation of trustworthy and dependable software spans all aspects of software engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum to bring together these facets and their major stakeholders. Building on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable software themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 31st conference is

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING -- CRITICAL FEATURES and INFRASTRUCTURES

The program of COMPSAC 2007 will continue to feature research and industrial practice papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on the software engineering of critical infrastructure systems such as, but not limited to, civil, telecommunications, and medical systems.  To properly engineer such systems, the foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the design, modelling, and evaluation of software systems must come from diverse sources.  Topics of interest include requirement analysis, co-analysis and co-design, modelling, design, development, testing, measurement, verification and validation for performance, safety, security, and dependability constraints. Effective construction of these systems is not limited solely to the field of computer science and engineering and is truly a multidisciplinary effort. Multidisciplinary work, research and development software prototypes, industry-university collaborations, all based on new emerging and critical technologies will be of particular interest to this conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in hardcopy and on-line version by the IEEE Computer Society. Plans had been made to forward select papers
to archival journals for publications.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel and workshop proposals, tutorial proposals, doctoral symposium and review process can be found at http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the camera-ready of an accepted full paper and short paper will be limited to 8 and 4 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages, respectively, and printed on 10-12 point fonts. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee to the conference. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by the author or one of the authors. One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by COMPSAC 2007. The first author of the best student papers must be full-time students.

IMPORTANT DATES

	December 8, 2006: Workshop Proposals due
	January 15, 2007: Abstract due
	January 31, 2007: Full Paper and Short Paper due
	March 15, 2007: Decision Notification (electronic)
	April 15, 2007: Camera-Ready copy and Pre-registration due
                                                             
SUBMISSION

Upload regular papers and fast abstracts in PDF, Postscript or RTF format at http://www.compsac.org/ 
Submit panel proposals in plain text via email to compsac2007 at compsac.org 
Submit workshop in plain text via e-mail to atilla.elci at emu.edu.tr 
Information on accepted workshops and the submissions of workshop papers will be available at the conference website http://www.compsac.org/
                                                                                                                     
GENERAL INQUIRIES

For more detailed and updated information, please refer to: http://www.compsac.org/ 
For further information, please contact: Carl Chang, Chair, Standing Committee, at chang at iastate.edu 
                                         
OTHER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INQUIRIES

Program Co-Chairs: Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany at Fevzi.Belli at adt.upb.de 
                   Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri, Rolla, USA at ff at umr.edu 
                   Hong Mei, Peking University, China at meih at pku.edu.cn 
                                         
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS  

STEERING COMMIITTEE 
                   Carl K. Chang (Chair), Iowa State University, USA 
                   Aditya Mathur, Purdue University, USA 
                   Dick Simmons, Texas A&M University, USA  
                   T. H. Tse, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
                   Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA  
                   Johnny Wong, Iowa State University, USA   
                   Stephen S. Yau,  Arizona State University, USA   

General Co-Chair
                   Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 
Program Co-Chairs
                   Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
                   Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri, Rolla, USA
                   Hong Mei, Peking University, China

Requirements Track Co-Chairs
                   Dave Card, Q-Labs, France
                   Tiberiu Seceleanu, University of Turku, Finland
   
Quality Track Co-Chairs
                   Warren Harrison, Portland State University, USA
                   Ji Wang, Changsha Institute of Technology, China   

Maintenance and System Life Cycle Co-Chairs 
                   Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
                   Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
     
Industry Track Co-Chairs
                   Hui Su, IBM Research, China
                   Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Educatoin Track Co-Chairs
                   Pradip Srimani, Clemson University, USA
                   Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
    
Tutorial Co-Chairs
                   Sami Beydeda, The Federal Finance Office, Germany
                   Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University

Workshop Chair
                   Atilla Elci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Doctoral Symposium Chair
                   Sahra Sedigh-Ali, University of Missouri, Rolla, USA
 
Proceedings Chair
                   Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA

Finance Chairs
                   Simanta Mitra, Iowa State University, USA

Publicity Chairs
                   Huang Gang, Peking University, China
                   Ville Leppanen, University of Turku, Finland
                   Frank Liu, University of Missouri, Rolla, USA

Registration Chair
                   Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China
                   Hsinyi Jiang, Iowa State University, USA

Program Committee:        
                   Sheikh Ahamed, Marquette University, USA
                   Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
                   Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
                   Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
                   Joao W. Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas,USA  
                   Young-Fu Chang, Lucent Technologies, USA
                   T.Y. Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
                   Y. C. Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
                   James Cross, Auburn University, USA 
                   Hiroshi Esaki, University of Tokyo,Japan
                   Vladimir Getov,University of Westminster,  UK
                   Chris Gill, Washington Unviersity, St. Louis, USA 
                   Karama Kanoun, LAAS-CNRS, France
                   Pankaj Jalote, IIT Kanpur, India
                   T. Ming Jiang,  National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
                   Seong W. Kim, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea  
                   Dave Kung, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
                   Ahmed Amine Jerraya, TIMA Laboratory, France
                   Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China
                   Doug Niehaus, University of Kansas, USA
                   Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,HongKong 
                   Cristina Cerschi Seceleanu,Åbo Akademi University, Finland  
                   Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan 
                   Fei Xie, Portland State University, USA
                   Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA, 
                   Hongji Yang, De Montford University, UK, 
                   Y. T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
                   Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
                   Hong Zhu,Oxford Brookes University, UK
                   Mohammad Zulkernine Queen’s University, Canada                     
                   (more program committee members to be added)

For more detailed and updated information, please refer to: http://www.compsac.org/