From info at icstconferences.org Tue Jan 2 17:22:08 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:22:08 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - CFP Tridentcom 2007 - Submission Deadline Extended: January 14, 2007 Message-ID: Due to numerous requests and coincidence with the end of the year holidays, we have extended the submission deadline to January 14, Sunday, 2007 24:00 GMT CALL FOR PAPERS *************** T R I D E N T C O M 2 0 0 7 **************** 2007 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities May 21-23, 2007, Grosvenor Resort, Orlando, Florida USA http://www.tridentcom.org ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): January 14, 2007 Demo proposals due: January 14, 2007 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------- Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental infrastructures for real-life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the first-hand evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from hands-on study and analysis, and the service providers, because of the business exploitation of the network. The goal of TridentCom is to create a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, and visions for future establishment of such infrastructures. It showcases experimental activities, such as testing, verification, integration, measurement, and deployment, which are pivotal to achieving next generation communications. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to: * Next Generation Internet Testbeds * Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds * Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds * Ubiquitous Network Testbeds * Wireless Sensor Testbeds * Testbed Operation & Management for User Communities * Testbed Operation & Management for Research Communities * Testbed Cooperation & Integration * Innovative Measurements Methodologies & Tools * Traffic Measurements Testbeds * Software Tools to Support Distributed Testbeds / Virtual Laboratories * Management of Massive Databases of Experimental Data * Knowledge & Technology Transfer Procedures * Security (AAA) Testing on Open Testbeds * Social Impacts of Infrastructures * Infrastructures for Real-Life Applications * Business Models for Infrastructure Budgeting & Planning * Infrastructure Renting & Pricing Policies * Vendors & Providers Partnerships Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. Submission instructions are available on the website: www.tridentcom.org. Special Session ------------------------------------------------------------- Testbed and trials for Governmental, Military and other Special Purpose networks DEMOS ------------------------------------------------------------ Demo proposals should consist of the following: * title and description of the demo, * picture of demo setup and/or screenshots of demo GUIs * infrastructure requirements, and * biographical sketch of the presenter(s). Demo proposals should be sent to Miguel Ponce de Leon, Demo Co-Chair at (miguelpdl at tssg.org). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------ General Chair Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Vice General Chair Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Thomas Woo, Bell-Labs, USA Tereza Carvalho, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil Miguel ?ngel Lagunas, CTTC - UPC, Spain Local Arrangements Chair Damla Turgut, Univ. Central Florida, USA Demo Co-Chairs Miguel Ponce de Leon, Waterford Inst. Technology, Ireland Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University Panel Co-Chairs Diego Bartolome, CTTC, Spain Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University Publicity Co-Chairs Frank Steuer, TU Berlin, Germany Nirmala Shenoy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Web Chair: Sungrae Cho, Georgia Southern University STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy Albert Sitja, CTTC, Spain Brian Bigalke, IEEE COMSOC Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From cie2007 at unisi.it Wed Jan 3 10:18:30 2007 From: cie2007 at unisi.it (CiE2007) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:18:30 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CiE2007-Final Call for papers Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.1.20070103101817.019b4bc0@mailsrv.unisi.it> CiE'07: COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2007 http://www.mat.unisi.it/newsito/cie07.html University of Siena Siena, 18 - 23 June 2007 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 12 JANUARY, 2007 The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). There will also be journal special issues: APAL, JLC, TCS-C, ToCS - to which full versions of selected submissions to CiE 2007 will be invited to be submitted. For a list of conference topics see: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/cie07.descr.html#themes SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Jan. 12, 2007 Notification of Authors: Feb. 16, 2007 Deadline for Final Revisions: Mar. 9, 2007 Deadline for Submission of Informal Presentations: Apr. 27, 2007 PLENARY AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) Yaakov Benenson (Harvard) Anne Condon (Vancouver) Stephen Cook (Toronto) Yuri Ershov (Novosibirsk) Wolfgang Maass (Graz) Sophie Laplante (Paris) Anil Nerode (Cornell) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Michael Rathjen (Leeds) Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon) Robert I. Soare (Chicago) Philip Welch (Bristol) SPECIAL SESSIONS SPEAKERS: Eric Allender (Rutgers) Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana) Vasco Brattka (Cape Town) Douglas Bridges (Canterbury, NZ) John Case (Newark, Delaware) Pieter Collins (Amsterdam) Thierry Coquand (Goeteborg) Felix Costa (Lisbon) Barbara F. Csima (Waterloo) Abbas Edalat (London) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Joerg Flum (Freiburg) Sergey S. Goncharov (Novosibirsk) Hajime Ishihara (Tokyo) Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, Florida) Michal Koucky (Prague) James Ladyman (Bristol) Maria Emilia Maietti (Padua) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan) Klaus Meer (Odense) Itamar Pitowsky (Jerusalem) Robert Rettinger (Hagen) Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden) Frank Stephan (Singapore) Neil Thapen (Prague) Giuseppe Trautteur (Naples) Heribert Vollmer (Hannover) Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo) Jiri Wiedermann (Prague) Damien Woods (Cork) Liang Yu (Nanjing) Martin Ziegler (Paderborn) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY WORKSHOP in association with the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Organisers: Paola Bonizzoni, Elvira Mayordomo Speakers: Anne Condon (Vancouver), Natasha Jonoska (Florida), Carmen Leccardi (Milan), and others PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: M. Agrawal (Kanpur) M. Arslanov (Kazan) G. Ausiello (Roma) A. Bauer (Ljubljana) A. Beckmann (Swansea) U. Berger (Swansea) A. Cantini (Firenze) B. Cooper (Leeds, co-chair) L. Crosilla (Firenze) J. Diaz (Barcelona) C. Dimitracopoulos (Athens) F. Ferreira (Lisbon) S. Goncharov (Novosibirsk) P. Gruenwald (Amsterdam) D. Harel (Rehovot) A. Hodges (Oxford) J. Kempe (Paris) G. Longo (Paris) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) J. Makowsky (Haifa) E. Mayordomo Camara (Zaragoza) W. Merkle (Heidelberg) F. Montagna (Siena) D. Normann (Oslo) T. Pheidas (Heraklion) G. Rozenberg (Leiden) G. Sambin (Padova) H. Schwichtenberg (Muenchen) W. Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) A. Sorbi (Siena, co-chair) I. Soskov (Sofia) P. van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) CONFIRMED SPONSORS OF CiE 2007: AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e Applicazioni), EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic), EACSL (European Association for Computer Science Logic), FoLLI (The Association of Logic, Language and Information), and The University of Siena. CiE 2007 will be co-located with CCA 2007, the annual CCA (Computability and Complexity in Analysis) Conference (Siena, College Santa Chiara, June 16-18, 2007): http://cca-net.de/cca2007/ ************************************************************ From info at icstconferences.org Wed Jan 3 10:42:02 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:42:02 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - CHINACOM 2007 Call For Papers Message-ID: CHINACOM 2007 Call For Papers August 22-24, 2007, Shanghai, China - http://www.chinacom.org The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. Following the big success of the first of its series (i.e., CHINACOM 2006), CHINACOM will be held in Shanghai, one of the biggest metropolises in the world. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia and Workshops. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit papers to the following symposia: - Frontiers on Communications and Networking - Optical Communications and Networking - Wireless Communications and Networking - Advances in Internet - Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications - Networking Security and Information Assurance PANELS/WORKSHOPS: Proposals for panels/workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a proposal to one of the panel/workshop Chairs by March 15th, 2007 for review (leizd at i2r.a-star.edu.sg; bernard.uguen at univ-rennes1.fr; haifeng.wang at nokia.com; wasim.malik at eng.ox.ac.uk). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a 10-points font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.info. Visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submission.shtml for detailed submission requirements and procedures. IMPORTANT DATES Submission March 15th , 2007 Notification May 31st, 2007 Camera Ready June 30th, 2007 Conference August, 22-24, 2007 PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2007 Conference Proceedings. All ACCEPTED and PRESENTED papers will be made available in IEEExplore Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected papers from CHINACOM2007 will be considered for Computer Networks and Ad Hoc Networks. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: Applications are invited from qualified graduate students. Up to 10 awards are expected. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Wenjun Zhang, Vice President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS Jianping Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Honggang Zhang, Create-Net TPC CO-CHAIRS Andreas F. Molisch, MERL/Lund University Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University Matti Latva-aho,University of Oulu SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Zhihua Guo, Lenovo Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa Indra Widjaja, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen University Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Junzhong Gu, East China Normal University Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University Thomas Kaiser, Leibniz University of Hannover Zongxin Wang, Fudan University Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Zhenfu Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Peter Stavroulakis, Technical University of Crete Radha Poovendran, University of Washington STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Yabin Ye, Create-Net Zheng Zhou, BUPT Bo Li, HKUST WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Haifeng Wang, Nokia Wasim Q. Malik, Oxford University PANELS CO-CHAIRS Zhongding Lei, I2R Bernard Uguen, Universit? de Rennes 1 PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Marina Petrova, RWTH Aachen University Teck Yoong Chai, I2R PUBLICATION CHAIR Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University Bin Wang, Wright State University LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS Xiaokang Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shenghong Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University INTERN. ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Zsuzsi Kaszab, ICST INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, NJIT Bob Brodersen, UC Berkeley Junliang Chen, BUPT Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University Jintong Lin, BUPT Guangnan Ni, Inst. of Computing Technology Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Engineering Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From info at icstconferences.org Thu Jan 4 03:22:19 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:22:19 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - IEEE SecureComm 2007 (Submission Deadline: March 7, 2007) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS SecureComm 2007 Third International Conference on Security and Privacy for Communication Networks Nice, France, Sept. 17 - Sept. 21, 2007 URL: http://www.securecomm.org CO-SPONSORED BY: IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org) CreateNet (www.create-net.it) ICST (www.icst.org) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 7, 2007 ******************************************************************* Securecomm seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of well-developed full papers. Topics of interest encompass research advances in ALL areas of secure communications and networking. Topics in other areas (e.g., formal methods, database security, secure software, theoretical cryptography) will be considered only if a clear connection to private or secure communication/networking is demonstrated. Securecomm brings together security and privacy experts in academia, industry and government as well as practitioners, standards developers and policy makers. Securecomm also serves as a venue for learning about state-of-the-art in security and privacy research. Presentations reporting on cutting-edge research results are supplemented by panels on controversial issues and invited talks on timely and important topics. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original unpublished research are solicited. Submissions must not be concurrently under review by a conference, journal or any other venue that has proceedings. Authors of the highest-quality accepted papers will be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC). SHORT PAPERS: In addition to full papers, Securecomm 2007 invites submission of pithy concise technical papers (also describing original unpublished research). Such papers may represent work-in-progress or small -- yet novel -- research results that do not warrant a full paper. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Only PostScript or PDF formats are accepted for all submissions.Full paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages in IEEE conference style, two-column format, not including the bibliography. Well-marked appendices of up to 2 pages are allowed but will be read only at the discretion of reviewers. Short paper submissions are limited to 4 pages total. IEEE Communications Society and Create-Net policy states that all accepted SecureComm 2007 papers must have at least one registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to two papers. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through *double-blind* reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper or in the PostScript or PDF file. Complete paper submission instructions will be available at the conference website. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Security & Privacy in Wired, Wireless, Mobile, Hybrid, Sensor, Ad Hoc networks * Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention, DoS Countermeasures * Firewalls, Routers, Filters and Malware detectors * Public Key Infrastructures and Other Security Architectures * Secure Web Communication * Communication Privacy and Anonymity * Secure/Private E-commerce * Secure Routing, Naming/Addressing, Network Management * Security & Privacy in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, e.g., RFIDs WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair by February 1, 2007. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed resources from the conference organizers. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by June 1, 2007. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: March 7, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2007 Camera-ready Version: June 24, 2007 Conference Dates: September 17--21, 2007 For information regarding the conference, please visit http://www.securecomm.org or contact one of the Chairs below. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair ------------- Bruno Crispo, University of Trento Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit??t Hamburg-Harburg Refik Molva, Eurecom Local Chair ----------- Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom Panels Chair ------------ Boris Dragovic, Create-Net Workshops Chair --------------- Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University Demos/Exhibits Chair -------------------- TBA Publicity Co-Chairs ------------------- Peng Ning, NC State University Javier Lopez, University of Malaga Publications Chair ------------------ George Danezis KU Leuven Sponsorships Chair ------------------ Radha Poovendran, University of Washington Webmaster Chair --------------- Fatih Turkmen, University of Trento Steering Committee ------------------ Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net Krishna Sivalingam (Co-Chair), University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine Brian Bigalke (Staff Liaison), IEEE Communications Society -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From skala at kiv.zcu.cz Thu Jan 4 07:20:10 2007 From: skala at kiv.zcu.cz (Vaclav Skala) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:20:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ecoop-info] Object Oriented Technologies 2007 conference - 1st Call for Papers - Reminder Message-ID: <0e2501c72fc8$a35faeb0$8040e493@kiv.zcu.cz> January 3, 2007 E-mail to: ecoop-info at ecoop.org (Apologies for duplicates. Please, forward to colleagues of yours) 1st reminder Call for Papers ========= 5th Object Oriented Technologies 2007 International Conference in Central Europe on Object Oriented Technologies Please, register at http://147.228.63.67/OOT2007/ if you wish to be kept informed ------------------ CUT HERE -------------------- 5th Object Oriented Technologies'2007 ------------------------------------------- International Conference in Central Europe on Object Oriented Technologies http://OOT.zcu.cz/ May 28 - 31, 2007 to be held at University of West Bohemia Campus-Bory, Plzen (Pilsen) close to Prague - the Golden European city Czech Republic Conference Co-Chairs ------------------------ Jens Knoop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic MAIN TOPICS --------------- * SOFTWARE ENGINEERING software components, large-scale software, multi-language programming * PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING multithreading, distributed applications, high-performance computing, web services * PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES object-oriented techniques, programming paradigms, assertion support * EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS teaching object-oriented paradigm, educational software * ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT * VIRTUAL MACHINES and BYTECODE etc. * HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES - computer graphics, visualization, virtual reality using Object Oriented Technologies * ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES * SOFTWARE SECURITY * Object Oriented Technologies DEVELOPMENT ON DIFFERENT PLATFORMS * GRID Computing and its applications * INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS of Object Oriented Technologies * all relevant research/application papers relevant to Object Technology Deadlines ----------- Paper registration and abstract submission: February 14, 2007 (recommended) Paper submission: February 28, 2007 13:00 GMT (London time) Acceptance notification (expected): April 17, 2007 Final upload (expected): April 30, 2007 13:00 GMT (London time) Venue: May 28 - 31, 2007 Submitted papers (FULL SIZE) will be peer-to-peer anonymously reviewed by at least three referees. Presented full, short communication papers and posters will be published in conference proceeding with ISBN. The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of Object Oriented Technologies, printed version ISSN 1802-3126, electronic version ISSN 1802-3134. The conference proceedings and the Journal of Object Oriented Technologies will be sent to INSPEC (IEE), ISI and others for citations index and other purposes. Information on previous and forthcoming Object Oriented Technologies (recently .NET Technologies) events can be found at: http://OOT.zcu.cz Conference Office and Contact ---------------------------------- Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Computer Science Department Univerzitni 8, CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic skala at kiv.zcu.cz http://herakles.zcu.cz FAX: +420-37-78 22 578 Conference supported by ---------------------------- * Sun Microsystems Czech http://cz.sun.com/about/czech.html * Microsoft Czech Rep. http://cz.sun.com/about/czech.html * University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.kiv.zcu.cz * Vienna University of Technology http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at * Center of Computer Graphics&Visualization, Microsoft Laboratory of Excellence http://herakles.zcu.cz From skala at kiv.zcu.cz Thu Jan 4 07:08:10 2007 From: skala at kiv.zcu.cz (Vaclav Skala) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:08:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ecoop-info] Object Oriented Technologies 2007 conference - 1st Call for Papers - Reminder Message-ID: <02f801c72fc6$f64e86c0$8040e493@kiv.zcu.cz> January 3, 2007 E-mail to: ecoop-info at ecoop.org (Apologies for duplicates. Please, forward to colleagues of yours) 1st reminder Call for Papers ========= 5th Object Oriented Technologies 2007 International Conference in Central Europe on Object Oriented Technologies Please, register at http://147.228.63.67/OOT2007/ if you wish to be kept informed ------------------ CUT HERE -------------------- 5th Object Oriented Technologies'2007 ------------------------------------------- International Conference in Central Europe on Object Oriented Technologies http://OOT.zcu.cz/ May 28 - 31, 2007 to be held at University of West Bohemia Campus-Bory, Plzen (Pilsen) close to Prague - the Golden European city Czech Republic Conference Co-Chairs ------------------------ Jens Knoop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic MAIN TOPICS --------------- * SOFTWARE ENGINEERING software components, large-scale software, multi-language programming * PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING multithreading, distributed applications, high-performance computing, web services * PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES object-oriented techniques, programming paradigms, assertion support * EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS teaching object-oriented paradigm, educational software * ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT * VIRTUAL MACHINES and BYTECODE etc. * HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES - computer graphics, visualization, virtual reality using Object Oriented Technologies * ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES * SOFTWARE SECURITY * Object Oriented Technologies DEVELOPMENT ON DIFFERENT PLATFORMS * GRID Computing and its applications * INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS of Object Oriented Technologies * all relevant research/application papers relevant to Object Technology Deadlines ----------- Paper registration and abstract submission: February 14, 2007 (recommended) Paper submission: February 28, 2007 13:00 GMT (London time) Acceptance notification (expected): April 17, 2007 Final upload (expected): April 30, 2007 13:00 GMT (London time) Venue: May 28 - 31, 2007 Submitted papers (FULL SIZE) will be peer-to-peer anonymously reviewed by at least three referees. Presented full, short communication papers and posters will be published in conference proceeding with ISBN. The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of Object Oriented Technologies, printed version ISSN 1802-3126, electronic version ISSN 1802-3134. The conference proceedings and the Journal of Object Oriented Technologies will be sent to INSPEC (IEE), ISI and others for citations index and other purposes. Information on previous and forthcoming Object Oriented Technologies (recently .NET Technologies) events can be found at: http://OOT.zcu.cz Conference Office and Contact ---------------------------------- Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Computer Science Department Univerzitni 8, CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic skala at kiv.zcu.cz http://herakles.zcu.cz FAX: +420-37-78 22 578 Conference supported by ---------------------------- * Sun Microsystems Czech http://cz.sun.com/about/czech.html * Microsoft Czech Rep. http://cz.sun.com/about/czech.html * University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.kiv.zcu.cz * Vienna University of Technology http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at * Center of Computer Graphics&Visualization, Microsoft Laboratory of Excellence http://herakles.zcu.cz From till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de Thu Jan 4 09:31:13 2007 From: till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Till_Sch=FCmmer?=) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:31:13 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CfP: EuroPLoP 2007 In-Reply-To: <4543A4F3.9030106@fernuni-hagen.de> References: <4543A4F3.9030106@fernuni-hagen.de> Message-ID: <459CBB51.5090200@fernuni-hagen.de> EuroPLoP 2007 12th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs July 4-8, 2007 Irsee Monastery, Bavaria, Germany http://www.hillside.net/europlop/ Final Call For Papers and Participation ******************************************* ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2007 ** ******************************************* [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] EuroPLoP is the premier European conference on patterns. The conference offers a variety of tracks and workshops that allow you to learn about patterns, to receive feedback on your own work, and to discuss with fellow enthusiasts. It is a unique venue to exchange knowledge about best practices and learn from other experts in various fields. TOPIC AREAS Traditionally these fields are focussed on but not limited to software development. Example topic areas at previous EuroPLoPs were: - Software development - Software design and architecture - Software management and development processes - Human computer interaction (e.g., user-interface aspects or novel modes of interaction) - Education (ranging from professional training to classroom teaching) - Business and organizational questions SUBMISSION CATEGORIES EuroPLoP accepts papers containing patterns or pattern languages as well as experience reports and other papers related to the theory and use of patterns. EuroPLoP 2007 will be held July 4-8, 2007 in the Irsee Monastery, Germany. Join us for an experience that will combine outstanding technical events with a visit to the lovely Bavarian countryside. More concretely, this means that we solicit submissions in the following categories: Pattern papers Short papers containing one or more patterns, longer pattern languages or sequences, work-in-progress papers by newcomers which get an in-depth shepherding by an experienced pattern author at the conference Proven practices papers [track introduced 2006]: Papers about the craft of writing software or patterns, papers about the concept of patterns and proven practices in general, case studies of patterns in action, or papers about software development communities of practice Focus group proposals: Focus groups are free-format discussion groups or workshops which bring together people who are interested in a challenging topic related to patterns or proven practices. Non-conventional ideas such as goldfish bowls are welcome. Please feel free to contact the program chair (hvatum1 at slb.com) with any questions about format and content that you might have before submitting a paper. CONFERENCE STRUCTURE The main track of EuroPLoP will be organized as a series of writers' workshops where authors work together to improve their papers. Before pattern or other papers are accepted for a writers' workshop, they are shepherded (non-anonymously). This means that an experienced author will discuss your submission with you, so that you can refine your paper prior to the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the program committee. For submissions in fields different to software development, we ask you to list a selection of domain experts. The program committee may contact these people to receive additional feedback. Authors should limit a submission to material that can be covered in a writers' workshop session. This is generally ten pages or less. Please contact the program chairs if you plan to submit papers that significantly exceed this size. The EuroPLoP proceedings are published in book form by the publisher Universitaetsverlag Konstanz after the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 31, 2007 Start of shepherding: February 12, 2007 Acceptance notification: April 29, 2007 Conference: July 4-8, 2007 All submissions should be submitted in electronic form (in PDF format) by email to the program chair and the conference chair. ORGANIZATION Program Chair: Lise B. Hvatum, hvatum1 at slb.com Conference Chair: Till Schuemmer, till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de For more information, please visit http://hillside.net/europlop -- ============================================= Dr. Till Schuemmer FernUniversitaet Hagen Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Cooperative Systems Till.Schuemmer at Fernuni-Hagen.de --------------------------------------------- Learn more about patterns for computer-mediated interaction: http://www.pi6.fernuni-hagen.de/~schuemm ============================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vikingplop/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vikingplop/join (Yahoo! 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There will also be journal special issues: APAL, JLC, TCS-C, ToCS - to which full versions of selected submissions to CiE 2007 will be invited to be submitted. For a list of conference topics see: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/cie07.descr.html#themes SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Jan. 12, 2007 Notification of Authors: Feb. 16, 2007 Deadline for Final Revisions: Mar. 9, 2007 Deadline for Submission of Informal Presentations: Apr. 27, 2007 PLENARY AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) Yaakov Benenson (Harvard) Anne Condon (Vancouver) Stephen Cook (Toronto) Yuri Ershov (Novosibirsk) Wolfgang Maass (Graz) Sophie Laplante (Paris) Anil Nerode (Cornell) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Michael Rathjen (Leeds) Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon) Robert I. Soare (Chicago) Philip Welch (Bristol) SPECIAL SESSIONS SPEAKERS: Eric Allender (Rutgers) Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana) Vasco Brattka (Cape Town) Douglas Bridges (Canterbury, NZ) John Case (Newark, Delaware) Pieter Collins (Amsterdam) Thierry Coquand (Goeteborg) Felix Costa (Lisbon) Barbara F. Csima (Waterloo) Abbas Edalat (London) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Joerg Flum (Freiburg) Sergey S. Goncharov (Novosibirsk) Hajime Ishihara (Tokyo) Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, Florida) Michal Koucky (Prague) James Ladyman (Bristol) Maria Emilia Maietti (Padua) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan) Klaus Meer (Odense) Itamar Pitowsky (Jerusalem) Robert Rettinger (Hagen) Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden) Frank Stephan (Singapore) Neil Thapen (Prague) Giuseppe Trautteur (Naples) Heribert Vollmer (Hannover) Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo) Jiri Wiedermann (Prague) Damien Woods (Cork) Liang Yu (Nanjing) Martin Ziegler (Paderborn) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY WORKSHOP in association with the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Organisers: Paola Bonizzoni, Elvira Mayordomo. Speakers: Anne Condon (Vancouver), Natasha Jonoska (Florida), Carmen Leccardi (Milan), and others PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: M. Agrawal (Kanpur) M. Arslanov (Kazan) G. Ausiello (Roma) A. Bauer (Ljubljana) A. Beckmann (Swansea) U. Berger (Swansea) A. Cantini (Firenze) B. Cooper (Leeds, co-chair) L. Crosilla (Firenze) J. Diaz (Barcelona) C. Dimitracopoulos (Athens) F. Ferreira (Lisbon) S. Goncharov (Novosibirsk) P. Gruenwald (Amsterdam) D. Harel (Rehovot) A. Hodges (Oxford) J. Kempe (Paris) G. Longo (Paris) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) J. Makowsky (Haifa) E. Mayordomo Camara (Zaragoza) W. Merkle (Heidelberg) F. Montagna (Siena) D. Normann (Oslo) T. Pheidas (Heraklion) G. Rozenberg (Leiden) G. Sambin (Padova) H. Schwichtenberg (Muenchen) W. Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) A. Sorbi (Siena, co-chair) I. Soskov (Sofia) P. van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) CONFIRMED SPONSORS OF CiE 2007: AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e Applicazioni), EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic), EACSL (European Association for Computer Science Logic), FoLLI (The Association of Logic, Language and Information), and The University of Siena. CiE 2007 will be co-located with CCA 2007, the annual CCA (Computability and Complexity in Analysis) Conference (Siena, College Santa Chiara, June 16-18, 2007): http://cca-net.de/cca2007/ ************************************************************ From sz9 at inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Jan 5 11:09:28 2007 From: sz9 at inf.tu-dresden.de (Steffen Zschaler) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:09:28 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering @ ICSE 2007 (MISE 2007) Message-ID: <459E23D8.80103@inf.tu-dresden.de> [Please apologise if you receive multiple copies of this call.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering @ ICSE 2007 (MISE 2007) Minneapolis, USA May 19-20, 2007 Website: http://mse07.sse.cs.tu-bs.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview The purpose of this workshop is to promote the use of models in the engineering of software systems. In particular, we are interested in the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences related to modeling. Engineers have used models to effectively manage complexity for centuries, and there is a growing body of work on the use of models to manage inherent problem and solution complexity in software development. The use of software models will become more prevalent as methodologies and tools that manipulate models at various levels of abstraction become available. This workshop will provide a forum for discussing the challenges associated with modeling software and with incorporating modeling practices into the software development process. We are interested in model-related research topics at all levels of the software development, including use of models during software execution. A list of topics includes: - Modeling notations and tools - Modeling of non-functional properties - Metamodeling - Modeling patterns and strategies - Model transformations - Model evaluation - Model traceability and management - Domain specific modeling - Extracting models from implementation artifacts (e.g., for program understanding or verification) - Use of models to support downstream activities (e.g., to generate test cases) - Use of models at runtime (e.g., to support dynamic adaptation) - Empirical studies Important Dates 20 January, 2007 Submission of workshop papers 20 February, 2007 Notification of acceptance 2 March, 2007 Camera-ready papers due Workshop format The workshop will be highly interactive and focused on the sharing of ideas and on progressing towards a shared vision of research goals. The discussions will be carried out by raising and debating open questions and research priorities. Depending on the number of accepted papers, the workshop will follow one of two possible formats: (1) Papers are presented during the morning sessions and the afternoon sessions, and are used to suggest 2-3 working groups on topics of mutual interest. Working-group discussions are followed by a plenary session where a member of each group presents conclusions. (2) Each session ends with a 30 minute discussion. Submission guidelines Although the workshop is open to all, prospective participants are invited to submit a 4-6 page position paper. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings. Submit a paper in PDF format to mse07 at sse.cs.tu-bs.de. Organizing Committee Joanne Atlee, University of Waterloo, jmatlee at cs.uwaterloo.ca Robert France, Colorado State University, france at cs.colostate.edu Geri Georg, Colorado State University, georg at cs.colostate.edu Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova Lisboa, amm at di.fct.unl.pt Bernhard Rumpe, Braunschweig University of Technology, b.rumpe at tu-bs.de Steffen Zschaler, Technische Universit?t Dresden, sz9 at inf.tu-dresden.de Program Committee Lionel Briand, Carleton University Manfred Broy, TU Munich Jean-Michel Bruel, University of Pau Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Krzysztof Czarnecki, U. of Waterloo, Canada Holger Giese, Universit?t Paderborn Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London Michael Jackson, Open University Dorina Petriu, Carleton University Awais Rashid, Lancaster University Jon Whittle, George Mason University Michael Whalen, Rockwell Collins -- Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Zschaler Research Assistant Technische Universit?t Dresden Department of Computer Science Phone +49 351 463 38555 Fax +49 351 463 38459 Email Steffen.Zschaler at tu-dresden.de WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de.vu/ --- Consider submitting to MiSE 2007, http://mse07.sse.cs.tu-bs.de/ the Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering @ ICSE 2007 to be held 19-20 May, 2007. Deadline for submissions: 20 January, 2007 From info at icstconferences.org Fri Jan 5 14:42:06 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:42:06 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - Final Call for Paper - IMMERSCOM 2007 Message-ID: [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************ * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * IMMERSCOM 2007 * * The First International Conference * * on Immersive Telecommunications * * May 3-5, 2007, Italy * * http://www.immerscom.org/ * * * ************************************************************ Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and EURASIP OVERVIEW: In recent years, different research communities developed methodologies and tools for capturing, processing, analysing, transmitting and enabling the remote fruition of objects, environments and bio-entities. Terms like immersive telecommunications are typically used for specifying this body of activities. Applications of immersive telecommunications technologies can be various, and include industrial automation, health care, education, and entertainment. Different research communities are involved in immersive technologies. We can divide them into traditional Multimedia, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Mixed/Augmented Reality. Each of them has its own set of techniques for capturing, processing, transmitting and interacting/rendering. IMMERSCOM intends to bridge the traditional gap existing between immersive technologies and networking, focusing is on how traditional and emerging fields (e.g. pervasive computing) can be brought together under the networking umbrella. This in turn could also give a boost to the related standardization activities. In the last two decades, it has been mostly the traditional multimedia research field (2D digital video and audio) the one which received the attention from both the networking and the multimedia communities. Thanks to their joint work, a wide range of tools and supports were developed, enabling the commercial world-wide deployment of multimedia based services and products. All the related research and standardization activities enabled multimedia data to be adapted to different networking technologies, wired and wireless, established and emerging, with different and time-varying channel conditions. Also the restrictions due to the terminal processing power of hand held devices are on the way to be successfully overcome. On the other hand, computer graphics, computer vision and virtual/augmented reality communities have often developed conceptual models and tools working separately, mainly for fulfilling local and specific needs of predefined contexts. For instance computer vision has often aimed at performing specific tasks (e.g. tracking, object recognition) in some specific scenarios (e.g. providing localization and visualization for robotic application or video surveillance). Computer graphics has developed a set of tools, such as rendering and texturing, which have been mainly applied to animation and games and, more in general, in the entertainment industry, mainly aiming to a local use, though forms of remote collaborative environment (such as 3D gaming) are starting to take off the ground. Similar approaches have been followed so far by virtual/augmented reality research community. Beside the regular sessions, IMMERSCOM will al so inlcude in its program satellite workshops and special events in order to allow the representatives of specific industrial sectors to show their vision and applications, bringing theory and practice together and thereafter building the bridges. Summarizing, strategic objectives of IMMERSCOM are: * Introduce of networking as the instrument for the remote fruition of immersive multimedia content. * Assess the sensing, processing, transmission and fruition technologies currently available for immersive telecommunication applications. * Promote interdisciplinary flow of technical information among industry systems designers and researchers with feedback from the end users. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * 3D Scanning technologies and devices * 3D Reconstruction/Visualization techniques * Stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic interfaces * Mixed and Augmented reality interfaces * Immersive interactive environments * Affective User Interfaces * Human factors for immersive interaction * Issues in handheld devices * Wearable devices and haptics * Interfaces for tele-presence * Multi-modal interfaces * Perceptual interfaces * Multimedia networking for rich 3D Visualization * Mixed/Augmented reality delivery * Networked management for immersive applications * QoS for immersive applications * Perceptual factors in 3D transmission * Networking for tele-presence * Real-time network protocols for immersive applications * Joint source and channel coding for rich 3D visualization * and interactive applications * Network support for mobile end systems in immersive applications * Video/Image rendering * 3D modeling * Pervasive sensing * Data fusion * 3D displays technology * Mobility issues for immersion * Tele-reality * Body tracking * Gesture recognition * Macro- and micro-kinematics modeling * Medical and biomedical applications * Computer animations / games * Education and training * Virtual museums and tourism * Virtual manufacturing and e-commerce PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in access networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DATES: Full papers due January 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance March 13, 2007 Camera-ready Manuscripts due March 28, 2007 Workshops Proposals due October 30, 2006 Conference Dates May 3-5, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Ghassan AlRegib, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Giovanni Iacovoni, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Vittorio Murino, University of Verona, Italy Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US WORKSHOPS CHAIR Andrea Fusiello, University of Verona, Italy LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Umberto Castellani, University of Verona, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Newton Lee, NUS Hollywood Lab WEBMASTERS Md Faisal, National University of Singapore, Singapore Riccardo Gherardi, University of Verona, Italy FINANCE CHAIR Karen Decker, ICST CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Zita Rozsa, ICST -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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From knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 5 14:32:14 2007 From: knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at (Jens Knoop) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:32:14 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems (STMCS'07), San Jose, CA Message-ID: <200701051432.14353.knoop@complang.tuwien.ac.at> Call for Papers STMCS: Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems http://www.isi.edu/~mhall/stmcs07/ March 11, 20007 San Jose, CA in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) http://www.cgo.org/ The drive towards multi-core systems is being led by technology advances such as increasing chip densities and lower design costs of replicated functionality as compared to today's increasingly complex high-end microprocessors. As multi-core systems are already being sold and deployed, the goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss what software tools -- from operating systems and virtual machines on up to programming models -- must be developed to make effective use of the computational power of these new architectures. The format of the workshop will be a half day, with a set of invited talks, presentations selected from the submissions, and a panel discussion or posters to complete the schedule. Topics of interest, including: * Programming models * Managing heterogeneity * Relationship to other parallel computing strategies (embedded and high-end) * Impact on applications * O/S and Run-time management * Virtual machines * Binary translation * Performance tuning Important dates: * Submission deadline (revised!): January 23, 2007, 11:59PM PDT * Notification of acceptance: February 14, 2007 * Final version: February 28, 2007 Submission guidelines: Submissions should be extended abstracts or position papers of 2-4 pages, double-column, in 11-point font. Include the list of authors and their affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and the name of the corresponding author. Please send submissions by the deadline to: Mary Hall via email at mhall at isi.edu. From knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 5 18:31:39 2007 From: knoop at complang.tuwien.ac.at (Jens Knoop) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:31:39 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ODES-5: Final CFP with 1 week extended submission deadline (Jan 19, 2007) Message-ID: <200701051831.39860.knoop@complang.tuwien.ac.at> Final Call for Papers: ====================== ***************************************************************** 5th Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems (ODES) ***************************************************************** http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes.html March 11, 2007 ============== San Jose, CA in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) http://www.cgo.org/ New Submission deadline: January 19, 2007 (1 week extension!) ========================================= Call for papers =============== The performance requirements of digital signal processing and embedded applications are rapidly increasing, but the power and cost budgets are decreasing. Optimization plays a very important role in managing the conflicting demands. The focus of this workshop is similar to its predecessors - understand the various optimization strategies applicable to the design of DSP and embedded systems for performance,power, and cost. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic transformations and code/software optimization Hardware and software optimizations for low-power consumption and/or code density Coprocessor and hardware accelerators Compiler techniques and code generation for media processing Frameworks for profiling and scheduling tasks (multiple/concurrent) on various hardware resources (single-core + hardware accelerators, dual-core, system-on-a-chip, etc) Hardware/software tradeoffs with ASICs, FPGA's, DSPs, general-purpose processors, microcontrollers, etc as building blocks Retargetable compilers and reconfigurable architectures Important dates and deadlines ============================= Submission: January 19, 2007 Acceptance: February 22, 2007 Final version: March 2, 2007 Submission guidelines ===================== To encourage participation from both academia and industry, we are requesting submissions in either of two formats: A full paper, not exceeding 10 pages in length, two-column formatting preferred. It is expected that an accepted submission of this type will result in a final paper appearing in the workshop's proceedings OR A set of slides, along with a brief description (1-2 pages) of the main theme of the talk. It is expected that an accepted submission of this type will result in a talk abstract and a set of slides appearing in the workshop's proceedings Include the list of authors and their affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and the name of the corresponding author. Please send the submission/s by the deadline to: Deepu Talla and Tom Vander Aa via email at deepu at ti.com and vanderaa at imec.be Program Co-chairs ================= Deepu Talla deepu at ti.com Texas Instruments Tom Vander Aa vanderaa at imec.be IMEC Program Committee ================= Francisco Barat NXP Shuvra Bhattacharrya University of Maryland Francois Bodin IRISA John Cavazos University of Edinburgh Henk Corporaal Technical University Eindhoven Heiko Falk University of Dortmund Jose Fridman Analog Devices Murali Jayapala IMEC Tor Jeremiassen Texas Instruments Ossi Kalevo Nokia Trevor Mudge University of Michigan Vijay Narayanan Penn State University Scott Rixner Rice University Nat Seshan Texas Instruments Gary Tyson Florida State University Past Workshops ============== ODES-1: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-1_program.html ODES-2: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-2_program.html ODES-3: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-3_program.html ODES-4: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-4_program.html From horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp Fri Jan 5 21:14:03 2007 From: horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp (Masahiro Hori) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:14:03 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Workshop Proposals (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007) Message-ID: <459EB18B.7020805@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp> Apologies for multiple postings. --------------------------------------------------------------- ##### Call for Workshop Proposals ##### The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) combined with the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007) November 11-15, 2007 BEXCO (Busan Exhibition and Convention Center), Busan, KOREA http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org --------------------------------------------------------------- ISWC WORKSHOPS ============== The ISWC 2007 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of ISWC 2007, the Sixth International Semantic Web Conference, to be held November 11-15, 2007, in Busan, Korea. Workshops will be held on 11-12 November. GOALS ===== The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal setting for workshop participants to discuss technical issues, to exchange research ideas, and to develop a community in the quickly emerging field of the Semantic Web. We are looking for workshops that encourage discussions on social and business requirements and how semantic web technologies can be made easier to deploy and operationalize in real world scenarios. These workshops are expected to complement those that focus on fundamental research issues and multi-disciplinary topics. Workshop proposals should address current issues related to the Semantic Web that will benefit from small-group information exchange and discussion. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. We expect to have a wide range of workshops, including those that - focus on a specific domain of activity, e.g., finance, telecom, life science, digital government, etc. - investigate social and collaborative issues and best practices with respect to constructing and publishing Semantic Web knowledge structures, - focus on fundamental research issues, - discuss multi-disciplinary topics that bring together researchers from different disciplines, - support the interaction of research and industry for the deployment and operationalization of Semantic Web applications. SCHEDULE ======== March 12, 2007: Workshop proposals due April 12, 2007: Notification of proposal acceptance May 1, 2007: URL for the workshop web page due October 11, 2007: Electronic version of working notes for the workshop due November 11-12, 2007: Workshop days November 13-15, 2007: ISWC 2007 Technical Program. SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL ===================== Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length and should contain the following information: - The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on. - A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. - An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. - A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to be held in 2007. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2007 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. The ISWC2007 Workshop Co-chairs are Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) and Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK). Please send your proposals by March 12, 2007 and any inquiries by email to iswc2007-workshops at few.vu.nl. Workshop proposals may be submitted in any format; Word, text or PDF. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Masahiro Hori, Prof., Ph.D. Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University Tel: +81-(0)72-690-2415 / Fax: +81-(0)72-690-2491 E-mail: horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp Home Page: http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~horim/ From lkovacs at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Jan 6 01:12:24 2007 From: lkovacs at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Laura Kovacs) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:12:24 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] 1st CFP: Workshop on Invariant Generation (WING 2007), RISC, Hagenberg, Austria, 25-26 June, 2007 Message-ID: <459EE968.8080009@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] First Call for Papers -------------------------- W I N G 2007 1st International Workshop on INvariant Generation -------------------------- Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) Johannes Kepler University Hagenberg, Austria June 25-26, 2007 Satellite Workshop of CALCULEMUS 2007 in the frame of the RISC Summer 2007 conference series http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/WING2007/ General ------- The increasing power of automated theorem proving and computer algebra have opened new perspectives for computer aided program verification, in particular for the automatic generation of inductive assertions in order to reason about loops and recursion. Especially promising breakthroughs are the invariant generation techniques by Groebner bases, quantifier elimination, and algebraic combinatorics, which can be used in conjunction with model checking, theorem proving, static analysis and abstract interpretation. Program verification has a long research tradition but, so far, has had relatively little impact on practical software development in industry. However, the design and implementation of reliable software still is an important issue and any progress in this area will be of utmost importance for the future development of IT. The logically deep parts of the code are characterized by (nested) loops or recursions. For these parts, formal program verification is an appropriate tool. One of its biggest challenges is the automated discovery of inductive assertions, leading to the discovery of safety and security properties of programs. Scope ----- This workshop aims to bring together researchers from several fields of abstract interpretation, computational logic and computer algebra to support reasoning about loops, in particular by using algebraic combinatorics, narrowing/widening techniques, static analysis, polynomial algebra, quantifier elimination and model checking. We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as research of PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialog between the groups involved in this new research area. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Program analysis and verification - Inductive Assertion Generation - Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops - Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Algebraic Techniques - Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification - Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Keynote Speakers ---------------- John Harrison (Intel Corporation, USA) Reiner Hahnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Committee ----------------- General Chair: Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Austria) Program Chairs: Tudor Jebelean (RISC, Austria) Martin Giese (RISC, Austria) Local Chair: Laura Kovacs (RISC, Austria) Program Committee: Nikolaj S. Bjorner (Standford University and Microsoft Research, USA) Jens Knoop (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) Wolfgang Schreiner (RISC, Austria) Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Andrei Voronkov (Manchester University, UK) Important Dates --------------- February 26, 2007: Submission Deadline April 25, 2007: Notification of Acceptance May 25, 2007: Camera ready copy June 25-26, 2007: WING 2007 in Hagenberg Submission ---------- Please submit your full paper of at most 12 pages prepared with the standard LNCS class style as pdf or ps file via http://www.easychair.org/WING2007/ on or before February 26, 2007. Detailed formating instructions can be found on the WING website. Proceedings ----------- The accepted papers will be distributed to the participants as a working proceedings booklet (technical report). The post-workshop proceedings volume will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (under negotiation). From nurcan at univ-paris1.fr Sat Jan 6 17:10:18 2007 From: nurcan at univ-paris1.fr (Selmin Nurcan) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:10:18 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for papers BPMDS'07 Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20070106171003.01954180@asterix.univ-paris1.fr> (We apologize if you are receiving duplicates through different channels...) ***************************************************************** Call for Papers In Conjunction with CAiSE?07 The 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'07) Adequate Design of Business Processes and Support Systems: Reusability, Best Practices, Theory, are They the Right Answers? 11-12 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway Papers submission deadline: 1 March 2007 The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'07 Web site http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07 ***************************************************************** -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- 8<-------------------8<-------- BPMDS 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'07) June 11-12, 2007, Trondheim, Norway Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007 http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Adequate process design means that a process will have the ability to fulfil its stakeholders' expectations. The objectives of the workshop are to clarify these expectations, to develop metrics to decide whether a design is adequate or not and to investigate means to achieve an adequate design. Different means such as "best practices", reuse and theoretical approaches will be investigated and compared. The BPMDS series of workshops (see http://www.ibissoft.se/index.html?frameset=research_frame.htm&itemframe=/bpm ds.html) was designed according to the following principles: 1. A workshop should serve as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in two fields: a. business development and b. business applications (software) development 2. Each workshop has its own, relatively narrow focus to facilitate meaningful discussions and brainstorming. In the next workshop (see http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07) we will discuss the issue of what it means to design an adequate process and its support systems. Adequacy can be measured with respect to the goals of the stakeholders of the business process. Typical goals that are named in connection with business process (support) design are productivity, quality, efficiency, flexibility and conformance with formal and legal rules such as ISO 20000 or SOX. Are they the only ones? Typical means that are named in this context are ?best practices?, reuse and theoretical approaches. Are they the right means for achieving these goals? The main issues that will be addressed in the workshop are: A. What does adequate design mean? B. How to determine whether a design is adequate or not? C. What means can be employed to achieve adequate design? In particular, we want to examine typical concepts used in relation with process design, such as, reuse, theoretical approaches and even buzz-words for instance, ?best practices?. Reusability is often considered as a highly desired property of the designed processes and their support systems. "Best practices" are often used by practitioners to promote design techniques that are supposed to have been proven in practice, but it is not clear why they are "the best" as their name may suggest, and whether they can be transferred from one organization to another. The need to have the ?right? theoretical approach represents the other extreme promoted by researchers who advance theoretical frameworks for design. These often suffer from being impractical and unscalable. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION : The topics include, but are not limited to: - Is adequacy of design contextual? Is it dynamic? Is it time-dependent? - What happens to adequacy when a process is modified, e.g. merged, integrated, segmented? - Theoretical bases of "best practices" and their use for the design of business processes and their support systems; - "Best practices:" are they really best? - Importance of reuse (i.e., design for reuse and design by reuse) in the coordinated design of business processes and their support systems. - Relationships between adequate design and business/IS alignment - Methods and concepts to achieve or verify the compliance of processes with formal and/or legal rules and standards. - Theory-based methods for business process and supporting system design and their scalability. However, any other topic related to adequate design of business processes and support systems is also of interest. SUBMISSIONS: Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007 Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper related to one or more of the main topics. 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. Papers should be emailed to Selmin.Nurcan at univ-paris1.fr. FORM: The aim of the workshop is discussions, rather than presentations. To this end, position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. A position paper does not necessarily need to include answers to the problems described above. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted, and will be assigned a 10 minutes presentation. All papers will be published on our website before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. EXPECTED RESULTS: Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize the results and outline the promising directions in the field. After the workshop, the workshop material together with a selection of the best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an international journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 1 March 2007 Notification of acceptance: 9 April 2007 Camera-ready papers due: 24 April 2007 ORGANIZERS: Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK Lars Tax?n, Link?ping University, Sweden WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wil van der Aalst - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Ian Alexander Scenario Plus, UK Ilia Bider IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden Signe Ellegaard Borch - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Stewart Green - University of the West of England, UK Elke Hochm?ller, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria Paul Johannesson - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Marite Kirikova - Riga Technical University, Latvia Nikolaus Kleiner, DaimlerChrysler Research, Berlin, Germany Agnes Koschmider, University of Karlsruhe Peri Loucopoulos - University of Manchester, UK Jan Mendling - Vienna University, Austria Murali Mohan Narasipuram, City University of Hong Kong Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France L.F. Pau - Erasmus University, Netherlands Jan Recker - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale, Lausanne, Switzerland Manfred Reichert - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Peter Rittgen - University College of Bor?s, Sweden Michael Rosemann - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel Markus Strohmaier University of Toronto, Canada Lars Tax?n - Link?ping University, Sweden Jelena Zdravkovic - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- 8<-------------------8<-------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Selmin NURCAN Ma?tre de Conf?rences / Associate Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------- Universit? 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To handle others, use your heart. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070106/0f2314b6/attachment-0001.htm From Joerg.Roth at fh-nuernberg.de Sun Jan 7 08:37:43 2007 From: Joerg.Roth at fh-nuernberg.de (=?windows-1252?Q?J=F6rg_Roth?=) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 08:37:43 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP WAC2007 - Updated deadline for submissions 26 February 2007 Message-ID: <45A0A347.1030105@FH-Nuernberg.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 26 February 2007 -- (DEADLINE UPDATED!) IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTING 2007 Lisbon, Portugal, 6 to 8 July 2007 (http://www.wac-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007) Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada * Conference background and goals The IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing 2007 conference addresses several themes related to theory and practice within wireless networks, computing and application related areas. Enormous developments in wireless technologies made in recent years enabled both researchers and industry to create new, innovative wireless and mobile application and services, protocols, middleware platforms and application frameworks. Corresponding research is related to all communication layers, but also includes application-related topics, theoretical results and non-technical issues. Main topics have been identified (see below). However, innovative contributions that don?t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected Journals. * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to Wireless Applications and Computing are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Ad-hoc Networking - Cellular Phone Networks and Satellite Based Systems - Context Aware Applications - Distributed Systems Aspects of Wireless Applications - Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks - Location-based Applications and Services - Mobile Commerce - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Entertainment, Gaming and Learning - Performance and Simulation Aspects of Wireless Networks - Pervasive Computing - Security in Wireless Networks - Wireless Access Networks - Wireless Application Frameworks - Wireless Applications Programming - Wireless Communication Middleware - Wireless Database Access - Wireless End-user Devices - Wireless Home Networks - Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks - Wireless Positioning Technologies - WLANs and WPANs * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: 26 February 2007 - Notification to Authors: Until 27 April 2007 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May 2007 - Late Registration: After 18 May 2007 - Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 6 to 8 July 2007 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTING 2007 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat at wac-conf.org Web site: http://www.wac-conf.org/ * Program Committee Wireless Applications and Computing 2007 Program Chair J?rg Roth, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isa?as, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.wac-conf.org/committees.asp -- * * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Computer Science Department * University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg * Kesslerplatz 12 * D 90489 Nuremberg * Germany * Tel. 0911-5880 1169 * Fax 0911-5880-5800 * Email: Joerg.Roth at FH-Nuernberg.de * Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de * From Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.ac.be Sun Jan 7 21:15:50 2007 From: Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:15:50 +0100 (MET) Subject: [ecoop-info] FINAL CfIP, Conference Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2007 Message-ID: <200701072015.l07KFoJ22535@bollie.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Industrial Presentations 12th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2007 25 - 29 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2007.html *** DEADLINE Wednesday 10 JANUARY 2007 *** For more information please see the conference Web site and select "Call for Industrial Presentations". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2007) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. Following the usual style, the conference will span a full week, including a technical program and vendor exhibitions from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday. In addition to the usual call for papers, and considering the success achieved in the previous conferences, we are having a call for presentations primarily aimed at industrialists who have valuable experience to report but who do not wish to write a complete paper. This separate call for presentations is made for Experience Reports from Industrial Projects and/or Experiments, Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics and Experience Reports on Education and Training Activities, with bearing on any of the conference topics. See the conference web site for further details. Presenters are invited to submit a one-page overview of the proposed presentation to Dominik Madon (dominik.madon at hesge.ch) by January 10th 2007. The Industrial Committee will review the proposals. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare their final presentation, together with a short abstract (max 10 lines), by 8th May 2007; they should aim at a 20 minutes talk. The authors of accepted presentations will also be invited to derive articles from them, for publication in the Ada User Journal. Schedule -------- 10 January 2007: Submission of one-page presentation overview 31 January 2007: Notification to authors 8 May 2007: Presentation material required 25-29 June 2007: Conference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2007 Publicity Co-chair *** 12th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2007 *** June 25-29, 2007 * Geneva, Switzerland * http://www.ada-europe.org Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From pietriga at lri.fr Mon Jan 8 10:06:47 2007 From: pietriga at lri.fr (Emmanuel Pietriga) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:06:47 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfP] 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07) Message-ID: <497154C3-F974-4AA9-882D-6DA04ECB5A11@lri.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA, 22-26 September 2007 http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing practitioners have sought ways to make interactions with computers more human-oriented. For example, visual languages have long been used to provide effective communication between human and machine, and are successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, rapid prototyping, and design by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual languages and technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through Internet/Web technology and electronic mobile devices. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers andindustrial practitioners to discuss the theory, applications and evaluation of technologies, visual and otherwise, that enhance the role of humans in the computing process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- SCOPE AND TOPIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on some aspect of human-centric computing technology, whether it be visual technology, text, sound, virtual reality, the Web, or other multimedia technologies. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal aspects, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and empirical studies. We also solicit short papers detailing work in progress or tool demonstrations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Empirical Studies of human-centric software technologies * Languages and tools for end-user software development * Languages and tools for domain-specific software development * Multimedia systems * Multi-modal interaction * Design, theory, and application of visual programming languages * Software visualization and algorithm animation * Model-driven engineering (MDE) * Domain-specific languages (DSL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Authors are encouraged to submit: * standard papers reporting on research or experience, * short papers detailing work in progress or tool demonstrations. Standard papers may be up to eight pages in IEEE double-column format; short papers may be up to four pages in IEEE double-column format. Papers must be submitted electronically. All paper submissions will be reviewed by members of the international Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'07, published by the IEEE Computer Society. The paper submission deadline is March 20, 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Workshop/Tutorial proposals: 20 February 2007 Workshop/Tutorial decision: 6 March 2007 Abstract submission: 6 March 2007 Paper submission: 20 March 2007 Notification of decision: 22 May 2007 Camera-ready copy: 19 June 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- GENERAL CHAIR Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada. John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand. PUBLICITY CHAIR Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Baar, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, Italy Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy Gennaro Costagliola, Universita di Salerno, Italy Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Peter Eades, NICTA, Australia Gregor Engels, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Marian Petre, Open University, UK Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France Pablo Romero, Sussex University, UK Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Andy Sch?rr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Shin Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA [This CfP is also available in PDF] http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp.html#pdf -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66 Bat 490, Universit? Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga From kuehne at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Jan 8 11:24:01 2007 From: kuehne at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Thomas Kuehne) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:24:01 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: SoSyM Theme Issue on Metamodeling Message-ID: <45A21BC1.70804@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> -------------- C A L L - F O R - P A P E R S -------------- for a Theme Issue of the Springer Verlag Journal "Software and Systems Modeling" on *Metamodeling* Web: http://www.mm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kuehne/SoSyM/ PDF: http://www.mm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kuehne/SoSyM/cfp-metamodeling.pdf SoSyM Theme Issue on Metamodeling ------------------------------------------------------------ Metamodeling has proven to be an important and successful technology in a large variety of application areas such as (domain-specific) language definition, process definition, model transformation, data integration, and repositories. While these areas use more than one interpretation of the notion of "meta-modeling", and further alternatives exist, for instance regarding "multi-level domain modeling", they are all based on the premise that there is value in explicitly modeling the definitions of artifacts to make these definitions flexible or the subject of further analysis. Even though a lot of progress has been made in clarifying the notion of "metamodeling", supporting it with a range of different mechanisms, and applying it successfully in tools that provide end user value, much remains to be addressed and to be reported on. The Journal of Software and Systems Modeling therefore invites original, high-quality submissions for its theme issue on "Metamodeling" to appear in 2007, focusing on topics related to metamodeling, including - foundations e.g., theory, principles, and definition of metamodeling - support e.g., mechanisms for creating and controlling metamodeling hierarchies - applications e.g., novel forms of reaping benefits from metamodeling - tools e.g., advances in supporting and/or applying metamodeling with tools Editor ------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Kuehne Darmstadt University of Technology Editors-in-Chief ------------------------------------------------------------ Robert France Colorado State University Bernhard Rumpe Braunschweig University of Technology Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ 01.04.2007 Paper submission 01.06.2007 Notification 01.08.2007 Camera-ready version Submission Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Please see http://www.mm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kuehne/SoSyM/ or http://www.mm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kuehne/SoSyM/cfp-metamodeling.pdf -- Thomas Kuehne, Assistant Professor +49 178 5464627, http://www.mm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kuehne/ "The difficulty in doing research is to find the right questions so that all the answers come easily" --TK From wegdam at alcatel-lucent.com Mon Jan 8 12:11:22 2007 From: wegdam at alcatel-lucent.com (Wegdam, Maarten (Maarten)) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:11:22 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - Common Models and Patterns for Pervasive Computing (CMPPC 2007) Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Common Models and Patterns for Pervasive Computing (CMPPC 2007) at the Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 13-16, 2007 http://www.magic.ubc.ca/cmppc/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Researchers have been developing platforms for pervasive computing for more than 15 years. While significant advancements have been made during this time, now is the time to take stock and align on some key issues to continue the rapid rate of progress and facilitate the wider deployment of pervasive systems. The goal of CMPPC 2007 is to provide a forum to identify and address these issues. Formal definition and classification of pervasive systems, the determination of common abstractions, models, and best practices for the design and implementation of such systems are some of the expected topics for discussion. Examples of systems used in multiple projects and research groups will be valuable in informing the participants. A critical issue for resolution at this workshop will be the determination of some techniques and benchmarks for effective evaluation of such systems. The anticipated outcome of CMPPC 2007 is a framework for unifying the pervasive and ubiquitous systems community around a set of common models, patterns and best practices for pervasive systems design, implementation and evaluation. Topics: ------- The workshop focuses on articulating and addressing key impediments to research in pervasive systems. These include topics in the following areas: * Formal classifications of ubicomp systems (definitions, layers, components) * Common abstractions, models and design patterns toward interoperability and portability * Common approaches to technologies, platforms and toolkits such as the use of open source projects. * Examples of pervasive systems used and supported by multiple projects and research groups avoiding reinvention and rework. * Techniques and benchmarks for the effective evaluation of ubicomp systems, such as the development of a representative set of scenarios for testing and comparison, approaches to simulation. Submission Guidelines: ---------------------- To participate in this workshop, attendees must submit a 1-2 page position paper. Accepted position papers will be presented at an introductory session, and a selection of these papers will be selected for a panel discussion. Paper submissions will be selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers must be presented during the workshop. Please visit http://www.magic.ubc.ca/cmppc/ or email cmppc at magic.ubc.ca if you have any questions. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submission .......... January 26, 2007 Acceptance notifications .. March 2, 2007 Workshop date ............. May 13, 2007 Workshop Organizers ------------------- * Michael Blackstock, UBC, Canada * Roy Campbell, UIUC * Rodger Lea, UBC * Adrian Friday, Lancaster U. * Allan Messer, Samsung Electronics Program Committee ----------------- * John Barton, IBM * Cristiano di Flora, Nokia * Charles Krasic, UBC * Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola * Maarten Wegdam, Alcatel-Lucent (Bell Labs) & University of Twente From k0355611 at students.jku.at Mon Jan 8 11:21:36 2007 From: k0355611 at students.jku.at (k0355611 at students.jku.at) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:21:36 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP 2nd Workshop on Best Practices in Applying Aspect-Oriented Software Development @AOSD07 Message-ID: <20070108112136.mfe3mots00g484g4@pop.uni-linz.ac.at> C A L L F O R P A P E R S ======================================================================== Second Workshop on -- Best Practices in Applying Aspect-Oriented Software Development -- (BPAOSD'07) at the 6th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development March 12 - 16, 2007 Vancouver, Canada http://www.aosd.net/workshops/bpaosd/ ======================================================================== OVERVIEW As AOSD is getting used in real-world applications, it becomes important to document the best practices that have repeatedly proven to work in practice. A first workshop on best practices in AO was held at AOSD'06 which had the goal to mine best practices in using, building, extending, or integrating AOSD technologies. Based on this experience, we want to go one step further for AOSD'07 and collect patterns and pattern candidates. The goal is to start documenting aspect-oriented patterns. Patterns and pattern languages like http://www.voelter.de/data/pub/ModelsAndAspects.pdf and http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/zdun/publications/iee-use04.pdf can serve as inspiration for potential participants and starting point for reaching the workshop goals. For this second workshop on the best practices in applying AOSD we solicit workshop submissions in one of the following four categories: - Patterns and pattern candidates for implementing systems with AOSD techniques - Patterns and pattern candidates for building or extending AOSD infrastructures - Patterns and pattern candidates for using AOSD in conjunction with other concepts and technologies, such as model-driven architecture, model-driven software engineering, product lines architectures, service-oriented architectures, component infrastructures, middleware, etc. - Real-world application examples from which patterns can be mined WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop is planed as a full day event. The workshop will aim to foster discussion and interaction rather than elaborate presentations. After a short introduction by the organizers, all participants will be given a chance to briefly introduce their position or their case studies to provide triggers for discussion in the second part of the workshop by stating a controversial point of view, or by introducing a new point of view. In the afternoon, we will foster an open discussion using the "Open Space" technique. To give all workshop attendees sufficient opportunities for active participation, the discussion will take place in two to three groups in parallel. Each group will present their results to the larger audience before the closing discussion. If we have suitably mature submissions of patterns or pattern candidates we will also run writer's workshops to improve the patterns in the afternoon. PARTICIPATION Every interested person is invited to apply for attendance by sending a position paper to the organizers. The submission should be one to two pages for position papers or up to 6 pages for full papers. Please provide your papers in PDF format. Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the early registration deadline. IMPORTANT DATES Position Papers Due: January 15th 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 2nd 2007 Workshop: March 13th 2007 WORKSHOP COMMITTEE * Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology * Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology * Markus Voelter, Independent Consultant * Iris Groher, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology * Danilo Beuche, pure-systems GmbH PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS AND RELATED EVENTS - First Workshop on Best Practices in Applying Aspect-Oriented Software Development (BPAOSD'06) at AOSD 2006 http://www.aosd.net/workshops/bpaosd/ - AOSD Workshop on Commercialization of AOSD Technology, AOSD 2003 http://www.jpmdesign.de/conferences/aosd/2003/cfp.html - Industry Track at AOSD 2005 and 2006 http://aosd.net/2005/industry/index.php http://aosd.net/2006/industry/index.php - The AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) at AOSD 2005 and 2006 http://aosd.net/2005/workshops/acp4is/ http://www.aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2006/ - The Workshop on Models and Aspects - Handling Crosscutting Concerns in MDSD at ECOOP 2005 and 2006 http://www.st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de:8080/ecoop2005/maw/ http://www.kircher-schwanninger.de/workshops/MDD&AOSD/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From Thorsten.Weyer at sse.uni-due.de Tue Jan 9 10:55:08 2007 From: Thorsten.Weyer at sse.uni-due.de (Thorsten Weyer) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:55:08 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: SPLC 2007 Message-ID: <1C82271C464FD44D876227B6AFA47E0B0140688B@GENESIS.se.local> We kindly apologize for multiple postings ******************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S 11th International Software Product Line Conference S P L C 2 0 0 7 Kyoto (Japan), 10 - 14 September 2007 http://sec.ipa.go.jp/SPLC2007/ ******************************************************** Submission Deadlines: Paper submission (firm!) Feb 28, 2007 Author notification Apr 19, 2007 Camera ready paper deadline (firm!) Apr 30, 2007 ******************************************************** With SPLC 2007, *the* premier forum for practitioners, researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the area software product lines and software product family engineering comes to Asia for the first time . The objective is to continue the dialogue between software product line practitioners and researchers on the benefits, obstacles, and weaknesses of applying software product line principles, techniques, methods, processes, and tools in an industrial or organizational setting. ******************************************************** Scope: Topics of interest of SPLC 2007 include, but are definitely not restricted to: * Industrial experiences in product line engineering * Techniques and tools for product line engineering * Evolution of product line assets * Business issues for product lines * Organizational and process issues for product lines * Product line life-cycle issues We invite three classes of original, unpublished submissions: (1) RESEARCH PAPERS describe original research contribution (theoretical, conceptual) to the field of software product line engineering. A research paper should clearly describe the problem that has been tackled, the state of the art with respect to the problem, the solution that is suggested and the potential -- or even better the evaluated -- benefits of the contribution. We also call for short research papers, which are intended to report ideas in their early stages, and are not required to show complete/evaluated result. (2) EXPERIENCE PAPERS describe the history of a software product line accompanied by a critical review of experience within one or more development phases within family and/or application engineering. An experience report describes lessons learned in domains of specific industries like automobile, mobile communication, embedded controller, or enterprise SW We also call for short experience papers: Short experience papers are intended to report their useful and informative experiences briefly, and highlight their main interesting points. (3) POSTERS describes research result or on-going research projects. They are displayed in a dedicated poster area at the conference, and presented in poster sessions. Poster papers will appear in a separate proceedings. ******************************************************** Review Process: At least three members of the SPLC 2007 program committee will review each submission. The reviews will be the basis for making final decisions about which submissions to accept for presentation at the conference. ******************************************************** Accepted Submissions: Each accepted paper submission will be allotted a maximum of ten pages (full papers) or six pages (short papers) in the conference proceedings. The final version of accepted papers must conform to the proceedings publication format. Authors are required to present their work in a technical session. Each accepted poster submission will allotted two pages in the separate proceedings. Poster format will be announced to accepted authors. Authors are required to present their work in poster sessions. PC members will vote for the best paper from full papers, but no paper may be selected if there is no agreement on the best paper. ******************************************************** Submission Guidelines: Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and should not be under review elsewhere. Submitted papers must conform to the IEEE proceeding 8.5x11-inche, Two-Column Format (*), and should not exceed ten pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). (*) http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS -> Formatting Short research/experience papers are also conform the same format, and should not exceed six pages. Poster papers are also conform the same format, and should not exceed two pages. The submission deadline is firm! If you are unable to submit a paper electronically, please contact one of the two chairs at least two weeks prior to the submission deadline. ******************************************************** Contact: For more information about submissions, feel free to contact Tomoji Kishi (tkishi at jaist.ac.jp) and Dirk Muthig (dirk.muthig at iese.fraunhofer.de). ******************************************************** Organization: GENERAL CHAIR Kyo Kang, POSTECH, Korea PROGRAM CHAIRS: Tomoji Kishi, JAIST, Japan Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany WORKSHOP CHAIR Peter Knauber, Mannheim University of Applied Science, Germany TUTORIAL CHAIR Charles Krueger, BigLever Software Inc., USA PANEL CHAIR Jim Dager, Cummins Inc., USA DEMONSTRATION CHAIR Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore DOCTORIAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jaejoon Lee, IESE, Fraunhofer, Germany ******************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gary Chastek, SEI, USA Paul Clements, SEI,USA Sholom Cohen, SEI, USA Krysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University, USA Masayuki Hirayama, IPA/SEC, Japan Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRSIA, France Isabel John, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Michael Kircher, Siemens, Germany Charles W. Krueger, Biglever, USA Kwanwoo Lee, Hansung University, South Korea John D. McGregor, Clemson University, USA Natsuko, Noda, NEC Corp. / JAIST, Japan Sooyong Park, SOGANG University, South Korea Klaus Pohl, University of Limerick, Ireland and SSE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany Andre van der Hoek, University of California, USA Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands Rob van Ommering, Philips, The Netherlands Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia Martin Verlage, Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste, Germany David M. Weiss, Avaya, USA Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Europe, France ******************************************************** From info at icstconferences.org Mon Jan 8 17:02:06 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:02:06 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - WiOpt'07: Call For Participation Message-ID: 5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks April 16-20, 2007, Limassol, Cyprus www.wiopt.org Scope of the Symposium: The design of wireless networks offers challenges not present in fixed networks: both the offered traffic and the network capacity depend on the mobility of the nodes. The designs should not only be functioning correctly, they are also expected to optimize the performance with respect to many criteria, such as energy efficiency, quality of service, and capacity utilization. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes different perspectives, including performance analysis, protocol design, wireless communication, and optimization theory. Conference Program: Visit the conference website www.wiopt.org for the conference program as well as travel information. Keynote Speaker: Prof. R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adjunct Workshops: Five one-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt Symposium. Please check the conference website for more details: * WiNMee/WiTNeMo 2007 : International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements * RAWNET 2007 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * SPASWIN 2007: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks * CONCOM 2007 : Control over Communication Channels * WNC3 2007 : Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition Technical Sponsorship: IEEE-CSS, IEEE-ITS, IFIP, EURASIP -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp Mon Jan 8 17:46:51 2007 From: horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp (Masahiro Hori) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:46:51 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] Research Track CFP (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007) Message-ID: <45A2757B.6000807@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp> Apologies for multiple postings. =============================================================== ##### Research Track: Call for Papers ##### The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) combined with the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007) November 11-15, 2007 BEXCO (Busan Exhibition and Convention Center), Busan, KOREA http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org =============================================================== Research Track: Call for Papers ------------------------------- The World-Wide 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, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are coming to the fore and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, organizing and integrating information from different sources for novel uses, making semantics explicit in order to improve our overall experience with information technologies, and thus enabling us to use the wealth of information that is currently available in digital form for addressing our everyday tasks. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference 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 this call for papers for the research track, ISWC 2007 will include a Semantic Web In Use track, a poster and demonstration track, a doctoral consortium, and a special competition known as the Semantic Web Challenge. The calls for those tracks can be found on the ISWC 2007 Web site, http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org. The research track of ISWC 2007 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned - Evaluation of Semantic Web technologies - Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, e-learning, 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 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 need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission site . Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Formatted papers must be no longer than 14 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2007 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. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Important Dates --------------- May 18, 2007 (11:59pm Hawaii time): Research Track paper submissions due July 18, 2007: Research Track paper acceptance notification August 24, 2007: Research Track camera-ready papers due November 11-15, 2006: ISWC 2006 Technical Program ===================================================================== -- Masahiro Hori, Prof., Ph.D. Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University Tel: +81-(0)72-690-2415 / Fax: +81-(0)72-690-2491 E-mail: horim at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp Home Page: http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~horim/ From info at ewsn.org Tue Jan 9 02:50:13 2007 From: info at ewsn.org (info at ewsn.org) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:50:13 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] EWSN 2007 EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE (Jan 15) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands January 29-31, 2007 http://www.ewsn.org Early registration expires by January 15th, 2007 ======================================================================== EWSN 2007, the European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, is the fourth of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in the rapidly growing area of wireless sensor networks. EWSN 2007 will be held at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, on January 29-31, 2007. It will provide a forum where researchers with different experience and background, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. To this end EWSN 2007 features two tutorials, two keynotes, a poster/demo session, and 22 presentations of high quality papers. - tutorial 1 "Mathematical Modeling of Data-Centric Querying in Sensor Networks" by Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC, USA) - tutorial 2 "Reliable Multihop Networking with Bluetooth" by Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - keynote 1 "Sensornets: the Next Big Thing (broadening the definition of sensornet research)" by John Heidemann (USC/ISI, USA) - keynote 2 "Wireless sensor networks - From science to reality" by Paul Havinga (UTwente and Ambient Systems) The full program is available at the web site (http://www.ewsn.org). IMPORTANT DATES early registration January 15, 2007 conference January 29-30, 2007 You are cordially invited to participate, Koen Langendoen (EWSN 2007 general chair). From Stephanie.Chow at uoit.ca Tue Jan 9 03:23:49 2007 From: Stephanie.Chow at uoit.ca (Stephanie Chow) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:23:49 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call For Contributions: Eleventh International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) Message-ID: Eleventh International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) ?The Enterprise Computing Conference? ? Preliminary Call for Papers ? Preliminary 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, MD USA http://www.edocconference.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), IEEE Communications Society Hosted by MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (pending) United States Naval Academy (pending) About the conference The EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2007 will be the eleventh event in the series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions. Today the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems comprises challenges that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling to the deployment and maintenance of solutions in and across customer businesses. Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies. The resulting applications also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises. In recent years, technologies related to business processes integration, management, execution and monitoring have become one of the top areas of interest in enterprise computing. The EDOC Conference emphasizes the integration and management of enterprise computing research and development results, fostering an enterprise and social organizational engineering approach that can address and relate business, application, middleware and technical levels. The themes of openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and objects, provide a useful and unifying conceptual thread for this purpose. Topics The EDOC program committee seeks high-quality papers addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved in building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. Suggested areas include, but are not limited to: * State of the art in distributed enterprise applications - Middleware standards and architectures, such as CORBA, J2EE and .NET - Application server solution deployment and maintenance - Industry specific solutions, e.g. for aerospace, automotive, finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications - Innovative applications * Integration of multimedia technologies * Integration of embedded and mobile interactions * Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) * Enterprise computing metrics and environment - Performance prediction and measurement - Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS) - Total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing implementations - Evolution and management of enterprise computing systems - Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing * SW engineering approaches to distributed enterprise applications - Model driven architecture (MDA) and UML based approaches - Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL) - Component based approaches compliant with the OMG enterprise collaboration architecture (ECA) - Service oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA) - Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues - Organization and principles of software factories * Web services - IT aspects of inter-enterprise collaboration and virtual enterprises - Evolution of web services specifications (e.g., WS-Adressing) - Service policies and contract definitions and enforcement - Service registries ? - Universal description, discovery and integration (UDDI) and its extensions - Semantic service annotations and descriptions - Emerging standards for semantic web services * Business Process Management (BPM) Systems - Business Process Modeling and Metamodels - Business Process Monitoring and Intelligence - Dynamically configurable BPs - People integration in BPM Systems * Business Rules - Business rules languages and inference systems - Business rules components - Rule driven business process engines * Identity Management and Distributed Access Control - Security policy definition and description languages - Security policy interoperability - Distributed and federated access control - Network public key infrastructures - Service provisioning - Inference mechanisms for policy enforcement * Information and Data Integration - Business object model methodologies and approaches - Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration - Master data management for the real-time enterprise (RTE) - Information modeling and transformation across heterogeneous resources - Integration of legacy applications and information systems Submission guidelines Two types of paper submissions will be accepted ? research papers and experience reports or case studies. Research papers should describe original research results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be evaluated for scientific or technical contribution, originality, appropriateness and significance. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages in the IEEE format. Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of enterprise computing technology in practice. These papers will be evaluated on their appropriateness, significance and clarity of expression. Submissions should contain at least 2,000 words and must not exceed 5,000 words. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and accessible in the IEEE Xplore. All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of experience reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF (preferred) or PostScript format via the electronic submission system via the EDOC Conference Management system. Journals associated with EDOC 2007 The selected best research papers will be considered for special issues in top notch journals. Further details will be announced soon. A post-conference article is expected to be published on IEEE IT Professional. The article will cover the important topics and issues discussed in the conference. Please visit the IEEE IT Professional Web site for further information. Important dates: Conference Schedule Abstract submission (optional) 30 March 2007 Paper submission due 1 May 2007 Acceptance notification 30 June 2007 Organizing Committee General Chair Donald W. Sparrow, Jr. (MITRE Corporation, USA) Program Co-Chairs Marcus Spies (University of Munich) M. Brian Blake (Georgetown University) Workshop Co-Chairs Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University) Vijaykumar Rachamadugu (MITRE Corporation, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) Steering Committee Colin Atkinson, Chair (University of Mannheim, Germany) Barrett Bryant (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA) Keith Duddy (DSTC, Australia) Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) Zoran Milosevic (Deontik, Australia) Maarten Steen (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands) Marten J. Van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA) Alain Wegmann (EPFL, Switzerland) Program Committee Jan ?yvind Aagedal (SINTEF, Norway) Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Dave Akehurst (University of Kent, UK) Markus Aleksy (University of Mannheim, Germany) Joao Paulo Almeida (Telematica Instituut, Netherlands) Claudio Bartolini (Hewlett-Packard, USA) James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia) Andrew Berry (Deontik, Australia) Jean B?zivin (University of Nantes, France) Behzad Bordbar (Birmingham University, UK) Indranil Bose (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc, USA.) Coral Calero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Patrick Y.K. Chau (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Zhou Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Reynold Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Chia-Chu Chiang (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA) Dickson Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong) Fred Cummins (EDS, USA) Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy) Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia) Oscar Diaz (University of Basque Country, Spain) Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Dieter Fensel (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria) Stephane Gagnon (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Gerald Gannod (Arizona State University, USA) Claude Godart (Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy and INRIA, France) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Jan Hendrik Hausmann (University of Paderborn, Germany) Pontus Johnson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Eleanna Kafeza (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Axel Korthaus (University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas K?hne (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Asish Kundu (Purdue University, USA) Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Thomas Kwok (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Heinrich Hussmann (Munich University, Germany) Marc Lankhorst (Telematica Instituut, Netherlands) Fion Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Frank Leymann (Stuttgart University, Germany) Qing Li (City University, Hong Kong) Yaping Lin (Hunan University, China) Peter Linington (University of Kent, UK) Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Munich University, Germany) Qusay Mahmoud (University of Guelph, Canada) Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney