From kortuem at comp.lancs.ac.uk Sun Jul 1 13:40:41 2007 From: kortuem at comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gerd Kortuem) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:40:41 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] EuroSSC 2007 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: This CfP has been posted to several relevant mailing lists, please excuse any duplicates you might receive. =========================================================================== The 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2007) October 23-25, 2007, Kendal, Lake District, UK http://www.eurossc.org Organized by Lancaster University, co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society co-sponsored by ACM Sigmobile (pending) Proceedings published by Springer LNCS =========================================================================== EuroSSC 2007, the 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, explores technical and human aspects of smart surroundings involving networked embedded sensing systems and intelligent objects. In particular, EuroSSC 2007 brings together designers, researchers, product vendors and users to explore two complementary viewpoints: * A technology-driven view: concerning intelligent sensors, sensor networks and information processing for a new generation of networked devices and intelligent environments. * A user-driven view: exploring scenarios, applications and interaction methods for context-aware and pro-active applications made possible by the diffusion of ambient communication, cooperating objects, and interaction technologies. We particularly welcome papers that cross these two themes exploring, for example, technology implications arising from user needs, or the effects of technology choices and restrictions on user experience. We solicit submissions that report on innovations in all areas related to smart surroundings, context-awareness and networked embedded sensing systems, in one or more of the following categories: papers, posters, demonstrations, and exhibits. Topics of Interest Potential topics for EuroSSC include, but are not limited to: * Intelligent sensors & sensor networks Embedded systems & infrastructure for smart surroundings ubiquitous computing Smart distributed sensors for generating context Distributed localization techniques Interaction of networking and context * Context awareness & architectures Context-aware infrastructures Distributed software architectures for context awareness context-aware service discovery Context reasoning * Information aspects of context & smart surroundings Context management Provenance of context information Context quality * Design & engineering methods Design patterns and guidelines Formal and semi-formal evaluation methods Life-cycle support Development tools * Human aspects & interaction methods Sensor-based and context-aware interaction Proactive interfaces Social implications and privacy issues User controlled privacy and securing context * Applications, test beds & case studies Real-world experiences with deployed systems or engineering methods Applications case studies related to smart surroundings & intelligent objects Qualitative and formal studies WSN test-beds for generating context Submission All submitted papers will be judged based on their novelty, clarity, and relevance through blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Accepted papers will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Papers and posters will be fully reviewed. Authors of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to update their submissions based on the reviews before the final electronic copy is due. EuroSSC 2007 requires electronic submission. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Papers Authors are encouraged to submit their papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. The length of the manuscript should not exceed 16 pages (LNCS format). For more information on the format, please check Information for LNCS Authors. Please address any questions about paper submissions to the program committee co-chair, Vasughi Sundramooorthy (v.sundramoorthy[at]comp[dot]lancs[dot]ac[dot]uk). Posters Posters are solicited that present recent and on-going research by students. The poster submissions should include a 2-page (LNCS format) description of the student's research. Accepted posters will be printed in the conference proceedings and the poster will be presented at the conference poster and demonstration session. Please address any questions about poster submissions to the program committee co-chair Vasughi Sundramoorthy (v.sundramoorthy[at]comp[dot]lancs[dot]ac[dot]uk). Demonstrations Proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages (LNCS format) and should include a description of the demo and equipment to be used. Exhibits Information to follow soon Important Dates *** Extended full paper submission deadline: 9 July 2007 *** Research demos submission deadline: 10 July 2007 Posters submission deadline 10 July 2007 Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2007 Camera-ready copy due: 15 August 2007 Early registration deadline: 5 October 2007 From wiiat at kis-lab.com Mon Jul 2 05:45:48 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (WI-IAT07) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:45:48 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Workshop on Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) DL: 10 July Message-ID: <20070702034212.49A776BFCA@mail.mjolner.com> =============================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) in conjunction with IEEE/WIC/ACM WI/IAT'07 Silicon Valley, CA, USA, November 2-5, 2007 http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ =============================================================================== -------------------- Workshop Description -------------------- Recent advances in biological, physical, and social sciences and engineering are increasingly being driven by our ability to discover, share, integrate and analyze disparate types of data. Advances in computing and communications (e.g., data grids and compute grids, sensor networks), community-driven efforts to annotate data sources and resources with metadata (ontologies), and statistically based machine learning algorithms for constructing predictive models from data have made it possible to exploit distributed networks of interconnected sensors, data sources, and computing resources in collaborative, integrative analysis of data. These developments, together with the ongoing transformation of many traditionally data-poor sciences into increasingly data-rich sciences, offer unprecedented opportunities for data-driven discovery in bioinformatics, environmental informatics, social informatics, health informatics, enterprise informatics, security informatics (among others). This has led to a compelling vision for cyberinfrastructure for collaborative e- science. Consequently, there is a growing interest in e-science cyberinfrastructure as evidenced by several recent workshops and symposia on related topics: The 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2006), the 2006 International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Research Environments (CVRE 2006), the 2007 IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2007), the 2007 AAAI Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS 2007), among others. Against this background, the Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) invites contributed papers from researchers in relevant areas of artificial intelligence (machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, ontologies), information systems (information integration, databases, semantic web), distributed computing, and selected application areas to discuss research challenges and recent research advances in cyberinfrastructure for e-science spanning topics such as: * Distributed Data Mining * Distributed Knowledge Bases * Distributed Inference * Data Acquisition and Analysis Workflows * Semantic Data Integration * Knowledge Integration * Semantic Web Services * Semantic Grid * Service Composition * Web semantics * Data and Process Provenance * Selective Data and Knowledge Sharing * Collaborative Construction of Ontologies * Collaborative Construction of Workflows * Collaborative Virtual Research Environments * Publication and Dissemination * Applications, Benchmarks, Challenge Problems, and Case Studies in areas such as: o Bioinformatics o Health Informatics o Social Informatics o Cheminformatics o Environmental informatics o Materials Informatics o Geoinformatics The workshop will consist of a small number of invited talks, contributed talks, and informal discussions, and a wrap-up session. The workshop will begin with an opening session to introduce the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes. The invited talks will give overviews of the key topics. Contributed talks (selected based on review by at least two members of the program committee), will represent a mix of new results based on completed work, work in progress, research challenges, and applications. --------------- Workshop Format --------------- The workshop will consist of a small number of invited talks, contributed talks, and informal discussions, and a wrap-up session. The workshop will begin with an opening session to introduce the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes. The invited talks will give overviews of the key topics. Contributed talks (selected based on review by at least two members of the program committee), will represent a mix of new results based on completed work, work in progress, research challenges, and applications. The workshop schedule will allow ample time for informal discussion. The abstracts of invited talks and accepted contributed papers will be posted on the workshop webpage. Participants will be encouraged to review the posted papers before they arrive at the workshop. The workshop will conclude with a wrap-up session summarizing the workshop. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: July 10, 2007 Acceptance Notification: August 2, 2007 Camera Ready Version Due: August 17, 2007 Workshop: November 2-5, 2007 ------------------- Author Instructions ------------------- Papers should describe original research. They must conform to the IEEE-CS 2-column format, and must not exceed 4 pages in length. Submission instructions can be found on the workshop web page at www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007. ------------ Organization ------------ Dr. Vasant Honavar Professor of Computer Science Iowa State University 226 Atanasoff Hall Ames, Iowa 50011, USA honavar at cs.iastate.edu www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/ Dr. Kei Cheung Associate Professor Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA kei.cheung at yale.edu Dr. Xiaobo Yang CCLRC e-Science Centre Daresbury Laboratory Warrington WA4 4AD, UK x.yang at dl.ac.uk ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- To be announced From gheorghe at funinf.cs.unibuc.ro Mon Jul 2 07:01:57 2007 From: gheorghe at funinf.cs.unibuc.ro (Gheorghe Stefanescu) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 08:01:57 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] 2st CfP: Streams and Algebra - J.Log.Alg.Prog. Special Issue Message-ID: [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming special issue on S T R E A M S A N D A L G E B R A [ Deadline: 1st September 2007 ] Special Issue Editors: Manfred Broy [TU Muenchen, Germany] Gheorghe Stefanescu [Univ. Bucharest, Romania] SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE A new computing paradigm is currently on spot: interactive computation. Most of concurrent, distributed, reactive, embedded, component-oriented, agent-oriented and service-oriented systems exploit interaction as a fundamental paradigm. At an interaction interface data evolve in time, hence streams occur as a royal candidate for modeling, specifying, programming, and verifying interactive systems. This JLAP special issue is dedicated to papers presenting fundamental results on streams and making use of algebraic techniques. Topics of interest include [but are not limited to]: * Algebraic specifications * Coordination languages * Data-flow networks * Interactive systems * Hardware design * Programming languages * Real-time systems * Semantics THE JOURNAL The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming is an international journal whose aim is to publish original work in the areas of logical and algebraic methods and techniques for programming in its broadest sense. The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming complements Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming and Theoretical Computer Science by its focus on the foundations of logical, algebraic and categorical methods for programming. For more information, visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jlap. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 1st September 2007 Author notification: 1st January 2008 Revised papers due: 1st March 2008 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS We are expecting full (typically, 20-40 pages) high-quality papers describing original, previously unpublished research and not being simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. The normal reviewing process for JLAP journal will be used. Submissions should arrive no later than 1st September 2007. For submission, the Elsevier online submission system will be used. The authors have to select "Special Issue: Streams and Algebra" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. Link: http://ees.elsevier.com/jlap/default.asp Authors should use the LaTeX style of the journal which can be obtained at the following address: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621520/authorinstructions Queries concerning this special issue should be directed to any of the special issue editors. Up-to-date information will also be available from http://funinf.cs.unibuc.ro/~gheorghe/org/streamsJLAP/ SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Manfred Broy Technische Universit??t M??nchen Institut f??r Informatik Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching Germany Email: broy at in.tum.de Gheorghe Stefanescu University of Bucharest Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Str. Academiei 14 010014 Bucharest Romania Email: gheorghe at funinf.cs.unibuc.ro USEFUL LINKS Journal website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jlap Up-to-date information: http://funinf.cs.unibuc.ro/~gheorghe/org/streamsJLAP From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jul 2 13:10:58 2007 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George A. Papadopoulos) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:10:58 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Academic Vacancies -- CS Dept -- Univ of Cyprus Message-ID: ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS The University of Cyprus announces three academic positions at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE One position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the following field of study: Software Engineering. One position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the following field of study: Database Systems. One position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the following field of study: Computer Systems Technologies in the areas of Operating Systems or Compilers or Security or Internet. For all academic ranks, an earned doctorate from a recognized University is required. Requirements for each academic rank depend on the candidate's years of academic experience, the research record and scientific contributions, involvement in teaching and in the development of high quality undergraduate and graduate curricula. The minimum requirements for each academic rank can be found at the web page: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/admin_servG/nomothesiaG/acc_qualG/acc_qualg.html. The official languages of the University are Greek and/or Turkish. Holding a citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus is not a requirement. The annual gross salary for these positions (including the 13th salary) is: Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) CY 29.244 to CY 36.168 Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) CY 24.697 to CY 32.775 (At present 1 Euro = 0.589 CY and 1$ = 0.4292 CY) Interested individuals must submit the following items by Monday 24th of September 2007: I. A letter stating the academic rank or ranks for which the applicant is interested in, the field of study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in the event of selection. II. A Curriculum Vitae (6 copies). III. A brief summary of previous work and a statement of plans for future research (up to 1500 words, 6 copies). IV. A list of publications (6 copies). V. Copies of the three most representative publications (6 copies). VI. Copies of degree certificates. In addition, the applicants must ask three academic referees to send letters of recommendation directly to the University. The names and addresses of these referees must be submitted with the application. Additional confidential information may be sought. The letters of recommendation must reach the University by Monday 24th of September 2007. The Curriculum Vitae and the statement of previous work and plans should be written in Greek and/or in Turkish and in one international language, preferably English. Applications, other documents and reference letters submitted in the past will not be considered and must be re-submitted. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applications, other documents and reference letters have to be delivered by hand to the Human Resources Services of the University of Cyprus at the Council/Senate Anastasios G Leventis Building until Monday the 24th of September 2007, the latest, or to be sent by post (stamped by the post office by the 24th of September 2007, the latest; will be considered valid provided they are received by the Human Resources Services, PO Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus by the 2nd of October 2007, the latest. The sole responsibility will be upon the interested applicant). For more information the Human Resources Services or the Department of Computer Science (cs at cs.ucy.ac.cy) may be contacted. -- From yletraon at irisa.fr Mon Jul 2 17:44:14 2007 From: yletraon at irisa.fr (Yves Le Traon) Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:44:14 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - 1st IEEE ICST (Software Testing, Verification Validation) Message-ID: <46891D4E.3030109@irisa.fr> Please find attached the call for papers for the first IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2008). Object-orientation is among the key-topics of the conference. Best regards, Yves Le Traon (publicity chair) ========================= CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 1st IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2008) Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) April 9-11, 2008, Lillehammer, Norway http://www.cs.colostate.edu/icst2008/index.html There has been very strong activity in the field of testing and validation research, as reflected in recent years by numerous workshops dealing with testing in different areas. The new IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST) will offer an open forum for software testing, verification and validation research and its transfer to practice. Among other things, it aims at stimulating scientific research on model-based software testing, domain specific testing, empirical studies of testing techniques, and the technology transfer of research results to software development practices. We invite original, high-quality research papers and industrial experience papers in all areas of software testing, verification and validation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software testing theory and practice - Model-based testing - Domain specific testing including, but not limited to, security testing, web services testing, database testing, and OO software testing - Verification & Validation - Quality Assurance - Model checking - Empirical studies - Metrics - Inspections - Tools - Testability and diagnosability - Design for testability - Testing education - Testing in multidisciplinary applications - Embedded software - Technology transfer - Model-Driven Engineering - Novel approaches to software reliability assessment Conference Chair: Lionel Briand (briand at sce.carleton.ca) Program Chairs: Rob Hierons (Rob.Hierons at brunel.ac.uk), Aditya Mathur (apm at purdue.edu) Workshop Chair: Benoit Baudry (bbaudry at irisa.fr) Industry Chair: Per Runeson (per.runeson at cs.lth.se), Clay Williams (clayw at us.ibm.com) Important dates: Submission of abstracts: October 5, 2007 Submission of full papers: October 12, 2007 Notification: January 4, 2008 Camera-ready: February 1, 2008 For ICST 2008 submission guidelines and all additional up to date information, please visit http://www.cs.colostate.edu/icst2008/index.html ========================= -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Handheld devices that could provide highly personal information about the owner (e.g., RFID, GPS) are becoming more pervasive. Our use of the Web also leads to the implicit sharing of information with others through our blogs, websites, social networks, Semantic Desktop sharing, clickstream tracking, as well as through the photographs, documents, and bookmarks we post on sites such as Flickr, Zoomr, and Delicious. Disclosing information to third parties may have unexpected consequences since a receiver of such information might easily use, copy, and redistribute it in ways not intended for by the owner. Users must understand the implications of using such devices or applications and providing information to third parties. Even though users may prevent the direct disclosure of sensitive information by an access control mechanism and the information being leaked may not seem private, sensitive information may revealed by inferences drawn from non-sensitive data and metadata. Examples include identifying a user and providing her sensitive information through a simple search engine query log, and retrieving medical data from sets of anonymized records. ?Thus along with privacy enforcement, accountability is also important because it may not always be possible to prevent third parties from obtaining sensitive information but accountability helps ensure that this information is used according to certain policies defined by the law or by the owner. The role of Semantic Web research in privacy and accountability is two-fold. On the one hand, Semantic Web techniques may be used in order to provide advanced privacy and accountability mechanisms. Using formal languages with well-defined semantics in order to represent, reason about, and exchange such information helps to make it non-ambiguously understood by others. Privacy ontologies, sticky policies attached to data, accountability logics, and efforts such as the Creative Commons are some examples. Semantic Web languages can also be used to specify and track provenance of information, which is useful for accountability. Representing information in Semantic Web languages can also prevent sensitive information from being inferred by providing built in semantic models that can be used to recognize some potential inference channels. Another possible way to protect privacy is to disclose an appropriately generalized (or vague) answer to a query. ?For example, the query "where is John now" might be answered with "in room ITE 329 on the UMBC Campus " or "on the UMBC campus" or "somewhere in Maryland" depending on John's privacy preferences and the identify of the requester. Semantic Web languages provide a natural mechanism for generalization through their subclass structuring. The second role of Semantic Web research in this area is that privacy enforcement and accountability also apply to many emergent Semantic Web research topics. As an example, semantic desktop sharing poses questions about what to share, under which conditions, and how to control the usage of such information in a way that the privacy of the user is not violated. Understanding the new requirements that these scenarios pose is crucial for the short-term research in the area. This workshop will bring together researchers interested in the field in order to discuss and analyze important requirements and open research issues in this context, taking into account both perspectives: how can Semantic Web techniques help and which requirements arise from current Semantic Web research lines. ?The workshop will deliver a state-of-the-art overview and successful research advances in the area as well as guidelines for future research. Workshop topics --------------- Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ontologies for privacy - Techniques for privacy, anonymity, pseudonymity, and unlinkability - Privacy management & enforcement - Information hiding and watermarking - Information provenance - Inference channels - Generalization of answers - Privacy policy specifications and business rules - Negotiations and incentives for cooperation enforcement - Accountability - Privacy and personalization - Privacy and mobility - User- and context-awareness in privacy, security and trust - P3P - Digital Rights Management - Creative Commons - Pervasive technologies (RFID, cellular networks, WiFi) and Semantic Web - Case studies, prototypes, and experiences - Desktop search and sharing Paper Submission ---------------- We welcome both full research papers (10 pages) describing completed research as well as position papers (5 pages) describing proposed research or work in progress, as long as they are well-argued, fully-justified and contain some preliminary results. We also seek demonstration papers (1-5 pages) outlining practical work in this field. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please refer to the Springer's Author Instructions at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Papers should be submitted electronically via the PEA EasyChair page Important dates: * Submission deadline: July 27, 2007 (midnight GMT + 1) * Notification for acceptance: August 31, 2007 * Camera ready due: Sep 14, 2007 Organizing Committee -------------------- Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center and University of Hanover Program Committee ------------------------------------ - Piero Bonatti, University of Naples - Grit Denker (SRI) - Sandro Etalle, University of Twente - Tim Finin, UMBC - Yolanda Gil (ISI and USC) - Lalana Kagal, MIT - Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover - Daniel Olmedilla, L3S and University of Hannover - Alexander Pretschner, ETH Zurich - Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano - Ralph R. Swick, MIT and W3C - William Winsborough, GMU - Daniel Weitzner, MIT and W3C - Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From ngwsp05 at gmail.com Tue Jul 3 04:22:26 2007 From: ngwsp05 at gmail.com (NGWSP Conference) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:22:26 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: NWeSP2007+Web+IEEE Press+July14 Message-ID: Apologies if you get multiple announcements Dear Colleague: Upon the requests of many authors, the deadline of NWeSP2007 Call for Papers is extended to 14 July 2007 ===================================================================================================== NWESP 2007: 3rd International Conference on Next Generation of Web Services http://nwesp.org October 29-31, Seoul, Korea Proceedings: IEEE Computer Society & Special issues of journals *Submission deadline: July 14, 2007* GENERAL INFORMATION Topics of interest include all areas of Web Services and Web Applications. Poster session, workshops, and cultural events are planned. *Topics:* Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) Database Technologies for Web Services Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling Customization, Reusability, Enhancements Web Services Standards Web Services Applications Web Based Applications Information Retrieval Web Services Intellectual Property IMPORTANT DATES *July 14: deadline for full paper submission* August 30: Notification of acceptance September 30: Deadline for camera ready papers and authors' registration -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Each workshop should have one or more organizers and an international program committee. * Title of the proposed workshop. * Names and full addresses, including contact details, of the workshop chairs. * Originality and technical merit of the topic * Wider interest in the topic * Topical link to the main conference Potential workshop organizers are encouraged to send their draft proposals to potential participants for comments before submission. The criteria for assessment will include: - Originality and technical merit of the topic - Wider interest in the topic - Topical link to the main conference For all accepted proposals, Pervasive Health 2008 organizing committee will be responsible for: * Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. * Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: * Setting up a Web site for the workshop. * Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for participation/papers after notification of acceptance. It should also note that the number of participants is limited. The call should also make clear the process by which the organizing committee will select the participants. * Collecting submissions, notifying acceptances in due time, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for submissions and notifications of acceptance, which have to be determined. * Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair(s) as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. * Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants get registered to the workshop and the main conference. -------------------------------------------------- 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/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From zicari at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Jul 3 17:46:01 2007 From: zicari at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Roberto Zicari) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:46:01 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ODBMS.ORG: latest news Message-ID: I have listed below the latest news on ODBMS.ORG Best Regards Roberto V. Zicari Editor ODBMS.ORG --------------------------------------------- NEWS 6/28/2007 Object Database Benefits and ORM Smackdown. In cooperation with FranklinsNet, ODBMS.ORG has published the transcript of the panel discussion "ORM Smackdown" between Ted Neward and Oren "Ayende" Eini on different viewpoints on Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) systems. More: http://www.odbms.org/about_news_20070628.html ------------------------------------------------ NEWS - PRESS RELEASE May 21, 2007 Avoiding the Vietnam Quagmire ODBMS.ORG Publishes Exclusively Ted Neward's Follow on to his Controversial Vietnam War Analogy of Object-Relational Mapping ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced that it has published exclusively Ted Neward's follow on essay discussing solutions to the problems of Object/Relational-Mapping titled "Avoiding the Quagmire". More: http://www.odbms.org/about_news_20070521.html ---------------------------------------------------- NEWS - PRESS RELEASE -Feb. 12, 2007 O/R Mismatch is "The Vietnam of Computer Science" ODBMS.ORG Publishes Ted Neward's Analysis of Approaches in the Light of Vietnam War Analogy ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the release of Ted Neward's analysis of the O/R impedance mismatch titled "The Vietnam of Computer Science". This article is one in the latest contributions that put the revived popularity of object databases in the context of the object-relational discussion and the growth of object-relational mappers like Hibernate in particular. More: http://www.odbms.org/about_news_20070212.html ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please feel free to distribute this to colleagues who might be interested. Best Regards, SecureComm 2007 Organizing Committee ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SecureComm 2007 Third International Conference on Security and Privacy for Communication Networks Novotel Nice Centre Hotel Nice, France, Sept. 17 - Sept. 20, 2007 URL: http://www.securecomm.org CO-SPONSORED BY: IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org) CreateNet (www.create-net.it) ICST (www.icst.org) Early Registration Ends August 18, 2007 ******************************************************************* Securecomm aims to bring 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. For information regarding the conference, please visit http://www.securecomm.org or contact one of the Chairs below. ******************************************************************* Securecomm 2007 includes 3 workshops, 2 keynote speeches, one panel, 31 technical papers. Securecomm 2007 Registration: Early Registration deadline: August 18, 2007 Registration can be completed online at: http://www.securecomm.org/2007/registration.shtml CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Bruno Crispo, University of Trento TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit???t Hamburg-Harburg Refik Molva, Eurecom WORKSHOP CHAIR: Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University PUBLICATION CHAIR: George Danezis, KU Leuven PUBLICITY CHAIR: Peng Ning, NC State University Javier Lopez, University of Malaga LOCAL CHAIR: Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom PANEL CHAIR: Boris Dragovic, Create-Net SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Radha Poovendran, University of Washington Eitan Altman, INRIA WEB CHAIR: Fatih Turkmen, University of Trento CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Zsuzsi Kaszab, ICST STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net (chair) Krishna M. 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From vladat at computer.org Wed Jul 4 07:31:17 2007 From: vladat at computer.org (Vladimir Tosic) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:31:17 +1000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Extended Deadline for Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007 Message-ID: <200774153117562AMUNIQUEID@ESE-LAPTOP-2> 2007 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2007) Workshop (http://www.greenpea.net/mws/) Held on Monday, October 15, 2007 at the EDOC 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland, USA (http://edoc.mitre.org/) Extended deadline for both full and short workshop papers: 15 July 2007 (It is recommended that prospective authors submit their abstracts as soon as possible.) About the Workshop: Middleware plays an important role for Web services technologies. We organized the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005 workshop at EDOC 2005 and the MWS 2006 workshop at EDOC 2006. They were successful, as they gathered researchers whose interests crosscut middleware and Web services. They attracted academic, industrial, and government researchers and developers interested in Web services. The keynote speakers (Dr. Heiko Ludwig from IBM Research at MWS 2005 and Professor Lionel M. Ni from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at MWS 2006) and the panelists were praised for the insights they passed to the audience. This all lead to useful exchanges of ideas, improvement of understanding of wider research issues, and clearer identification of important open research issues and possible approaches towards their solution. Another successful recent workshop in this area was Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) held at Middleware 2006. While MWS 2006 and MW4SOC 2006 were organized by separate groups of researchers, we have now established close collaboration and coordination. To further the achievements of MWS 2005, MWS 2006, and MW4SOC 2006 and to facilitate scientific growth of this important area, we now organize the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007 workshop at EDOC 2007. Topics of Interest (include, but are not limited to): - Application servers for Web services - Aspect-oriented Web services middleware - Autonomic computing solutions for Web services and/or using Web services - Best practices and patterns for Web services middleware - Comparative analysis of middleware issues for Web services and other technologies (e.g., CORBA) - Industrial experiences with Web services middleware - Middleware for Grid services and utility computing - Middleware for discovery and/or selection of Web services - Middleware for choreography and/or orchestration of Web services - Middleware for Web-services based Semantic Web - Middleware for Web services-based workflows - Middleware for Web services executing in mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous/pervasive environments - Monitoring and management middleware for Web services - Negotiation middleware for Web services - Policy-based middleware for Web services - Quality of service middleware for Web services - Query middleware for Web services - Reputation and/or trust middleware for Web services - Reliability, dependability, and fault-tolerance middleware for Web services - Security and/or privacy middleware for Web services - SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) engines - Web services as a middleware technology Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished, high-quality papers before 15 July 2007. Submissions should be in the IEEE Computer Society conference paper format. Papers published or submitted elsewhere will be automatically rejected. The submissions should be e-mailed to Dr. Vladimir Tosic (vladat at server: computer.org) and include "MWS2007" in the Subject line. Two types of submissions are solicited: - Full papers describing mature research or industrial case studies ? up to 8 pages long - Short papers describing work in progress or position statements ? up to 4 pages long Review and publication: All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance around August 10 2007. At least one author of every accepted paper MUST register for the Workshop and present the paper. The workshop proceedings will be published on the conference CD-ROM and all accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Web site: http://www.greenpea.net/mws/ From dustdar at infosys.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jul 4 09:41:48 2007 From: dustdar at infosys.tuwien.ac.at (Schahram Dustdar) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:41:48 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Service Mashups Message-ID: <468B4F3C.2050701@infosys.tuwien.ac.at> IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on " Service Mashups" Submission deadline: Januray 15, 2008 Guest Editors: Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS Lab, University of Lyon, France Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University, USA Overview: The topic of this special issue concerns the design and the development of novel and modern Web applications based on easy to accomplish end-user composition of services. Combining Web service technologies (WSDL, UDDI, SOAP) with fresh content, collaborative approaches (e.g., Web 2.0), and possibly including semantic technologies (RSS, RDFa, SPARQL ) is an exciting challenge for both, academic and industrial researchers. This special issue seeks original articles on service mashups in the context of service oriented (Web services) applications. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similar interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance. In this context, service mashups which is an information sharing and aggregation to support content publishing for new modern Web application become an important issue. New technologies were recently developed to provide powerful ways to represent fresh contents such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), microformats, RDFa, and possibly including semantic technology standards (e.g., RDF, RDFS, OWL, SWRL, and SPARQL). Web services are also nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to the community of potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. Papers describing advanced research and experience on service mashups based on Web services technologies are being solicited. This special issue will include, but is not limited to: - Mashups examples and experience (design, architecture, implementation, usability and user-experience) - (Dynamic) Languages, frameworks, and (runtime) platforms for the design, implementation, testing and maintenance of Web APIs and services mashups - Analysis of and experience with services mashups (creation, deployment, and usage) from social and economical perspectives - Web 2.0 based mashups - Case studies on service-based semantic mashups - Quality of services mashups: reliability, security, and other non-functional aspects - Data Integration for the service mashups - Service mediation for the Semantic Web application - Web 2.0, semantics and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - Mashups in mobile applications Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit original papers using the journal Web site. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to IEEE Internet Computing submission guidelines. All submissions must be 5,000 words or less, including full text, abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, table text, and 250 words for each figure. Overlength manuscripts will be rejected without review, pending resubmission. Acceptance will be based on relevance, technical soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation. For further information on submission, please contact the guest editors. Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: Januray 15, 2008 - First decision from GEs: March 3, 2008 - Revised versions due from authors: April 7, 2008 - Final decisions due: June 2, 2008 - Articles due into pubs office for editing: June 16, 2008 - Publication date: August 14, 2008 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Schahram Dustdar Full Professor Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distributed Systems Group (DSG), Information Systems Institute A-1040 Wien, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1 Tel +43-1-58801-18414 Fax +43-1-58801-18491 URL: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd/ http://www.VitaLab.tuwien.ac.at --------------------------------------------------------------- From re4apm at disco.unimib.it Wed Jul 4 14:29:45 2007 From: re4apm at disco.unimib.it (RE4APM) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:29:45 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP RE4APM - ICSM 2007 Working Session Message-ID: <003301c7be37$0159f5a0$1500a8c0@disco.local> CALL FOR PAPERS First International Working Session on Reverse Engineering techniques for Application Portfolio Management (RE4APM 2007) Paris October 5, 2007 Co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007) http://icsm07.ai.univ-paris8.fr/ For more Information: http://essere.disco.unimib.it/reverse/re4apm.html Working Session Description and Goals The main goal of the working session is to discuss the main issues and critical problems involved in Application Portfolio Management (APM), which can be supported through advanced reverse engineering techniques and to promote interactions among the international community both from Universities and industry. APM has been defined by Forrester Research analysts as: "A set of technologies that reads source code artifacts from across the enterprises, records the relationships between them in a knowledge base and augments the knowledge base with business information to develop management intelligence about applications" (Forrester Research Inc, APM Tools). >From this definition it is easy to see how the area of reverse engineering can be of great support at different levels and in different phases of the transformation cycle performed during APM. APM plays a strategic role within IT departments. The analysis of millions of lines of code that make up legacy applications delivers value at many levels for the IT departments. There is a combination of factors that raises the issue of how and why large organizations should assess the need of efficient APM. The aim of the workshop is to explore and discuss experiences and new ideas on how techniques, tools and methodologies proposed in reverse engineering can be used to enhance the different activities involved in APM. These activities include program comprehension, complexity and quality analysis, maintenance support, software architecture reconstruction, legacy modernization and transformation to IT governance, activity planning and application management and assessment. The working session aims to discuss how applications operate, what maintenance effort is required, how to make strategic decisions on the future of the portfolio, how to evaluate the ROI adopting APM, how to mitigate coordination and communication problems driven by outsourcing. Working session topics: . Evaluation criteria for IT portfolio management . Evaluation of metrics collection tools, metrics-based reengineering . Products vs. projects portfolio management . Portfolio-based approach in changing decision making . Software architecture reconstruction . Migrating legacy components towards SOA . Application assessment . Application outsourcing and business process outsourcing . Business/IT alignment . APM to support IT governance . Metadata profiling . Quality of service reverse engineering . Process and data mining . Ontologies for reverse engineering . Data reverse engineering . From relational schema to high level conceptual schema . Quantitative analysis of long-term evolution of software systems . Source code analysis, program comprehension . Software quality management . Integration and migration issues . Reengineering, refactoring techniques . Legacy transformation and modernization . Measures for maintenance efforts . Quantitative and qualitative analysis of large software systems and repositories Working Session Format and Organization -------------------------------------------------------------- We actively seek a format which emphasizes fruitful interactions and discussions. This typically involves brief presentations of position papers in order to leave more time for discussions on the new ideas, projects and research directions proposed. To ensure lively discussion and encourage the exchange of ideas among the participants, a community Wiki has been created and all the accepted contributions will be made available in advance over the Web. The working session will be a half day meeting and will start with an invited talk, which aims to introduce some of the main critical issues on Reverse Engineering techniques for Application Portfolio Management. Afterwards, the working session will be devoted to the paper presentations and to the interchange of ideas among participants. The session will end with a discussion to summarize the open issues as well as to establish new collaborations between research groups by maintaining the working session community Wiki. Information for Authors, Submission & Selection Process ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- We are soliciting research papers, experience reports and position papers that concisely describe ongoing works, new ideas, tool demonstrations, etc. Submissions will be evaluated on their relevance to the workshop and on their potential for fostering new research activities and innovative approaches on key workshop topics. Papers must not have been previously presented, published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Submissions can be of two types: position papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format or very short papers (e.g. 2-4 pages) along with a detailed slides presentation in PDF format. The first page of each submission must include the following information: title of the paper; name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s); postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding author. Accepted contributions will be made available on the working session website in advance (http://essere.disco.unimib.it/re4apm/wiki). Informal proceedings will be available during the workshop. Best papers and presentations will be selected for consideration to be published in a special journal issue, after a review process of the extended version of each selected contribution. Moreover, a web-based archived e-mailing list will be used to continue discussions after the workshop, as well as a dedicated forum (or possibly a website) to share ideas and resources and to maintain a long-term community Wiki. Important Dates ------------------------ Submission deadline: September 10th, 2007 Notification date: 20th September, 2007 Publication of the program: 28th September, 2007 Workshop date: October 5th, 2007 Submission address: ------------------------------- re4apm at disco.unimib.it Community Wiki: http://essere.disco.unimib.it/re4apm/wiki Workshop Committee Tonino Amadori, CSC, Italy Francesca Arcelli, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Franco Bernasconi, MicroFocus, Italy Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland Masafumi Kotami, IBM Tokyo, Japan Erald Kulk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Andrea Monti, EDS, Italy Remo Pareschi, Nexus Global Partners, Italy Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano, Italy Claudio Riva, Nokia, Finland Richard M. 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URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070704/a038d9f9/attachment-0001.htm From Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de Wed Jul 4 17:42:40 2007 From: Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:42:40 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CfP RuleML-2007, Springer Confirmed, Submission Deadline Extended to July 20th Message-ID: <20070704154240.26330@gmx.net> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous requests about conflicting deadlines, and with Springer as confirmed publisher, online submissions to RuleML-2007 will be allowed until July 20 (hard deadline): Abstract submission before July 10, 2007 Paper submission due July 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance August 6, 2007 Final submissions due August 23, 2007 The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org, co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum . RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0/3.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, Service-Oriented Computing Applications and Rule-based Enterprise Application Systems. A RuleML-2007 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. Call for Papers: http://2007.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf Highlights: - Accepted papers will be published as Springer LNCS proceedings - 2 Keynote speakers; Confirmed Keynote by J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise): "Rule-based Development Support in the Automotive Industry" - In cooperation with ECCAI (confirmend) and IEEE Computer TCAAS - Selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special journal issue - Best Paper Award - Prestigious prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications of the Challenge - Panel by world-class scientists and practitioners, featuring topics on event and rule-based computing and industry success stories Updates: 1) Modified Challenge Requirements: "Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2007 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. The show case should demonstrate the use of rules of various kinds in interesting and practically relevant ways, preferably (but not necessarily) embedded into a Web-based or distributed environment." More information regarding submissions can be found in the RuleML-2007 web site: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm 2) Enhanced Topics: - Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Rules in Web Intelligence Research We invite submissions of full, short and demo papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the topics listed at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page431.htm 3) All papers and demos will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members of the Program Committee: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page508.htm Sincerely, General Chair Said Tabet, Inferware Corp. stabet AT ruleml.org Program Co-Chairs Adrian Paschke, Technical University Munich, Germany paschke AT in.tum.de Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada biletski AT unb.ca Challenge Co-Chairs Alexander Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., London, UK alex.kozlenkov AT betfair.com Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc., Mountain View, USA rhodgson AT topquadrant.com Panel Chair John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Publicity Chair Suzette Stoutenburg, MITRE Corporation, USA suzette AT mitre.org -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! 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Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger From pc at p-cos.net Wed Jul 4 20:41:26 2007 From: pc at p-cos.net (Pascal Costanza) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:41:26 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfPart] European Lisp Workshop '07 Message-ID: <05280544-010F-4A90-B704-3E01925A30D1@p-cos.net> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 4th European Lisp Workshop | | July 30 - Berlin, Germany - co-located with ECOOP 2007 | | Supported by Clozure Associates - http://clozure.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ********** ** News ** ********** * We have accepted six papers for presentation, about functional languages for representing productive meta-models, dynamic data models: an application of MOP-based persistence, two papers about user-defined specializers in CLOS and Skill++, thread and interrupt safe method dispatch in PCL, and recent developments in ContextL. * Alexander Repenning will be giving a keynote presentation about "Antiobjects: Mapping Game AI to Massively Parallel Architectures using Collaborative Diffusion". * The exact programme is available at the workshop website. There is still enough room to participants, so please contact Pascal Costanza at pc at p-cos.net if you wish to participate. The deadline for registration is July 28, 2007. See the workshop website at http://lisp-ecoop07.bknr.net/ for more details. -- Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc at p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium From Klaus.Schneider at informatik.uni-kl.de Wed Jul 4 20:31:32 2007 From: Klaus.Schneider at informatik.uni-kl.de (Klaus Schneider) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:31:32 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Extended Deadline of VerAS Workshop: 14 July 2007 Message-ID: <468BE784.6050203@informatik.uni-kl.de> Call for Papers DASMOD Workshop on Formal Verification of Adaptive Systems Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 14th, 2007 http://rsg.informatik.uni-kl.de/TPHOLs-2007/VerAS http://www.dasmod.de Important Dates: * Submission deadline: 14 July 2007 (extended!) * Author Notification: 20 July 2007 * Camera-ready copy: 3 August, 2007 * Workshop: 14 September, 2007 Workshop Topics: The adaptive behavior of software and hardware systems becomes more and more important in different areas of computer science as e.g. * new applications with situation-based selection of algorithms, * new technologies like dynamically reconfigurable hardware, and * new requirements with respect to fault-tolerance. Traditionally, adaptive behavior has been realized as part of the functionality. However, the increased complexity now asks for a more explicit treatment of adaptation. A central goal is to check that the adaptation does not violate global system properties or leads to inconsistent system configurations. This workshop is the first that aims at considering adaptation as a cross-cutting system aspect that needs to be explicitly addressed in system design and verification. The program committee welcomes submissions on formal modeling, specification, verification, and implementation of adaptive systems. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: * formal modeling of adaptation * programming language concepts for adaptive systems * specification and verification methods of adaptive systems * dynamic verification techniques for adaptation * new applications of software/hardware adaptation * dynamic adaptation of hardware and/or hardware/software partitioning * self-healing and self-optimizing systems Format of the Workshop: The workshop is co-located with the International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics and will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on September 14th, 2007. Proceedings: Submissions will be fully refereed, and accepted papers will be published first as a technical report of the University of Kaiserslautern (available at the workshop). Second, it is planned to publish the accepted papers as a volume of ENTCS after the workshop (decision pending). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submission Guidelines: Submissions should describe new approaches, case studies or results in the areas described above. Papers must be submitted by email to schneider at informatik.uni-kl.de. Submissions should be no more than 16 pages in length and should be written using LaTeX2e and the ENTCS style file that is available at http://www.entcs.org. Program Committee: * Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA * Mike Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK * Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany * Klaus Schneider, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Robert de Simone, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Workshop Organizers: * Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Klaus Schneider, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany From info at icstconferences.org Thu Jul 5 13:17:04 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:17:04 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - QTNA2007, Kobe, Japan, August 1-4, 2007 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================================ *** QTNA2007 *** The Second Asia-Pacific Symposium on "Queueing Theory and Network Applications" August 1-4, 2007 International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan ============================================ We cordially invite you to attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Symposium on "Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA2007)" to be held on August 1-4 in Kobe, Japan. More information is available at the symposium website http://www.iict.konan-u.ac.jp/QTNA2007/ Looking forward to meeting you in Kobe, Japan this summer. Yutaka Takahashi Program Committee Chairman and Organizing Committee Member Kyoto University, Japan ------------------------------------------------------- The meeting is organized by The Institute of Intelligent Information and Communications Technology (IICT) of Konan University, Japan, supported by - International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST), - Operations Research Society of China (ORSC), - Operational Research Society of Hong Kong (ORSHK), - Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ), - Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society (KORMS), - Operations Research Society of Taiwan (ORSTW), - Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers (KIIK) Organizing Committee Wuyi Yue (Konan Univ., Japan, Chair) Hsing Paul Luh (National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan, Co-chair) Bong Dae Choi (Korea Univ., Korea) Hideaki Takagi (Tsukuba Univ., Japan) Yutaka Takahashi (Kyoto Univ., Japan) David D. Yao (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Dequan Yue (Yanshan Univ., China) Technical Program Committee Yutaka Takahashi (Kyoto Univ., Japan, Chair) Hideaki Takagi (Tsukuba Univ., Japan, Co-chair) Xiren CAO (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan) Kuo-Hwa Chang (Chung Yuan Christian Univ., Taiwan) Yong Chang (Samsung, Korea) Edwin Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong) Sydney Chu (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Gang Hk Hwang (KAIST, Korea) Konosuke Kawashima (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) Bara Kim (Korea Univ., Korea) Kin Keung Lai (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Ho Woo Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ. Korea) Quanlin Li (Tsinghua Univ., China) Bin Liu (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Masakiyo Miyazawa (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Japan) Yoshikuni Onozato (Gunma Univ., Japan) Winston Seah (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Jinting Wang (Beijing Jiaotong Univ., China) Kuo-Hsiung Wang (National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan) Jungong Xue (Fudan Univ., China) Kanji Yoneyama (Univ. of Hyogo, Japan) Correspondence Dr. Mark Lau Institute of Intelligent Information and Communications Technology Konan University 8-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada-ku Kobe 658-8501, JAPAN TEL: +81-78-431-4341 FAX: +81-78-435-2391 E-mail: QTNA2007 at iict.konan-u.ac.jp -------------------------------------------------- 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/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Jul 6 10:04:32 2007 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:04:32 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ACM Web Information and Data Management workshop References: <200707060208.TAA12795@moondance.cse.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: <07D7AE75-3022-4664-9278-4A9D3A9FFDA9@inf.unibz.it> **** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2007) November 9, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB In Conjunction with the 16th ACM CIKM 2007 ACM WIDM 2007 is the ninth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007). The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- -- Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web Structure Mining -- Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Ontologies, Data Models and Metadata, Query Languages, Annotations -- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web Applica- tions, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P -- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving, Security, Personalization -- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Services -- Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring -- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission of abstracts & full papers: July 21st, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 21st, 2007 Camera-ready copy due date: August 31st, 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Electronic submission will be used. The pdf version of the paper should be submitted to the WIDM 2007 electronic review system no later than July 3rd, 2007. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready ACM format and should be at most 8 pages long. The paper should present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be published or under consideration elsewhere. More detailed information about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Irini Fundulaki School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK Irini.Fundulaki at ed.ac.uk Neoklis Polyzotis Department of Computer Science, Univ. of California-Santa Cruz, USA alkis at cs.ucsc.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Serge Abiteboul (INRIA-Futurs, France) Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo, Canada) Pablo Barcelo (University of Chile, Chile) Omar Benjelloun (Google, USA) Angela Bonifati (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Vassilis Christophides (University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece) Magdalini Eirinaki (San Jose State University, USA) Tim Furche (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany) Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK) Zoltan Gyongyi (Stanford University, USA) Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo, Canada) Benny Kimelfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Rajasekar Krishnamurthy (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (University of California-Davis, USA) Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Sebastian Maneth (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Ioana Manolescu (INRIA-Futurs, France) Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Prasenjit Mitra (Penn State University, USA) Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA) Alexandros Ntoulas (Microsoft Research, USA) Fatma Ozcan (IBM Almaden, USA) Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) Arnaud Sahuguet (Google, USA) Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Martin Theobald (Stanford University, USA) Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento, Italy) Stratis Viglas (University of Edinburgh, UK) Yi Zhang (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA) From info at icstconferences.org Fri Jul 6 11:05:07 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:05:07 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - SIMUTools 2008 Message-ID: Dear all, Please find attached the call-for-papers for SIMUTools 2008, the First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems. Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. You are welcome to forward this CFP to your friends and colleagues working in the field. Kind regards, Thomas. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIMUTools 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems March 3-7, 2008, Marseilles, France http://www.simutools.org Full Papers due: September 21, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER (pdf version: http://www.simutools.org/docs/CallForPaper.pdf) SIMUTools 2008 is the first international conference focusing on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and Systems. The conference will address all aspects of simulation modelling and analysis. Papers are sought on the topics of methodology, tools, applications, and practices. Particular emphasis will be given to papers that bridge multiple areas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to * Methodology/Simulation Art: Web based simulation, Agent based simulation, Petri Nets simulation, Fluid flow simulation, Bond Graphs simulation, Simulation-based Scheduling * Application areas: Telecommunication, Network Security, Health Care, Transportation, Manufacturing, Public Systems, Education and Training * Tools: OPNET, NS-2, interconnected simulation platforms, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, open source tools Extended versions of selected papers will be published in relevant special issues of leading journals. Authors of accepted papers should register and present their work at the conference. A poster session will accommodate short papers and works in progress. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Full Papers due: September 21, 2007 - Acceptance Notification: November 10, 2007 - Final Manuscript Due: December 10, 2007 - Conference Dates: March 3-7, 2008 ----------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it) ------------------ Call for Workshops ------------------ We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems. A proposal should focus on a specific theme of current interest seeking for high-quality submissions. Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference are solicited and should be forwarded to the workshops chairs workshop.simutools at icst.org by *September 21, 2007*. Acceptance notification by *October 1, 2007*. ----------------------- Call for Panel Sessions ----------------------- Panel sessions proposals should be submitted to panel.simutools at icst.org by *September 21, 2007*. Proposals should state the session title, a description of the topic, and the names of key organizers and potential panelists. Panel Session topics will be decided by *November 10, 2007*. -------------------------------- Call for Exhibitors at EXPOTools -------------------------------- In addition to the main technical program, the conference will hold a parallel exhibition, EXPOTools. This will be a unique opportunity for industry, researchers and professionals to exhibit simulation tools, techniques and related products. For exhibitor information contact the conference coordinator, Zita Rozsa, expotool.simutools at icst.org by *February 8, 2008*. ----------------------- Call for Poster Session ----------------------- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster.simutools at icst.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by *December 10, 2007*. Acceptance notifications will be emailed by *December 17, 2007*. ---------------------- Organization Committee ---------------------- Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, CreateNet, Italy General Chairs S?ndor Moln?r, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary John Heath, University of So Maine, USA Technical Program Chairs Olivier Dalle, Universit? de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Industry Track Chairs Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research Ltd., United Kingdom Philippe Mussi, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST US Local Chair Claudia Frydman, LSIS - Universit? Aix-Marseille, France Workshops Chairs Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, USA Publication Chair Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, France Telecom R&D, France Conference Organization Chair Zita Rozsa, ICST Europe ------------------ Program Committees ------------------ Andrea D'Ambrogio, University Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Jean-Pierre Briot, LIP6, France Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs & LRI, France Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Carlos Christoffersen, Lakehead University, Canada Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France Bernard Espinasse, LSIS, Marseille, France Sally Floyd, ICIR, Berkeley, USA Jean-Marie Garcia, QoSDesign, France Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, Marseille, France Erek Gokturk, University of Oslo, Norway David R.C. Hill, ISIMA, France Dohy Hong, N2NSoft, France Kurt Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Tania Jimenez, University of Avignon, France Mathieu Lacage, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, Canada Zhen Liu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Pieter J. Mosterman, The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA Martin Quinson, Loria, France Georges F. Riley, Georgia Tech Institute, USA Robert Szab?, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Jean-Marc Vincent, ENSIMAG, France Bernard P. Zeigler, Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA -------------------------------------------------- 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/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From rault at cnam.fr Fri Jul 6 15:39:08 2007 From: rault at cnam.fr (Jean-Claude RAULT) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:39:08 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 20th ICSSEA International Conference (Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications) Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.1.20070706153900.030e5990@pop.cnam.fr> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ICSSEA 2007 20th ICSSEA International Conference (Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications) Paris, December 4-6, 2007 Web site : www.icssea2007.org PRELIMINARY PROGRAM INAUGURAL LECTURES Systems of systems: A critical appraisal Michel Lemoine CERT (F) others TBA Session A: ARCHITECTURES Component interface identifier matching in an insurance system Zheng Zhang, Chun Zuo, Yu-Guo Wang, and Yu-Bao Cai The Chinese Academy of Science (CN) Software architectures based on a connection manager Abdelkrim Amirat Universit? de Nantes (F) An autonomous assistant for architecting software Jos? Luis Fernandez-Sanchez & Javier Carracedo-Pais UPM (E) A multi-module approach for requirements-driven architecting Matthias Galster University of Calgary (CDN), Armin Eberlein American University of Sharjah (UAE), and Moussavi Mahmood University of Calgary (CDN) Toward a semantic Web service discovery and dynamic orchestration based on the formal specification of functional domain knowledge Pierre Ch?tel Thales Communications (F) Demand-driven dataflow approach to Web services composition Weichang Du and Hai Wang University of New Brunswick (CDN) Matchmaking in semantically enhanced Web services: Inductive ranking methodology (MIR) Selim ?zyilmaz, G?kay Burak Akkus, and Ayse B. Bener Bogazi?i University (TR) Nine design patterns to be used during functional design of a service-oriented architecture Thierry Moineau Capgemini (F) A service-oriented architecture for the flexible integration of multi-sensor environments into ERP systems Patrick Schneider Universit?t Stuttgart (D), Oliver H??, and Anette Weisbecker Fraunhofer IAO (D) Products & Prototypes SCOrWare: Service Component Architecture (SCA) to make SOA a reality St?phane Bagnier Artenum (F) JADE and Jasmine: A system for autonomous management of distributed applications Fran?ois Exertier INRIA (F) and Beno?t Pelletier Bull (F) Session B: COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK TraceabilityWeb: An integrated tools environment for larger scale collaborative development efforts Vassilka Kirova, Neil Kirby, Darshak Kothari Alcatel-Lucent (USA), and Thomas Marlowe Seton Hall University (USA) Implementing information management to support collaborative decision making in air traffic control Pierre Truter Airservices Australia (AUS) Sessions C: REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING A linguistic tool for improving requirements quality and management Olivier Pire, Nicolas Pirmez Universit? de Namur (B), and Ren? Bujold Hydro-Qu?bec (CDN) A topological formal treatment for scenario-based software specification of embedded real-time systems Miriam B. Alves and Christine C. Dantas Instituto de Aeon?utica e Espa?o (BR) Session D: PROJECT MANAGEMENT Estimating project outcomes June Verner, Barbara Kitchenham NICTA (AUS), and Narciso Cerpa Universidad de Talca (CL) Managing work-packages with DOORS-AMAK Audrey Kist Artware (F) and Jacqueline Fabre Thales Alenia Space (F) Establishment of a minimal whole of good software practices needed to be compliant with the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry Romain Deguil, Didier Gourc, and Herv? Pingaud ENSTIMAC (F) What SPICE profile does a supplier need to perform profitable fix price project and deliver satisfying quality Tomas Schweigert SQS (D) Products & Prototypes Project management Luke Simpson Project Performance International (AUS) Session E: KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING Towards a learning situation application profile Olivier Gerb?, Jacques Raynauld HEC Montr?al (CDN), and Martin Beaulieu Universit? de Montr?al (CDN) KM2: A methodology to build 3L e-learning courses Maria Laura Bargellini, Gemma Casadei, and Loredana Puccia ENEA (I) An approach for knowledge base construction Ahmed Moujane, Dalila Chiadmi, and Laila Benhlima EMI (MA) Summarisation as collocation-guided text reduction G?nther Fliedl and Christian Winkler Universit?t Klagenfurt (A) Session F: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Requirements management and architecture analysis for systems of systems development J?r?me Desquilbet IBM (F) Coupling component systems towards systems of systems Fr?d?ric Autran EADS (F), Denise Cattan Spirula (F), Jean-Luc Garnier Thales (F), Dominique Luzeaux DGA (F), Marc Peyrichon DCNS (F), and Jean-Ren? Ruault DGA (F) Meeting enterprise system engineering challenges for the U.S. next generation air transportation system (NextGen) Catherine Bolczak, Gerald Friedman, Robert Humbertson, and John Mack The MITRE Corporation (USA) Assessing the performance of netcentric systems Robert Swarz The MITRE Corporation (USA) Balancing the balanced scoreboard for complex system L. Keith McCaughin and Joseph DeRosa The MITRE Corporation (USA) A methodological approach for operational and technical experimentation-based evaluation of systems of systems architectures Jean-Paul Pignon Thales Communications (F) and Christophe Labreuche Thales Research & Technology (F) Session G: INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY Data integration models for large scale systems: a comparative study Bassem Barkallah and Samir Moalla Facult? des Sciences de Tunis (TN) Data integration Fabrice Bonan Talend (F) Achieving semantic interoperability Kenneth Allen Skellbase (GB) The NetCOS interoperability framework Jean-Baptiste Guillerit EADS (F) IEC 61850 and the interoperability from an integration point of view Ivan Maffezzini UQAM (CDN) On the description of interoperability mechanisms for programming languages Gustavo A. Ospina and Baudouin Le Charlier Universit? Catholique de Louvain (B) Session I: MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING Formal model-driven engineering approach for distributed interactive simulation systems Di Wu and Flavio Oquendo Universit? de Bretagne Sud (F) An MDA-based approach to migrating MISs to an SOA architecture Emmanuel Rias Bull (F) Automated generation of FORTRAN code from UML models David Lugato and Benjamin Venelle CEA (F) An investigation of the impact and utility of software patterns in software development industry Ahmad Estabraghy and Darren Dalcher Middlesex University (GB) Session L: PLATFORMS Products & Prototypes TBA IBM (F) SCOS: OpenSource generic platform for scientific computing St?phane Bagnier Artenum (F) Session M: BUSINESS PROCESS ENGINEERING From a process model to a dynamical application Joachim Vandenbrande LoQutus NV (B) PVM (Process Virtual Machine): A JBoss-Bull concept to support any BPM language Miguel Valdes-Faura Bull (F) Session P: QUALITY ENGINEERING Quality-oriented architecting environment for quality variability Antti Evesti and Eila Niemel? VTT (SF) What are obstacles of applicability of the Prometheus method? Rachida Djouab and Witold Suryn ETS (CDN) Qualipso: Quality of open source software Gr?gory Lopez Thal?s (F) Software product quality assessment Ana Cervigni Guerra and Regina Colombo CenPRA (BR) Session Q: REFACTORING & REENGINEERING Towards a new approach for extracting business logics of an object-oriented application Isma?l Khriss, Gino Ch?nard, and Aziz Salah Universit? du Qu?bec (CDN) Refactoring based on systematic analysis with a practical tool Thilo Schwinn Daimlerchrysler (D) and Carolyn Diana H?rster Universit?t Ulm (D) Static impact analysis for object-oriented programs: An experimental comparison on reduced-call-path and slicing based approaches Linda Badri, Mourad Badri, and Daniel St-Yves Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois Rivi?res (CDN) Session S: V&V and CERTIFICATION Credibility of defense analysis simulations Roland Rabeau DGA/CAD (F) Effectiveness of Bluetooth address space usage Maryana V. Bereznyuk Odessa Board of Ukrposhta (UA), Kamal K. Gupta Indian Institute of Technology (IND), and Dmitry A. Zaitsev Odessa National Telecommunication Academy (UA) Formal validation of computerized signal boxes at SNCF Marc Antoni and Nadia Ammad SNCF (F) TUCS: How to build a certifiable railway application with UML Jean-Louis Boulanger, Dieudonn? Okalas-Ossami, and Jean-Marc Mota UTC (F) CLOSING SESSION TBA TUTORIALS Tutorial 1: Tuesday, December 4, afternoon TTCN3 Axel Rennoch Fraunhofer (D) Tutorial 2: Tuesday, December 4, afternoon TBA Tutorial 3: Thursday, December 6, morning TBA ____________________________________________________________________________ INFORMATION FORM to be returned to rault at cnam.fr Last Name: First name : Address: ( ) is interested ( ) plans to participate ( ) wishes to receive the detailed program brochure From info at icstconferences.org Fri Jul 6 21:08:09 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:08:09 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - Second Call for Papers - E-Forensics 2008 Message-ID: e-Forensics 2008: The 1st International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia Adelaide, Australia, January 21-24, 2008 http://www.e-Forensics.eu Sponsored by ICST, CreateNet and the University of Adelaide. Please note that deadlines for paper submission have been extended! The birth of the Internet as a commercial entity and the development of increasingly sophisticated digital consumer technology has led to new opportunities for criminals and new challenges for law enforcement. Those same technologies also offer new tools for scientific investigation of evidence. In telecommunications, Voice over IP raises significant challenges for call intercept and route tracing. Information systems are becoming overwhelmingly large and the challenges of associating relevant information from one source with another require new sophisticated tools. And consumer multimedia devices, especially video and still cameras, are increasingly becoming the tools of choice to create potentially illegal content. At the same time, the scientific gathering and investigation of evidence at a crime scene is being pushed towards digital techniques, raising questions of the veracity and completeness of evidence. PAPERS: The aim of this conference is to bring together state of the art research contributions in the development of tools, protocols and techniques which assist in the investigation of potentially illegal activity associated with electronic communication and electronic devices. Investigative practice and requirements for presentation of evidence in court are to be considered key underlying themes. This might include discovery, analysis, handling and storage of digital evidence; meeting the legal burden of proof; and the establishment of the forensic chain of evidence. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers which clearly identify how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Voice over IP call tracing and intercept * Records tracing and data mining * Fraud management in commercial transactions * Techniques for addressing identity theft * Geo-location techniques for cellular, ad-hoc, wireless and IP network communications * Distributed data association across massive, disparate database systems * Data carving * Multimedia source identification * Image tamper identification * Image association and recognition * Motion analysis * Voice analysis * Watermarking and applications * Transaction tracking * Digital evidence storage and handling protocols General papers on electronic security will be considered where there is a clear application to the underlying topic of forensic investigation. THE LOCATION: Adelaide is the graceful capital city of South Australia. In January, the weather is warm (no need to bring any winter clothing) and the days long and spectacular. Adelaide is blessed with wonderful beaches and sightseeing, and Australia?s premium wine district the Barossa Valley is close by. During the conference, the world class cycling Tour Down Under will take place. PAPER SUBMISSION: The conference language is English. Authors are invited to submit the full manuscript (4 to 6 pages including references) of their technical paper, for oral or poster presentation, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format using the web. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. The papers must be submitted through the COCUS System, http://cocus.info. Final manuscripts are limited to six (6) A4 size pages including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 point. The front page must contain the title of the paper, full name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) and the appropriate academic field(s). The complete mailing address(es), telephone number(s), FAX number(s) and email address(es) must be provided on a separate sheet. In submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the published proceedings and will present the paper at the conference. The final manuscript will not be published without advance registration. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. All accepted papers will be included in the eFORENSICS 2008 Conference Proceedings and be made available in IEEE Xplore, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected papers will also be recommended to a special issue of a top journal. WORKSHOPS: A number of workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research. Proposals are invited for workshops, and should be at most four pages in length and submitted to Matthew Sorell (matthew.sorell AT adelaide.edu.au) by August 17, 2007. IMPORTANT DATES: Please note that deadlines have been extended. Expressions of interest would be appreciated by August 17th 2007 Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 17th 2007 Paper Registration Deadline: September 28th, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 16th, 2007 Final paper submission and authors' registration: December 3rd, 2007 Conference Dates: January 21-24, 2007 GENERAL CHAIR Matthew Sorell Lecturer School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 Tel: +61 (0)8 8303 3226 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4360 Email: matthew.sorell AT adelaide.edu.au http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/matthew.sorell TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Chang-Tsun Li Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK E-mail: ctli at dcs.warwick.ac.uk Home: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ctli STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy Matthew Sorell, Peter Ramsey, Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia Jeno Bartalos, ICST PUBLICITY CHAIR Gale Spring, RMIT University, Australia PUBLICATION CHAIR Lang White, University of Adelaide, Australia LOCAL CHAIR Peter Ramsey, University of Adelaide, Australia FINANCE CHAIR Karen Decker, ICST TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rohit Agarwal, Digital Harbor Inc, USA Barry Blundell, South Australian Police, Australia Mike Brooks, University of Adelaide, Australia Jessica Fridrich, SUNY Binghampton, USA Tom Karygiannis, NIST, USA Brian Lovell, University of Queensland, Australia Gale Spring, RMIT University, Australia Lang White, University of Adelaide, Australia Angela Wong, University of Adelaide, Australia -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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From Thorsten.Weyer at sse.uni-due.de Sun Jul 8 20:55:31 2007 From: Thorsten.Weyer at sse.uni-due.de (Thorsten Weyer) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:55:31 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Participation: 11th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2007) Message-ID: <1C82271C464FD44D876227B6AFA47E0B017F8B47@GENESIS.se.local> [Excuses for cross-posting] ******************************************************************* C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N 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/ http://www.splc.net/ ******************************************************************* ***Software Product Lines - Power for Competitive Advantage *** The current trend of globalization is pressuring industries to explore ways to meet diverse needs of the global market most effectively and efficiently. Over the last decade or so, software product line has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms in drastically increasing the productivity of IT-related industries, and the product line community has grown and is still growing rapidly. At this very important juncture, the Software Engineering Center (SEC) of Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan is proud to sponsor the Eleventh International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2007) in Kyoto, Japan, the first ever software product line conference held in Asia. SPLC is the most prestigious and leading forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field. SPLC 2007 will provide a venue for exchanging, sharing, and learning technologies and industrial experiences to the community. The conference will feature research and experience papers, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations, doctoral symposium, and Product Line Hall of Fame. We look forward to interacting with you at SPLC 2007! ******************************************************************* - Important dates: - Jun 15, 2007 Early registration started. - Aug 17, 2007 Late registration starts. For detailed information on programs and fees, please visit our conference home page. ******************************************************************* - Conference venue: Kyoto Research Park (KRP), Kyoto, Japan For more information on KRP, please visit http://www.krp.co.jp/english/index.html ******************************************************************* From info at icstconferences.org Mon Jul 9 13:25:04 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:25:04 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - CALL FOR PAPERS INTETAIN 2008 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS INTETAIN 2008 http://www.intetain.org Playa del Carmen, Cacun, Mexico January 8th-10th, 2008 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: August 24, 2007 Late-Breaking Results and Demo Submission Deadline: October 8, 2007 Topics of interest INTETAIN 2008 aims to stimulate interaction among academic researchers and commercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. In addition to paper presentations, posters, and demos, the conference will foster discussions through workshops and special events. INTETAIN 2008 focuses on the development of novel user-centered intelligent computational technologies and interactive applications for entertainment, being made possible through the use of a wide range of interactive device technologies (e.g., mobile and wearable devices, home entertainment centers, haptic devices, wall screen displays, information kiosks, holographic displays, fog screens, distributed smart sensors, and immersive displays) and media delivery infrastructures (e.g., multimedia networks, interactive radio, streaming technologies, DVB-T/M, ITV, P2P, satellite broadcasting, UMTS, Bluetooth, Broadband, and VoIP). We seek novel, revolutionary, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to: Intelligent Computational Technologies * Adaptive Media Presentations * Recommendation Systems in Media * Scalable Crossmedia * Affective User Interfaces * Intelligent Speech Interfaces * Tele-presence in Entertainment * Collaborative User Models and Group Behavior * Collaborative and virtual Environments * Cross Domain User Models * Animation and Virtual Characters * Holographic Interfaces * Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality * Computer Graphics & Multimedia * Pervasive Multimedia and Gaming * Creative language environments * Computational humor Interactive Applications for Entertainment * Intelligent Interactive Games * Intelligent Music Systems * Interactive Cinema * Edutainment * Interactive Art * Interactive Museum Guides * City and Tourism Explorers Assistants * Shopping Assistants * Interactive Real TV * Interactive Social Networks * Interactive Story Telling * Personal Diaries, Websites and Blogs * Comprehensive assisting environments for special populations (handicapped, children, elderly) Publication INTETAIN 08 accepts submissions that describe original, research work not submitted or published elsewhere. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published as Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence proceedings. Authors of best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers to a special edition of IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal. Types of submission to INTETAIN 08 will include Long Papers (10 pages maximum), Short Papers (4 pages maximum)and Demos (2 pages). For details in each type of submission please refer to the conference web site at http://www.intetain.org Organization & Programm Committee General Chair: Steven Feiner, Columbia University , USA Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Consortium, Italy Oscar Mayora-Ibarra, Create-Net Research Consortium, Italy Program Chairs Jim Rehg, Georgia Tech, USA Antonio Kr?ger, University of Muenster, Germany Workshops Chair J?rg Baus, Saarland University, Germany Local Chair Isaac Rudomin, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico Publicity Chair Sean White, Columbia University, USA Publication Chair Hrvoje Benko Microsoft Research, USA Financial Management Zsuzsi Kaszab ICST Webmaster Ana Hilda Morales Aranda Create-Net Research Consortium, Italy Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre, Augsburg University, Germany Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Steffi Beckhaus, University of Hamburg, Germany Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research, USA Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab, New Zealand Kim Binsted, University of Hawaii, USA Christopher Bregler, New York University, USA Shay Bushinsky, University of Haifa, Israel Andreas Butz, University of Munich, Germany Tat-Jen Cham, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Adrian Cheok, University of Singapure, Singapure Keith Cheverst, University of Lancaster, UK Maria Cutumisu, University of Alberta, Canada Drew Davidson, CMU, USA Amnon Dekel, University of Jerusalem, Israel Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Matthew Flagg, Georgia Tech, USA Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Elaine Huang, University of Aachen, Germany Markus L?ckelt, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany Carsten Magerkurth, IPSI Fraunhofer, Germany Maic Masuch, University of Magdeburg, Germany Oscar Mayora-Ibarra, Create-Net Research Consortium, Italy Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Holland Partick Olivier, Univiersity of Newcastle, UK Paolo Petta, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Dennis Reidsma, University of Twente, Holland Mark Riedl, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, USA Isaac Rudomin, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico Ulrike Spierling, FH/University of Applied Sciences, Germany Bill Swartout, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, USA Woontack Woo, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea -------------------------------------------------- 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/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From lobrst at mitre.org Mon Jul 9 20:55:09 2007 From: lobrst at mitre.org (Obrst, Leo J.) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:55:09 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final Call for Papers: OIC 2007: Ontology for the Intelligence Community, Nov. 28-30, 2007, Columbia, MD, USA (1 week for paper submissions) Message-ID: <9F771CF826DE9A42B548A08D90EDEA80021D1BDA@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> Apologies for cross-postings; please forward to colleagues and prospective interested parties. NOTE: 1 week until paper submission date: July 15, 2007 NEWS: Registration is now open: see http://ncor.us/oic2007. Plenary speakers will include David C. Roberts (Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Architect, CIA) and Steven Robertshaw (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), and the program will also feature a special session on the topic OWL: Why, and Why Not? with panelists Bill Andersen (Ontology Works), Mike Dean (BBN Technologies), Leo Obrst (The MITRE Corporation), Barry Smith (NCOR), and Chris Welty (IBM Watson Research Center). ======================================== OIC 2007: ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources Hilton Hotel, Columbia, MD November 28-30, 2007 (30th is CLASSIFIED: those with TS/SCI clearances only and will be in Hanover, MD, near Columbia, MD). The increasing volume, variety and velocity of intelligence analysis requires new approaches that will enable greater flexibility, precision, timeliness and automation of analysis to maximize valuable human resources in responding to fast-evolving threats. Ontology-based technology as applied in areas such as bioinformatics has demonstrated the possibility of gains along all of these dimensions. The time is ripe to extend these gains also to other spheres. This conference will bring together experts on ontology-based technology with particular experience in the problems facing the intelligence community. It will feature invited talks from prominent ontologists and intelligence community leaders, as well as submitted papers focusing especially on the creation of public-domain ontology resources to support the work of intelligence analysts. Conference Director: Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo) Scientific Committee Kathleen Stewart Hornsby (Maine) (Chair); Bill Andersen (Ontology Works); Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer); Werner Ceusters (Buffalo); Randall Dipert (Buffalo); Terry Janssen (Lockheed); Kathryn Laskey (George Mason University); Kevin Lynch (CIA); Leo Obrst (MITRE); Chris Welty (IBM Research) CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are invited of short papers in pdf format (maximum: 1500 words, including all footnotes and references) designed to serve as the basis for 20-minute oral presentations at the conference. Accepted papers will be published in a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit longer versions for publication in volume 1 of a new series on Ontology for the Intelligence Community, to be published by IOS Press. Papers may address a wide variety of issues addressing the ontology needs of the intelligence community. We are especially interested in papers devoted to the task of creating an interoperable suite of public-domain ontologies relevant to intelligence analysis, covering areas such as: emergency response urban settings geospatial / cartographic ethnicity social networks images and imaging transportation moving object tracking religion and politics biology and health The ontologies should be combinable at will in such a way as to support the integration of data describing different domains. We encourage submissions that describe scenarios where multiple ontologies are linked to support higher-order analysis and reasoning over complex data. Questions to be addressed might include: Which domains should be included in such a suite of ontologies? How can we ensure that ontologies interoperate in useful ways? How can we address the specific problems arising in virtue of the partiality and uncertainty of intelligence data? CLASSIFIED SESSION A CLASSIFIED paper and presentation/demo day will be held on the 30th only for those holding TS/SCI Clearances. Related Intelligence Community project participants are encouraged to submit unclassified and classified presentations. Because we are still in the process of determining the submission procedure for this, UNCLASSIFIED inquiries about CLASSIFIED submissions or procedures can be addressed to Leo Obrst (lobrst at mitre.org) or Terry Janssen (terry.janssen at lmco.com). Unclassified paper submissions with CLASSIFIED Demonstrations are also encouraged. We will have more general guidelines for CLASSIFIED submissions shortly. Details on how to pass clearances, and to whom, will be provided to those who sign up for the CLASSIFIED day on the 30th. Deadlines Receipt of papers: July 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2007 Further information regarding submission will be provided in due course at http://ncor.us/oic2007 For inquiries please write to ncor at buffalo.edu. This meeting is sponsored by the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH - BUFFALO. _____________________________________________ Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics lobrst at mitre.org Information Discovery & Understanding, Command and Control Center Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305 Fax: 703-983-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA From info at icstconferences.org Mon Jul 9 23:10:04 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:10:04 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - Call For Participations - ChinaCom2007 Message-ID: Call For Participations - ChinaCom2007 http://www.chinacom.org Second International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, Shanghai, China, 22-24, August 2007 CHINACOM 2007 is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. It has been sponsored by Create-Net, ICST, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and technically sponsored by IEEE, IEEE CAS, IEEE MTT-S, IEEE CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Zhejiang University. ChinaCom2007 has invited more than 230 TPC members and received around 700 submissions from all over the world. Details of conference technical program will be available soon. We have invited two keynote speakers at ChinaCom2007. One is Dr. David G. Belanger, AT&T Labs Chief Scientist of Information & Software Systems Research V.P. from AT&T Labs, and the other one is Dr. Paulo T. de Sousa, Head of Sector, Internet of the Future, in the Directorate-General Information Society, European Commission. More details can be found at http://www.chinacom.org/keynote.shtml Workshop on Integration of 4G Networks and Wi-Max & Wi-Bro http://www.wnet-integration.org/submission.shtml will be held in conjunction with ChinaCom2007. We have also organized two special sessions at ChinaCom2007: Special sessions on Ambient Networks (supported by EU IST FP6 IP Ambient Networks, http://www.ambient-networks.org/index.html) and Special Sessions on Digital Broadcasting and Mobile Convergence (supported by EU IST FP6 STREP MING-T, http://www.ming-t.org). More details can be found at http://www.chinacom.org/specialsessions.shtml The conference venue is The ETON HOTEL SHANGHAI. You can find the hotel's information from the following links: http://www.chinacom.org/conferencelocation.shtml http://www.chinacom.org/hotelreservation.shtml http://www.chinacom.org/mapdirection.shtml Please take care of the hotel reservation due to the limited number of hotel rooms available in the hotel. We look forward to your participations. Early Registration Deadline: 22nd July, 2007 -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. 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From ichatz at cti.gr Tue Jul 10 01:35:11 2007 From: ichatz at cti.gr (Ioannis Chatzigiannakis) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:35:11 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] ALGOSENSORS 2007 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: ************************************************************************** Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks A L G O S E N S O R S 2 0 0 7 July 14, 2006, Wroclaw, Poland To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2007. http://algosensors2007.im.pwr.wroc.pl ************************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ************************************************************************** SCOPE Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices. On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge, highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges of great practical impact. This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless sensor networks. This is the third event in the series. ALGOSENSORS 2004 was held in Turku, Finland, ALGOSENSORS 2006 was held in Venice, Italy. Since its beginning ALGOSENSORS is collocated with ICALP. ************************************************************************** KEYNOTE SPEACHES Sandor Fekete Topology and Routing in Sensor Networks (Keynote Speech) Joao Barros Codes for Sensors: An Algorithmic Perspective (Keynote Speech) ************************************************************************** ACCEPTED PAPERS * Sotiris Nikoletseas, Paul G. Spirakis Efficient Sensor Network Design for Continuous Monitoring of Moving Objects * Beat Gfeller, Matus Mihalak, Subhash Suri, Elias Vicari, Peter Widmayer Counting Targets with Mobile Sensors in an Unknown Environment * F. Barsi, A.A. Bertossi, F. Betti Sorbelli, R. Ciotti, S. Olariu, M.C. Pinotti Asynchronous Training in Wireless Sensor Networks * Luzi Anderegg, Stephan Eidenbenz, Leon Peeters, Peter Widmayer Optimal Placement of Ad-Hoc Devices under a VCG-style Routing Protocol * Marcin Zawada Analysis of the Bounded-Hops Converge-Cast Distributed Protocol in Ad-Hoc Networks * Samar Agnihotri, Pavan Nuggehalli, and H.S. Jamadagni Correlation, Coding, and Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks * Patrik Floreen, Petteri Kaski, Topi Musto, Jukka Suomela Local Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Problems in Sensor Networks * Amotz Bar-Noy, Theodore Brown, Matthew P. Johnson, Thomas La Porta, Ou Liu, Hosam Rowaihy Assigning Sensors to Missions with Demands * Anirvan DuttaGupta, Arijit Bishnu, Indranil Sengupta Maximal Breach in Wireless Sensor Networks: Geometric Characterization and Algorithms * Maciej Gebala, Marcin Kik Counting-sort and Routing in a Single Hop Radio Network * Ioannis Krontiris, Tassos Dimitriou, Thanassis Giannetsos, Marios Mpasoukos Intrusion Detection of Sinkhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks ************************************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR * Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland STEERING COMMITTEE * Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain * Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Sotiris Nikoletseas (Chair), University of Patras and CTI, Greece * Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece ************************************************************************** PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in full text in a hardcopy Proceedings by the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. We are going to have post-proceedings i.e. authors will have the opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the discussion at the event and then submit their camera ready files by the end of August. Pre-proceedings will be available during the workshop for the participants. TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal. ************************************************************************** SPONSORS * Polish Ministry Of Science and Higher Education * Wroclaw University of Technology ************************************************************************** CONTACT * web: http://algosensors.im.pwr.wroc.pl * email: algosensors2007 at im.pwr.wroc.pl * fax: +4871 320 2109 ************************************************************************** From Luis.Caires at di.fct.unl.pt Wed Jul 11 13:38:32 2007 From: Luis.Caires at di.fct.unl.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Caires?=) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:38:32 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CONCUR 07: Call For Participation Message-ID: <86B3B793-3BE6-4F49-A574-F1F88E048D0D@di.fct.unl.pt> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CONCUR'07 18th International Conference on Concurrency Theory September 3th - 8th, 2007 Lisbon, Portugal !!! Early registration open until July 31st. !!! CONCUR 2007, the 18th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, will take place in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4 - 7, 2007. The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers working on the theory of concurrency and its applications. Check the web site for all details about the scientific program, social program, and registration instructions. http://concur07.di.fc.ul.pt/ INVITED LECTURES ================ * Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Peter O'Hearn, University of London, UK * Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University, USA INVITED TUTORIALS ================= * Vincent Danos, Universit? de Paris 7, France * Jos? Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS ==================== Expressiveness in Concurrency (EXPRESS) 3rd September 2007 Graph Transformation for Verification and Concurrency (GT-VC) 3rd September 2007 Security Issues in Concurrency (SECCO) 3rd September 2007 Verification and Analysis of Multi-threaded Java-like Programs (VAMP) 3rd September 2007 Applying Concurrency Research in Industry (IFIP WG 1.8) 7th September 2007 Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA) 8th September 2007 From Biology To Concurrency and back (FBTC) 8th September 2007 International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems (INFINITY) 8th September 2007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070711/efc8c138/attachment-0001.htm From info at icstconferences.org Wed Jul 11 13:22:03 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:22:03 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - CfP COMSWARE 2008 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS COMSWARE 2008 The Third International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE January 7-10, 2008 Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC and Create-Net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE THIRD International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE) will be held in Bangalore, India in January 2008 following the successful first and second COMSWARE. COMSWARE is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in Communications Software. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists, providing a launch pad for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of regular papers, short papers, and posters as well as specialized tracks at the intersection of business and technology. Focused workshops, tutorials and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their pe rspectives, complementing the technical program. Demos and exhibits of new products and software solutions from academia and industry along with a tour of the leading IT companies in Bangalore will provide additional opportunities for exchange of ideas and collaboration. Join us for COMSWARE 2008 in Bangalore. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Network-based applications (VoIP, instant messaging, P2P, streaming, location-based service) - Wireless/mobile networking (3G/4G, WLANs/WPANs/WMANs, mesh/relay networks, sensor networks) - Software advances in wireless communications (cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum access, SDR) - Wireless operating systems and mobile platforms - Security in communication networks - Grid computing software - Storage area networks - Next generation web architectures - Advances in Internet architecture and protocols - Innovations in operations and management of large networks - Vehicular Telematics - NextGen Business Models in Communication The instruction on the format for the papers will soon be available at the conference website http://www.comsware.org Paper Submission Deadlines Paper Submission: August 1, 2007 (5 PM, US EDT) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: November 1, 2007 Select papers from COMSWARE 2008 will be published in ACM?s Springer Mobile Network Technical Journal (MONET) General Chairs Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea, schoi at snu.ac.kr Jim Kurose, University of Massachussettes, USA, kurose at cs.umass.edu Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, krithi at cse.iitb.ac.in Technical Program Chairs Uday Desai, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, ubdesai at ee.iitb.ac.in Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA, giridhar.mandyam at yahoo.com Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs Research, India, rastogi at alcatel-lucent.com Steering Committee Co-Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, chlamtac at create-net.it (Chair) Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India, rajeev.shorey at gm.com (Co-Chair) G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India, gv at sasken.com (Co-Chair) Workshop Chairs Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Research, US, fanjum at telcordia.com Ajay Bakre, Intel, India, ajay.v.bakre at intel.com Anand R Prasad, DoCoMo Lab, Europe, prasad at docomolab-euro.com COMSWARE Business Chair Gene Landy, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C., USA, gkl at riw.com Panel Chairs Rajeev Koodli, Nokia Research, USA, rajeev.koodli at nokia.com Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA, reddy at ece.tamu.edu Huzur Saran, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, saran at cse.iitd.ernet.in Shrikant Naidu, Motorola, India, shrikant at motorola.com International Advisory Committee Chair Sanjoy Paul, Rutgers University, USA, sanjoy.paul at gmail.com Demos/Exhibit Chairs Rahul Mangharam, CMU, USA, rahul at cmu.edu Publicity Chairs Chan Mun Choon, National University of Singapore, chanmc at comp.nus.edu.sg Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, dressler at ieee.org Taekyoung "Ted" Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea, tkkwon at snu.ac.kr Nagi Naganathan, LSI, USA subranagi at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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US NSF Service Research Workshop and Visionary Panels/Sessions : More than 20 worldwide leading scholars and professionals have been invited, including Professors from MIT, Harvard, Penn, UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, Yale, PSU, Maryland, Arizona, RPI, UC Los Angels,