[ecoop-info] ICSSEA 2007 Call for Papers

[Jean-Claude RAULT]

ICSSEA  ‘2007
20th International Conference
Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications

CNAM, Paris  December 4-6, 2007
Web site: TBA, still under construction

Sponsored by IEEE France Section

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY

In the face of increasing integration of technical, social and 
informational environments, it is no longer possible to bind information 
systems or computer applications to the sole context of a particular group 
of users or organization. In the context of more and more integrated 
business processes, involving increasing numbers of companies of different 
sectors as a virtual enterprise, a real cooperation between computer 
systems is strongly required. Correlatively to the emergence of Internet 
and mobile communications, the trend is now to offer to the citizen more 
powerful, sophisticated context-aware, and ubiquitous services, requiring a 
reliable ad hoc orchestration of multiple and heterogeneous information 
sources and systems.

In the past, industry and software vendors were coping with the "plumbing" 
aspects of interoperability, i.e. ensuring that the bits could reliably 
flow from a computer to another. Now that connectivity to diverse sources 
has eased with standard protocols, the emphasis is shifting to semantic 
interoperability, i.e., to the ability to achieve meaningfully exchange of 
information among independently developed systems, including the 
“understanding” of the information's format, meaning, and information 
quality. Information interoperability continues to be a major challenge for 
industries that have now to cope with continuous change, mergers, splits, 
as well as technology evolution. Ontology and knowledge-based approaches 
are constantly proposed as a basis for solutions to such a challenge, but 
new approaches facilitating an “a posteriori” interoperability of already 
existing systems are also strongly required.

Beyond information interoperability, cooperation between systems should be 
possible, i.e. different systems should be able to provide each other with 
context-aware services, enabling the emergence of a set of higher level 
services. In this context, the emerging idea of systems of systems puts the 
emphasis on the need for new system engineering methods taking cooperation 
into account.

The classical approach of software and system design, based on the paradigm 
of well-known and fixed environment and user community should evolve 
towards new methods taking into account the ability to interoperation. New 
approaches such as collaborative systems, agent-based systems or ambient 
information environments have to be developed.

With regard to the above trend, software and systems processes, methods, 
architecture models, and tools ineluctably require novel approaches adapted 
to interoperability. Assuredly, this concerns system global life cycle, 
particularly requirements engineering, designing as well as testing and 
validating software & systems.

Co-organized by SEE and the Institute of Systems & Software (CMSL) of CNAM 
(Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), the 20th edition of the 
ICSSEA Conference (International Conference on Software & Systems 
Engineering and their Applications) will be held in Paris on December 4-6, 
2007. It aims at providing a critical survey of the current status of 
tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software & systems, in 
gathering actors from the enterprise and research worlds. However, lectures 
and discussions will be conducted with service and system interoperability 
as a leitmotiv.
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TOPICS
As for previous editions, any topic in connection with software engineering 
& systems engineering as well as any application area is eligible 
(information systems, process management, composition of services, EAI, 
Web-based systems, adaptive systems, distributed systems, real-time 
systems, embedded systems, grid computing...). However, the following 
topics, in the context of systems & services interoperability, will be 
particularly appreciated:
- Software & systems architecture: service orientation, composition of Web 
services, interoperability, model-based architectures, orchestration, 
inter-organizational process management, urbanization & enterprise 
architecture, enterprise models integration, application coupling and 
uncoupling, evolution, non-functional features, agents & Web intelligence, 
mobile and adaptive applications...
- Requirements & specification engineering: modeling, prototyping, 
animation, simulation, scenario-based analysis, aspect-oriented modeling, 
goal-directed approaches, formal methods, multifaceted reasoning, 
approaches based on natural language processing, V&V...
- Software variability: specifications, configuration and reconfiguration 
(automated, on-line, guided by desired features), adaptive systems, agent 
modeling, variant creation mechanisms, product lines and families, impact 
on development and validation processes...
- Components & reuse: frameworks, components, COTS, product lines, 
composition mechanisms, customizing, distributed components, 
interoperability between frameworks, MDA and MDE, generative development, 
variant creation, generic programming, aspect orientation, archiving & 
retrieval, distribution, reuse & Internet, testing in the presence of third 
party components, validation, certification...
- Internet software and systems engineering: Web services, Web-based tools 
and methods or conversely, software & systems engineering tools and methods 
for Web-based applications and systems: architecture, design, testing, 
assessment (complexity, reliability, integrity, maintainability, 
performances, quality, scalability...)
- Process engineering: evaluation, improvement, approaches, agile 
processes, extreme programming, co-design, concurrent engineering, workflow 
management, distributed development, virtual teams, experience feedback, 
knowledge management...
- Project management: cost and delay estimation, indicators & dashboards, 
experience feedback, risk management, value analysis, customer-contractor 
relationship management

- Quality control & assurance: V & V, testing, conformance testing, 
metrics, reliability, assessing non-functional characteristics 
(dependability, usability...), assessing customer satisfaction...

Papers submitted, original and unpublished, may concern industrial 
implementations or experiments, describe significant results from ongoing 
projects as well as research results susceptible of industrial 
applications, deal with socioeconomic issues associated with software & 
systems engineering, or propose tool demonstrations and posters. They 
should clearly describe the nature of the work presented, explain its 
contribution, highlight its novel features and state precisely its current 
status.


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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Submission and selection of proposed interventions will be conducted as 
follows:
1- Submit, before April 16 2007,
- for industrial implementations and experiments, a text of at least 1000 
words (about 5,000 characters, figures excluded), in English, including the 
title of the paper, an abstract of about 200 words, and the address, phone 
and fax numbers as well as the email address of the authors. If already 
available, a complete text (about 20,000 characters) would be welcome.
- for applied research results, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters 
(figures included), in English, including the title of the paper, a 200-500 
word summary, and the address, phone and fax numbers as well as the email 
address of the authors.
- for tools demonstrations and posters presentations, a text not exceeding 
2 pages
2- Full papers or extended abstracts will be reviewed by at least three 
independent reviewers and selected by the International Program Committee.
3- Authors of accepted papers or extended papers will be notified as from 
June 15, 2007 and will receive the recommendations made by the 
International Program Committee.
4- Authors of accepted abstracts or full papers should provide, before 
September 1st, 2007, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters, figures 
included, in the form of a file, in Word format, attached to an electronic 
message. Final texts will be submitted, for final checking, to the 
International Program Committee before publication in the Conference 
Proceedings available during the event.
5- At least one author is required to register and attend the conference to 
present the paper

Submission address:

rault at cnam.fr

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INFORMATION FORM

To be returned to:
Jean-Claude Rault

rault at cnam.fr

(  )  I wish to attend the conference
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(  )  I intend to submit a paper

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