[ecoop-info] CFP: Three one-day workshops held jointly with MCETECH2008 (Jan. 23, 2008, Montreal, Canada)

[Hafedh Mili]

CALL FOR PAPERS - WORKSHOPS
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES (MCETECH2008)
JANUARY 23-25, 2008, Montreal, Canada

You are invited to submit position papers to one of three one-day 
workshops that will be held jointly with MCETECH2008, on January 23rd, 
2007. Workshops are highly interactive research forums that cater to 
exploratory and out-of-the-box promising research work. They are the 
appropriate forums for validating new research ideas and for getting 
feedback from experienced researchers in your field. Each of the three 
workshops mentioned below has a formal reviewing process for which the 
emphasis is on relevance (to the workshop) and originality, and the 
organizers may publish more or less formal proceedings. For more 
details, contact the workshop organizers:

1. OPEN SOURCE BEST PRACTICES:
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: 4-page position papers due December 19, 2007, to 
be submitted to Michael Weiss (weiss at sce.carleton.ca) and Michael 
Bailetti (bailetti at sce.carleton.ca). Notifications of acceptance will be 
sent January 7th, and final versions expected January 18th. Potential 
participants interested in attending-- but not presenting-- are also 
welcome, and should contact M. Weiss or M. Bailetti.

GOALS: The commercial use of open source is hindered by many factors. 
These include a lack of integration with traditional requirements-driven 
product development approaches, licensing issues, a clash with existing 
corporate culture, and the perception that in order to benefit from open 
source you need to open your source to the outside world. The goal of 
this workshop is to bring together researchers and practioners with 
experience in open source adoption and value creation from open source, 
and to document the best practices.

MORE INFORMATION: check www.mcetech.org


2. PRACTICE AND THEORY OF IT SECURITY (PTITS'2008, w3.uqo.ca/ptits)
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Up to a 6-page position papers due December 19, 
2007, to be submitted to ptits at uqo.ca. Notifications of acceptance will 
be sent January 7th, and final versions expected January 18th.

THEME: This workshop seeks innovative research, both theoretical and 
applied, in IT security and privacy. It will include presentations given 
by invited speakers. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: i) 
Network security, ii) Application and middleware security, iii) 
Operating systems security, iv) Intrusion detection and protection, v) 
Cryptography and cryptographic protocols, vi) Access control 
requirements and models, vii) Language based security, viii) Information 
protection, privacy and hiding, ix) Semantic foundations of IT security, 
x) Security and Privacy in Web Services and E-Commerce, xi) IT issues 
related to legal requirements.

MORE INFORMATION: w3.uqo.ca/ptits


3. SOA: CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS FOR AN EFFECTIVE INTRA- and 
INTER-ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Extended abstract to be submitted to Ismail 
Khriss (Ismail_Khriss at UQAR.QC.CA) and Eric Lefebvre 
(Eric.Lefebvre at etsmtl.ca) before December 3rd. Notifications of 
acceptance will be sent December 17th.

THEME: SOA brings a new perspective not only to software architecture 
but also to enterprises as it promotes the use of loosely coupled 
services to automate intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. 
However, the adoption of SOA raises several challenges including the 
scope of services (fine- vs. coarse-grained services) and governance. 
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to 
exchange ideas and experiences about challenges and potential benefits 
for an effective intra and inter-enterprise architecture.

MORE INFORMATION: check www.mcetech.org.

-- 
Hafedh Mili, PhD			Alt. e-mail: hafedhmili at yahoo.ca
Professor				Department of Computer Science
Director, eCommerce Tech. Research Lab	http://www.latece.uqam.ca
Ph: (514) 987-3000, ext 3943		University of Québec at Montréal
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