From k.balogh at uva.nl Tue Jan 1 22:29:54 2008 From: k.balogh at uva.nl (Kata Balogh) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:29:54 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CfP -- ESSLLI 2008 Student Session Message-ID: [apologies for multiple copies] *********************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION 4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 *********************************************************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008. The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation. CALL FOR PAPERS The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. *** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 *** The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. SUBMISSION Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 CONTACT Kata Balogh ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair email: k.balogh at uva.nl tel.: +31 20 5254544 fax: +31 20 5254503 postal address: Department of Philosophy Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands From daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de Wed Jan 2 18:17:41 2008 From: daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Daniel Lohmann) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:17:41 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Second CfP: ACP4IS at AOSD 2008 Message-ID: <2895BEB4-C237-46D2-95EC-300BD0EC192B@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> ******************************************************************** Seventh AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) March 31, 2008 Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2008 A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'08), March 31 - April 4, 2008, Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/conference ******************************************************************** DESCRIPTION ACP4IS provides a highly interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the application of and relationships between aspects, components, and patterns within modern "systems infrastructure" software: e.g., application servers, middleware, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, embedded systems, web services and other software that provides general services for higher-level applications. Topics of interest include: - Approaches that combine or relate component-, pattern-, and aspect-based techniques - Aspect languages for infrastructure software - Container-, ORB-, and system-based separation of concerns - Support for Web services in middleware infrastructure - Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g., security, static and dynamic optimization - Aspect mining within infrastructure software - Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems - Reasoning and optimization across architecture layers - Resource consumption of AOP approaches - Timing behavior of AO-code - Aspects and patterns for real-time and embedded systems - Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including comprehensibility, configurability, reliability, evolvability, scalability - Quantitative and qualitative evaluations ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position and technical papers, 3-6 pages in length. Papers should be electronically submitted as PDF documents in ACM format through the ACP4IS 2008 online submission system. Paper submissions will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and presentation. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library. Excellent contributions will additionally be selected for publication in a special ACP4IS journal issue (IEE) planned for end of 2008. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: January 18, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance: February 8, 2008 - Workshop: March 31, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Julia Lawall, DIKU - Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Aleksandra Tesanovic, Philips Research Laboratories - Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama - Bram Adams, Ghent University - Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam - Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Eddy Truyen, KU Leuven - Robert Grimm, NYU - Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University ORGANIZERS - Celina Gibbs, University of Victoria, Canada - Daniel Lohmann, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany - Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada STEERING COMMITEE - Eric Eide, University of Utah - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria - David Lorenz, University of Virginia From till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de Wed Jan 2 21:32:24 2008 From: till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Till_Sch=FCmmer?=) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:32:24 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CfP: EuroPLoP 2008 - General Conference and Thematic Tracks Message-ID: <477BF4D8.3070807@fernuni-hagen.de> EuroPLoP 2008 13th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs July 9-13, 2008 Irsee Monastery, Bavaria, Germany http://www.hillside.net/europlop/ Final Call For Papers ******************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES February 18, 2008: Paper Submission Deadline July 9-13, 2008: Conference ******************************************************************** [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] EuroPLoP is the premier European conference on patterns. The conference offers a variety of tracks and workshops that allow you to learn about patterns, to receive feedback on your own work, and to discuss with fellow enthusiasts. It is a unique venue to exchange knowledge about best practices and learn from other experts in various fields. EuroPLoP 2008 will be held July 9-13, 2008 in the Irsee Monastery, Germany. Join us for an experience that will combine outstanding technical events with a visit to the lovely Bavarian countryside. EuroPLoP accepts papers containing patterns or pattern languages as well as experience reports and other papers related to the theory and use of patterns. For the first time, EuroPLoP 2008 will offer thematic tracks allowing practitioners and researchers from a specific domain to exchange knowledge. In previous years, thematic clusters evolved implicitly including areas like: - Software development - Software design and architecture - Software management and development processes - Human computer interaction (e.g., user-interface aspects or novel modes of interaction) - Education (ranging from professional training to classroom teaching) - Business and organizational questions This year, we like to invite you to champion one of these thematic areas or propose new topics by submitting a proposal for a thematic track. Several open tracks will be retained to provide for new topics and topics outside the thematic tracks. ******************************************* THEMATIC TRACKS ******************************************* Starting in 2008, EuroPLoP hosts thematic tracks that put a special focus on hot topics. In 2008, the tracks are: Pragmatic and systematic approaches in applying patterns Organized by Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Neil B. Harrison (Utah Valley University, USA), and Uwe Zdun (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Patterns for Collaboration Technology and Processes Organized by Stephan Lukosch (FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany), Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands), Gert-Jan de Vreede (Institute for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) and Robert O. Briggs (Institute for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) Patterns for Collaboration Technology and Processes Organized by Symeon Retalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) and Christian Kohls (KMRC - Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen, Gemany) Please visit the EuroPLoP web site http://hillside.net/europlop and the EuroPLoP BLOG at http://europlop.blogspot.com/ for more details on the goals of the specific thematic tracks. ******************************************* SUBMISSION CATEGORIES ******************************************* Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: Pattern papers Short papers (5 to 10 pages) containing one or more patterns, longer pattern languages (about 15 to 20 pages) or sequences and work-in-progress papers. All accepted papers will receive in-depth shepherding by an experienced pattern author before the conference. Newcomers papers may receive further shepherding at the conference itself. Proven practices papers Papers about the craft of writing software or patterns, papers about the concept of patterns and proven practices in general, case studies of patterns in action, or papers about software development communities of practice. Focus group proposals Focus groups are free-format discussion groups or workshops lasting between 3 and 6 hours. They are designed to bring together people who are interested in a challenging topic related to patterns or proven practices. Non-conventional ideas such as goldfish bowls are welcome. Organizers of thematic tracks are encouraged to submit a focus group proposal that covers parts of their topic. ******************************************* CONFERENCE STRUCTURE ******************************************* The main track of EuroPLoP will be organized as a series of writers' workshops where authors work together to improve their papers. Before pattern or other papers are accepted for a writers' workshop, they are shepherded (non-anonymously). This means that an experienced author will discuss your submission with you, so that you can refine your paper prior to the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The EuroPLoP proceedings are published in book form after the conference. Papers discussed at writer's workshop at this conference qualify for submission to the new journal "Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming" published by Springer. See http://hillside.net/tplop/ and http://www.springer.com/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-2-470309-0Final for details of this journal. ******************************************* SCHEDULE ******************************************* February 18, 2008: Paper Submission Deadline March 10, 2008: Start of shepherding April 18, 2008: Review Version Due May 12, 2008: Paper Acceptance notification May 26, 2008: Closing date for Early Registration June 20, 2008: End of shepherding and conference version due July 9-13, 2008: Conference December 2008: Final Publication Version Due ******************************************* SUBMISSION PROCEDURE and CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ******************************************* To submit your paper, please visit the submission page at http://hillside.net/europlop/submission. This page will be available in January. Program Chair: Till Schuemmer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany, till.schuemmer at FernUni-Hagen.de Conference Chair: Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd., UK, allan at allankelly.net Focus Group Chair: Tim Wellhausen, IT-Beratung Wellhausen, Germany, kontakt at tim-wellhausen.de Web Chair: Michael Weiss, Carleton University Canada, weiss at sce.carleton.ca For more information, please visit http://hillside.net/europlop From iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu Wed Jan 2 23:11:40 2008 From: iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu (ICLP 08) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:11:40 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'08 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <200801022211.m02MBefY011930@pippo.cs.nmsu.edu> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP'08 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9th-13th, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it CONFERENCE SCOPE ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers, position papers, and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: * Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. * Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism. * Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Integration. * Language Issues: Extensions, Integration with Other Paradigms, Concurrency, Modularity, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques. * Related Paradigms: Abductive Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming. * Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) Technical papers, providing novel research contributions, innovative perspectives on the field, and/or novel integrations across different areas; (2) Application papers, describing innovative uses of logic programming technology in real-world application domains; (3) Posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work, not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews. A separate session dedicated to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of stable model semantics will also be part of the program. Accepted papers and posters will be allocated time for presentation during the conference. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to register and participate in the event. In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, specialized sessions, workshops, and a Doctoral Student Consortium. Details, as they become available will be posted at: http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it PAPERS AND POSTERS ------------------ Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on the novelty and innovative nature of the results (even if not completely polished and refined). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. All submissions must be written in English. Technical papers and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/) The limit for posters is 5 pages in the same format. The primary means of submission will be electronic, through the Easychair submission system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ICLP08 PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. All accepted papers and posters will be included in the proceedings. WORKSHOPS --------- The ICLP'08 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best place for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a more focused and specialized audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ------------------- The Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming is the 4th Doctoral consortium to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and word-renown experts in the field. The DC will also offer invited speakers and panel discussions. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in special session of the main ICLP conference. CELEBRATING 20th YEARS OF STABLE MODEL SEMANTICS ------------------------------------------------ The year 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication that introduced the stable model semantics for logic programs with negation. The paper titled "The stable semantics for logic programs" by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz was presented at ICLP-1988. It was a momentous event that gave rise to a vibrant subfield of logic programming known now as the answer-set programming. Its distinguishing aspects are close connections to the fields of knowledge representation, satisfiability and constraint satisfaction, ever faster computational tools, and a growing list of successful applications. To celebrate the stable-model semantics, there will be a special session at ICLP 2008 dedicated to answer-set programming. The session will feature talks by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz. as well as by other major contributions to the field, presenting personal perspectives on the stable-model semantics, its impact and its future. There will be a panel discussion, and regular accepted ICLP papers falling into the answer-set programming area will complete the program. CONFERENCE VENUE ---------------- The conference will be held in the city of Udine, the capital of the historical region of Friuli, Italy. Located between the Adriatic sea and the Alps, close to Venice, Austria and Slovenia, Udine is a city of Roman origins, funded by Emperor Otto in 983. Rich of historical sites, Udine is also famous for its commercial and shopping opportunities and its outstanding wine and culinary traditions. SUPPORT SPONSORING AND AWARDS ----------------------------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants. The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP 2008: for the best technical paper and for the best student paper. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers Posters Abstract submission deadline June 2nd n/a Submission deadline June 9th August 15th Notification of authors August 1st September 1st Camera-ready copy due September 15th September 15th 20 Years of Stable Models TBA Doctoral Consortium TBA Workshop Proposals June 2nd Early-bird Registration TBA Conference December 9-13, 2008 ICLP'2008 ORGANIZATION ---------------------- General Chair: Agostino Dovier (University of Udine) Program Co-Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Workshop Chair: Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University) Doctoral Student Consortium: David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook) Tom Schrijvers (K.U.Leuven) Publicity Co-Chairs: Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs) Alessandro Dal Palu' (University of Parma) Programming Competition Chair: Bart Demoen (K.U.Leuven) 20 Years of Stable Models: Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky) Andrea Formisano (University of Perugia) Program Committee: Salvador Abreu Sergio Antoy Pedro Barahona Chitta Baral Gerhard Brewka Manuel Carro Michael Codish Alessandro Dal Palu' Bart Demoen Agostino Dovier John Gallagher Michael Gelfond Carmen Gervet Gopal Gupta Manuel Hermenegildo Andy King Michael Maher Juan Moreno Navarro Alberto Pettorossi Brigitte Pientka Gianfranco Rossi Fariba Sadri Vitor Santos Costa Tran Cao Son Paolo Torroni Frank Valencia Mark Wallace Web Master: Raffaele Cipriano Local Arrangements Committee: Alberto Casagrande Elisabetta De Maria Luca Di Gaspero Carla Piazza ---------------------------------------------------- For further information: iclp08 at cs.nmsu.edu http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it From CBudnik at boewe-cardtec.de Thu Jan 3 15:55:01 2008 From: CBudnik at boewe-cardtec.de (Budnik Christof) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:55:01 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: Workshop "Testing of Software - From Research to Practice", Feb. 19 in Munich Message-ID: Call for Paper Testing of Software - From Research to Practice Second Workshop in conjunction with Software Engineering 2008 February 19, 2008, Munich, Germany ----------------------------------------------- Theme and Aim of the Workshop ----------------------------------------------- Costs entailed by software failures demonstrate that the systematic development of software in a certain quality is still a challenge, even after decades of research. A reason for this can certainly be found within the single projects. Often, known techniques of quality assurance are not employed as required due to deadline and budget restrictions. However, a reason is surely a limited transfer from research results to practice. An example for this are the manifold research activities in dynamic testing, coverage criteria based testing in particular, and a very limited application of corresponding testing techniques in industrial projects. Reasons for a limited transfer from research to practice can be: * Limited insight on requirements from practice * Limited dissemination of formal testing techniques * Inappropriate assumptions underlying testing techniques * Complexity of testing techniques and tools * Lack of tool support for the use in large projects * Inappropriate cost estimates * Effort required for training * Lack of management support and an insufficient allocation of resources * Lack of theoretically founded testing techniques in specific domains This full-day workshops aims at giving researchers and practitioners a platform to present their results, their experience and also their expectations to each other. This will not only allow a more intensive transfer from research to practice, this will also form the basis for a more fruitful cooperation in future. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal testing techniques in practice, eg. model-based testing, mutation testing, coverage testing * Static, analytical and dynamic testing techniques * Experiences in explorative testing * Application of test patterns * Testing and reliability (availability, security etc.) * Testing measures and their quantification * Tools for automated testing * Test management * Cost and effort estimates of existing testing techniques * Testing of different architectures * Test characteristics of diverse quality factors (safety, integrity etc.) * Experience reports and case studies from practice * Requirements from practice Submission/Publication ---------------------------------- Three types of submissions are welcome: Full papers, short papers and fast abstracts. The latter two aim at giving interesting ongoing work the possibility to be presented and discussed in a broader audience. Feedback and discussion in an early stage facilitates a later transfer of the corresponding results to practice, which is the main objective of the workshop. Papers are accepted in English or German. Full papers will have 30 minutes for presentation, short papers 20 minutes, and fast abstracts 15 minutes. The presentation should be held in English. Similarly, the length of the corresponding submissions are limited to 8, 4, and 2 pages, respectively. Submissions should be formatted according to the layout requirements which can be found at http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/ Please follow the instructions at http://se2008.in.tum.de/ for submission. Important Dates ----------------------- Jan. 11, 2008: Submission due date Jan. 18, 2008: Notification of acceptance Jan. 27, 2008: Due date for camera ready copies Accepted submissions will be published in an edition of the series "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)". For this, one of the authors needs to register and present the accepted submission. Besides this, best papers will be published in a special issue in a scientific journal. Organization ------------------ Fevzi Belli, Universit?t Paderborn (belli at upb.de) Christof J. Budnik, B?we Cardtec (cbudnik at boewe-cardtec.de) Andreas Spillner, Hochschule Bremen (spillner at informatik.hs-bremen.de) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080103/7bf84101/attachment.htm From Joerg.Roth at ohm-hochschule.de Thu Jan 3 15:22:55 2008 From: Joerg.Roth at ohm-hochschule.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rg_Roth?=) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:22:55 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 - Deadline 25 Febr. 2008 Message-ID: <477CEFBF.7090403@ohm-hochschule.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 25 February 2008 -- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTING 2008 Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-24 July 2008 (http://www.wac-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008) Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22--27 July 2008 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Axel K?pper, of the LMU Munich, Germany Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada * Conference background and goals The IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 conference addresses several themes related to theory and practice within wireless networks, computing and application related areas. Enormous developments in wireless technologies made in recent years enabled both researchers and industry to create new, innovative wireless and mobile application and services, protocols, middleware platforms and application frameworks. Corresponding research is related to all communication layers, but also includes application-related topics, theoretical results and non-technical issues. Main topics have been identified (see below). However, innovative contributions that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the a special issue of the "International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering" (IJITWE) (ISSN: 1554-1045) * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to Wireless Applications and Computing are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Ad-hoc Networking - Cellular Phone Networks and Satellite Based Systems - Context Aware Applications - Distributed Systems Aspects of Wireless Applications - Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks - Location-based Applications and Services - Mobile Commerce - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Entertainment, Gaming and Learning - Performance and Simulation Aspects of Wireless Networks - Pervasive Computing - Security in Wireless Networks - Wireless Access Networks - Wireless Application Frameworks - Wireless Applications Programming - Wireless Communication Middleware - Wireless Database Access - Wireless End-user Devices - Wireless Home Networks - Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks - Wireless Positioning Technologies - WLANs and WPANs * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008 - Notification to Authors: Until 18 April 2008 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 16 May 2008 - Late Registration: After 16 May 2008 - Conference: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. * Program Committee Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 Program Chair J?rg Roth, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isa?as, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Committee Members: for committee list please refer to http://www.wac-conf.org/committees.asp -- * * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Faculty of Computer Science * University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg * Kesslerplatz 12 * D 90489 Nuremberg * Germany * Tel. 0911-5880 1169 * Fax 0911-5880-5800 * Email: Joerg.Roth at ohm-hochschule.de * Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de * From alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it Thu Jan 3 19:48:00 2008 From: alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it (Alessandra Toninelli) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:48:00 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE Policy 2008 -- Deadline approaching Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] *** PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE January 4 2008 *** *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE January 11 2008 *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- POLICY 2008 --- 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. POLICY 2008 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based management. This year, as part of the technical program we also plan a special session devoted to the demonstrations of innovative policy based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: POLICY MODELS AND LANGUAGES: * Abstract models and languages for policy specification * Representing policies in XML, RDF, and OWL * Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning * Policy standards, their extensions and refinements * Formal semantics of policies * Relationships between policies in IT processes and devices or across multiple applications * Methodologies/tools for discovering, specifying, analyzing, refining, evaluating and visualizing policy * Models of policy negotiation * Representation of belief, trust, and risk in policies POLICY APPLICATIONS: * Application of policies for autonomic computing, QoS adaptation, and security * Application of policies for identity and privacy management * Business rules and organizational modeling * Identity management * Personalization * Risk adaptive policy systems * Database policies * Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing * Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration * Case studies of applying policy-based management POLICIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: * Service management in mobile ad hoc networks * Policy systems for small devices * Policy-based spectrum management * Privacy and security * Policies in location based services * Context-aware policies in pervasive and mobile computing ------------------------------------------------ PAPER or DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2008. Paper or demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. For System Demo, of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Policy 2008 invites contributions in the form of either: * Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). * Short position papers describing preliminary systems or experimental results (max. length 4 pages). Please check out http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 for details. --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Paper registration deadline (EXTENDED): 4 January 2008 Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): 11 January 2008 Author notification: 5 March 2008 System demonstration submission deadline: 3 March 2008 System demonstrator notification: 17 March 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair * Dakshi Agrawal -- IBM Research, US Program Chairs * Ehab Al-Shaer -- DePaul University, US (ehab "AT" cs.depaul.edu) * Lalana Kagal -- MIT, US lkagal "AT" csail.mit.edu) * Jorge Lobo -- IBM Research, US (jlobo "AT" us.ibm.com) Finance Chair * Claudio Bartolini -- HP Labs, UK Publicity Chair * Alessandra Toninelli -- University of Bologna, Italy Publication Chair * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -- Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil System Demonstrations Chair * Daniel Olmedilla -- L3S Research Center and Hannover University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akhil Sahai -- HP Laboratories Alva Couch -- Tufts University Andrea Westerinen -- Microsoft Corp Andreas Schaad -- SAP Anna Cinzia Squicciarini -- Purdue University Arcot Rajasekar -- University of California at San Diego Arosha Bandara -- Open University Babak Sadighi -- Swedish Institute of Computer Science Bhavani Thuraisingham -- The University of Texas at Dallas Bruno Crispo -- Vrije Universiteit Carl Gunter -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian Jensen -- University of Denmark Duminda Wijesekera -- George Mason University Elisa Bertino -- Purdue University Emil Lupu -- Imperial College Filip Perich -- Shared Spectrum Francisco Garcia -- Agilent Gail Ahn -- UNC Charlotte Gregory Cirincione -- Army Research Lab Hanan Lutfiyya -- University of Western Ontario Helge Janicke -- De Montfort University Hong Li -- Intel Corporation John Strassner -- Motorola Labs Ken Moody -- Cambridge University Lisandro Z. 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URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080103/75c4c16c/attachment.htm From Ina.Schieferdecker at fokus.fraunhofer.de Sat Jan 5 10:04:21 2008 From: Ina.Schieferdecker at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Schieferdecker, Ina) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:04:21 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP ECMDA 2008, June 9-12, Berlin Message-ID: <70524A4436C03E43A293958B505008B6010A5EA5@EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Please excuse if you receive multiple copies CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth European Conference on Model Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications ECMDA 2008 Berlin, Germany, June 09 - 12, 2008 http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ecmda2008 BACKGROUND Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is an initiative proposed by the Object Management Group (OMG) for platform-generic software development. It promotes the use of models in the specification, design, analysis, synthesis, deployment, and evolution of complex software systems. ECMDA is dedicated to furthering the state of knowledge and fostering the industrialisation of the MDA methodology. Its focus is on engaging the key key figures of European research and industry in a dialogue which will result in a stronger, more efficient industry, producing more reliable software on the basis of state-of-the-art research results. The 2008 conference is organised in two tracks of interest dealing with the foundations and applications of MDA. Experience Reports on MDA tools and their applications are welcomed. There will be additional workshops, tools and poster exhibitions on these subjects. INVITED SPEAKERS David Harel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Axel Uhl, SAP, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals January 9th 2008 Notifications for workshops January 11th 2008 Deadline for Abstracts January 28th 2008 Deadline for Paper submissions February 05th 2008 Notification to Authors March 04th 2008 Final Submissions March 24th 2008 Tools and poster proposals April 07th 2008 Notifications to tools and poster proposals April 28th 2008 Conference June 09th - 12th 2008 TOPICS ECMDA has two separate paper tracks, one for research papers (Track F) and one for industrial papers (Track A). Each track will be judged differently. The academic track will be reviewed using common academic review guidelines. Papers in the industrial track may be shorter and will be judged against special guidelines, as described. - Research Papers on Foundations of MDA (Academic Track) In this track, we are soliciting papers presenting original research on all aspects of MDA. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: * Metamodelling - foundations and tools * Model Transformation - languages and tools * Reasoning about Models * Model Navigation * Model Synchronization and Consistency * Modeling of Requirements, Architectures, Platforms * Reverse Engineering * Modeling for Testing and Validation * Model Execution and Simulation * Modeling of Service Qualities and of Security * Aspect Modeling * Software Process Modelling, Enactment and Execution The research papers should be between 12 and 16 pages long, in A4 size along the LNCS article style and uploaded as PDF. They will be judged on novelty and theoretical contribution. No simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. The proceedings are planned to be published in a Springer LNCS volume. - Industrial Papers on Applications of MDA (Industrial Track) In this track, we are soliciting papers representing the views and experiences of industrial players in MDA and of MDA users. In particular, we are looking for papers that set requirements on the foundations, methods and tools for MDA. We are also seeking for experience reports or case studies on the application, successes or current shortcomings of MDA. Quantified data are appreciated. Industrial papers on all application areas of MDA are welcomed and may focus e.g. on one of the following: * MDA for Complex Systems and Systems of Systems * MDA for Embedded Systems and Real-Time Systems * MDA for High-Integrity Systems, Safety-Critical, and Security-Critical Systems * MDA in the Automotive, Aerospace, Telecommunications, Electronics Industries * Comparative Studies of MDA Methods and Tools * MDA Technology Adoption, Development and Roll-Out Processes * Metrics for MDA Development * MDA Training * MDA for Legacy Systems * MDA for Systems Engineering * Model Verification and Quality-Driven System Development * MDA and Multi-Domain Modelling Languages * MDA and Component-Based Software Engineering * MDA and Service Oriented Architectures * MDA and Business Process Modelling The length of an industrial paper should be between 6 and 12 pages. Industrial papers will be judged on practical feasibility, maturity, and industrial relevance. No simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (conference or journal) is allowed. The proceedings will be published in the same Springer LNCS volume as the proceedings of the Foundations track. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions should be made through the electronic submission system at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5814. For submission and acceptance dates, see Important Dates. Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The proceedings of ECMDA'08 are scheduled to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer-Verlag. All paper submissions should be in the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=1-164-2-72376-0) CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Researchers and practitioners interested in organising a satellite workshop in the context of ECMDA 2008 are invited to submit proposals on topics related to the conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a forum for presenting novel ideas, and to discuss them in an open and interactive atmosphere. Responsibility for the format and organisation of each workshop rests with the submitters of the workshop proposal, but the ECMDA conference organisers will provide rooms, audio-visual equipment, and other logistical support. The workshop proposals will be selected by the workshop chair, with the advice of the ECMDA steering committee. - Workshop Applications Electronic submissions in PDF are to be sent to the workshops chair: ecmda2008-workshops at fokus.fraunhofer.de. Proposals should include: * The name and the duration (half a day, one day, or two days) of the proposed workshop * A statement of the workshop goals * A short scientific summary of the topic, including a discussion on the relationship with the ECMDA topics * A description of past versions of the workshop (if any), including, where possible, dates, organisers, submission and acceptance counts, and attendance * Procedures for selecting participants and papers, and expected number of participants * Plans for dissemination (for example, published proceedings or special issues of journals) For submission and acceptance dates, see Important Dates. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ina Schieferdecker, FOKUS (Conference Chair) Alan Hartmann, IBM (Programme Chair) Marc Born, IKV++ (Workshop chair) Julia Reznik, FOKUS (Publications Chair) Philippe Desfray, Softeam (Tools and Poster Chair) Jan Aagedal, Telenor Dave Akehurst, Thales Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden Terry Bailey, Fundaci?n European Software Institute Mariano Belaunde, France Telecom Xavier Blanc, University of Paris VI Zhen Ru Dai, Philips Miguel de Miguel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Jean-Luc Dekeyser, University of Lille 1 Philippe Desfray, Objecteering Software Juergen Dingel, Queen's University Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn Joachim Fischer, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Alan Hartman, IBM Frederic Jouault, University of Nantes Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University/ISIS Olaf Kath, IKV++ Torsten Klein, Carmeq Ingolf Krueger, UC San Diego Zhang Li, Beihang University Eda Marchetti, CNR Tiziana Margaria, Univ. of Potsdam Parastoo Mohagheghi, SINTEF Bj?rn Nordmoen, Western Geco Richard Paige, University of York Christoph Pohl, SAP AG Arend Rensink, University of Twente Laurent Rioux, Thales Group Tom Ritter, Fraunhofer FOKUS Bernhard Rumpe, University of Braunschweig Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University Rudolf Schreiner, Objectsecurity Andy Sch?rr, Darmstadt University of Technology Bran Selic, IBM Canada Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Metacase Andreas Ulrich, Siemens AG Marten Van Sinderen, University of Twente Regis Vogel, IHG Jos Warmer, Ordina James Willans, Xactium XCT MIA-Software Clay Williams, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Albert Z?ndorf, University of Kassel VENUE The conference will be held in Berlin, German capital, located at the heart of Europe. With about 3,400,000 inhabitants, The German capital Berlin is the largest city in Germany. In the middle of the Brandenburg region, the city occupies the flatlands on the banks of the Spree, Havel and Dahme rivers and is criss-crossed with numerous canals. Berlin unites culture, nature and history, has more than 170 museums and more than 2,500 public recreational and green spaces. Berlin is very close to the historically important city of Potsdam with the famous palace Sanssouci. LOCAL ORGANIZERS ECMDA 2008 is organized with the support of FOKUS. The local organizers are Birgit Benner, Andrea Techlin, Ilona Schubert, Franziska Wollert, and Yanti Grossmann. Enquiries regarding the organization of the conference (submission, accomodation, sponsoring, etc.) should be addressed to ecmda2008(at)fokus.fraunhofer.de From andrea at di.unipi.it Sun Jan 6 18:41:00 2008 From: andrea at di.unipi.it (Andrea Corradini) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:41:00 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] WADT 2008 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <1199641260.13446.139.camel@acorradini.di.unipi.it> [Please apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.] CALL FOR PAPERS WADT 2008 19th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques Pisa, Italy, June 13-16, 2008 Home page: http://www.di.unipi.it/wadt2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After having joined forces with CMCS for CALCO'07 in Bergen, WADT takes place in 2008 as an individual workshop and in its traditional format. Aims and Scope The algebraic approach to system specification encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect-oriented, agent-oriented, logic and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: - foundations of algebraic specification - other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent, distributed and mobile computing - specification languages, methods, and environments - semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - model-driven development - graph transformations, term rewriting and proof systems - integration of formal specification techniques - formal testing and quality assurance - validation and verification -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Format and Location The workshop will take place over four days (Friday to Monday) at Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda, a former monastery in the center of Pisa. It will include presentations selected on the basis of submitted abstracts as well as three invited talks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions The scientific programme of the workshop will include presentations of recent results and ongoing research. The presentations will be selected by the Steering Committee on the basis of submitted abstracts according to originality, significance, and general interest. The abstracts must be up to two pages long including references, and should be formatted preferably using the standard Springer-Verlag LNCS style. If a longer version of the contribution is available, it can be made accessible on the web and referenced in the abstract. The abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system, at URL http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=WADT2008. The final versions of the selected abstracts will be included in a hand-out for the workshop participants. After the workshop, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers for the refereed proceedings, which is expected to be published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer Verlag). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates April 11, 2008 Submission deadline for abstracts April 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance May 16, 2008 Final abstract due June 13-16, 2008 Workshop in Pisa June 30, 2008 Invitation of full papers (for selected authors only) September 30, 2008 Submission deadline for full papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers Egon Boerger (Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa) Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Stephen Gilmore (Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsorship The workshop takes place under the auspices of IFIP WG 1.3, and is sponsored by IFIP TC1. Support by other organizations is also being sought. The event is organized by the Computer Science Department of Pisa University. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WADT Steering Committee Michel Bidoit (France) Jose' Fiadeiro (UK) [chair] Hans-Joerg Kreowski (Germany) Till Mossakowski (Germany) Peter Mosses (UK) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Italy) Andrzej Tarlecki (Poland) Local organizers (Pisa) Filippo Bonchi Roberto Bruni Vincenzo Ciancia Andrea Corradini (chair) Fabio Gadducci -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accommodation Several rooms have been pre-booked for the WADT2008 participants at a convenient rate at Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda. Detailed instructions for booking will be published on the WADT2008 web page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information For any information about the workshop, feel free to contact Andrea Corradini Dipartimento di Informatica Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3 I-56127 Pisa, Italy Phone: +39 050 2212786 Fax: +39 050 2212726 Email: andrea at di.unipi.it ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Sun Jan 6 22:04:33 2008 From: Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:04:33 +0100 (MET) Subject: [ecoop-info] FINAL CfIP, Conference Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2008 Message-ID: <200801062104.m06L4Xf24589@bollie.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Industrial Presentations 13th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2008 16 - 20 June 2008, Venice, Italy http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2008.html *** DEADLINE Sunday 13 JANUARY 2008 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2008) will take place in Venice, Italy. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibitions from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. In addition to the usual call for papers, the conference also seeks industrial presentations which may have value and insight, but do not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors of industrial presentations are invited to submit a short overview (at least 1 page in size) of the proposed presentation to the Conference Chair (tullio.vardanega at math.unipd.it) by 13 January 2008. The Industrial Program Committee will review the proposals and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract and submit it to the Conference Chair by 11 May 2008, aiming at a 20-minute talk. The authors of accepted presentations will be invited to derive articles from them for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Schedule -------- 13 January 2008: Submission of industrial presentation proposals 03 February 2008: Notification to all authors 11 May 2008: Industrial presentation material required 16-20 June 2008: Conference Industrial Committee Members (preliminary list) ---------------------------- Guillem Bernat, Rapita Systems Olivier Devuns, Aonix Franco Gasperoni, AdaCore Rei Str?hle, Saab Systems Tullio Vardanega, Ada-Europe (President) Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe (Vice-President) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2008 Publicity Chair *** 13th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2008 *** June 16-20, 2008 ** Venice, Italy ** http://www.ada-europe.org *** From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Mon Jan 7 11:22:11 2008 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:22:11 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] The 6th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and The Semantic Web (SSSW-2008) - Preliminary Call Message-ID: ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** ======================================= THE SIXTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2008) http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/sssw08/ [website is currently under construction - details will be posted here in the forthcoming months] VENUE Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. DATE 6-12 July, 2008 DEADLINE FOR PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION 15 March, 2008 INTRODUCTION We are pleased to announce the sixth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web. This summer school, presented by leading researchers in the field, is the successor to the well-received schools held in 2003, as part of the activities of the OntoWeb Network Consortium, and in 2004-2007, as part of the activities of the KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence. The school represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical, practical, and collaboration skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. This year the school will be sponsored by a number of European projects including LUISA, NEON, SUPER and X-MEDIA and also by STI International. APPROACH Our approach combines the practical with the theoretical. Tutorial/ lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to a mini-project. Work on developing and presenting this project in cooperation with other participants will serve as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. Participants will be provided with a copy of all course lectures and access to a PC with all necessary tools and environments pre-installed. SSSW-2008 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants in the school. To further facilitate communication and feedback all attendees will be obliged to prepare and present a poster on their own research. TUTORS Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) John Domingue (The Open University, UK) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) Aldo Gangemi (National Research Council, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidade Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc., US) Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford, US) Chris Welty (IBM Watson Research Center, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John Domingue (Director), j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Director), asun at fi.upm.es FOUNDER Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) ACCOMMODATION AND SOCIAL EVENTS Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid. The school will be held in the Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid's student house. The student house has a range of facilities to make your stay more pleasant including en suite bathrooms, swimming pool, bars and restaurants in the village. A gala dinner will be included in the cost. PARTICIPANTS We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of ontological or knowledge engineering and/or the development of applications for the World Wide Web. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation is required. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday between 3pm and 6pm (July 6th) and to participate fully in the activities of the school until it ends, at 2pm on Saturday 12th July. We will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to full participation for the whole duration of the school. COST OF SUMMER SCHOOL INCLUDING ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND EXCURSION (please note that at this stage this is still an estimate) Euros 780. TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. Further information about how to reach Cercedilla will be posted on the web site, http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/sssw08/ at a future date. REGISTRATION Registration forms will be posted on our website at a future date. IMPORTANT DATES Registration Opens: 15th February 2008 Registration Closes: 15th March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 20th April 2008 Deadline for payments: 30th May 2008 John __________________________ Dr. John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080107/4c7ae236/attachment.htm From alexandre at bergel.eu Mon Jan 7 16:11:37 2008 From: alexandre at bergel.eu (Alexandre Bergel) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:11:37 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] TOOLS'08: Call for workshop proposals Message-ID: <91751072-D920-4845-9A17-609F334FD351@bergel.eu> Dear colleagues, TOOLS 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas of technologies in connection with objects. The purpose of workshops is to serve as forums for discussing and presenting gestating ideas. The TOOLS 2008 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one or two day workshops that will complement the main conference. Naturally, the workshops should fall within the scope of TOOLS. Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize workshops should submit proposals in plain text or pdf-format. Proposals should include: - A workshop name and acronym (if any) - A technical description of the workshop topic area - A short description of the intended length and format of the workshop - A brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to TOOLS 2008 - The names and e-mail addresses of the organizing committee - A list of proposed program committee members - Tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance. The proposals will be evaluated by the TOOLS organizing committee. The titles and brief information about accepted workshops will be included in the TOOLS 2008 web site as well as links to the call for papers and call for participation. Please submit your proposals to the workshop chairs at: stephane.ducasse at inria.fr and alexandre.bergel at inria.fr Important dates: - Deadline for workshop proposal: February 15, 2008. - Workshop authors notification: March 20, 2008 - Conference: June 30th - July 4th 2008 More information will be found online (http://tools.ethz.ch/ workshops.html). Regards, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel INRIA Futurs, ADAM Lille, France http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. From Clemens.Kupke at cwi.nl Mon Jan 7 18:20:25 2008 From: Clemens.Kupke at cwi.nl (Clemens Kupke) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:20:25 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CMCS 2008: Final call for papers Message-ID: <47825F59.6010508@cwi.nl> CMCS 2008 Final Announcement Please excuse multiple copies 9th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science http://www.cwi.nl/projects/cmcs08/ Budapest, Hungary April 4-6, 2008 Key Note Speaker: Dexter Kozen (to be confirmed) Invited Speakers: Stefan Milius and Dirk Pattinson The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 11th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2008 March 29 - April 6, 2008 Programme Committee Jiri Adamek (chair, Braunschweig), Corina Cirstea (Southampton), Neil Ghani (Nottingham), H. Peter Gumm (Marburg), Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen), Clemens Kupke (co-chair, Amsterdam), Alexander Kurz (Leicester), Ugo Montanari (Pisa), Larry Moss (Indiana), John Power (Bath), Jan Rutten (Amsterdam), Lutz Schr?der (Bremen), Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn), Yde Venema (Amsterdam), Hiroshi Watanabe (Osaka). Submissions Two sorts of submissions will be possible this year: Papers to be evaluated by the programme committee for inclusion in the ENTCS proceedings: These papers must be written using ENTCS style files and be of length no greater than 20 pages. They must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. If a submission describes software, software tools, or their use, it should include all source code that is needed to reproduce the results but is not publicly available. If the additional material exceeds 5 MB, URL's of publicly available sites should be provided in the paper. Short contributions: These will not be published but will be compiled into a technical report of the Technical University of Braunschweig. They should be no more than two pages and may describe work in progress, summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or in some other way appeal to the CMCS audience. Both sorts of submission should be submitted in postscript or pdf form as attachments to an email to cmcs08 at cwi.nl. The email should include the title, corresponding author, and, for the first kind of submission, a text-only one-page abstract. After the workshop, we expect to produce a journal proceedings of extended versions of selected papers to appear in Theoretical Computer Science. Important Dates Deadline for submission of regular papers: January 13, 2008. Notification of acceptance of regular papers: February 11, 2008. Final version for the preliminary proceedings: February 18, 2008. Deadline for submission of short contributions: March 10, 2008. Notification of acceptance of short contributions: March 17, 2008. For more information, please write to cmcs08 at cwi.nl From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Tue Jan 8 14:28:01 2008 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:28:01 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] DL2008 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. * Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. * Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than February 15, 2008. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (if any), and list of references. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, see http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Franz Baader, Dresden, Germany (General chair) * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, Nancy, France * Alessandro Artale, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA * Sebastian Brandt, Machester, UK * Diego Calvanese, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Giuseppe de Giacomo, Rome, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Montreal, Canada * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK * Ulrich Hustadt, Liverpool, UK * Pascal Hitzler, Karlsruhe, Germany * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (Chair) * Maja Milicic, Dresden, Germany * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg, Germany * Bijan Parsia, Manchester, UK, * Peter Patel-Schneider, Alcatel Lucent, USA * Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy * Uli Sattler, Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, Pisa, Italy * David Toman, Waterloo, Canada * Frank Wolter, Liverpool, UK * Misha Zakharyaschev, London, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding registration, travel information, hotels, etc will be made available on the DL2008 homepage http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ * Enquiries about the DL2008 workshop can be made by mailing to lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mak at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Jan 8 15:24:46 2008 From: mak at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus =?utf-8?q?Kr=C3=B6tzsch?=) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:24:46 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP: WWW-08 Int'l Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008) Message-ID: <200801081524.46429.mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> [Please apologize cross-posting] ___________________________________________________________ SWKM2008: Social Web and Knowledge Management a Social Web 2008 Workshop http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/swkm2008 Located at the 17th World Wide Web Conference WWW2008 April 22nd, 2008 (Workshop day) Beijing, China Paper submission deadline: January 21 2008 Supported by the EU projects: KIWI: Knowledge in a Wiki ACTIVE: Knowledge-Powered Enterprise ___________________________________________________________ [View this online: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/swkm2008] Objective: The social web, the most interesting part of the Web 2.0, aims at bringing people together and facilitating richer interaction among them. It is characterized by a strong focus on communities where people share experiences, information and knowledge, meet and discuss, or do business together. Knowledge management systems focus on knowledge and experience sharing. They enhance organization capabilities by externalizing knowledge of its employees and combine them in novel forms. Therefore, there is a common interest in social structures as well as social computing in both fields. The social web can be the common underlying platform for novel and web-based knowledge management systems. It breaks up rigid processes and enables much richer interaction possibilities and creativity. In this workshop we will bring together people from the areas of social web technologies, semantic systems, and knowledge management. We would like to study synergies between social computing, social web, semantic systems, and knowledge management and provide a look at the current state of the art in the area. Programme: To ensure a creative atmosphere during the workshop, the presenters will be selected based on their submitted papers and demonstrations. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of ideas between the participants, enough time for discussion will be ensured. A programme will be published at the workshop web site upon notification of the authors and receiving the camera ready versions of the submissions. Topics of Interest: Main topics of interest in the areas of Social Semantic Web and Knowledge Management include but are not limited to: - Knowledge management and social web - Flexible processes for knowledge management on social web - Wikis, blogs and other means for information sharing - Semantics and social web - Personalization and User Modeling in semantic wikis, blogs, and other web 2.0 applications - Personalized Search in Social Web - Reasoning on the social web - Reason maintenance and social web - Text and media extraction, clustering and classification and social web - Privacy and security for knowledge management and social web - Theoretical models of communities on social web - Discovering social structures and communities - Evolution and temporal analysis of online social networks - Integration of heterogeneous social web applications - Applications of social web Organizing Committee: - Peter Dolog, Computer Science Department, Aalborg University, Denmark - Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria - Markus Kr?tzsch, Institut AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany - Denny Vrandecic, Institut AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Program Committee: - Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK - Anupriya Ankolekar, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA - Francois Bry, LMU Munich, Germany - John Davies, BT, Ipswich, UK - Norbert Eisinger, LMU Munich, Germany - Hans-J?rg Happel, FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany - Tom Heath, Open University, UK - Martin Hepp, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Nick Kings, BT, Ipswich, UK - Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea - Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China - Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain - Peter Axel Nielsen, AAU Aalborg, Denmark - Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA - Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Italy - Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan - Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Pavel Smrz, BUT Brno, Czech Republic - York Sure, SAP Research, CAC Karlsruhe, Germany - Hideaki Takeda, Tokyo Research Institute, Japan - Marcel Tilly, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany - Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA Submission and Proceedings: Please use the following link to the easychair submission system to submit your paper: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swkm08 Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines of the WWW2008 conference. Papers must not exceed 8 pages. Short papers, experimental contributions, system and demo descriptions must not exceed 4 pages. Proceedings will be published for the workshop, and we will also pursue a journal special issue with the topics of the workshop if we receive an appropriate number of high-quality submissions. Note that workshop attendees must also register for the main conference. So try to register both for the conference and the workshop before the WWW2008 early registration deadline. Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: January 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 18, 2008 Camera-ready versions: March 1st, 2008 Workshop: April 22nd, 2008 Please do not hesitate to contact Peter Dolog (dolog at cs.aau.dk) with any questions you have! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080108/f5092c4d/attachment.pgp From L.M.J.Bergmans at ewi.utwente.nl Tue Jan 8 10:33:17 2008 From: L.M.J.Bergmans at ewi.utwente.nl (Lodewijk Bergmans) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:33:17 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: SPLAT2008 workshop at AOSD Message-ID: [apologies for multiple copies] Call For Papers: SPLAT! 2008 The 6th Workshop on Software-engineering Properties of Languages and Aspect Technologies http://www.aosd.net/workshops/splat/2008 ** Workshop Summary ** This workshop aims at exploring issues in designing AOSD languages and systems that promote good software engineering properties. The workshop aims to identify fundamental issues and trade-offs in achieving particular properties in AOSD languages and systems, to make these issues and tradeoffs explicit, and, to the extent possible, describe useful solutions. For more detailed information about the topic, goals and format of the workshop, we refer to the website: http://www.aosd.net/workshops/splat/2008. ** Workshop Paper Submission Guidelines ** Attendance to the workshop is limited, to facilitate lively discussions and the exchange of ideas. Prospective participants are solicited to submit a 3-6 page position paper as a PDF file, no later than January 21st, 2008. The paper should be formatted in ACM SIG proceedings style. The position papers will be reviewed by a program committee. ** Publication ** All accepted papers will be published (electronically) in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, we have arranged to publish a revised version of selected papers from this workshop in the Journal of Object Technology. Selection of these papers will take place after the workshop, and the publication process will include a second round of revisions and reviews. ** Important Dates ** Submission of papers: January 21st, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2008 Final version of paper: March 11th, 2008 Workshop: March 31st, 2008 ** Organizers ** You can contact the organizers at splat at ewi.utwente.nl Lodewijk Bergmans (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Erik Ernst (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Kris Gybels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) From zdun at infosys.tuwien.ac.at Tue Jan 8 16:53:03 2008 From: zdun at infosys.tuwien.ac.at (Uwe Zdun) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:53:03 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: EuroPLoP 2008 Thematic Track on Pragmatic and systematic approaches in applying patterns Message-ID: <47839C5F.3060906@infosys.tuwien.ac.at> Thematic Track on Pragmatic and systematic approaches in applying patterns hosted at EuroPLoP 2008 July 9-13, 2008 Irsee Monastery, Bavaria, Germany http://www.hillside.net/europlop/ Call For Papers ******************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES February 18, 2008: Paper Submission Deadline July 9-13, 2008: Conference ******************************************************************** Starting in 2008, EuroPLoP hosts thematic tracks that put a special focus on hot topics. The track on "Pragmatic and systematic approaches in applying patterns" focuses on: - the pragmatic application of patterns that takes place today in the industry - the idealized systematic approaches for applying patterns that are still at a research stage The application of the different types of patterns in practice has not met the expectations of the patterns community. Most practitioners are aware of the GoF patterns and some idioms in specific programming languages or platforms, but few of them work systematically with patterns for architecture, analysis, process etc. The discipline of software engineering is significantly lacking in incorporating patterns in standardized and well-proven processes, methods, techniques and tools. Notably, there is some increase in teaching patterns in higher education and professional training programmes, but the results are not yet visible in the industry. This thematic track aims at studying the application of patterns in practice and enforcing the links between the patterns community and the practitioners. It envisions papers that present the practical applications of patterns in real industrial projects, as well as research papers on systematizing the application of patterns. It hopes to provide visibility to research attempts for integrating patterns in software engineering industrial practices. It also aims at stimulating a general discussion on how to disseminate the patterns literature more in the higher education and training. The track will use the standard EuroPLoP process of shepherding and writer's workshop for the submissions. The thematic track will be realized as a writers' workshop as well as an additional Focus Group on the same subject. During the writers' workshop certain topics will emerge that are urgent and of interest to the participants. These topics will be discussed in depth during a Focus Group by plenary sessions and break-out groups. Papers discussed at writer's workshop at this conference qualify for submission to the new journal "Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming" published by Springer. See http://hillside.net/tplop/ and http://www.springer.com/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-2-470309-0Final for details of this journal. For more information about EuroPLoP, please visit http://hillside.net/europlop ******************************************* SCHEDULE ******************************************* February 18, 2008: Paper Submission Deadline March 10, 2008: Start of shepherding April 18, 2008: Review Version Due May 12, 2008: Paper Acceptance notification May 26, 2008: Closing date for Early Registration June 20, 2008: End of shepherding and conference version due July 9-13, 2008: Conference December 2008: Final Publication Version Due ******************************************* SUBMISSION PROCEDURE and TRACK ORGANIZATION ******************************************* To submit your paper, please visit the submission page at http://hillside.net/europlop/submission. This page will be available in January. Please indicate in your submission that you submit your paper to the thematic track. Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Neil B. Harrison (Utah Valley University, USA) Uwe Zdun (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) From jfabry at dcc.uchile.cl Tue Jan 8 16:19:07 2008 From: jfabry at dcc.uchile.cl (Johan Fabry) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:19:07 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP 3rd Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Worskhop at AOSD08 Message-ID: <413CFBA9-0B5E-47E6-8DD2-66F9FDA4CA3B@dcc.uchile.cl> Third Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Part of AOSD08, Brussels, Belgium April 1st, 2008 http://dsal.dcc.uchile.cl/ **Dates** Submissions due: Friday Jan 25, 2008 Author Notification: Friday Feb 15, 2008 AOSD Early registration deadline: Monday Feb 25, 2008 Final version due: Friday Mar 14, 2008 Workshop: April 1st, 2008 **Scope** The tendency to raise the abstraction level in programming languages towards a particular domain is also a major driving force in the research domain of aspect-oriented programming languages. As a matter of fact, pioneering work in this field was conducted by devising small domain-specific aspect languages (DSALs) such as COOL for concurrency management and RIDL for serialization, RG, AML, and others. After a dominating focus on general-purpose languages, research in the AOSD community is again taking this path in search of innovative approaches, insights and a deeper understanding of fundamentals behind AOP. Based on the successful DSAL06 and DSAL07 workshops, and the special issue of IET Software journal on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages, this workshop series continues to support a growing trend in AOSD research. The workshop aims to bring the research communities of domain-specific language engineering and domain-specific aspect design together. In the previous successful editions held at GPCE06/OOPSLA06 and AOSD07 we approached domain-specific aspect languages both from a design and a language implementation point of view. New for this edition is that we explicitly invite contributions of work on adding domain-specific extensions (DSXs) to general-purpose aspect languages (GPALs). The focus on language embedding raises specific issues for language designers, such as proper symbiosis between, and composition of, DSXs. The distinction between the DSAL ans SPLAT workshops is that DSAL explicitly concentrates on domain-specific language features and language-extensions. The SPLAT workshop focuses more on the software engineering properties and the trade-offs in the design of aspect languages **Topics** We seek contributions related to domain-specific aspect languages, more particularly (but not limited to): - design of DSALs and DSXs - successful DSALs, DSXs and their applications - issues in both design and implementation of DSALs and DSXs - methodologies and tools suitable for creating DSALs and DSXs - semantics and composition of DSALs and DSXs - disciplined approaches for invasive metaprogramming - error reporting in DSALs and debugging of DSALs - approaches for composable language embeddings - mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in DSALs - theoretical foundations for DSALs - analysis about the specificity spectrum in aspect languages - key challenges for future work in the area A good analysis of conflicting forces is at least as useful for potential participants of this workshop as descriptions of original new approaches or experience reports. **Submissions** The workshop accepts three types of submissions: work-in-progress papers, position papers, and technical papers. Papers should be formatted in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls). Page limit depends on the type of submission: 4 pages for work-in-progress and position papers, 7 pages for technical papers. The submission should be sent in PDF format by email to jfabry @ dcc.uchile.cl, clearly indicating the type of submission. **Format of the workshop** The format of the workshop will echo the format used in DSAL06 and 07: A number of plenary sessions will first be held, according to grouping of accepted papers, consisting of (1) brief presentations of selected papers, (2) a discussion with the presenting authors including participation from the audience. Second, interactive group work will be performed to identify relevant issues in the domain and possible ways to address them. **Publication** All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. They will also be made available on the website prior to the workshop so that participants can read them. **Program Committee** Martin Bravenboer (Delft University, The Netherlands) Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Johan Fabry (University of Chile, Chile) Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France) Damijan Rebernak (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile) **Organizers** - Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Johan Fabry (University of Chile, Chile) - Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France) - Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France) - Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile) -- Johan Fabry jfabry at dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile From X.Liu at napier.ac.uk Wed Jan 9 10:06:04 2008 From: X.Liu at napier.ac.uk (Liu, Xiaodong) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:06:04 -0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'08) Message-ID: <735F04A99D358E468A16EDB64FC0455504DA0733@EVS1.napier-mail.napier.ac.uk> ==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The Second IEEE International Workshop on Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'08) URL: http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2008/workshops/QUORS2008.html A joint event with COMPSAC'2008 The 32st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008 Co-located with IEEE SAINT2008 ===================================================== GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP: The level of software reuse has recently been raised to large-scale components, agglomeration of components and even services in SOA. Systematic and large-scale reuse of reusable assets at multiple development levels is improving the efficiency of software development activities significantly in terms of cost and time. New approaches and products keep emerging from research community and industry. However, previous research in software reuse mainly focused on the functional aspect of a system, and tended to ignore the quality aspects or put them at a trivial place. Modern computing models tend to be globally distributed, pervasive, and dynamically adaptive. These systems, such as SOA, mobile and pervasive computing, and embedded systems, have imposed more rigorous quality requirements on software development technologies including reuse-based paradigms such as component-based development, design patterns, architectural patterns and software product lines. The above situation makes it a challenge to meet the non-functional requirements of a software system and meanwhile enjoy the benefits of substantial software reuse. Recently, the research community and industry have been aware of the above weakness and much work has been ongoing. In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results, advances and practical experiences under the banner of "quality oriented reuse of software". The workshop will act as a forum for active discussion, idea stimulation and communication. THEME AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry for advancing the technology of software reuse which emphasizes meeting strict quality requirements, such as dependability, agility and performance. The workshop seeks new approaches, system architectures and tools that facilitate the quality aspects of software reuse technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Aspect-oriented software reuse; * Reuse in large modern systems; * High quality software reuse methods; * Dependable component-based systems; * Quality and software product lines; * Quality aspects of design patterns; * Reuse in service oriented systems (SOA); * Internet-based applications; * Software evolution; * Software quality metrics and testing; * Model-driven software engineering; * Component repository; * Quality-based COTS product reuse; * Case studies and experience reports. PARTICIPANTS: Researchers and practitioners in software reuse, software evolution, emerging software systems such as SOA, mobile computing and embedded software, testing and quality assurance and all other relevant areas. The chairs expect to bring to the workshop researchers and practitioners worldwide from research institutes, universities and industries. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany S?ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Jo?o M. Fernandes, University of do Minho, Portugal George Kakarontzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Jingyue Li, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Xiaodong Liu, Napier University, UK Neil Loughran, Lancaster University, UK Pornsiri Muenchaisri, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Mikko Raatikainen, SEI, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Salah Sadou, University of South Brittany, France Guifa Teng, Hebei Agricultural University, China Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK (To be updated) IMPORTANT DATES: March 1, 2008: Deadline for paper submission April 7 2008: Decision notification (electronic) April 30, 2008: Camera-ready copy and author registration due SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically via the QUORS 2008 Submission Page (To Be Finalized, Please check QUORS Web Site). Please follow the instructions posted on the web site. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings, i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF, DOC); Layout Guide (PDF, DOC). The paper should not exceed 4000 words or 6 pages in IEEE paper format including all figures, tables, and references. Any problem, please contact the workshop chair x.liu at napier.ac.uk. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. We also encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers can be submitted as either regular papers, short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category depends on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008) by IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Xiaodong Liu School of Computing Napier University Edinburgh, UK Email: x.liu at napier.ac.uk ; Hongji Yang School of Computing De Montfort University UK Email: hyang at dmu.ac.uk GENERAL INQUIRIES For QUORS'08, please contact the Workshop Organizers. 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URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080109/316f3590/attachment-0001.htm From ja at di.fct.unl.pt Wed Jan 9 16:17:42 2008 From: ja at di.fct.unl.pt (Joao Araujo) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:17:42 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08) Message-ID: <13cd51c90801090717v5d0bc237y4d3380f04d157e1f@mail.gmail.com> ===================================================================================== Call for Participation and Contributions 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08) September 8th - 12th, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain http://www.re08.org REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD ===================================================================================== Sustainability of the earth and its natural resources represents a crucial issue that must be addressed in this technology-centric century. Although information services are generally not physical in nature and therefore do not directly result in the emission of greenhouse gasses or destruction of other natural resources, software does play a vital role in controlling machines and buildings that have a direct impact on the environment. When the target domain of software to be developed has a potential impact on the global environment, complex factors should be taken into consideration during the analysis and definition of requirements. This is a new challenge facing Requirements Engineering. High quality requirements that are apparently unrelated to environmental issues are also crucial in our modern information-intensive society. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and unambiguous way, can we consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society. Failure to engineer high quality requirements or failure to develop products that satisfy these requirements will ultimately lead to an information society that naively prioritizes its short-term needs over issues of long-term global sustainability. The IEEE International Requirements Engineering conference provides the premier international forum for researchers, educators and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and verification; requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools; requirements management, traceability, viewpoints, prioritization, and negotiation; modelling of requirements (formal and informal), goals, and domains; prototyping, simulation, and animation; interaction between requirements and design; evolution of requirements over time, product families, and variability; relating requirements to business goals, products, architecture, and testing; social, cultural, global, personal and cognitive factors in requirements engineering; collaborative requirements engineering; domain-specific problems, experiences and solutions. ================ PAPER CATEGORIES ================ We invite submissions of high quality papers in three categories: Technical solution papers present solutions for requirements-related problems which are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. Evaluation criteria: The proposed solution technique or its application to this kind of problem must be novel and sound. The author(s) must provide a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, such as a proof-of-concept and/or sound arguments that the solution technique will work and that it will scale to real-world-sized problems. Results must be stated clearly so that the author(s) or others can further validate them in later research. A technical solution paper should also be clear about its contributions with respect to related work by others and to previous work by the author(s. A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages. Scientific evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate/refute proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. Evaluation criteria: The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The evaluation method or analysis approach must be sound and appropriate. The research must be novel or, otherwise, the results must constitute a significant increase of knowledge. The results must be relevant and/or (statistically) significant. The research should be situated in the context of related work by others and previous work by the author(s). A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages. Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, discuss insights, innovations in industrial practice, success and failure stories. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. Otherwise, consider submitting a scientific evaluation paper. Evaluation criteria: The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to follow easily and to draw conclusions for their own practice. The conclusion and lessons learned should be justified by quantitative or qualitative evidence. A paper of this category must not exceed 6 pages. More details about the paper categories and corresponding review evaluation criteria and submission dates are provided on the conference website. Papers must describe original work not submitted or presented at other forums. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE CS Press Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library. ====================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Submissions will be handled electronically at the RE'08 submission site. Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with the Program Chair at least one week before the deadline. Submissions must be formatted according to IEEE CS proceedings format (see http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp for instructions and templates). More details on submission procedures will be available on the conference website. Other contributions: We also invite proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels,doctoral symposium, posters, videos and research demonstrations. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper abstracts February 4, 2008 Paper submissions (all categories) February 11, 2008 Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions March 3, 2008 Notification to authors April 28, 2008 Doctoral symposium, poster, & other submissions May 5, 2008 ==================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== General Chair Xavier Franch, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Program Chair Tetsuo Tamai, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Local Arrangements Carme Quer, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Financial Chair Pere Botella, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Practitioner Track Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany Ann Hickey, Univ. of Colorado, USA Workshops Thomas Alspaugh, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA Tutorials Oscar Pastor, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Doctoral Symposium Nazim Madhavji, Univ. Western Ontario, Canada Posters and Demos Guttorm Sindre, NTNU, Norway M. Jose Casany, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Publicity Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA Joao Araujo, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Selmin Nurcan, Univ. Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Marc Alier, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Proceedings Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Sponsors Joan A. Pastor, Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Maria R. Sancho, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Student Volunteer Claudia P. Ayala, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Registration Xavier Burgues, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Webmaster Gemma Grau, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain =============== PROGRAM BOARD =============== Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA Don Gause, State Univ. of New York, USA Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Martin Glinz, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UK Axel van Lamsweerde, Univ. of Louvain, Belgium Neil Maiden, City Univ., UK Bashar Nuseibeh, Open Univ., UK Klaus Pohl, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland & Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Colette Rolland, Univ. Paris 1, France Kevin Ryan, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Alistair Sutcliffe, Univ. of Manchester, UK Roel Wieringa, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands ================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================== Ian Alexander, UK Thomas Alspaugh, USA Mikio Aoyama, Japan Daniel Berry, Canada David Callele, Canada Jaelson Castro, Brazil Betty Cheng, USA Daniela Damian, Canada Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Christof Ebert, Germany Martin Feather, USA Stephen Fickas, USA Anthony Finkelstein, UK Michael Goedicke, Germany Anthony Hall, UK Mats Heimdahl, USA Constance Heitmeyer, USA Patrick Heymans, Belgium Ann Hickey, USA Michael Jackson, UK Stan Jarzabek, Singapore Marina Jirotka, UK Haruhiko Kaiya, Japan Kyo Kang, Korea Soren Lauesen, Denmark Julio Leite, Brazil Michel Lemoine, France Robyn Lutz, USA Nazim Madhavji, Canada John Mylopoulos, Canada Andreas Opdahl, Norway Oscar Pastor, Spain Colin Potts, USA Awais Rashid, UK Bjorn Regnell, Sweden Suzanne Robertson, UK William Robinson, USA Camille Salinesi, France Guttorm Sindre, Norway Eric Yu, Canada Didar Zowghi, Australia For additional information please contact the general chair Xavier Franch, (franch at lsi.upc.edu) or program chair Tetsuo Tamai (tamai at graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp) -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------ Joao Araujo RE'08 Publicity Co-Chair From zeng at eller.arizona.edu Wed Jan 9 18:50:01 2008 From: zeng at eller.arizona.edu (Daniel Dajun Zeng) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:50:01 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CFP: IEEE ISI-2008 (deadlines extended) Message-ID: <47850949.2080404@eller.arizona.edu> ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== Sixth IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://isi2008.cpu.edu.tw June 17-20, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan ----- DATES ----- Submission of full paper: January 31, 2008 Submission of short paper: January 31, 2008 Submission of poster/demo abstract: January 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: March 28, 2008 ---------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Henry C. Lee ---------------- ------------------------ PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS ------------------------ - Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI2008) - Pacific Asia Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (PACCF2008) - Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO2008) --------------------- POST CONFERENCE TOURS --------------------- The National Palace Museum, the scenic north/eastern coasts, and the Taroko National Park ----------------- AREAS OF INTEREST ----------------- Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is concerned with the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems, computer science, and algorithms for national, international, and societal security-related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy based approach. The annual IEEE International Conference series on ISI was started in 2003 and the first five meetings were held in Tucson (2), Atlanta, San Diego, and New Brunswick in the United States. In addition, two Pacific Asia Workshops were held in Singapore and Cheng-Du, China, in 2006 and 2007, respectively. These ISI conferences and workshops have brought together academic researchers, law enforcement and intelligence experts, information technology consultants and practitioners to discuss their research and practice related to various ISI topics. Besides the well established and emerging ISI research topics of ISI conferences and workshops, we also extend ISI to cover related growing areas, such as computer forensics and crime intelligence. The conference will provide a stimulating forum for ISI researchers all over the world to exchange ideas and report research progress. Proceedings of these past ISI and workshop meetings have been published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics of interested include but not limited to: I. Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining - Intelligence-related knowledge discovery - Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on Computer crime - Cyber crime intelligence and data mining - Criminal data mining and network analysis - Criminal/ intelligence information sharing and visualization - Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis - Spatial-temporal data analysis/GIS for crime analysis and security informatics - Deception and intent detection? - Cyber-crime detection and analysis - Authorship analysis and identification - Applications of digital library technologies in intelligence data processing, preservation, sharing, and analysis - Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing - HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security - Information sharing policy and governance - Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues - Intelligence-computerized community security and surveillance systems II. Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses - Cyber-infrastructure design and protection - Intrusion detection? - Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis - Bio-terrorism information infrastructure - Transportation and communication infrastructure protection - Border/transportation safety - Emergency response and management - Disaster prevention, detection, and management - Communication and decision support for search and rescue - Assisting citizens' responses to terrorism and catastrophic events - Incident response and computer forensics - Anti-fraud information technology III. Terrorism Informatics - Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools - Terrorism knowledge portals and databases - Terrorist incident chronology databases - Terrorism root cause analysis - Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting operations), visualization, and simulation - Forecasting terrorism - Countering terrorism - Measuring the impact of terrorism on society - Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns - Crime analysis and investigation - Immigration and security Other details could be found on the conference website: http://isi2008.cpu.edu.tw ------------------- CONFERENCE CO-HOSTS ------------------- - Central Police University, Taiwan - National Taiwan University, Taiwan - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan --------------- MAJORS SPONSORS --------------- - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society - Science and Technology Advisory Group of Executive Yuan, Taiwan - National Security Agency, Taiwan - Ministry of Interior, Taiwan - Ministry of Education, Taiwan - National Science Council, Taiwan - National Science Foundation, USA - Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Taiwan - Coast Guard Administration, Taiwan - Office of Homeland Security, Taiwan - National Police Agency, Taiwan - National Immigration Bureau, Taiwan - Investigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Taiwan - Office of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Communication, Electronics, and Information, MOD, Taiwan - Criminal Investigation Bureau, Taiwan - Sun-Yat-Sen Scientific Research Institute, Taiwan - Telecom Technology Center From velgias at disi.unitn.eu Wed Jan 9 23:30:00 2008 From: velgias at disi.unitn.eu (Yannis Velegrakis) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:30:00 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] SWAE'08 Call for Papers Message-ID: <47854AE8.5050204@disi.unitn.eu> (Apologies for any cross postings) **************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises SWAE08 http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/swae08 in conjunction with DEXA 2008 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Turin, Italy 1-5 September 2008 **************************************** AIMS AND SCOPE The Semantic Web vision aims at building a ?web of data?, where applications may share their data on the Internet and relate them to real world objects for interoperability and exchange. Similar ideas have been applied to web services, where different modeling architectures have been proposed for adding semantics to web service descriptions making services on the web widely available. The potential impact envisaged by these approaches on real business applications is also important in areas such as: - Semantic-based business integration: business integration allows enterprises to share their data and services with other enterprises for business purposes. Making data and services available satisfies both "structural" requirements of enterprises (e.g. the possibility of sharing data about products or about available services), and "dynamic" requirement (e.g. business-to-business partnerships to execute an order). Information systems implementing semantic web architectures can enable and strongly support this process. - Semantic interoperability: metadata and ontologies support the dynamic and flexible exchange of data and services across information systems of different organizations. Adding semantics to representations of data and services allows accurate data querying and service discovering. - Semantic-based lifecycle management: metadata, ontologies and rules are becoming an effective way for modeling corporate processes and business domains, effectively supporting the maintenance and evolution of business processes, corporate data, and knowledge. - Knowledge management: ontologies and automated reasoning tools seem to provide an innovative support to the elicitation, representation and sharing of corporate knowledge. SWAE (Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises) aims at evaluating how and how much the Semantic Web vision has met its promises with respect to business and market needs. Papers and demonstrations of interest for the workshop will show and highlight the interactions between Semantic Web technologies and business applications. The workshop aims at collecting models, tools, use cases and practical experience in which Semantic Web techniques have been developed and applied to support any relevant business processes. It aims at assessing their degree of success, the challenges that have been addressed, the solutions that have been provided and the new tools that have been implemented. Special attention will be paid to proposals of ?complete architecture?, i.e. applications that can effectively support the maintenance and evolution of business processes as a whole and applications that are able to combine representations of data and services in order to realize a common business knowledge management system. TOPICS The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Integration * Information extraction * Managing metadata for information integration * Managing metadata for data classification * Semantic Web technologies for enterprises * Ontologies for Information Integration and data exchange * Ontology mapping and merging * Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating * On-the-fly Integration * Information Integration architectures * Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches * Data Integration in e-Commerce applications * Integration of legacy applications in semantic web architectures * Semantic web and business processes * Reliability and scalability of Semantic Web technologies and tools * Enterprise-level tools and applications * Costs of semantic-based architectures for enterprises * Semantic Web and Integrated Information Systems * Semantic based systems and business applications: cost management, decision support systems, workflow management systems, etc. * Economic sustainability of semantic web based systems * Metrics to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the knowledge encoding process * Novel Web service architectures * Development and modeling frameworks for Web service applications * Modeling of semantic web services * Interoperability of web services * Unified management of data and services IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: March 8, 2008 Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2008 Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'08 workshops. Authors of accepted papers are requested to send the full paper to be received by May 15, 2008. PC CHAIRS Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi Department of Computer Science University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Dott. Francesco Guerra Department of Business Economics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Dott. Yannis Velegrakis Department of Information and Communication Technology University of Trento PC COMMITTEE Francesco Bellomi, Universit? di Verona Omar Boucelma, Universit? Aix-Marseille, France Paolo Bouquet, Universit? di Trento, Italia Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK Matteo Cristani, University of Verona , Italy Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Alfio Ferrara, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Andrea Maurino, Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Lyndon Nixon, University of Berlin, Germany Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen, Germany Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Armando Stellato, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research Labs, USA Zografoula Vagena, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK From joerg.hoffmann at deri.at Thu Jan 10 13:08:40 2008 From: joerg.hoffmann at deri.at (Joerg Hoffmann) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:08:40 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ESWC 2008 Final Call for System Demonstrations In-Reply-To: <476670E7.4020306@deri.at> References: <001e01c806a2$94502c90$6402a8c0@informatik.unimannheim.de> <476670E7.4020306@deri.at> Message-ID: <47860AC8.7040601@deri.at> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMOS 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08) 01 - 05 June 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIC FACTS: Demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. 5 pages LNCS in PDF format. Submission via ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo Submission: January 11, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry. Besides the research paper and poster tracks, ESWC asks for demonstrations of semantic web systems and applications. This includes applications, demonstrations of innovative technologies or infrastructures that support the deployment of semantic web applications in any area covered by topics of interest for ESWC'08. To submit a demo to ESWC'08, the authors are requested to submit a demo description. The description must be submitted as a PDF file; it must be formatted in LNCS style, and it must be no longer than 5 pages maximum. The demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. As such, quality assurance will be strict, and the demos will be subject to review by a separate Programme Committee. All demos must show relevance, novelty and significance. The descriptions should contain sections answering the following questions, as appropriate: 1. What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2. What is the employed key technology, and how does it relate to pre-existing work? 3. What exactly will be demonstrated? 4. What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? Submission and reviewing of demo descriptions will be electronic via the ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo In order to submit, you need to have an EasyChair account. If you do not already have such an account, you can create one by clicking on "I have no EasyChair account". Important Dates Submission: January 11, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ESWC 2008 Demo Chair: Joerg Hoffmann ESWC 2008 Demo Programme Committee: Harith Alani Lora Aroyo Alessandro Artale Abraham Bernstein Leopoldo Bertossi Walter Binder Kalina Bontcheva John Breslin Francois Bry Paul Buitelaar Christoph Bussler Andrea Cali Diego Calvanese Ying Ding Giorgios Flouris Fabien Gandon Nick Gibbins John Goodwin Guido Governatori Mark Greaves Gianluigi Greco Volker Haarslev Nicola Henze Martin Hepp Pascal Hitzler Andreas Hotho Vangelis Karkaletsis Vipul Kashyap Anastasios Kementsietsidis Hak Lae Kim Matthias Klusch Joanne Luciano Wolfgang May Dunja Mladenic Enrico Motta Daniel Oberle Bijan Parsia Terry Payne Axel Polleres Michael Schumacher Elena Simperl Michael Sintek Michael Stollberg Christos Tryfonopoulos Victoria Uren Raphael Volz From laurie at tratt.net Thu Jan 10 14:30:17 2008 From: laurie at tratt.net (Laurence Tratt) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:30:17 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] 30 days to go until TOOLS Europe submission deadline Message-ID: <20080110133017.GA20640@overdrive.home.tratt.net> ============================================================================ TOOLS EUROPE 2008 46th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns co-located with *** International Conference on Model Transformation 2008 *** *** Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development 2008 *** ETH Zurich, Switzerland 30 June-4 July 2008 http://tools.ethz.ch/ ============================================================================ Call for Papers TOOLS EUROPE 2008 will focus on the combination of technologies that have emerged through objects and object technology becoming mainstream. TOOLS EUROPE 2008 combines an emphasis on quality with a strong practical focus. This is the 46th TOOLS conference. Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Eastern Europe, have played a major role in the development of object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first presented at TOOLS. The TOOLS series was successfully restarted in 2007. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of object technology and neighbouring fields, in particular model-based development, component-based development, and patterns (design, analysis and other applications); more generally, any contribution addressing topics in advanced software technology fall within the scope of TOOLS. Reflecting the practical emphasis of TOOLS, contributions showcasing applications along with a sound conceptual contribution are particularly welcome. For a non-exclusive list of potential topic areas see the TOOLS Web site. In 2008, TOOLS EUROPE will be co-located with several other events, including SEAFOOD 2008 and the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) 2008. Details of co-located events can be found on the TOOLS web site. Submission Guidelines All contributions will be subject to a rigorous selection process by the international Program Committee, with a stress on originality, practicality and overall quality. Every paper will be reviewed by at least 4 committee members. The acceptance rate will be published in the conference proceedings; TOOLS is committed to a fair and extensive peer-review process establishing a high standard in the area of modern practices in software engineering. By submitting a paper to TOOLS, authors warrant that the work is original and that the paper or a similar contribution is neither published nor considered for publication elsewhere. The TOOLS proceedings will be a volume in the new Springer LNBIP series, and papers should be formatted accordingly. Final camera-ready submissions should be at most 20 pages in length in LNBIP format. We recommend that you use this format for preparing your initial submission. Important Dates Deadline for technical papers: February 8, 2008, midnight Zurich time Author notification: April 1, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: April 16, 2008 TOOLS EUROPE will also include workshops and tutorials. See the corresponding calls for contributions. Chairpersons Conference chair: Bertrand Meyer Program chair: Richard Paige Publicity chairs: Laurence Tratt, Philippe Lahire Workshop chairs: Stephane Ducasse, Alexandre Bergel Tutorial Chairs: Manuel Oriol, Phil Brooke Program committee Patrick Albert, Uwe Assmann, Balbir Barn, Mike Barnett, Claude Baudoin, Bernhard Beckert, Jean Bezivin, Jean-Pierre Briot, Phil Brooke, Dave Clarke, Marsha Chechik, Bernard Coulette, Jin Song Dong, Gregor Engels, Patrick Eugster, Jose Fiadeiro, Judit Nyekyne Gaizler, Benoit Garbinato, Carlo Ghezzi, Martin Glinz, Martin Gogolla, Jeff Gray, Pedro Guerreiro, Alan Hartman, Valerie Issarny, Gerti Kappel, Joseph Kiniry, Ivan Kurtev, Philippe Lahire, Ralf Laemmel, Mingshu Li, Tiziana Margaria, Erik Meijer, Peter Mueller, David Naumann, Oscar Nierstrasz, Manuel Oriol, Jonathan Ostroff, Alfonso Pierantonio, Awais Rashid, Nicolas Rouquette, Anthony Savidis, Doug Schmidt, Bran Selic, Jim Steel, Dave Thomas, Laurence Tratt, T.H. Tse, Antonio Vallecillo