[ecoop-info] Call for contributions - MODELS'08 Research Projects Symposium

[Benoit Baudry]

		     RESEARCH PROJECTS SYMPOSIUM
	      To be held in conjunction with MODELS'08
			September 30th, 2008
			  Toulouse, France

	   INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

	   http://www.irit.fr/models/researchProjects.html


Aims, scope and agenda
----------------------

This symposium aims to be a showcase for collaborative research
projects in the areas of interest to the MODELS community (software
and model engineering at large), as well as a forum where
researchers from the academia and the industry and representatives
of funding agencies could debate on state of affairs, stakeholders'
interests, policies and trends in the development of research
projects. The half-day event will consist of several short project
presentations, followed by a panel discussion.

For the project showcase sessions we seek contributions from either
ongoing or recently finished projects. We are interested in projects
which involve partners from both industry and academia, and which
benefit from national or trans-national agency funding. The
presented projects will be selected by a committee to reflect the
geographical, organizational and funding diversity encountered in
our community.

The panel discussion will focus on issues concerning collaborative
research in software engineering at large. The topics discussed with
the panel will include, along with any other relevant question
raised during the meeting, the following:
    - current and future policies, emergence of transatlantic
      collaborative programmes
    - arbitration between fundamental and applied research in
      software engineering
    - support for technology transfer from research to industry
    - transversal community building (networks of excellence,
      interest groups, etc.)
    - project scale arbitration, critical mass
    - multi-disciplinary projects

In order to nourish the discussion, an internet forum will be open
in the weeks preceding the event to collect ideas from potential
participants to the symposium.


Submission of project presentations
-----------------------------------

To contribute with a project presentation, please send an e-mail to
iulian.ober at irit.fr with a one page abstract and pointers to any
additional available resources (e.g., project website). Please note
that we only accept presentations consented by the manager of your
project.


Important Dates
---------------

Abstract submission deadline:	    June 9th, 2008
Notification of acceptance:	    June 30th, 2008
Deadline for early registration:    Sept 10th, 2008
Symposium date: 		    Sept 30th, 2008


Program committee
-----------------

Alain Rossignol     (EADS Astrium, France)
Andras Pataricza    (Budapest Univ. Hungary)
Iulian Ober	    (Toulouse Univ. France)
Jochen Malte Küster (IBM, Switzerland)
Susanne Graf	    (VERIMAG, France)
Robert France	    (Colorado State Univ. USA)
Betty Cheng	    (Michigan State Univ. USA)
Agusti Canals	    (CS, France)

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