[clean-list] ICSSEA 2008 International Conference: Software & Systems Engineering an their Applications

[Jean Claude Rault]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICSSEA 2008
Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications
Paris, December 9-11, 2008

Scaling up and Paradigm Shifts

Are software & systems engineering ready for speciation?

Large dimensions, high complexity, self-management, and ubiquity 
characterize today’s computer systems. It is expected that these features 
will be emphasized and prevail in systems to come, whether they relate to 
civilian, governmental or business applications. They call for entirely new 
approaches for designing, implementing, validating, maintaining, and 
exploiting software intensive systems.

With regard to the enterprise computing space, an evolution much sought for 
is driven by the need to bring business and IT together, i.e. to shift 
control of processes from IT professionals to business experts in order to 
scaling up business process management to support process of higher complexity.

Concerning software engineering a new approach, Model-Driven Engineering, 
upon which it is based, no longer considers the source code as a central 
element of software, it is rather considered as an element derived from 
model units. More generally, the source code becomes an element derived 
from the fusion or interweaving of model units. This approach becomes more 
and more important in the context of software and hardware architectures 
driven by standards such as MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) proposed by the 
standards authority OMG, Microsoft's Software Factories or IBM's proposal 
of EMF (Eclipse Modeling Software) tools.

Co-organized by TELECOM ParisTech, CS, and the “Génie Logiciel” quarterly, 
the 21st edition of the ICSSEA Conference (International Conference on 
Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications) will be held in 
Paris on December 9-11, 2008. It aims at providing a critical survey of the 
current status of tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software & 
systems, in gathering actors from the enterprise and research worlds. 
However, lectures and discussions will be conducted with the evolution of 
software & system engineering as a leitmotiv.


TOPICS

As for previous editions, any topic concerning software engineering & 
systems engineering is eligible. However, the following topics will be 
particularly appreciated:

Architectures: composition, orchestration, semantically-enabled SOA, 
ontology-based technologies...
Components & reusability
Contract-oriented software development
Distributed computing: service-oriented computing, grid services, Web 
services, mobile applications...
Evolution (adaptability, maintainability, variability...): issues relating 
to model-driven software engineering, service-oriented software 
development, aspect-oriented software development and not limited to 
evolution of source code but also address other software artifacts: 
databases, database schemas, design models, software architectures, process 
management
Management of non-functional properties: analysis & design, representation, 
modeling, monitoring, composition, configurability, relationship with 
architecture, resolution of conflicts, aspect orientation, metrics for 
non-functional properties, semantic issues...
Open source issues: architectures for seamless integration/composition, 
quality assurance,
Outsourcing issues
Process engineering with different notations as UML, DoDAF, SysML 
 and the 
MDA, MDE approaches
Project management
Quality control & assurance: quality assessment, testing, V&V...
Quantitative evaluations: architecture, availability, performance, quality, 
reliability, safety...
Requirements engineering
Software platforms specific of application domains
Systems engineering and Systems of Systems
Trustworthiness
Web engineering: design, composition, control flow, user interface 
migration, discovery and selection of services, ontology engineering...


All types of systems are eligible: adaptive, autonomous, context-aware, 
distributed, embedded, grid computing, mobile, real-time, service-oriented, 
ubiquitous, Web-based...

All end-user domains and economic areas are eligible: information systems, 
process management, automotive, avionics, banking, defense, energy, health 
care, insurance, telecommunications, transportation....
Papers submitted, original and unpublished, may concern industrial 
implementations or experiments, describe significant results from ongoing 
projects as well as research results susceptible of industrial 
applications, deal with socioeconomic issues associated with software & 
systems engineering, or propose tool demonstrations and posters. They 
should clearly describe the nature of the work presented, explain its 
contribution, highlight its novel features, and state precisely its current 
status.


INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Submission and selection of proposed interventions will be conducted as 
follows:
1- Submit, before June 30, 2008,
- for industrial implementations and experiments, a text of at least 1000 
words (about 5,000 characters, figures excluded), in English, including the 
title of the paper, an abstract of about 200 words, and the address, phone 
and fax numbers as well as the email address of the authors. If already 
available, a complete text (about 20,000 characters) would be welcome.
- for applied research results, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters 
(figures included), in English, including the title of the paper, a 200-500 
word summary, and the address, phone and fax numbers as well as the email 
address of the authors.
- for tools demonstrations and posters presentations, a text not exceeding 
2 pages
2- Full papers or extended abstracts will be reviewed by at least three 
independent reviewers and selected by the International Program Committee.
3- Authors of accepted papers or extended papers will be notified as from 
September 1, 2008 and will receive the recommendations made by the 
International Program Committee.
4- Authors of accepted abstracts or full papers should provide, before 
October 1, 2008, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters, figures included, 
in the form of a file, in Word format, attached to an electronic message. 
Final texts will be submitted, for final checking, to the International 
Program Committee before publication in the Conference Proceedings 
available during the event.
5- At least one author is required to register and attend the conference to 
present the paper

Submission address:

genie-logiciel at wanadoo.fr



INFORMATION FORM

to be returned to:
Jean-Claude Rault
genie-logiciel at wanadoo.fr

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