ICSEA 2010 - The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

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Category ICSEA 2010

Deadline: March 20, 2010 | Date: August 22, 2010

Venue/Country: Nice, France

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Other advanced aspects are related to on-time practical aspects, such as run-time vulnerability checking, rejuvenation process, updates partial or temporary feature deprecation, software deployment and configuration, and on-line software updates. These aspects trigger implications related to patenting, licensing, engineering education, new ways for software adoption and improvement, and ultimately, to software knowledge management.

There are many advanced applications requiring robust, safe, and secure software: disaster recovery applications, vehicular systems, biomedical-related software, biometrics related software, mission critical software, E-health related software, crisis-situation software. These applications require appropriate software engineering techniques, metrics and formalisms, such as, software reuse, appropriate software quality metrics, composition and integration, consistency checking, model checking, provers and reasoning.

The nature of research in software varies slightly with the specific discipline researchers work in, yet there is much common ground and room for a sharing of best practice, frameworks, tools, languages and methodologies. Despite the number of experts we have available, little work is done at the meta level, that is examining how we go about our research, and how this process can be improved. There are questions related to the choice of programming language, IDEs and documentation styles and standard. Reuse can be of great benefit to research projects, yet reuse of prior research projects introduces special problems that need to be mitigated. The research environment is a mix of creativity and systematic approach which leads to a creative tension that needs to be managed or at least monitored. Much of the coding in any university is undertaken by research students or young researchers. Issues of skills training, development and quality control can have significant effects on an entire department. In an industrial research setting the environment is not quite that of industry as a whole, nor does it follow the pattern set by the university. The unique approaches and issues of industrial research may hold lessons for researchers in other domains.

The conference has the following tracks:

Track 1

Advances in fundamentals for software development

Track 2

Advanced mechanisms for software development

Track 3

Advanced design tools for developing software

Track 4

Advanced facilities for accessing software

Track 5

Software performance

Track 6

Software security, privacy, safeness

Track 7

Advances in software testing

Track 8

Specialized software advanced applications

Track 9

Open source software

Track 10

Agile software techniques

Track 11

Software deployment and maintenance

Track 12

Software engineering techniques, metrics, and formalisms

Track 13

Software economics, adoption, and education

Track 14

Improving productivity in research on software engineering

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Track 1: Advances in fundamentals for software development

Fundamentals in software development

Software architecture, patterns, frameworks

Software analysis and model checking

Software architectural scalability

Requirements engineering and design

Software design (methodologies, patterns, experiences, views, design by contract, design by responsibilities, etc.)

Software modeling (OO, non-OO, MDA, SOA, patterns, UML, etc.)

Software process and workflow

Software validation and verification

Software testing and testing tools

Software implementation

Software project management (risk analysis, dependencies, etc.)

Track 2: Advanced mechanisms for software development

Software composition

Process composition and refactoring

Co-design and codeplay

Software dependencies

Plug&play software

Adaptive software

Context-sensitive software

Policy-driven software design

Software rejuvenation

Feature interaction detection and resolution

Embedded software

Parallel and distributed software

Track 3: Advanced design tools for developing software

Formal specifications in software

Programming mechanisms (real-time, multi-threads, etc.)

Programming techniques (feature-oriented, aspects-oriented, generative programming, agents-oriented, contextual-oriented, incremental, stratified, etc.)

Requirement specification languages

Programming languages

Automation of software design and implementation

Software design with highly distributed resources (GRID)

Web service based software

Scenario-based model synthesis

Merging partial behavioral models

Partial goal/requirement satisfaction

Track 4: Advanced facilities for designing/accessing software

Information modeling

GUI related software

Computer-aided software design

Hierarchical APIs

APIs roles in software development

Ontology support for Web Services

Rapid prototyping tools

Embedded software quality

Thread modeling

Flexible Objects

Use cases

Visual Modeling

Track 5: Software performance

Software performance modeling

Software performance engineering (UML diagrams, Process algebra, Petri nets, etc.)

Software performance requirements

Performance forecast for specific applications

Performance testing

Web-service based software performance

Performance of rule-based software

Methods for performance improvements

Software performance experience reports

Program failures experiences

Error ranking via correlation

Empirical evaluation of defects

Track 6: Software security, privacy, safeness

Security requirements, design, and engineering

Software safety and security

Security, privacy and safeness in software

Software vulnerabilities

Assessing risks in software

Software for online banking and transactions

Software trace analysis

Software uncertainties

Dynamic detection of likely invariants

Human trust in interactive software

Memory safety

Safety software reuse

High confidence software

Trusted computing

Next generation secure computing

Track 7: Advances in software testing

Formal approaches for test specifications

Advanced testing methodologies

Static and dynamic analysis

Strategies for testing nondeterministic systems

Testing software releases

Generating tests suites

Evolutionary testing of embedded systems

Algorithmic testing

Exhaustive testing

Black-box testing

Testing at the design level

Testing reactive software

Empirical evaluation

Track 8: Specialized software advanced applications

Database related software

Software for disaster recovery applications

Software for mobile vehicles

Biomedical-related software

Biometrics related software

Mission critical software

Real-time software

E-health related software

Military software

Crisis-situation software

Software for Bluetooth and mobile phones

Multimedia software applications

Track 9: Open source software

Open source software (OSS) methodologies

OSS development and debugging

Security in OSS

Performance of OSS

OSS roles and responsibilities

OSS incremental development

Division of labor and coordination mechanisms

Distribution of decision-making

Operational boundaries

Experience reports and lessons learned

Versioning management

Towards generalizing the OSS methodologies and practices

Open source licensing

Industrial movement towards open source

Track 10: Agile software techniques

Agile software methodologies and practices (extreme programming, scrum, feature-driven, etc.)

Agile modeling (serial in the large, iterative in the small)

Agile model driven design

Agile methodologies for embedded software

Software metrics for agile projects

Lifecycle for agile software development

Agile user experience design

Agility via program automation

Testing into an agile environment

Agile project planning

Agile unified process

Track 11: Software deployment and maintenance

Software in small and large organizations

Deploying and maintaining open source software

Software maintenance

Software assurance

Patching

Run-time vulnerability checking

Software rejuvenation

Software updates

Partial or temporary feature deprecation

Multi-point software deployment and configuration

On-line software updates

Track 12: Software engineering techniques, metrics, and formalisms

Software reuse

Software quality metrics (complexity, empiric metrics, etc.)

Software re-engineering (reverse engineering)

Software composition

Software integration

Consistency checking

Real-time software development

Temporal specification

Model checking

Theorem provers

Modular reasoning

Petri Nets

Formalisms for behavior specification

Advanced techniques for autonomic components and systems

Track 13: Software economics, adoption, and education

Patenting software

Software licensing

Software economics

Software engineering education

Academic and industrial views on software adoption and education

Good-to-great in software adoption and improvement

Software knowledge management

Track 14: Improving productivity in research on software engineering

Developing frameworks to support research

Methods and tools to improving the research environment

Supporting domain specific research needs

Teaching research skills in Computer Science

Experience reports on well developed research processes

Experience reports on empirical approaches to software engineering research

Approaches to supporting higher degree students in their research

Approaches to enlarge the research / teaching nexus to improve academics productivity

Approaches to integration between university research and industry research

Tools to support the research process

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) March 20, 2010

Notification April 25, 2010

Registration May 15, 2010

Camera ready May 22, 2010

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster. Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petreiaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petreiaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, petreiaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petreiaria.org.