CISE'09 2009 - The Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Software Engineering (CISE'09)

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Category CISE'09 2009

Deadline: April 15, 2009 | Date: June 10, 2009

Venue/Country: Ravda, Bulgaria

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

Call For Papers - CFP

Ravda (Nessebar), Bulgaria, 10-12 June 2009

In Association with:

IEEE UKRI, IFIP, ISY-Intellect(Sofia), IIT-BAS(Sofia), Software

Technology Research Laboratory (UK) and University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

MOTIVATION AND SCOPE:

Conceptual advances have always been the driving force behind progress.

This in turn relies on creativity and the ability to continue the

production of new insights and novel ideas. For example, in science we

can see many accounts of breakthroughs that dramatically affected our

lives.

Understanding and analysing creativity and the creative processes is

hard and has been for a long time a major concern of many scholars

across the spectrum, from the arts and literature to the sciences and

engineering. Identification, cultural and evaluation are just a few of

the challenges that characterise creativity and its processes.

The identification of creativity has been most commonly through its

products (a design, software, a mathematical proof or an algorithm).

Anecdotal descriptions have been also used to identify creative

processes. Many discoveries (especially in engineering and the sciences)

were linked to a sudden realisation or unexplained divine intervention

associated with what is known as the AHA! response. Outside of the

creative product itself and the AHA! response, the kinds of concrete

evidence that point to the process of creativity are indeed very few.

Both novelty and value have often been attributed to creativity. These

attributes are very hard to evaluate. Two products/artifacts, for

example, can be compared only if they have been intended for the same,

or similar, purposes and had been created within appropriate context

(including cultural context). The value of the creative product is

indeed measured by the society that receives it.

Over the past century or so, there have been many models for creativity.

Some dismiss the notion that creativity can be described as a sequence

of steps in a model. Whilst models may appear to be useful and helpful

in guiding our efforts, they should not be used too rigidly for that is

perceived, by some, to constrain creativity. On the other hand, even if

we deviate substantially from a model in a given situation, this does

not render the model useless.

Given the importance of creativity and its processes, this conference

aims to develop our understanding of them and their application in

software engineering, hence enhancing our ability to further develop the

discipline and to improve its education. In doing so, the Conference

will play a special attention to the important role of computer

technology in assisting software engineers and enhancing their creative

processes.

Because creativity, at its core, is both subjective and domain-oriented

render the engineering of supporting and supportive technologies rather

challenging. Therefore, one of the major objectives of the Conference is

to address the various inter- and multi-disciplinary issues in the

engineering of creative technologies.

The conference will bring together researchers and educators in software

engineering field to exchange experience and expertise and generate

ideas for future developments.

TOPICS:

We expect that papers are original and may include research reports,

demonstrations of technical developments, practical case studies,

reviews, posters or panel proposals. Being an inter- and

multi-disciplinary topic, we encourage papers from various domains

covering topics including but not limited to

? Creativity formal models

? Creativity and innovative Challenges in Software Engineering Education

? Agent- and Service-Oriented Architectures for eLearning in Software

Engineering Education

? M-Learning in Software Engineering Education

? The impact of mobile and ubiquitous computing on Software Engineering

Education

? Models of Creativity and its Processes

? Computational Thinking

? Human Computer Interfaces and Interactions

? Creative Design

? Creativity in Education and Learning

? Digital media

? Entertainment technologies

? The Engineering of creativity tools

VENUE:

The CISE?09 will take place at the Sol Nessebar Resort by Ravda (Black

Sea, Nessebar)

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 15 2009 Paper submission due

May 15, 2009 Decision notification (electronic)

June 01, 2009 All final manuscript and author pre-registration due

SUBMISSION:

Papers must be submitted electronically to cise09dmu.ac.uk . The format

of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference

proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two

reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and

the acceptance will depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be

published in the Conference proceedings. At least one of the authors of

each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the

conference to have the paper published in the proceedings. Each accepted

paper must be presented in person by an author.

Accepted papers are expected to appear in special issues of ITALICS

(Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer

Sciences, the electronic journal of the Higher Education Academy Subject

Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

Chair: Hussein Zedan, Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL), De

Montfort University, Leicester, UK (Email: hzedandmu.ac.uk)

Co-Chair: Stanimir Stoyanov, University of Plovdiv (Email:

staniuni-plovdiv.bg)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

V. Valkanova (Bulgaria)

K. Bothe (Germany)

M. O?Droma (Ireland)

I. Ganchev (Ireland)

I. Popchev (Bulgaria)

Z. Budimac (Serbia)

A. Rachnev (Bulgaria)

R. Venkov (Bulgaria)

I. Jurca (Romania)

K. Zdravkova (Macedonia)

D. Kalpic (Croatia)

A. Eskenazi (Bulgaria)

A. Stoyanova-Doycheva (Bulgaria)

D. Mitev (Bulgaria)

I. Minov (Bulgaria)

E.Doychev (Bulgaria)

S. Brown (UK)

A. Chernikov (Russia)

J. Alpagini (USA)

J. Hendler (USA)

K. Demikhov (Russia)

A. Senthil Rajan (India)

H. van Triest (China)

R. Cortazar (Spain)

K.H. Siemsen (Germany)

H. Yang (UK)

A. Ensslin (UK)