http://icetet.org
The 1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICETET-2008) is to be held under the umbrella of the KES Centre, Australia at G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, INDIA on July 16?18, 2008. It brings together the international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future directions in the areas of knowledge based engineering systems. The conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, academicians and students, and will cover myriad topics in the engineering; technology and science, but not limited to the following:

VLSI & SoC/ ASIC/ Microelectronics, Image/audio/video Processing and compression, Signal Processing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Real Time Control Systems,
Advanced Communication in Automotives, Distributed and Embedded Systems, Pattern Recognition, High Performance Computing, Natural Language Processing, Machine
and Computer Vision, Data Mining and Warehousing, Real Time Operating System, Advanced Networks, Renewable Energy Technology, Transmission: HVDC & FACTS
Devices, Power Electronics & Drives Applications, Energy Storage, Distribution Systems in Sub Station Automation, Recent Trends in Thermal Engineering and Heat
Transfer, Sustainable Energy System: Technology and Efficiency, New Developments in Simulation and Modeling of Mechanical Systems, Quality Management and
Productivity Improvement Techniques, CAD/CAM/CAE, Earthquake resistant design of structures, Repair, Strengthening and Rehabilitation of structures, Smart
materials and structures, Non-linear Dynamic Modeling, Towards Effective Waste and Resource Management, Hydrological Modeling for Water Resources, Applications of
Geosynthetics, Intelligent Control of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Network, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Grid Computing, Mobile Computing, Artificial Intelligence,
Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, Ant Colony Optimization.

PLENARY SESSIONS, REGULAR PAPER SESSIONS, SHORT PAPER SESSIONS AND POSTER PAPER SESSIONS
The conference will feature discussions and presentations on emerging and exciting topics of interest. Discussions and presentations on specialized topics will be held during the Plenary sessions, Regular Paper Sessions, Short Paper Sessions and Poster Paper Sessions. The plenary sessions are intended to promote the awareness of recent happenings in the engineering, technology and science. Regular Paper Sessions, Short Paper Sessions and Poster Paper Sessions are intended to share the knowledge of the researchers. The conference proceedings will include all papers from regular paper sessions, short paper sessions and poster paper sessions.

Call for Contributed Papers: Papers are invited in the form of regular manuscripts. All papers must conform to the submission policy, and describe previously unpublished original work and should not be under consideration of any conference or journal. All submissions will go through the double blind review. Depend on the quality of paper and review report; the accepted papers may categorize in regular paper sessions, short paper submissions and poster paper sessions.
?Selected Papers after Oral Presentation may be published in Special issue of Refereed International Journals?
Call for Special Sessions: Researchers who would like to organize one or more Invited Sessions on topics falling within the scope of the conference are invited to submit a
proposal for consideration. The details are available on http://cetet.org

PAPER SUBMISSION
? Papers must be written in English and describe original work. Submitted papers, either for review or publication (after acceptance), must be formatted in the standard IEEE double column Proceedings format and conform to the IEEE Explore requirements for PDF files. All papers must be submitted through the conference submission website at http://cetet.org

 For the purposes of review, all papers are limited to 8 pages. Papers exceeding this limit will be rejected without review.
 For publication in the proceedings, accepted regular, short and poster papers are limited to 6, 4, 2 pages respectively. Papers are allowed up to a maximum of an additional 2 pages, which is subjected to the normal page over length fee: For Indian Authors: 600 INR per page, For SAARC Country Authors and Other Authors: 60 $ per page.
 Upon acceptance, at least one of the authors must register for the conference in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
 Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society, USA.
 All accepted papers will appear in IEEE Computer Society online store, IEEE-Xplore, IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries, IEE INSPEC, EI(Compendex), Thomson ISI and other indexing services.
 BEST PAPER AWARD in Each Session

IMPORTANT DATES
Contributed Paper Submission: 15 February 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2008
Final Camera?Ready Manuscript: 30 April 2008
Early Bird Registration: 15 April 2008
General Registration: 30 April 2008

REGISTRATION FEES

EARLY BIRD GENERAL
For Indian Authors: 5000 INR For Indian Authors: 6000 INR
For SAARC Country Authors: 500 US $ For SAARC Country Authors: 600 US $
For Other Authors: 550 US $ For Other Authors: 650 US $

SPONSORS & ORGANIZERS
The ICETET-2008 is organized and sponsored by G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, India and technically cosponsored by the KES Center, Australia. Also technical cosponsorship is in process with IEEE, CSI, ISTE, SAE and IE(India).

ICETET-2008 Technically cosponsored by
KEKES
KES Centre Australia,
IEEE, CSI, ISTE, SAE, IE (India)

WebSite : http://cetet.org, e-mail : prog_cochair_icetet08@ghrce.edu.in

G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Digdoh, Hingna, NAGPUR, INDIA

Posted: March 18th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
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http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:

Business processes have a life-cycle that comprises three phases, design, deployment, operation and evaluation. The design phase starts with requirements definition and ends with the implementation of the business process. In the deployment phase, the business process is tested under performance, compliance considerations etc. It is also verified for fulfilling the customer?s requirements. After successful testing, the business process is released to operation. In the operation and evaluation phase, the business process is measured and analyzed during operation to identify improvements.

Each of the phases has one or more purposes. Examples for the purposes of the phases are given on the left. The design phase has the purpose to align the business process with the requirements of the business and to assure its compliance with legal rules etc. The deployment phase has the purpose to verify that the process fits the customer?s requirements to test its performance and to put it into production. In the operation & evaluation phase, evaluation serves the purpose to enhance and improve the process. Nevertheless the process has to be flexible while supporting the business goals.

The BPMDS workshop 2008 is the 9th in a series of workshops designed according to the following principles:

1. A workshop should serve as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in two fields:
a. business development and
b. business applications (software) development

2. Each workshop has its own, relatively narrow focus to facilitate meaningful discussions and brainstorming.

During the previous BPMDS workshops, we discussed various issues that could be related to different, but isolated phases in the life-cycle of a business process. In the BMPDS08 workshop (http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08), we will focus on the interaction between two or more phases of the life-cycle, as well as the holistic view of the whole life-cycle. Furthermore, the relationship between the phases and their associated purposes shall be investigated. Therefore, we will accept only contributions covering two or more phases of the lifecycle, or process life-cycle management in general.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :

The main issues for discussion are:
? Goals and approaches for Business process life-cycles and their applicability
? Approaches, methods and technologies for the coupling of life-cycle phases
? Management of the business process lifecycle
? Support for the business process lifecycle
? Metrics and continuous improvement of processes in the life-cycle
? Evaluation and improvement may be practiced (i) in a stable state of the organization, but also and probably often (ii) because the environment changes.
- Case (i) is related to the quality (management) aspects and to the continuous improvement
- Case (ii) is related to the change management and BP transformation
In both cases, we probably can/should have some topics (i) about the link between the BP, its improvement, and the support systems (not only BPMS), and (ii) the decision issues involved in all stages, illustrated in the wheel above.

Examples of more concrete topics include, but are not limited to:
? Life-cycles for special types of business processes
? Process and information integration in business process life-cycles
? Processes for the management of business process life-cycles
? Software systems to support the business process life-cycle
? Metrics for business process life-cycles
? Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
? Specific transitions in the BP life-cycle:
- Design to deployment modeling, verification, alignment, organizational issues, etc.
- Operation to redesign monitoring, mining, learning, etc.

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2008

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper related to one or more of the main topics. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. Papers should be emailed to Selmin.Nurcan@univ-paris1.fr.

FORM:

The aim of the workshop is discussions, rather than presentations. To this end, position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. A position paper does not necessarily need to include answers to the problems described above. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted, and will be assigned a 10 minutes presentation. All papers will be published on our website before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Accepted papers will be published in the CAiSE’08 workshops proceedings. Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize the results and outline the promising directions in the field.
After the workshop, the workshop material together with a selection of the best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an international journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: February 15th 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 21st 2008
Camera-ready papers due: April 8th 2008

ORGANIZERS:

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France.
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel.

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden.
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK.
Lars Tax?n, Link?ping University, Sweden.
Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ian Alexander Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden
Signe Ellegaard Borch - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Elke Hochmuller Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Klagenfurt, Austria
Paul Johannesson Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia
Agnes Koschmider University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Peri Loucopoulos Loughborough University, UK
Jan Mendling Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Murali Mohan Narasipuram City University of Hong Kong
Selmin Nurcan University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
L. F. Pau Erasmus University, Netherlands
Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert University of Ulm, Germany
Peter Rittgen University College of Bor?s, Sweden
Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier University of Toronto, Canada
Lars Tax?n, Link?ping University, Sweden
Barbara Weber University of Insbruk, Austria
Jelena Zdravkovic Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Posted: March 18th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
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http://www.esociety-conf.org/
This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in ESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.
* 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 the Information Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

?? eSociety and Digital Divide ??
Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the next keywords:
? Social Integration
? Social Bookmarking
? Social Software
? E-Democracy
? Social Integration

?? eBusiness / eCommerce ??
May include issues relating to:
? Business Ontologies and Models
? Digital Goods and Services
? eBusiness Models
? eCommerce Application Fields
? eCommerce Economics
? eCommerce Services
? Electronic Service Delivery
? eMarketing
? Languages for Describing Goods and Services
? Online Auctions and Technologies
? Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

?? eLearning ??
May include issues relating to:
? Collaborative Learning
? Curriculum Content Design & Development
? Delivery Systems and Environments
? Educational Systems Design
. E-Citizenship and Inclusion
? eLearning Organisational Issues
? Evaluation and Assessment
. Political and Social Aspects
? Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
? Web-based Learning Communities

?? New Media and E-Society ??
May include issues relating to:
? Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
? Interactivity and virtuality
? Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
? Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
? Internet Cultures and new interpretations of ?Space?
? Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

?? Digital Services in E-Society ??
May include issues relating to:
? Service Broadcasting
? Political Reporting
? Development of Digital Services
? Freedom of Expression
? E-Journalism
? Open Access

?? eGovernment /eGovernance ??
May include issues relating to:
? Accessibility
? Democracy and the Citizen
? Digital Economies
? Digital Regions
? eAdministration
? eGovernment Management
? eProcurement
? Global Trends
? National and International Economies
? Social Inclusion

?? eHealth ??
May include issues relating to:
? Data Security Issues
? eHealth Policy and Practice
? eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
? Legal Issues
? Medical Research Ethics
? Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

?? Information Systems ??
May include issues relating to:
? Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
? Intelligent Agents
? Intelligent Systems
? IS Security Issues
? Mobile Applications
? Multimedia Applications
? Payment Systems
? Protocols and Standards
? Software Requirements and IS Architectures
? Storage Issues
? Strategies and Tendencies
? System Architectures
? Telework Technologies
? Ubiquitous Computing
? Virtual Reality
? Wireless Communications

?? Information Management ??
May include issues relating to:
? Computer-Mediated Communication
? Content Development
? Cyber law and Intellectual Property
? Data Mining
? ePublishing and Digital Libraries
? Human Computer Interaction
? Information Search and Retrieval
? Knowledge Management
? Policy Issues
? Privacy Issues
? Social and Organizational Aspects
? Virtual Communities
? XML and Other Extensible Languages

Posted: March 18th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
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http://tifac.velammal.org/ncgc_home.html
TIFAC-CORE in Pervasive Computing Technologies, Velammal Engineering College is organizing a National Level Conferece from 21st Feb 2008 to 22nd Feb 2008.

TIFAC-CORE

Posted: March 17th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
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http://bpm08.polimi.it
BPM 2008 is the sixth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished specialized forum for researchers and practitioners in business process management (BPM). The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality related to all aspects of business process management including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, and empirical findings.
Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the most prestigious researchers in the field and abides to the highest academic standards. Each submission is reviewed by at least three reviewers, and the acceptance rate in previous editions has been around 14%. The BPM conference also aims at bridging the viewpoints of leading research outcomes with practical demands.
In addition to the main research track, BPM 2008 will include an industrial papers track. Accordingly, the conference encourages industry practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on their impact on information technology use or business practice. These papers have to go beyond mature prototypes and potentially applicable methods and techniques, and must draw upon industry experience or empirical data.
Awards will be given to the best papers in different categories. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, an Elsevier Science Journal).
BPM 2008 will be held in Milan, Italy and will be organized by the Information Systems group of the Department of Electronics and Information of Politecnico di Milano. The Politecnico di Milano is a Technical University in Italy, established in 1863, offering degrees in Engineering, Architecture, and Industrial Design, with approximately 42,000 students. The event will be conducted at the main Leonardo Campus of Politecnico di Miano. The campus is located in the scientific university area of Milan, with an easy access from the town center. With 1.3 million people, Milan offers a continuously growing environment for the development of technological services, fashion and design.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

PROCESS MODELING AND ANALYSIS
- Process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Reference process models
- Variability and configuration of process models
- Process simulation and static analysis
- Process metadata and semantic reasoning
- Process patterns, repositories, and standards

PROCESS ARCHITECTURES AND PLATFORMS
- Process-oriented software architectures
- Service-oriented architectures for BPM
- Workflow management systems
- Security aspects of business process execution
- Automated planning for business process execution
- Resource management in business process execution

MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS EXECUTION DATA
- Process tracing and monitoring
- Process performance measurement
- Process mining and learning
- Process data warehousing
- Data streaming in business processes

PROCESS EVOLUTION AND FLEXIBILITY
- Process exception handling
- Process change management
- Adaptive and context-aware processes
- Case handling
- Process-enhanced groupware

NON-TRADITIONAL BPM SCENARIOS
- Knowledge-intensive processes
- Data-driven processes
- Distributed and mobile processes
- Inter-process planning and coordination
- Grid and scientific workflows

MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES
- Business process lifecycle management
- Success factors and measures in BPM
- BPM governance and compliance management
- BPM maturity
- Adoption and practice of BPM
- Case Studies and Experience Reports in BPM

Conference Paper Submission
BPM 2008 invites research submissions on all topics related to business process management, including but not limited to those listed above. Research papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2008 web site by uploading a self-contained PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than 21 March 2008 at 11:59 pm Western Samoa time.
Research papers must be in English. They must be original research contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (for details see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the research problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late, in another format than PDF, or sent by fax or post will be rejected. The same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page limit.
Industrial papers must follow the same format requirements and length constraints as research papers. All industrial submissions will be treated in the same way as research papers regarding review process and quality requirements.
All accepted papers will be contained in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag. For each accepted paper, at least one author should register to the conference and should plan to present the paper.

Workshops
The conference will be complemented by workshops. Workshops are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between active researchers, and stimulate discussions on new and emerging issues in line with the conference topics. Workshops may concentrate in-depth on research topics, or may also be devoted to application and/or standardization issues.

Demonstrations
Submissions are invited for demos to be included in the BPM 2008 Demonstration Track. The demo track is intended to showcase innovative business process management tools and applications, and will provide an opportunity to show and discuss emerging technologies with researchers and practitioners in the BPM field.
All demonstration proposals should consist of two parts. The first part (maximum four pages) should contain a short description of the system, a summary of its novel characteristics, a statement on the scope and limitations of the system and its significance to the field of BPM, and the list of functions and features to be demonstrated. This part will be included in the proceedings in case of acceptance. The second part is an appendix of no longer than six pages explaining the demonstrated scenario and illustrating how the presentation will be conducted (i.e. the demo script) and possibly some screenshots. This part will not be included in the proceedings but is valuable input for the review process. Authors are encouraged to include in their submissions links to mockups, videos, or animations of the proposed demonstration. Submissions must adhere to the conference paper submission formatting guidelines and are limited to four pages for the first part and six for the appendix. Demo proposals should be submitted at the BPM conference submission system.
Demo proposals will undergo a strict review process in line with that of the main conference. Demo proposals will be assessed on the basis of their innovation, technical advances and challenges, overall practical attractiveness, relevance and presentation. All accepted demo proposals (without appendix) will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag. There will be a best demo award based on the demo proposal and the presentation at the conference.

Tutorials and Panel Discussions
Tutorials and panel discussions will complement the core of the BPM 2008 conference. Tutorials will provide the opportunity to introduce one selected topic and to discuss related trends and challenges. Panel discussions will allow the open conversation of BPM-related topics. The local organizers are able to facilitate contacts to local industry representatives, if this is of interest for an organizer of a panel.
Proposals for tutorials and panel discussions should include: the title; name, brief biography of each participant; an outline of the theme, goals, planned activities and intended audience. Proposals should be submitted in electronic form (plain text or PDF) to the Tutorial/Panel Chairs.

Conference Dates
Paper submission deadline (strict): 21 March 2008
Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2008
Camera-ready papers deadline: 13 June 2008
Conference: 2-4 September 2008

Workshop Dates
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 16 May 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2008
Camera-ready papers deadline: 7 July 2008
Workshops: 1 September 2008

Demo Dates
Deadline for demo submissions: 21 March 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 12 May 2008
Camera-ready papers deadline: 13 June 2008
Demos: 2-4 September 2008

Tutorial / Panel Dates
Deadline for submissions: 16 May 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2008
Tutorials: 2-4 September 2008
Panels: 2-3 September 2008

General Chairs
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy

Program Chairs:
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia and Queensland University of Technology Australia
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany

Industry Chair:
Ming-Chien Shan, SAP Labs Palo Alto, USA

Organization Chair:
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Industry Sponsorship Chair:
Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Workshop Chairs:
Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

Demo Chairs
Malu Castellanos, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Andreas Wombacher, EPFL, Switzerland

Tutorial/Panel Chairs:
Vincenzo d’Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Steering Committee
Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales
Fabio Casati, University of Trento
Joerg Desel, Catholic University Eichst?tt
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
Matthias Weske, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Univ. of Potsdam

Program Committee
Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands
Alistair Barros, Australia
Boualem Benatallah, Australia
Djamal Benslimane, France
M. Brian Blake, USA
Shawn Bowers, USA
Chris Bussler, USA
Jorge Cardoso, Portugal
Jinjun Chen, Australia
Peter Dadam, Germany
J?rg Desel, Germany
Valeria De Antonellis, Italy
Asuman Dogac, Turkey
Schahram Dustdar, Austria
Johann Eder, Austria
Gregor Engels, Germany
Maria Grazia Fugini, Italy
Manfred Hauswirth, Ireland
Harald Gall, Switzerland
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, USA
Claude Godart, France
Peter Green, Australia
Paul Grefen, The Netherlands
Arthur ter Hofstede, Australia
Kees van Hee, The Netherlands
Marta Indulska, Australia
Stefan Jablonski, Germany
Gerti Kappel, Austria
Ekkart Kindler, Denmark
Akhil Kumar, USA
Frank Leymann, Germany
Heiko Ludwig, USA
Zongwei Luo, Hong Kong
Peri Loucopoulos, UK
Axel Martens, USA
Jan Mendling, Australia
Mirjam Minor, Germany
Mike Papazoglou, The Netherlands
Cesare Pautasso, Switzerland
Barbara Pernici, Italy
Olivier Perrin, France
Marco Pistore, Italy
Calton Pu, USA
Frank Puhlmann, Germany
Jolita Ralyte, Switzerland
Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Reisig, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle, Germany
Michael Rosemann, Australia
Domenico Sacca, Italy
Mohand Said-Hacid, France
Shazia Sadiq, Australia
Wasim Sadiq, Australia
Heiko Schuldt, Switzerland
Carine Souveyet, France
Jianwen Su, USA
Stefan Tai, USA
Farouk Toumani, France
Kunal Verma, USA
Barbara Weber, Austria
Mathias Weske, Germany
Andreas Wombacher, Switzerland
Michael zur Muehlen, USA

Posted: March 17th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
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http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse
CALL FOR PAPERS - IWMSE 2008

International Workshop on
Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE)

May 11, 2008, Leipzig, Germany

http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse

co-located with the 30th International Conference
on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 10-18, 2008
_________________________________________________

With the emergence of multicore computers, software engineers face the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical applications of all sorts. Compared to sequential applications, our repertoire of tools and methods for cost-effectively developing reliable, parallel applications is spotty. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds in order to advance the state of the art in software engineering for multi/manycore parallel applications.

The workshop is aimed at making parallelism available to a wide range of applications using systematic software engineering methodology. We seek a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the software engineering and parallel systems communities as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of multicore software. We solicit original, previously unpublished papers of current or work-in-progress research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Parallel patterns
* Frameworks and libraries for multicore software
* Parallel software architectures
* Modeling techniques for multicore software
* Software components and composition
* Programming languages/models for multicore software
* Compilers for parallelism
* Testing and debugging parallel applications
* Parallel algorithms and data structures
* Software reengineering for parallelism
* Transactional Memory
* Autotuning
* Operating system support, scheduling
* Visualization tools
* Development environments for multicore software
* Process models for multicore software development
* Experience reports from research or industrial projects

In addition, we also seek express tutorials (30 min duration) that bring participants up to speed in particular topics, such as OpenMP, Transactional Memory, etc.

Important dates
===============

* Submission deadline: 24 January, 2008
* Notification deadline: 7 February, 2008
* Camera-ready version: 18 February, 2008

Submission
==========

Please consult the workshop Web site http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse for details.

Workshop Proceedings
=====================

All accepted papers and express tutorial abstracts will be published in ICSE companion workshop proceedings. As the ICSE paper proceedings, workshop paper proceedings will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries.

Workshop Organizers
===================

* Walter F. Tichy, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Victor Pankratius, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Program Committee
=================

* Dennis Gannon (Indiana University, USA)
* Tim Harris (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
* Doug Lea (State University of New York at Oswego, USA)
* David Lowenthal (University of Georgia, USA)
* Timothy Mattson (Intel, USA)
* Victor Pankratius (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Erhard Ploedereder (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Adam Porter (University of Maryland, USA)
* Peter Sanders (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Walter Tichy (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Lawrence Votta (Sun Microsystems, USA)

Posted: March 15th, 2001 under Computers: Computer_Science.
Comments: none

http://events.deri.at/RoSOC-M/
Call for Submissions
====================

International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments
(RoSOC-M ‘08)

in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM’08)
http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/mdm2008/

TIME AND PLACE of the Workshop: April 27, 2008, Beijing, China

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FEBRUARY 5, 2008

All the papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version)
using the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosocm08

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GENERAL OVERVIEW of MOSOC

Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy things on our desks to small, portable, and
ever-networked devices most of us are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in
how we view computers and the way we work with them. Services offer the possibility to overcome the
limitations of individual mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available to them
on an ?as-needed? basis. Thus, using the service-oriented computing paradigm in mobile environments
will considerably enlarge the variety of accessible applications and will enable new business
opportunities in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities across wireless networks.

Network hosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and third party
mobile services provider to extend their businesses by making their network services available to a
broader audience (e.g. developers, service providers, etc.); device hosted service will allow great
potential for big innovations for applications and services that can be provided by individual mobile
device owners. These mobile service-oriented systems offer functionalities and behaviors that can be described,
advertised, discovered, and composed by others. Eventually, they will be able to interoperate even