Nordic IPR Forum 2009

- Increase your Long-term Portfolio Value by Fostering Innovation & Patent Strategies

March 23 - 25, 2009 - Arlanda Conference Center, Stockholm, Sweden

The sixth Annual Nordic IPR Forum offers optimum balance between possibility to network with new colleagues from the Nordic with similar demands and cultural attitude towards IP business matters and the essential ‘global touch’ by bringing key speakers and topics around key geographical areas for the Nordic industry.

www.ipr-forum.com

Best regards

William Jakoby

Posted: November 27th, 2008 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.re08.org/
=====================================================================================
Call for Participation and Contributions
16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’08)
September 8th - 12th, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
http://www.re08.org
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
=====================================================================================

Sustainability of the earth and its natural resources represents a crucial
issue that must be addressed in this technology-centric century. Although
information services are generally not physical in nature and therefore do
not directly result in the emission of greenhouse gasses or destruction of
other natural resources, software does play a vital role in controlling
machines and buildings that have a direct impact on the environment. When
the target domain of software to be developed has a potential impact on
the global environment, complex factors should be taken into consideration
during the analysis and definition of requirements. This is a new
challenge facing Requirements Engineering.

High quality requirements that are apparently unrelated to environmental
issues are also crucial in our modern information-intensive society. Only
by fully understanding stakeholders’ needs, and documenting them in a
concise, and unambiguous way, can we consistently deliver quality products
designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society.
Failure to engineer high quality requirements or failure to develop
products that satisfy these requirements will ultimately lead to an
information society that naively prioritizes its short-term needs over
issues of long-term global sustainability.

The IEEE International Requirements Engineering conference provides the
premier international forum for researchers, educators and industrial
practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends,
experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: requirements
elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and verification;
requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools;
requirements management, traceability, viewpoints, prioritization, and
negotiation; modelling of requirements (formal and informal), goals, and
domains; prototyping, simulation, and animation; interaction between
requirements and design; evolution of requirements over time, product
families, and variability; relating requirements to business goals,
products, architecture, and testing; social, cultural, global, personal
and cognitive factors in requirements engineering; collaborative
requirements engineering; domain-specific problems, experiences and
solutions.

================
PAPER CATEGORIES
================
We invite submissions of high quality papers in three categories:

Technical solution papers present solutions for requirements-related
problems which are novel or significantly improve existing solutions.
Evaluation criteria: The proposed solution technique or its application to
this kind of problem must be novel and sound. The author(s) must provide a
preliminary validation of the proposed solution, such as a
proof-of-concept and/or sound arguments that the solution technique will
work and that it will scale to real-world-sized problems. Results must be
stated clearly so that the author(s) or others can further validate them
in later research. A technical solution paper should also be clear about
its contributions with respect to related work by others and to previous
work by the author(s. A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.

Scientific evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or
validate/refute proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by
empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal
analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and
practices in industry also falls into this category.
Evaluation criteria: The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as
well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The
evaluation method or analysis approach must be sound and appropriate. The
research must be novel or, otherwise, the results must constitute a
significant increase of knowledge. The results must be relevant and/or
(statistically) significant. The research should be situated in the
context of related work by others and previous work by the author(s). A
paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.

Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges
encountered in practice, discuss insights, innovations in industrial
practice, success and failure stories. The focus is on ‘what’ and on
lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of ‘why’. Otherwise, consider
submitting a scientific evaluation paper.
Evaluation criteria: The practice must be clearly described and its
context must be given. Readers should be able to follow easily and to draw
conclusions for their own practice. The conclusion and lessons learned
should be justified by quantitative or qualitative evidence. A paper of
this category must not exceed 6 pages.

More details about the paper categories and corresponding review
evaluation criteria and submission dates are provided on the conference
website. Papers must describe original work not submitted or presented at
other forums. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE CS Press
Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE CS Digital
Library.

======================
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
======================
Submissions will be handled electronically at the RE’08 submission site.
Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with the Program
Chair at least one week before the deadline. Submissions must be formatted
according to IEEE CS proceedings format (see
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp for instructions and
templates). More details on submission procedures will be available on the
conference website.

Other contributions: We also invite proposals for tutorials, workshops,
panels,doctoral symposium, posters, videos and research demonstrations.

===============
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
Paper abstracts February 4, 2008
Paper submissions (all categories) February 11, 2008
Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions March 3, 2008
Notification to authors April 28, 2008
Doctoral symposium, poster, & other submissions May 5, 2008

====================
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
General Chair
Xavier Franch, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Program Chair
Tetsuo Tamai, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Local Arrangements
Carme Quer, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Financial Chair
Pere Botella, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Practitioner Track
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
Ann Hickey, Univ. of Colorado, USA

Workshops
Thomas Alspaugh, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

Tutorials
Oscar Pastor, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Doctoral Symposium
Nazim Madhavji, Univ. Western Ontario, Canada

Posters and Demos
Guttorm Sindre, NTNU, Norway
M. Jose Casany, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publicity
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA
Joao Araujo, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Selmin Nurcan, Univ. Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Marc Alier, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Proceedings
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Sponsors
Joan A. Pastor, Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Maria R. Sancho, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Student Volunteer
Claudia P. Ayala, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Registration
Xavier Burgues, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Webmaster
Gemma Grau, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

===============
PROGRAM BOARD
===============
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA
Don Gause, State Univ. of New York, USA
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Martin Glinz, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland
Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UK
Axel van Lamsweerde, Univ. of Louvain, Belgium
Neil Maiden, City Univ., UK
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open Univ., UK
Klaus Pohl, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland & Univ. of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
Colette Rolland, Univ. Paris 1, France
Kevin Ryan, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Alistair Sutcliffe, Univ. of Manchester, UK
Roel Wieringa, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands

==================
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
==================
Ian Alexander, UK
Thomas Alspaugh, USA
Mikio Aoyama, Japan
Daniel Berry, Canada
David Callele, Canada
Jaelson Castro, Brazil
Betty Cheng, USA
Daniela Damian, Canada
Eric Dubois, Luxembourg
Christof Ebert, Germany
Martin Feather, USA
Stephen Fickas, USA
Anthony Finkelstein, UK
Michael Goedicke, Germany
Anthony Hall, UK
Mats Heimdahl, USA
Constance Heitmeyer, USA
Patrick Heymans, Belgium
Ann Hickey, USA
Michael Jackson, UK
Stan Jarzabek, Singapore
Marina Jirotka, UK
Haruhiko Kaiya, Japan
Kyo Kang, Korea
Soren Lauesen, Denmark
Julio Leite, Brazil
Michel Lemoine, France
Robyn Lutz, USA
Nazim Madhavji, Canada
John Mylopoulos, Canada
Andreas Opdahl, Norway
Oscar Pastor, Spain
Colin Potts, USA
Awais Rashid, UK
Bjorn Regnell, Sweden
Suzanne Robertson, UK
William Robinson, USA
Camille Salinesi, France
Guttorm Sindre, Norway
Eric Yu, Canada
Didar Zowghi, Australia

For additional information please contact the general chair Xavier Franch,
(franch@lsi.upc.edu) or program chair Tetsuo Tamai (tamai@graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Posted: March 19th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2008/workshops/REFS.2008.htm
MOTIVATIONS AND BACKGROUND

Service orientation is rapidly emerging as the leading network computing paradigm. At the same time, services have become the dominant form of economic activity and increasingly the basis for socio-economic organization. The commonalities and synergies among service concepts across the levels of IT infrastructure and business and social organization will lead to powerful innovations and new developments, triggering a call to establish a new discipline of ?Services Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME)?. A common feature of service orientation across all levels is the need to understand and characterize what the customer wants, including socio-technical constraints, and to design services that can meet those requirements effectively.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Requirements engineering (RE) has emerged as a critical area in software and systems engineering, as many systems fail due to poorly understood, ill-defined or ill-conceived requirements. Much of the same concepts and techniques could potentially be applied to services, with the benefit of systematic methods and scientific inquiry. However, service orientation introduces many new challenges. Service providers and service users interact much more closely. Knowledge is created and exchanged among customers and suppliers. Instead of a single set of requirements on a technical system, there are networks of providers and users, each with requirements and expectations on each other ? some based on tacit social conventions, and each with requirements on their technical IT systems. Service design and operation often proceed in parallel, as new knowledge and experiences are incorporated into service systems and processes on an ongoing basis. Automated processes are richly interwoven with human action, decision, and judgment. Some of the interactions will adhere to open standards, while others may be informally negotiated. There are highly dynamic on-the-fly network configurations as well as long-term stable relationships.

To continue the on-going discussions from the REFS 2007 workshop amongst active researchers and practitioners all over the world, we expect to gather more enthusiastic participants this year in Finland, who will take the opportunity to share their knowledge in intensive informal discussion to develop new ideas, new strategies and new productive networks on topics relevant to requirements for What existing and new requirements engineering methods and techniques are suitable for a service oriented environment? What adaptations, extensions or re-conceptualizations will be needed? How can requirements engineering contribute to a new discipline of services science, management, and engineering? Will service orientation lead to a rethinking of the field of requirements engineering? These are some of the key questions explored at this workshop.

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS

The workshop aims to provide a forum for a highly interactive and in-depth discussion of all issues related to requirements engineering for services. An objective of the workshop is to define a research agenda for the area based on the discussions and contributions from participants. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

- Service requirements models and descriptions
- Service requirements identification, elicitation, and acquisition
- Service requirements communication, negotiation, and validation
- Service requirements analysis and design methods
- Service engineering and management processes
- Knowledge engineering and management for Services
- Service ontologies, metrics, and benchmarks

n Service design, management and manufacturing
- QoS modeling and evaluation frameworks
- Trust, delegation, and negotiation models for services
- Security, privacy, and safety for services
- Services related architecture ? Web Service Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture
- Service enabling technologies
- RE techniques for business process redesign
- RE techniques for business model and value analysis
- RE techniques for services discovery and composition
- RE techniques for service quality
- Conceptual modeling for services management and engineering
- Empirical evaluation of RE for services
- Conceptual frameworks for RE and Services
- RE techniques for aligning business services and computational services
- RE techniques for Service-Oriented Computing & Service-Oriented Architecture
- RE techniques for adaptiveness and agility in services
- RE techniques for socio-technical analysis and design of services
- Services and requirements engineering for pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
- RE and SSME techniques for user experience
- RE and SSME techniques for lifecycle management

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece
Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
Luciano Baresi, Polit. of Milano, Italy
Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chi-hung Chi, Tsinghua University, China
Vincenzo D’Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
David Edmond, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Xavier Franch, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jaap Gordijn, Vrije University, Netherlands
Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Paul Johanesson, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Xinsheng Mao, IBM China Development Lab, China
Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Massimo Mecella, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Enrico Nardelli, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris I Panth?on Sorbonne, France
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Colette Rolland, University of Paris I Panth?on Sorbonne, France
Pascal van Eck, University of Twente, Netherlands
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Haiyan Zhao, Peking University, China
Andrea Zisman, City University, UK

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the REFS2008 Submission Page. Please follow the instructions posted on the web site. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers will be accepted (and can be submitted) as either regular papers, short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category depends on reviewer feedback.

Contribution may include:

? Full research papers (max 6 pages, IEEE format)
? Short papers ? research-in-progress, industrial experience, problem description (max 4 pages)
? Position papers ? (max 2 pages)

PAPER PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant in the workshop to have the paper published in the COMPSAC 2007 Proceedings.

The authors of a number of selected papers of special merit will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue in a Journal which is to be determined.
WORKSHOP LAYOUT

This one-day workshop will include Keynote(s), presentation sessions, a moderated panel session, and open discussions on relevant Requirements Engineering for Services topics.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Colette Rolland
Department of Mathematics and Informatics
University of PARIS-1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France
Colette.Rolland[at]univ-paris1.fr

Jian Yang
Deparment of Computing
Macquaire University, Australia
Email: jian [at] ics.mq.edu.au

Eric Yu
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto, Canada
Email: yu [at] fis.utoronto.ca

Lin Liu
School of Software
Tsinghua University, China
Email: linliu [at] tsinghua.edu.cn

Posted: March 19th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.nycdweb.org/nycdlog.html
December 2007 User Group Meeting

Meeting Date: Friday, December 7th, 2007

Meeting Time: 11.30 am

Meeting Agenda: Mr. Mike Rhodin, IBM General Manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software will speak to the user group.

Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms 2 & 3 at The Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY.

Meeting Registration: FREE, please RSVP to contact@nycdweb.org
FREE and Open to the Public
PO Box 1040, Guilderland, NY, 12084

Posted: March 12th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.promoteresearch.org
Agent-based software engineering
AI and knowledge-based software engineering
Aspect-oriented software engineering
Automated software engineering
Case studies
CASE tools
Component-based software engineering
Computer supported cooperative work
Configuration management
Critical software engineering
Distributed and parallel software architectures
Domain modeling
Education aspects of software engineering
Embedded software engineering
Empirical software engineering
Grid software
High performance software systems
Human computer interaction
Hypermedia
Interoperability
Knowledge acquisition
Legal issues
Measurement and analysis
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Model-oriented software engineering
Multimedia in software design
Object-oriented methodologies
Performance critical systems
Pervasive software engineering
Program understanding
Programming languages
Project management
Quality issues
Real-time software engineering
Real-time software systems
Reflection and metadata methodologies
Reliability
Requirement engineering
Reverse engineering
Service-oriented software architecture
Social implications of software development
Software architectures and design
Software cost estimation
Software design patterns
Software development aspects for mobile computing
Software documentation
Software domain modeling
Software economics
Software maintenance
Software outsourcing
Software policies and ethics
Software process modeling
Software processes and workflows
Software requirements engineering
Software reuse
Software safety and reliability
Software security
Software specification
Software testing
Software tools
Survivable systems
Theoretic approaches for software development
Ubiquitous software engineering
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
User interface issues for software development
Verification and validation of software
Workflow management

Posted: March 7th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/PCODA2007
Context:
PCODA 2007 builds upon the two previous editions of PCODA held in 2005 and 2006. These past two editions were very discussion-oriented workshops, where differences and similarities between the discussed techniques were highlighted, where general difficulties of using dynamic analysis were discussed and where possible future research directions became clear. We hope to continue this trend with PCODA 2007 and we would like to invite you to submit papers and join the workshop in Vancouver, Canada.

Overview:
Without consistent or adequately complete documentation, maintainers are faced with the inevitable problem of understanding how the system is implemented prior to undertaking any maintenance task. Research into the discipline of program comprehension aims to reduce the impact of this problem; a real-life problem which studies have shown to be impacting software engineers in the sense that they tend to spend up to 50% of their time trying to comprehend the structure of a software system. PCODA focuses on program comprehension techniques that rely specifically on dynamic analysis

Topics of interest:
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

Program comprehension models
Theories and models for software comprehension based on dynamic analysis
Program comprehension processes and strategies involving dynamic analysis techniques
Research methodologies when setting up program comprehension experiments
Techniques and tools
Applications of dynamic analysis techniques to program comprehension
Strengths and limitations of existing dynamic analysis techniques
Trace analysis and exploration techniques
Techniques for reducing the large size of run-time information
Hybrid analyses that involve both static and dynamic analysis
Dynamic analysis tools with an emphasis on program comprehension
Comparisons between existing tools and approachs
Dynamic analysis in the context of distributed systems
Dynamic analysis in the context of webservices (or service oriented architectures)
Evaluation Techniques
Criteria for evaluating dynamic analysis techniques; setting up benchmark experiments
Experiments and case studies with a focus on program comprehension using dynamic analysis
Empirical effectiveness studies of tools and approaches

Dates & location:
To be held in October 2007, co-located with the 14th International Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) in Vancouver, Canada.

Important Dates
Submission: 10th September 2007
Notification: 26th September 2007
Camera ready: TBA
Workshop date: October 29, 2007

Notification date is tentative and will be readjusted according to the WCRE 2007 early registration deadline, so that notification happens before the registration deadline!

Special issue:
A special issue on the topic of dynamic analysis in reverse engineering will be published in the Journal on Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME) featuring the best papers of PCODA.

Organization:
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj (www.ece.concordia.ca/~abdelw)
Orla Greevy
Andy Zaidman

Program Committee
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bas Cornelissen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA
Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tudor Girba, University of Bern, Switzerland
Adrian Kuhn, University of Bern, Switzerland
Leon Moonen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Vassilios Tzerpos, York University, Canada

Workshop format
The workshop will be 1/2 day, discussion-oriented. Afterwards, each participant will be asked to formulate a short summary of the workshop (maximum 250 words), highlighting points of interest of his or her research. These summaries will be posted on a website (the URL will be determined later), so that possible collaborations will become visible.

Submission instructions
Be standard. There exists a lot of work on reengineering, which may give rise to some terminology conflicts. We encourage people to use the reengineering taxonomy defined in (E. J. Chikofsky and J. H. C. II. Reverse engineering and design recovery: A taxonomy, IEEE Software, 7(1):13?17, 1990.)
Be electronic. Submit your position paper in PDF, following the IEEE conference publication guidelines. Also, please include a text-only abstract in your email. Submit everything by e-mail to all of the following e-mail addresses abdelw@ece.concordia.ca, greevy@iam.unibe.ch and a.e.zaidman@tudelft.nl

Be short. Propose only one idea. We all know that you are a quality researcher with plenty of good ideas. Only, we have limited resources and we must focus. Please target five pages for your (position) papers.

Be innovative. It is okay to propose a recent idea that still has some unfinished sides to it. It is supposed to be a WORKshop, not a mini-conference. If you want to propose a crazy idea, introduce it in an extended abstract (1 page).

Be a rebel. Neglect these guidelines if you feel that your idea needs a special treatment in some way.

Previous editions
PCODA 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
PCODA 2006, Benevento, Italy

Posted: March 6th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.icsoft.org
The purpose of the ICSOFT 2008, the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. The conference tracks are “Software Engineering”, “Information Systems and Data Management”, “Programming Languages”, “Distributed and Parallel Systems” and “Knowledge Engineering”.
Software and data technologies are essential for developing any computer information system, encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of software engineering; from databases and data-warehouses to the most complex management information systems; knowledge-base systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data quality and many other topics are included in the scope of ICSOFT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining software development and data technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICSOFT, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer. Additional information can be found at http://www.icsoft.org.
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: March 19, 2008
Authors Notification: May 6, 2008
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 21, 2008
Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2?esq.

Posted: March 5th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.iqpc.com/us/sdmd
The U.S.’s leading forum for the exchange of best practices and innovative technologies for effectively managing, developing and testing compliance software for medical devices. Learn to overcome your most critical software challenges from experts from: Abbott Diagnostics, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (A St. Jude Company), Covidien (formerly TycoHealthcare), GE Healthcare, Hologic R2, Hospira, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Philips Consumer Healthcare and Rational Software-IBM, to name a few. Obtain insider information to streamline pre-market approval in an exclusive 3-hour “Q&A with the FDA” workshop. Act now to reserve your space!

Posted: March 4th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.nycdweb.org/
The Capital District WebSphere and Lotus User group is hosting a networking and knowledge sharing event for technology professionals in the capital district. Please see below for complete details:

Networking:

This event would be a great opportunity to meet with members of the Capital District technology community and with other members of the 385 member WebSphere/Lotus user group.

Knowledge Sharing:

Event will feature a Panel Q & A / Discussion with a panel of technology leaders in the Capital District.

The technology leaders would be accompanied by a team of highly experienced technical specialists from their respective organizations to answer technology questions.

Meeting Registration: FREE and open to the public, please RSVP for the meeting by sending an e-mail to contact@nycdweb.org

Meeting Date: Friday, September 7th, 2007

Meeting Time: 11.30 am - 1.30 pm

Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms B & C at The Holiday Inn Express, 1442 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203.

Directions: The Holiday Inn Express - Meeting Rooms B & C are located on Western Avenue, near the State Campus and SUNY Albany. It is easily accessible from the Western Avenue exit on I-87 and I-90.

Click or use link below for additional directions –>

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&daddr=1442+Western+Ave,+Albany,+NY+12203

Posted: March 4th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none

http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de/
The IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it.

Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they can evolve during their lifespan more easily and adapt better to changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented, services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective since customers no longer need to “choose their side”.

Each service can be implemented using any technology, independently from the others. What matters is that everybody agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus about this in today’s middleware market: customers want to use Web technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators, developers, and providers need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective development and the use of dependable services and service-oriented applications.

Posted: February 28th, 2001 under Computers: Software.
Comments: none