3rd International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing in Bertinoro (OSC10)

miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2010

CFP: Optical SuperComputing Workshop 2010

3rd International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing in Bertinoro (OSC10)
November 17-19, Bertinoro, Italy



SCOPE:

OSC, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential to be the very next computing infrastructure. Optical computing presents an alternative to the frequency limitations, cross-talk phenomena and soft-errors of electronic devices. The natural parallelism of optical computing devices, coupled with the advance in fiber optics and optical switches make optical computing commercially viable. Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis, implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Designs or demonstrations of optical computing devices and systems
• Algorithmics and complexity issues of optical computing
• Computation representation by photons and holograms
• Neural and brain inspired architectures
• Electro-optic devices for interacting with optical computing devices
• Practical implementations
• Analysis of existing devices and case studies
• Optical photonics and laser switching technologies
• Optical and photonic memories
• Optical signal processing subsystems
• Optical networks for high-performance computing
• Optical interconnections
• Quantum optical systems
• Applications and algorithms for optical devices
• Alpha particles, X-Rays and nano-technologies for optical computing


Dates:

Submission deadline: June 3, 2010
Acceptance notification August 10, 2010
Camera-ready copy due September 03, 2010

PROPOR 2010: CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

lunes, 22 de febrero de 2010


PROPOR 2010: CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
 
April 27--30, 2010, Porto Alegre, Brazil
 
http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~propor2010/demosSubmission.html
 
 
* * * Submission deadline: March 8th 2010 * * *
 
 
Invitation of Submissions
 
In the spirit of the Special Session of PROPOR 2008 - Applications of
Portuguese Speech and Language Technologies -, aiming at bringing
together Academia and Industry and creating a forum where more than
written or spoken descriptions of research are available, PROPOR 2010
organizers and PROPOR Steering Committee decided to integrate a Session
on Demonstrations in the program.
 
The PROPOR 2010 Organizers invite proposals for the Demonstrations
Session. We encourage both university and industry communities from
Portugal, Brazil and any other country working on the Portuguese Natural
Language Processing and Speech Technology to submit proposals reporting
their most recent products, systems, resources or tools for Portuguese.
 
Areas of interest include any topic of language and speech processing of
Portuguese such as (but not limited to) the topics listed for conference
paper submission
(http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~propor2010/callForPapers.html)
 
The demonstrations may be of the following kinds:
 
*  Systems or system components *  Application systems using speech
and/or language technology components *  Software tools for research * 
Software for demonstration or evaluation *  Development tools
 
Submission Information
 
In order to submit your demonstration description, enter the JEMS
conference management system https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select
the submission page for PROPOR2010, then fill in the online form, check
out the topics of your paper and upload your file (.pdf format only).
 
The proposals must be 2 pages in English, non-blinded and following the
LNAI format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions
should contain a brief description of the work, what is going to be
demonstrated and how.
 
Demos should allow participants to try and test them during their
presentation. It is authors' responsibility to provide the necessary
technical conditions (equipments) for the demo at the conference.
Products, systems, tools are examples of demos.
 
The accepted proposals will be included on the additional electronic
proceedings (but not in the Springer LNCS) to be distributed to PROPOR
2010 participants.
 
Program Committee * António Teixeira (DETI/IEETA, Universidade de
Aveiro, Portugal), Demos Session Chair * Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade
Federal do Pará, Brazil), Program Chair - Speech * António Horta Branco
(Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Program Chair - Language * Renata
Vieira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil),
Local Organizing Chair * Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima (PUCRS, Brazil),
General Chair * Brazilian and Portuguese Industry representatives
 
Important dates:
 
* March 8  deadline for proposals submission * March 13   Authors
notification * April   30  - Demos Session
 
Demos Session Chair and contact address:  António Teixeira, ajst@ua.pt

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The 10th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet


The 10th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Seoul, KOREA, July 19-23, 2010
http://www.saintconference.org/
Co-located with:
The 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2010)
Co-sponsored by:
the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and
the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Technically sponsored by:
IEEE-CS IT Professional
In Cooperation with:
KIISE-INSoc

Specific Topic for SAINT2010
Future Internet and Applications


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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Symposium Paper Submission: January 31, 2010 à February 14, 2010
Symposium Author Notification: March 31, 2010
Symposium Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and FULL Registration per ONE paper)


Workshop Proposals: November 15, 2009
Workshop Call for Papers: December 15, 2009
Workshop Paper Submission: February 28, 2010
Workshop Author Notification: March 31, 2010
Workshop Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and FULL Registration per ONE paper)


Student Paper Submission: April 8, 2010
Student Author Notification: April 22, 2010
Student Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and STUDENT Registration per ONE paper)

Panel Proposals: December 15, 2009
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THEME : The Inclusive Internet
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Researchers are encouraged to submit papers related to theme of this
year: The Inclusive Internet:


The Internet has revolutionized and changed the way we communicate,
socialize, entertain, access information and conduct business. It has
evolved into a pervasive ecosystem of connected computers, mobile
devices, sensors, home appliances, and a variety of other gadgets.
This evolution has led to a deep intertwining of the physical, social
and digital worlds, raising new research agendas and challenging our
understanding of the requirements for a vastly interconnected world.
The theme for SAINT2010 is the Inclusive Internet. The advent of
Web 2.0, social networks, open API's, mash-ups and cloud computing are
empowering Internet users into becoming Internet "makers." Anyone and
everyone is included, free to contribute content and even services.
The frontier of the Internet no longer stops at the shores of large
corporations, small businesses, and online stores. It has expanded to
include the presence and contributions of virtually all mankind.
The symposium provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from
the academic, industrial, public and governmental sectors to share
their latest innovations on Internet technologies and applications.
Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

A. Internet Application Areas:
*Content Management: semi-structured data, information integration,
search and retrieval, data mining, semantic web, mobile and local
search.
*Content Delivery: media streaming, web caching, QoS, universal access
and interfacing
*Web Services: architecture & middleware, information agents,
brokering and negotiation, service discovery, service composition,
mash-ups, context-aware services.
*Collaboration: fixed, mobile & ad-hoc groupware, social network
software, trust & IPR technologies.
*Internet communities: peer-to-peer platforms and applications,
folksonomies, protocols for self-organizing communities, social
networks.
*Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: smart space architecture and
middleware, sensor networks and sensor web, pervasive programming
models and tools, content adaptation, location-based services, mobile
transactions, personalization, mobile service discovery & delivery.
*E-Business: Internet-based workflow, virtual enterprises, B2B,
auctioning systems
*Other Social Applications: E-science, E-education, E-learning,
E-entertainment, E-health, E-government, E-inclusion, etc.

B. Enabling technologies for the Internet:
*Software Architectures: service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer
and overlay networks, mobile agents, very large scale server systems,
GRID computing, virtualization, cloud computing.
*Standards: including XML, WSDL, WSFL, ebXML, Java, JXTA, .NET,
EchoNet, SODA, etc.
*Internet Security: architecture, threats, detection, authentication/
authorization, countermeasures, trust models, privacy, others.
*Network and Protocol Architectures: routing, performance, ad-hoc,
sensor and mobile networks, broadband wireless access, IPv6.
*Information Appliances: smart phones, PDAs, mobile Internet device,
sensor platforms, RFID based and embedded computers.
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Paper Submission and Reviews

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Symposium paper submission will be done electronically. Information
for prospective authors, including paper format and instructions can
be found on the SAINT Web page. Symposium Papers will be reviewed by
at least three reviewers, and SAINT has been keeping its acceptance
ratio less than 30% from the beginning.
Workshop papers will be sent to each Workshop's Organizers and should
be reviewed by each Workshop's Program Committee, taking account of a
reasonable acceptance ratio.
No simultaneous submission to multiple publication venues are allowed,
and only original results are acceptable.
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Publications

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The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one full registration is
required for publication of Symposium and Workshops Proceedings. It
should be noted that any paper of Symposium/Workshop Proceedings will
not be included in the IEEE-CS digital library if no presentation is
made without reasonable notification. Accepted papers will be indexed
through INSPEC and EI Index.
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Best Paper Award

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A best paper and student best papers will be selected and recognized
by the Program Committee and the Awards Chairs.
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Journal Publication

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There is a plan to invite several authors to provide revised papers
for a special issue on Future Internet and Applications of IEEE-CS
IT Professional.
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Workshops and Panels Proposals

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Full- and/or half-day workshop and panel proposals related to SAINT
theme are solicited. Workshop proposals should be submitted to
Workshops Chairs. After the review of proposals, the accepted Workshop
Call For Papers must be sent to the Workshop Chairs. Workshops Call
For Papers will then be announced on the SAINT web page. Panel
proposals should be submitted to Panel Chairs. E-mail addresses for
submission will be announced later at the SAINT Web page.

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Student Sessions

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The Student Session will provide an international forum for graduate
students to interact with faculty mentors and other researchers. It
will strive to provide constructive guidance for completion of the
proposed research and motivation for a research career.

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Message to Industry
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SAINT has been one of the major forums to discuss the state of the art
Internet-related technologies for not only academia but also industry.
SAINT2010 is considering an opportunity where industry will be able to
make an appeal of new technologies. Please keep a close watch on the
SAINT web page.

23rd Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images

domingo, 21 de febrero de 2010


23rd Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images
SIBGRAPI'2010
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/sibgrapi2010/
Gramado, RS, Brazil
August 30th to September 4th, 2010
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The SIBGRAPI Video Festival is an exhibition of short videos (up to 3 minutes for technical videos, and 5 minutes for computer animation shorts) generated with computer graphics or digital video processing techniques, which brings technical innovations and/or creativity. Scientists, engineers, computer science researchers, designers, artists, advertising specialists, and animators are encouraged to submit works that fascinate, innovate, provoke, and entertain. Videos that are related to papers and posters submitted to the conference technical sessions are warmly welcome. The SIBGRAPI Video Festival is a privileged forum where professionals, amateurs, production houses, research groups, and students can share experiences and exhibit their productions to a selected and specialized international audience.
The Video Festival takes place during one of the three nights of the symposium in an informal and cheerful session dedicated to innovation and imagination Amongst the accepted videos, the best ones are selected and advertised as the winners of the Specialist Jury Certificate (one for each video category) and the Popular Jury Certificate (one for all categories).
The accepted videos will be included in the DVD of the symposium.
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CATEGORIES
The videos can be submitted in one of the following categories (but not both):
** Technical Videos: this category includes videos that explain the technical details of research developments in one or more themes of the symposium (mainly computer graphics, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition). Videos in this category are evaluated according to inventive technical aspects of their production or the innovative techniques used to generate the images.
** Computer Animation Shorts: this category includes a broad range of short videos that involve computer-generated imagery in their making, such as promotional films, game introductions, advertising films, and experimental animations. Videos of this category may use traditional techniques, and they are evaluated according to their artistic, cultural or entertainment value, as well as the quality of editing and finishing.
Videos of a category that also have aspects of the other category are rewarded with extra evaluation points. Any form of computer graphics or image processing technique is eligible for submission. 3D animation, 2D Flash animation, live-action visual effects integration, or digitally manipulated imagery can be considered.
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline:
July 1st, 2010, until 23:59 Brasilia/Brazil time (UTC/GMT -3 hours)
Notification of acceptance (by e-mail):
July 12, 2010
Final Video Due:
July 30, 2010, until 23:59 Brasilia/Brazil time (UTC/GMT -3 hours)
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CONTACT
In case of any questions, please feel free to contact the Video Festival Co-Chairs:
Isabel Harb Manssour (isabel.manssour@pucrs.br) – PUCRS, Brazil
Cláudio Rosito Jung (crjung@inf.ufrgs.br) – UFRGS, Brazil
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IV e-Science Workshop

IV e-Science Workshop
http://www.dcc.ufrj.br/~escience

(in conjunction with CSBC 2010)
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
July 2010

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for submissions (full papers and posters): March 8th, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 19th, 2010
Camera ready due: May 17th, 2010

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MOTIVATION
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Over the past decades, we have seen a revolution in the way science
and engineering has been conducted. Specially, computation became an
established third brand of science alongside theory and experiment.
Scientists now need to access and exploit computational resources and
databases that are geographically distributed through the use of high
speed networks. Those resources must be modeled and managed in a
similar way we model software development and data through software
engineering processes and database techniques. In order to attack the
next generation of scientific problems, multidisciplinary and
distributed teams of scientists need to collaborate to make progress
on these new challenges.

Current advances in Software Engineering and Database research,
including ontologies, scientific process/workflow modeling, semantic
web services, software component management, grid computing, resource
modeling, process and data provenance, data curation, among others can
help to address these challenges. Several national and international
projects around the world have been initiated to carry out research
and innovation activities that will transform the goal of e-Science
and Grid computing into a reality.

The IV e-Science workshop aims at bringing together recent
developments in databases and software engineering towards a
computerized infrastructure to accomplish science in the large,
supporting the next generation of scientific research and experiments.
The definition, execution and management of scientific experiments can
no longer be developed in an ad-hoc manner. The topic of e-science or
cyberinfrastructure is part of the “Grand Challenges in Computer
Science Research in Brazil – 2006 – 2016” report from the Brazilian
Computer Society.

This workshop serves as a forum to present, discuss and establish new
partnership among scientists that participate in research and
product/tool developments, and highlights related activities from the
Brazilian and international community. The first three versions of the
event were co-located with SBBD/SBES, and showed that there is an
interesting audience on the theme. New projects are taking place,
based on partnerships on the database and software engineering area.
In this forth edition, we would like to extend the possible fields of
collaborations to other areas of Computer Science that have much to
contribute to e-Science.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

- e-Science and Grid applications
- e-Science workflow management
- Ontologies and databases for e-Science
- Data and process provenance
- Collaborative Science Models and Techniques
- Data Access Management
- Virtual e-Science Organizations
- Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
- Grid economy and Business Models
- Autonomic, Real-Time and Self-Organizing Grids
- Web semantics for e-Science
- Enabling Technologies for e-Science: Internet and Web Services
- e-Science Experimentation Environments
- Experimentation processes for science in large scale
- Scientific Knowledge Management applied to science in large scale
- Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science
- Bioinformatics and Health
- Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Climate & Earth Sciences

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The workshop will accept submissions of technical papers and posters
written in either English or Portuguese. Technical papers must not
exceed 8 pages, and posters must not exceed 4 pages. Papers and
posters should be formatted according to the Brazilian Computer
Society paper format. All papers and posters must be submitted using
the JEMS conference system.

The technical papers and posters will be reviewed according to the
following criteria: adequacy to the workshop scope, relevance,
technical quality, clarity, and originality. Technical papers
describing preliminary work and ongoing research are also eligible.
Assessment of results is desirable but not a pre-condition for the
submission of the paper. All technical papers must present related
work. Technical papers and posters will be peer reviewed according to
recommendations of the committee.

Selected technical papers will be orally presented during the workshop
and published on the conference CD. Authors must prepare a poster that
will be presented during the poster section.

Selected posters will be presented during a poster section in the
event and published on the conference CD. Authors should be available
to discuss them with the audience during the poster section.

Submission site: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1074

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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10)


The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10)


Will take place at the UC Santa Barbara Conference Center in Santa Barbara, California, USA during Monday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 23, 2010. DCOSS '10 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions and models, systematic design methodologies, signal and information processing, algorithms, analysis and applications.

DCOSS 2010 colocates with the following Workshops on special topics of sensor networks research:

- Fourth International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS)

Chair: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

- Second International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams

Chair: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

- First International Workshop on Interconnections of Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSN-10)

Co-Chairs:
Djamel Djenouri, Centre for Research on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers, Algeria.
Jianguo Ding, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Abdelouahid Derhab, Centre for Research on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria.

- First International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (MobiSensor'2010)

Co-Chairs:
Damianos Gavalas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece
Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece

All Workshops papers will be included in the IEEE Digital Library and a hardcopy Proceedings Volume.

For more information, please visit the Workshops page at http://www.dcoss.org/workshops.php
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International Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management

sábado, 20 de febrero de 2010


The 5th International Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management
(TCoB 2010)



In conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010)


8 June, 2010 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal http://www.iceis.org
http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/tcob/tcob2010-cfp.htm

Co-Chairs
Linh Thao Ly
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science,
Ulm University, Germany thao.ly@uni-ulm.de

Lucineia Heloisa Thom
Institute of Informatics,
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
lucineia@inf.ufrgs.br

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science,
Ulm University, Germany stefanie.rinderle@uni-ulm.de


Background and Goals:
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Business process management (BPM) technologies are considered as one of the key success stories in providing process control and monitoring functions, and addressing complex integration requirements in enterprise systems. However, the expectation of what this technology must deliver is a moving target. Whereas the success of coordinative processes depends upon the conformance to the prescribed control flow, the success of the collaborative process depends upon the ability to detect and react to changing conditions. What was true for workflow systems is no longer acceptable in the dynamic and cross organizational requirements for management of collaborative processes. The trend is going towards agile, responsive, and (self-)adaptive business processes which are able to make use of existing context information in order to align to changing business requirements. BPM has become a very extensive area with several specialized aspects. This workshop intends to provide a forum wherein challenges in flexible, context-aware, and collaborative business process management can be debated. We seek papers that present innovative technology solutions to these challenges based on well justified practical
assumptions and sound theoretical foundations.

Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution, and relation to previous research. Position and survey papers are also welcome.

Topics of interest:
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We particularly solicit approaches to context-aware, agile, responsive, and adaptive business processes. Below we provide a list of relevant topics, however papers outside these topics but within the general scope of the workshop scope will still be considered.
- Context-aware business processes
- Adaptive process management
- Context modeling (e.g., ontologies, rule-based approaches) - Knowledge and task management in (collaborative) processes
- Self-adapting / self-healing business processes
- Technologies for modeling and analysis of (collaborative) processes
- Interactive approaches for end-user engagement and visualization of business processes (can include Web 2.0)
- Event driven process management - Collaboration modeling using game theory and/or social networks (wisdom of crowds) in Business Process Management
- Usability and technology adoption of BPM solutions
- Exception Handling in BPM
- Patterns for context-aware BPM

Format of the Workshop:
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The workshop will consist of oral presentations, discussions, and invited talks. The workshop will also provide opportunity for demo sessions, where presenters can showcase advanced prototypes based on their research.
Submission of Papers
All papers must be written in English, and the length of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and tables). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format) are available at the ICEIS web site. Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted online through the ICEIS online submission system (http://www.insticc.org/Primoris/). In addition, an email must be sent to all workshop chairs including: title, authors' affiliation, and an abstract of the paper submitted.

Workshop Proceedings:
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All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings book with an ISBN#, which will be printed by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop. Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: March 8, 2010
Author Notification: April 6, 2010
Final Camera-Ready and Registration: April 21, 2010

Workshop Program Committee:
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Jorge Cardoso (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany)
Marta Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Richard Lenz (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Olivier Perrin (Nancy 2 University, France)
Manfred Reichert (Ulm University, Germany)
Rainer Ruggaber (1&1 Internet AG, Germany)
Shazia Sadiq (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Julien Vayssiere (Smart Services CRC, Australia)
Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Matthias Weidlich (Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems, Germany)

Workshop Location:
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The workshop will take place in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010) in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

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International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities


TridentCom 2010 - Call for Participation


The 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TridentCom) Berlin, Germany, 18-20 May 2010

TridentCom 2010 will provide a forum to explore existing and planned testbed concepts, infrastructures, and tools to address the research and business challenges of ICT convergence.

TridentCom 2010 is devoted to "Testbeds and Experimental Facilities for the Future Internet". This three-day event features 4 keynotes about the German G-Lab, the European FIRE initiative, the US GENI program and the Japanese New Generation Network project framework, 5 tutorials, and 41 technical papers from 20 countries presented in 11 technical sessions.

Session topics include:
* Federated and large scale testbeds
* Future Internet testbeds
* Future wireless testbeds
* Federated and large scale testbeds
* Monitoring in large scale testbeds

In addition, posters from the German G-Lab projects, European FIRE projects and other running projects will give practical insights about ongoing Future Internet research. A panel comprising major industry and academic players will discuss the upcoming European Future Internet Private Public Partnership.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to get insights on Future Internet testbeds by the world's leading ICT testbed experts.

Further information about the detailed conference program as well as the online registration is now available on the TridentCom website at http://www.tridentcom.org

Early Bird Registration Deadline will be Sunday, 18 April, 2010!!

We hope to see you in the vibrant city of Berlin in May,

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics
August 31th to September 3rd, 2010
Armação de Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://bsb2010.inf.puc-rio.br/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB) will take place in Rio de Janeiro
in 2010, and it is the fifth conference in this series. Before that the conference
was called WOB (Workshop on Bioinformatics) which occurred from 2002 to
2004. Since 2005 the conference is called BSB and has published its proceedings
as a special issue of the series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (Volume
3594/2005, Volume 4643/2007, Volume 5167/2008, and Volume 5676/2009).
BSB 2010 aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers
in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics,
microbiology, and medicine.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Sequence analysis, motifs, and pattern matching
Biomedical text mining
Biological databases, data management, integration
Biological data mining
Structural, comparative, and functional genomics
Protein structure, modeling and simulation
Gene identi cation, and regulation
Gene expression analysis
Gene and protein interaction and networks
Molecular docking
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
Computational systems biology
Computational proteomics
Statistical analysis of molecular sequences
Algorithms for problems in Computational Biology
Applications on molecular biology., biochemistry, genetics, and associated subjects

The proceedings of BSB 2010 will appear in a special issue of the series Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), published by Springer-Verlag, Germany.
As in the previous editions, BSB 2010 will accept two kinds of contributions:
full papers, with up to 12 pages, and extended abstracts, with at most four
pages. Accepted full papers are expected to be presented in the conference, and
extended abstracts will be presented in poster sessions. The program committee
may accept as extended abstract a paper originally submitted as a full paper. In
this case, authors may choose to accept the decision and modify the manuscript
accordingly, or drop the submission. Manuscripts should be written in English
and follow strictly the formatting instructions found in the site of Springer-Verlag,
under "Instructions for Authors".

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for paper submission: April 11, 2010
Noti cation for acceptance/rejection: May 9, 2010
Deadline for nal paper version: June 6, 2010
Conference: August 30 to September 3, 2010

International Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization

viernes, 19 de febrero de 2010

International Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization

in Conjunction with

The Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010)Hotel Sofitel. San Francisco Bay, USA , July 1– July 3, 2010
(URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke10.html)

Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A.

THEME

For decades software systems suffer from poor reliability. Billions of dollars and even lives are lost annually due to software errors. According to the report by NIST in 2002, poor software quality costs 60 billion dollars yearly to US economy, and 22 billion dollars can be regained by improving infrastructure for detecting errors using testing closer to the development phase. With the quick increase of software complexity and scale, test automation is becoming an emerging and effective solution in software quality assurance to meet tight project schedules with quality.

Today, there are many published research papers addressing software test automation issues and solutions, numerous test automation tools are available for quality assurance engineer. However, there are many open issues, obstacles, and challenges in software test automation, practice, and standardization. Moreover, there is an emerging need in software test automation standardization to reduce test automation efforts by increasing standardization of test process, test design, and test tools. This workshop is set up to meet these emerging needs.

GOALS

This international workshop on software test automation, practice, and automation brings together software test automation researchers and industry practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, practical solutions, and test automation tools to cope with practical issues and challenges in the real world. Moreover, this workshop is set-up to provide an effective forum for researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the diversity of test automation standards in software projects, test automation standardization needs, challenges, and importance. Furthermore, this workshop provides a great platform for engineers and researchers to report innovative software test automation solutions, and tools, and share practical project experience and lessons, as well as, exchange well-defined test automation standards.

TOPIC OF INTEREST

This international workshop seeks original papers, which propose new test automation ideas, solutions and tools, report practical experience in test automation projects, discuss new test automation processes, standards, models, and test criteria. The typical scope includes different perspectives in test automation, including auto-test infrastructure, standards, models, test generation, test execution, test management, and test coverage analysis and measurement. In addition, it also seeks practice reports that present the current issues, challenges, experience and lessons on software test automation projects.

The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the followings:

1. Auto-test solutions and tools:
* Software test automation tools and solutions for unit testing (black-box/white-box)
* Automatic techniques and tools for testing software production lines, such as installation testing, and configuration testing
* Automatic software regression test techniques and tools
* System load testing tools and performance evaluation tools for non-functional requirements and features
* Software simulation and tools for software auto-testing
* Software security testing techniques and tools
* User-oriented and requirements-based test automation approaches and tools
* Program-based software test automation methods, tools, and experience
* Language-based software test automation techniques and tools
* Software test automation cost analysis and complex evaluation tools
* Innovative software test languages, scripting techniques, and tools
* Automatic software test coverage analysis and monitoring tools

2. Test automation standardization:
* Test automation standardization issues, challenges, motivations, and needs
* Test automation standards in test processes, test models, test languages, coverage criteria, and documentation
* Test automation standards for test planning, design & analysis, test generation and scripting, test complexity and cost evaluation, and tools
* Test automation techniques, experience, lessons and case studies
* General and domain-specific standardization for test automation and tools

3. Emerging test automation methods and tools:
* Automatic validation techniques and technology for emerging software technologies
* SOA-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Model-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Component-based software test automation methods and tools
* Web-based and agent-based software test automation methods and tools
* Wireless-based software test automation approaches and tools

4. Test automation management and practice:
* Issues, challenges, and needs in software test automation and practice
* Test-driven-development techniques and project experience
* Software test automation case studies and empirical studies
* Software test automation project issues, experience and lessons learned

IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission due: March 2, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: April, 15, 2010
* Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2010
* Workshop and conference date: July 1-3, 2010

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke2010/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser, and select the paper type "Workshop: Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization - Gao, Muccini and Bai". Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). In the final version, you have option to buy extra pages (up to 2 pages).

PAPER REVIEW, WORKSHOP PROGRAM, AND PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop PC committee and SEKE2010 program committee. The accepted papers will be published in the SEKE2010 conference proceedings. The workshop program will be set up as a part of SEKE 2010 Conference Program.

The best papers and their extended versions will be recommended for the publication on a special issue on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in 2010.

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Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures


IEEE International Workshop on

Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG2010), in conjunction with CVPR 2010

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IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG2010)

--- Towards Large-Scale Data from Real-World Environments

Website: http://www.lv-nus.org/AMFG2010/

During the last 30 years, human-centered perceptual understanding tasks such as face/body detection/ tracking, facial characteristic analysis (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and expression), face/gait based human identification, and from understanding simple hand gesture to complex human body language, activity and behaviour, have attracted researchers from both computational and psychological communities. To be able to build tractable models has significant scientific and practical values. For example, human-computer interaction, video indexing, visual surveillance, and Internet vision are active application areas. To that end, researchers have made substantial progress. However, significant challenges still remain.

This one-day workshop (AMFG2010) will provide a focused international forum to bring together researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, and body, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. A particular interest and focus of this workshop will be placed upon large-scale data from real-world environments. The workshop will consist of two to three invited talks together with peer-reviewed regular papers (oral and poster). Original high-quality papers are solicited on a wide range of topics including:

Face and body language recognition in real-world environments with unknown/changing background, e.g., Internet image search, or Facebook, or crowded public spaces.

Soft biometrics and profiling: age, gender, and ethnicity classification by facial and/or body descriptions.

Novel mathematical modelling and algorithms, sensors and modalities for face & body gesture/action representation, analysis and recognition.

Novel applications based on robust detection, tracking and recognition of face, body and action.

Psychological studies that can assist in understanding computational modelling and building better automated computer vision systems.

Motion analysis, tracking and extraction of face and body models from image sequences captured by a single or multiple cameras from either a fixed or mobile platform.

Detection and recognition of face and body under large 3D rotation, illumination change, partial occlusion, and aging.

Face, gait and action recognition in low-quality, low-resolution video from fixed or mobile cameras.

Dynamics and learning for gesture, activity, and body behavior interpretation.

Important Dates:

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1. Paper Submission: Mar 10, 2010

2. Notification of Acceptance: Apr 07, 2010

3. Camera-ready Version: Apr 14, 2010

4. Workshop Date: Jun 14, 2010

Workshop Co-Chairs:

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Wen-Yi Zhao, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

Xiaoou Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shaogang Gong, Queen Mary University of London

Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore

IV Workshop de Gestão de Processos de Negócio

IV Workshop de Gestão de Processos de Negócio

realizado juntamente com VI Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação
16 a 18 de JUNHO de 2010, Marabá, PA
http://www.sbsi2010.com.br/chamada.html

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Datas importantes:

Submissão de artigos: 28/02/2010 (alterado)
Divulgação dos resultados: 15/03/2010
Versão final: 29/03/2010


Tópicos de Interesse

Gestão de processos inter-organizacionais;
Processos de negócio distribuídos e móveis;
Contratos eletrônicos;
Composição de serviços e processos de negócio;
Metodologias de gestão de processos de negócio;
Repositórios de processos de negócio e serviços;
Sistemas de informação e processos de negócio;
Arquiteturas orientadas a serviço e gestão de processos de negócio;
Serviços web para gestão de processos de negócio;
Ontologias para processos de negócio;
Modelagem e semântica de processos de negócio;
Execução de processos de negócio;
Monitoramento de processos de negócio;
Transações em processos de negócio;
Aspectos de segurança em processos de negócio;
Gestão de processos em grades computacionais;
Computação em nuvem no apoio à gestão de processos;
Descoberta de conhecimento em processos de negócio;
Engenharia de requisitos e processos de negócio;
Qualidade de serviço e processos de negócio;
Relatos de projetos/experiências na indústria;
Reuso em gestão de processos;
Gestão de Processos voltados para sustentabilidade;
Gestão de processos na área de saúde;
Gestão de processos para governo eletrônico;
Gestão de processos para aplicações científicas.

III WORKSHOP DE GERENCIAMENTO DE PROJETOS DE SOFTWARE

jueves, 18 de febrero de 2010

III WORKSHOP DE GERENCIAMENTO DE PROJETOS DE SOFTWARE (WGPS 2010)
Em conjunto com o IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS)
Belém/PA – 11 de Junho de 2010

Introdução

O III Workshop de Gerenciamento de Projetos de Software (WGPS) ocorrerá no escopo das atividades do IX Simpósio
Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS 2010) e será, a exemplo dos anos anteriores, um fórum dedicado à
apresentação dos resultados obtidos com a aplicação do Gerenciamento de Projetos no contexto de Tecnologia da
Informação. O objetivo deste workshop é compartilhar conhecimento de técnicas, ferramentas, métodos e relatos de
experiências de Gerenciamento de Projetos no segmento de Tecnologia da Informação, mostrando os resultados obtidos
e as lições aprendidas. Pretende-se ainda estimular a integração e a cooperação de pesquisadores nesta área, com
empresas e entidades que apóiam, oferecem serviços, ferramentas ou utilizam conceitos de Gerenciamento de Projetos
nas suas organizações.


Datas importantes

- Prazo de submissão de artigos: 04/04/2010

- Notificação aos autores: 02/05/2010

- Entrega da versão final (camera-ready): 07/05/2010


Tópicos de interesse

Os temas de interesse do WGPS 2010 incluem relatos de experiências que revelem exemplos da aplicação de boas
práticas de Gerenciamento de Projetos na área de Tecnologia da Informação, mais especificamente em software, sem,
no entanto, se limitar a eles:

- Casos de Projetos bem sucedidos
- Lições Aprendidas em Projetos mal sucedidos
- Gerenciamento Ágil de Projetos
- Ferramentas de Gerenciamento de Projetos
- Análise de Viabilidade de Projetos
- Gerenciamento de Projetos no Contexto do CMMI e MPS-BR
- Garantia da Qualidade em Software
- Gerenciamento de Desenvolvimento de Produtos em Software
- Métricas de Software
- Gerenciamento de Riscos
- Comunicação em Projetos
- Corrente Crítica
- Gestão de Mudanças em Projetos de Software
- Gerência de Portfolio de Projetos


Submissão dos trabalhos

Prazo para submissão: 04/04/2010

Todos os trabalhos submetidos serão avaliados pelos membros do Comitê de Programa, formado por especialistas na
área de Gerenciamento de Projetos. Os artigos devem obrigatoriamente atender aos seguintes critérios, todos
eliminatórios:

- Seguir rigorosamente as instruções de formatação
- Não possuir qualquer tipo de Marketing de fornecedores ou produtos
- Apresentar resultados práticos
- Possuir relevância para a comunidade de Gerenciamento de Projetos, especialmente na área de Tecnologia da
Informação
- Possuir atratividade para o público presente no WGPS

Os trabalhos selecionados deverão ser apresentados pelos autores durante o Workshop e serão publicados nos anais
do evento. A submissão ao III WGPS deve ser feita através de um relato de experiência descrevendo e analisando a
aplicação de processos, métodos ou ferramentas de gerenciamento de projetos, contextualizando a experiência e
mostrando os resultados obtidos e lições aprendidas, em um caso prático, com contribuição para a indústria de
software. Os trabalhos devem ser submetidos diretamente de forma eletrônica pelo sistema JEMS, utilizando a
seguinte página: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbqs2010.

Com relação ao formato, pede-se observar os requisitos a seguir, que são todos obrigatórios. O relato de
experiência deve:- ser escrito em português ou inglês- ter entre 4 e 6 páginas, incluindo todas as figuras,
referências e apêndices- seguir o formato definido pela SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação), disponível em
http://www.sbc.org.br, indo até a aba “Eventos”, janela “Arquivos” (à esquerda), item “Modelo para publicação de
artigos” - ser enviado no formato Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)

Workshop on the Grand Challenge in Verified Software

Call for Papers - GCVS 2010
Workshop on the Grand Challenge in Verified Software

Edinburgh, Scotland
14th July, 2010

Affiliated with the
International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification
CAV 2010

http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/~marcel/events/gcvs2010/

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The workshop on the Grand Challenge in Verified Software (GCVS
2010) will take place on July the 14th. The focus of this
workshop will be on tools, theories and experiments. Consisting
of contributed papers and invited talks, the workshop will
focus on the tools behind the development of systematic methods
for specifying, building, and verifying high-quality software.
This includes topics like: program logic; specification and
verification techniques; tool support for specification
languages; tool for various design methodologies; tool
integration and plug-ins; automation in formal verification;
tool comparisons and benchmark repositories; combination of
tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software
specification vs. engineering techniques); and customising
tools for particular applications.

Papers about tool architectures and their achievements are most
welcome. The contributed papers, which should report on
previously unpublished work, can reflect current and
preliminary work in areas of software verification. New
technical results, overviews of new developments in software
verification projects, short papers accompanying tool
demonstrations, as well as position papers on how to further
advance the goal of verified software are all welcome.

Papers will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance,
technical soundness and presentation quality. Papers must be
written in English and not exceed 20 pages in the Formal
Aspects of Computing format. Papers can be submitted via the
following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcvs2010. A special
issue of Formal Aspects of Computing is under negotiation.
These would be refereed in the usual fashion prior to
acceptance by the journal.


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Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 11, 2010

Paper submission: April 18, 2010

Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2010

Final version due: June 6, 2010

AI Space Odyssey, Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems


CALL FOR PAPERS
AI Space Odyssey, Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems


Submissions due for review: 19 February 2010
Publication date: September/October 2010

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iscfp5
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IEEE Intelligent Systems seeks original papers describing research on AI in Space. This topic has been the focus of earlier special issues, but this call is interested in a glimpse of the future from our standpoint in 2010, and hence the theme AI Space Odyssey.

In anticipation of long-duration space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, likely by many nations, we are looking for papers describing how AI has made missions possible and will help make missions a success. Whereas in the 1980s and 1990s, researchers saw AI as a panacea for intelligent autonomous systems, the AI technology used today in space applications is often regarded differently. The editors of this special issue solicit papers that describe new and novel use of AI technology for space applications.

Papers may cover a variety of topics, listed here in no particular order:

* semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation;
* pattern recognition and scientific discovery;
* Intelligent System-Health Management (ISHM);
* teleoperation and telerobotics;
* planning, scheduling, constraint satisfaction;
* adjustable autonomy;
* agent-based and multiagent systems;
* machine learning;
* procedure-execution monitoring and aiding;
* natural language processing and dialogue systems;
* decision support; and
* history of AI applications in astronautics and space exploration.

In addition, the special issue will consider original papers on innovative, knowledge-based approaches to complex implementation challenges such as

* AI-driven simulations, virtual reality, virtual worlds and games for
engineering, operations, management, training, and so on;
* software engineering, development, and verification and validation
approaches for high-reliability autonomy;
* innovative approaches to security issues in autonomous software
systems;
* software life-cycle issues with respect to very long-duration (10+
year) missions;
* decision and workflow support systems for planetary exploration and
extra-vehicular activities;
* AI-driven robotics and approaches for human-robot teamwork;
* Smart sensor systems for situational awareness; and
* ubiquitous computing environments.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should situate the work within the field of AI, cite related work, and indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its direct contribution to the special challenges of space missions. We will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will undergo peer and editorial review. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and should be 3,500 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazines style and presentation guidelines (see www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm). References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at
https://mc.manuscriptcentral/cs-ieee.

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International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems


CALL FOR PAPERS
10th IFIP WG 6.1
International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems


DAIS 2010

"Applications and services for a complex world"

In-cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and SIGAPP

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 7-9, 2010

http://discotec.project.cwi.nl/DAIS.htm

To be held in conjunction with
FMOODS/FORTE 2010 and Coordination 2010
http://discotec.project.cwi.nl/


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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Distributed application technology has become a foundation of the information
society. New computing and communication technologies have brought up a
multitude of challenging application areas, including mobile computing,
inter-enterprise collaborations, ubiquitous services, service-oriented
architectures, autonomous and self-adapting systems, peer-to-peer systems,
just to name a few. New challenges include the need for novel abstractions
supporting the development, deployment, management and interoperability of
evolutionary and complex applications and services, such as those bridging the
physical/virtual worlds. Therefore, the linkage between applications,
platforms and users through multi-disciplinary user requirements (like
security, privacy, usability, efficiency, safety, semantic and pragmatic
interoperability of data and services, dependability, trust and
self-adaptivity) becomes of special interest. It is envisaged that future
complex applications will far exceed those of today in terms of these
requirements.

The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications,
including their design, implementation and operation, the supporting
middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well
as experimental studies and practice reports. This time we welcome in
particular contributions on architectures, models, technologies and platforms
for large scale and complex distributed applications and services that are
related to the latest trends towards bridging the physical/virtual worlds
based on flexible and versatile service architectures and platforms.

DAIS'10 is the 10th event in a series of successful international conferences
which started in 1997. It will provide a forum for researchers, application
and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new
approaches, trends, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed
computing.


CONFERENCE THEMES

DAIS'10 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience reports. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

DAIS'10 especially encourages submissions addressing the following topics:

- novel and innovative applications in the areas of
* ubiquitous and pervasive computing
* sensor networks
* mobile computing
* peer-to-peer systems and platforms
* Cloud and enterprise computing
* collaborative intelligent devices (e.g., robots)

- models, methodology and concepts supporting distributed applications with
respect to
* sustainability
* dependability and resilience
* evolution
* energy efficiency
* robustness and trust
* usability
* autonomy

- middleware and software engineering techniques supporting distributed
applications in the areas of
* autonomic and resilient systems
* mobile systems
* context- and QoS-aware systems
* evolution of service-oriented applications
* enterprise-wide and global integration
* semantic interoperability
* application and service management
* domain-specific modelling languages
* model-driven software development, testing, validation, and adaptation
* model evolution
* software architecture and patterns


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be done electronically as postscript or PDF, using the
Springer LNCS style. DAIS'10 seeks:

- Full technical papers in no more than 14 pages,
- Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results,
in no more than 6 pages.

Both categories of papers will be reviewed thoroughly by the DAIS'10 Program
Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published
by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. More specific guidelines on the
preparation of papers can be found on the conference website.

*New:* Extended versions of selected best papers published in DAIS'10 will be
invited for publication in a dedicated special issue of Wiley Software:
Practice and Experience

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission February *15*, 2010 (Extended!)
Full paper submission: February *19*, 2010 (Extended!)
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2010
Camera ready version: April 2, 2010
Conference dates: June 7-9, 2010

VIII Workshop de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software


VIII Workshop de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software (WTDQS)

(Em conjunto com SBQS 2010 - http://www.ufpa.br/sbqs2010/)

CHAMADA DE TRABALHOS


O VIII Workshop de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software (WTDQS), inserido no IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS2010), é um fórum dedicado à apresentação e discussão de trabalhos de mestrado e de doutorado em Qualidade de Software em desenvolvimento no Brasil.


O objetivo deste evento é propiciar um ambiente construtivo para discussões, dando oportunidade aos alunos não somente de obterem uma realimentação sobre os seus trabalhos, mas também um posicionamento em relação à pesquisa em Qualidade de Software. Pretende-se também estimular a integração e a cooperação de pesquisadores nesta área, bem como oferecer maior visibilidade às pesquisas em andamento para a comunidade acadêmica e industrial.


O WTDQS ocorrerá no dia 07 de junho de 2010. Todos os trabalhos submetidos serão avaliados por três membros do Comitê de Programa. Os trabalhos selecionados deverão ser apresentados pelo aluno durante o Workshop, onde receberão opiniões e críticas construtivas do Corpo Convidado de Debatedores, composto por pesquisadores da área de Qualidade de Software, bem como da comunidade presente. Espera-se ao final do evento identificar os principais temas de pesquisa no país na área de qualidade de software, promover a integração entre as universidades, alunos e professores, bem como delinear áreas de atuação para trabalhos futuros. As versões finais dos trabalhos apresentados serão publicadas na página oficial do SBQS 2010.

Tópicos de Interesse:


Os temas de interesse do WTDQS 2010 incluem os seguintes tópicos relacionados com Qualidade de Software, sem, no entanto, se limitar a eles:

  • Qualidade do Processo e/ ou Produto de Software
  • Avaliação de Processo e/ ou Produto de Software
  • Melhoria de Processo e/ ou Produto de Software
  • Modelagem de Processo de Software
  • Modelos e Normas na Área de Qualidade de Software
  • Educação em Qualidade de Software
  • Qualidade de Software na Web
  • Qualidade de Software Orientado a Objetos
  • Qualidade e Métodos Ágeis
  • Ferramentas para Qualidade de Software
  • Gerência e/ ou Garantia de Qualidade de Software
  • Verificação, Validação e Testes
  • Revisões e Inspeções

Datas Importantes:

  • Submissão de Artigos: 18/04/2010 (23h55 horário de Brasília)
  • Notificação aos Autores: 19/05/2010
  • Entrega da Versão Final (camera-ready): 24/05/2010
  • Realização do WTDQS: 07/06/2010
  • Realização do SBQS 2010: 07/06/2010 a 11/06/2010

Submissão de Trabalhos


A submissão ao VIII WTDQS deve ser feita através de um artigo (resumo estendido) caracterizando o trabalho de mestrado ou doutorado. Prioridade será dada nos seguintes casos:

  • Trabalhos de doutorado que estejam no segundo ou terceiro ano, que tenham defendido ou que estejam próximos à defesa de sua proposta de trabalho de tese (qualificação).
  • Trabalhos de mestrado que já tenham proposta aprovada e que tenham prazo previsto de conclusão para os próximos 12 meses.

Trabalhos de mestrado ou doutorado já concluídos ou, em fase de conclusão, ou seja, cuja defesa esteja prevista para ocorrer próxima (antes ou depois) a data do WTDQS não devem ser submetidos.


Os trabalhos podem ser submetidos em português ou inglês. Os artigos deverão ser submetidos eletronicamente pelo sistema JEMS, utilizando a seguinte página: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbqs2010

Todos os trabalhos devem conter uma folha de rosto, incluindo as seguintes informações:

  • Título
  • Aluno
  • Orientador
  • Nível (mestrado ou doutorado)
  • Programa de pós-graduação
  • E-mail de contato do aluno
  • Ano de ingresso no programa
  • Mês/Ano previsto para conclusão
  • Data da aprovação da proposta de tese ou dissertação (qualificação)
  • Resumo
  • Palavras-chave (de acordo com os assuntos acima relacionados)

O conteúdo do trabalho deve iniciar na segunda página, devendo ser apresentado de forma clara e objetiva através dos seguintes tópicos:

  • Caracterização do problema
  • Fundamentação teórica
  • Metodologia e estado atual do trabalho
  • Trabalhos relacionados
  • Resultados esperados


O artigo deve respeitar o formato de artigos SBC (template SBC) a partir da segunda página e ser submetido em formato PDF (exclusivamente) com o seguinte limite de número de páginas:

  • Mestrado: folha de rosto e até 5 páginas de conteúdo
  • Doutorado: folha de rosto e até 7 páginas de conteúdo

Trabalhos em formato diferente de PDF, que excedam o número de páginas ou que violem as instruções de formato não serão considerados.

International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing

miércoles, 17 de febrero de 2010


The 7th International Conference on
Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2010)
- Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality -



http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/atc2010/
Technically Sponsored by IEEE CS TCFC
Xi¡¯an, China, 26-29 October, 2010
Co-located with UIC 2010 (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/)

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Computing systems including hardware, software, communication, and networks are growing towards an ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, becoming overly complex. Such complexity is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, Autonomic Computing (AC) focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that exhibit self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-x operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance. Organic Computing (OC) additionally addresses adaptivity, robustness, and controlled emergence as well as nature-inspired concepts for self-organization.

Any autonomic or organic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems, and services. Trusted/Trustworthy Computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication systems as well as services available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persistable, security/privacy protectable, etc.

A series of grand challenges exists to achieve practical autonomic or organic systems with truly trustworthy services. Started in 2005, the series of ATC conferences has been held at Nagasaki, Vienna, Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong, Oslo and Brisbane. ATC 2010 will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches. Established as a premier venue in the area of autonomic and trusted computing, ATC 2010 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic/organic computing (AC/OC) and trusted computing (TC). Topics include but are not limited to the following:

- AC/OC Theory and Models:Models, negotiation, cooperation, competition,self-organization, emergence, verification etc.
- AC/OC Architectures and Systems:Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks,middleware, observer/controller architectures, etc.
- AC/OC Components and Modules:Multi-core CPU, memory, storage, database, device,server, proxy, software, OS, I/O, etc.
- AC/OC Communication and Services:Networks, self-organized net, web service, P2P, grid,EaaS, could, semantics, agent, transaction, etc.
- AC/OC Tools and Interfaces:Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development,test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc.
- Trust Models and Specifications:Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust,over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc.
- Trust-related Security and Privacy:Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy,intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc.
- Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems: Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy,robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc.
- Trustworthy Services and Applications:Trustworthy Internet/web/P2P/grid/cloud services,secured mobile services, novel applications, etc.
- Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues: Trust standards and issues related to personality,ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc.

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ATC2010 will host some workshops on various technical subjects (see the web site).

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Important Dates:
Conference Dates: OCT 26-29, 2010
paper Submission: April 30, 2010
Authors Notification: June 30, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2010

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PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted main conference papers are planned to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed).
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings.
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (EI indexed).
Selected papers, after extension and further revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals.

NOSSDAV 2010


NOSSDAV 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 2-4, 2010
http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/nossdav10/

NOSSDAV 2010 is the 20th anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on
network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The
workshop, hosted by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), will continue to focus on emerging
research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions
in the area of multimedia systems research.

As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format
a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and
junior participants.

NOSSDAV encourages experimental research based on real systems and
real data sets. Public availability of the source code and data sets
discussed in papers presented at NOSSDAV is highly encouraged.

For NOSSDAV 2010, we will accept papers on a broad ranges of topics
related to the transmission and presentation of digital audio/video
objects. We are particularly interested in soliciting articles that
discuss systems-level support for distributed social networking, as
well as papers that focus on local dispatching and performance aspects
of multi-core processors. Other topics of interest include (but are
not restricted to):

* OS, middleware and network support
* Overlay networks
* Media streaming, distribution and storage support
* Web 2.0 systems and social networks
* Media sensor and ad hoc networks / Embedded systems
* Multicore architecture support
* Wireless and mobile multimedia systems / Network processor support
* Networked GPU's, graphics and virtual environments
* Networked games / Real-time immersive systems
* Multimedia communications and system security

Please contact the workshop general and program chairs to check if
your topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. In all cases, the quality
of presentation (writing style, clarity for persons outside the direct
field) will play a role in submission evaluation.

Submissions should be at most SIX pages, using standard ACM
proceedings style.

Authors of papers selected by the program committee (and one wild-card
paper selected by NOSSDAV participants) will be invited to submit an
extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer
Multimedia Systems Journal.

Important Dates

(Firm) Paper Deadline: 17 February 2010
Decision Notification: 25 March 2010
Camera Ready Due: 9 April 2010

International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation


IEEE WETICE 2010 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
CALL FOR PAPERS

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June 28 - June 30, 2010, Larissa (Greece)

http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS10

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# Papers Due: *** March 2, 2010 ***

# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings

# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.

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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central

activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of

existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to

investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For

this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and

research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,

manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and

sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the

investigated systems increases and the types of investigations

widens, the cost of M&S activities increases because of the more

complex models and of the communications among a wider number and

variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator

users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address

the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative

technologies must be introduced to support these activities by

fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the

communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by

integrating processes, tools and platforms.


Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to

M&S activities, the workshop seeks innovative contributions that

deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of

collaborative environments. These environments are continuously

becoming more complex and therefore their design requires

systematic approaches to meet the required quality of

collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce

rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to

maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the

collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies

and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to

improve the quality of collaborative environments.


A non-exhaustive list of hi-level topics includes:


* collaborative environments for M&S

* agent-based M&S

* collaborative distributed simulation

* net-centric M&S

* web-based M&S

* model sharing and reuse

* model building and evaluation

* modeling and simulation of business processes

* modeling for collaboration

* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative

networks

* model-driven simulation engineering

* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative

environments

* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S


To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider

scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions

that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.


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On-Line Submissions and Publication

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CoMetS'10 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners

to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative

applications and trends in the workshop research area.


Papers should contain original contributions not published or

submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,

tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the

IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt

Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)

and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee

members.


Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the

proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE

approval pending). Note that at least one author from each

accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2010 to get the

paper published in the proceedings.


Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests

and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted

in PDF format at the submission site

(
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets10), which is
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please

contact the workshop chairs (
comets10@easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.


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Important Dates

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* Submission Deadline: March 2, 2010

* Decision to paper authors: April 2, 2010

* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 14, 2010

* Conference dates: June 28 - June 30, 2010