ICSSEA 2007 20th International Conference on Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications
Paris , France
In the face of increasing integration of technical, social and informational environments, it is no longer possible to bind information systems or computer applications to the sole context of a particular group of users or organization.
Sponsored by SEE & IEEE France Section
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY
In the face of increasing integration of technical, social and informational environments, it is no longer possible to bind information systems or computer applications to the sole context of a particular group of users or organization. In the context of more and more integrated business processes, involving increasing numbers of companies of different sectors as a virtual enterprise, a real cooperation between computer systems is strongly required. Correlatively to the emergence of Internet and mobile communications, the trend is now to offer to the citizen more powerful, sophisticated context-aware, and ubiquitous services, requiring a reliable ad hoc orchestration of multiple and heterogeneous information sources and systems.
In the past, industry and software vendors were coping with the "plumbing"
aspects of interoperability, i.e. ensuring that the bits could reliably flow from a computer to another. Now that connectivity to diverse sources has eased with standard protocols, the emphasis is shifting to semantic interoperability, i.e., to the ability to achieve meaningfully exchange of information among independently developed systems, including the"understanding" of the information's format, meaning, and information quality. Information interoperability continues to be a major challenge for industries that have now to cope with continuous change, mergers, splits, as well as technology evolution. Ontology and knowledge-based approaches are constantly proposed as a basis for solutions to such a challenge, but new approaches facilitating an "a posteriori" interoperability of already existing systems are also strongly required.
Beyond information interoperability, cooperation between systems should be possible, i.e. different systems should be able to provide each other with context-aware services, enabling the emergence of a set of higher level services. In this context, the emerging idea of systems of systems puts the emphasis on the need for new system engineering methods taking cooperation into account.
The classical approach of software and system design, based on the paradigm of well-known and fixed environment and user community should evolve towards new methods taking into account the ability to interoperation. New approaches such as collaborative systems, agent-based systems or ambient information environments have to be developed.
With regard to the above trend, software and systems processes, methods, architecture models, and tools ineluctably require novel approaches adapted to interoperability. Assuredly, this concerns system global life cycle, particularly requirements engineering, designing as well as testing and validating software & systems.
Co-organized by SEE and the Center for Mastering Systems & Software (CMSL) of CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), the 20th edition of the ICSSEA Conference (International Conference on Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications) will be held in Paris on December 4-6, 2007. It aims at providing a critical survey of the current status of tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software & systems, in gathering actors from the enterprise and research worlds. However, lectures and discussions will be conducted with service and system interoperability as a leitmotiv.
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TOPICS
As for previous editions, any topic in connection with software engineering& systems engineering as well as any application area is eligible (information systems, process management, composition of services, EAI, Web-based systems, adaptive systems, distributed systems, real-time systems, embedded systems, grid computing...). However, the following topics, in the context of systems & services interoperability, will be particularly appreciated:
- Software& systems architecture: service orientation, composition of Web services, interoperability, model-based architectures, orchestration, inter-organizational process management, urbanization & enterprise architecture, enterprise models integration, application coupling and uncoupling, evolution, non-functional features, agents & Web intelligence, mobile and adaptive applications...
- Requirements& specification engineering: modeling, prototyping, animation, simulation, scenario-based analysis, aspect-oriented modeling, goal-directed approaches, formal methods, multifaceted reasoning, approaches based on natural language processing, V&V...
- Software variability: specifications, configuration and reconfiguration (automated, on-line, guided by desired features), adaptive systems, agent modeling, variant creation mechanisms, product lines and families, impact on development and validation processes...
- Components& reuse: frameworks, components, COTS, product lines, composition mechanisms, customizing, distributed components, interoperability between frameworks, MDA and MDE, generative development, variant creation, generic programming, aspect orientation, archiving & retrieval, distribution, reuse & Internet, testing in the presence of third party components, validation, certification...
- Internet software and systems engineering: Web services, Web-based tools and methods or conversely, software& systems engineering tools and methods for Web-based applications and systems: architecture, design, testing, assessment (complexity, reliability, integrity, maintainability, performances, quality, scalability...)
- Process engineering: evaluation, improvement, approaches, agile processes, extreme programming, co-design, concurrent engineering, workflow management, distributed development, virtual teams, experience feedback, knowledge management...
- Project management: cost and delay estimation, indicators& dashboards, experience feedback, risk management, value analysis, customer-contractor relationship management...
- Quality control& assurance: V & V, testing, conformance testing, metrics, reliability, assessing non-functional characteristics (dependability, usability...), assessing customer satisfaction...
Papers submitted, original and unpublished, may concern industrial implementations or experiments, describe significant results from ongoing projects as well as research results susceptible of industrial applications, deal with socioeconomic issues associated with software & systems engineering, or propose tool demonstrations and posters. They should clearly describe the nature of the work presented, explain its contribution, highlight its novel features and state precisely its current status.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Submission and selection of proposed interventions will be conducted as
follows:
1- Submit, before May 20, 2007,
- for industrial implementations and experiments, a text of at least 1000 words (about 5,000 characters, figures excluded), in English, including the title of the paper, an abstract of about 200 words, and the address, phone and fax numbers as well as the email address of the authors. If already available, a complete text (about 20,000 characters) would be welcome.
- for applied research results, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters (figures included), in English, including the title of the paper, a 200-500 word summary, and the address, phone and fax numbers as well as the email address of the authors.
- for tools demonstrations and posters presentations, a text not exceeding
2 pages
2- Full papers or extended abstracts will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers and selected by the International Program Committee.
3- Authors of accepted papers orextended papers will be notified as from June 15, 2007 and will receive the recommendations made by the International Program Committee.
4- Authors of accepted abstracts or full papers should provide, before September 1st, 2007, a text not exceeding 20,000 characters, figures included, in the form of a file, in Word format, attached to an electronic message. Final texts will be submitted, for final checking, to the International Program Committee before publication in the Conference Proceedings available during the event.
5- At least one author is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper