COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS

31st Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference


Beijing, July 23-27, 2OO7

The First IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in the Automotive Domain (SECAD)

The First IEEE International Workshop on
Software Engineering Challenges in the Automotive Domain
(SECAD 2007)

Download the CFP (pdf)

in conjunction with IEEE COMPSAC 2007, Beijing, July 23-27, 2007
MOTIVATIONS AND BACKGROUND

Not many years ago, Information Technology made its first appearance in automobile functions control. Since then, technical solutions have run again through all the stages of the longer evolution of computer systems. Doubtfully accepted at first in a community of electrical engineers, in the form of program-control based devices, they have now boom-evolved into integrated networks of tens and tens of active nodes, each one performing complex, often time-constrained functions. Continuous market pressure for all-in-a-car integrated services (including passenger comfort control, environment interaction and web services) and car control (including engine control and x-by-wire drive), claims for deployment of the most advanced research results. As research is often pushed on by strong competition and needs of solving highly complex problems, automotive issues have become a leading application domain for stimulating and experimenting advances in software engineering.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Selected experts worldwide, representing all the involved actors (car makers, technology suppliers, researchers, end-users) are invited to present their position papers and discuss, in an interactive panel, the mutual impact between current/future achievements in software engineering and emerging needs in automotive technology.
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
Submissions are invited of quality papers in the following categories, concerning themes of current interest in automotive software:
  • Technical solutions, or research papers identifying technical solutions, which are novel or significantly improve existing solutions (max 6 pages);
  • Scientific evaluation papers evaluating existing problems or validate/refuse existing solutions with scientific approaches (max 6 pages);
  • Industry papers, containing experience reports and relevant industrial problem statements (max 4 pages)
Topics of interest in automotive software include:

  • Continuously evolving requirements
  • Software issues in system and super-systems integration
  • Managing technological changes
  • Safety
  • Product and process certification
  • Product lines
  • Software process engineering
  • Info-mobility
  • Embedded intelligence
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Program Committee (provisional):

Paola Carrea CRF, Italy
Horst Degen-Heinz Kuegler-Maag, Germany
Alec Dorling Impronova, Sweden
Robert W. Ferguson S.E.I., U.S.A.
Isabel John Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Daichi Mizuguchi AIST, Japan
Terry Rout Griffith University, Australia
Clenio Salviano Cenpra, Brazil
Edoardo Sivera FIAT Auto, Italy
Chen Zhong Peking School of Software, China
IMPORTANT DATES
  • March 15, 2007 deadline for paper submission
  • March 30, 2007 notification of acceptance
  • April 30, 2007 camera-ready and author registration due
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers are submitted via the SECAD 2007 submission website.
PAPER PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007). 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.

Accepted papers will published in the COMPSAC Proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). All CPS Publications are captured in the online IEEE Digital Library and professionally indexed through INSPEC and IE Index (Elsevier¡¯s Engineering Information Index).
WORKSHOP LAYOUT
This one-day workshop will include presentation sessions and a moderated panel session on a relevant automotive software topic emerging from the contributions.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
SECAD 2007 is organized by the Systems and Software Evaluation Center (SSEC) at ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Organizing Committee (from SSEC at ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy):

  • Fabrizio Fabbrini
  • Mario Fusani
  • Giuseppe Lami
WORKSHOP INFORMATION AND GENERAL INQUIRIES
Mario Fusani (mario.fusani@isti.cnr.it)