32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008            Co-located with IPSJ/IEEE SAINT 2008

• ( Jul 28, 2008 ) Reception, Banquet and Morning Bus Schedule!
  • Conference Reception: Tuesday(Jul 29) , Radisson SAS. 18:30-21:00.
  • Conference Banquet: Wednesday(Jul 30), Turku Castle. 19:30-23:30. Bus provided at Radisson SAS from 6:00 pm, also every 20 minutes, until 7 pm.
  • Morning Bus: Tues-Thursday 7:30-8:30, Friday 7-8 am, every 20 minutes, from Radisson SAS, via Town Center (The Orthodox Church) to the University Amphitheater.

• (Jul 27,2008) Seattle, Washington - COMPSAC2009 Welcomes you !
• (Jul 27, 2008) Compsac2008 Final Program has been updated
• (Jun 24, 2008) Register NOW if you plan to attend either COMPSAC or SAINT, and book a hotel room immediately because all hotels in town will be sold out in a few days, perhaps before June 30.
• (May 23, 2008) Authors: A small number of authors have not submitted signed IEEE copyright form through CPS. Please do so as soon as possible, no later than Wednesday May 28. A paper will have to be removed from the proceedings if a corresponding properly executed IEEE copyright release form is not received before the proceedings is sent to the printer. An individualized email reminder will be sent out soon.
• (May 16, 2008) COMPSAC2008 Tentative Program available!
• (Apr 29, 2008) DEADLINE for Authors Advance Registration is May 2nd! (Junn 30 is for ALL OTHER Participants!)
• (Apr 21, 2008) Registration is Now Open!
• (Apr 14, 2008) Camera-Ready Submission Open!
• (Mar 31, 2008) COMPSAC 2008 Plenary Panel Schedule Available Now
1. Thursday July 31 (Early PM)
• Part I: How far have we come?
2. Friday August 1 (Early AM)
• Part II: How far can we go in the next 40 years?
• (Nov 17, 2007) COMPSAC 2008 Keynotes Schedule Available Now
1. Tuesday July 29
• Lee Williams, Senior Vice President, Nokia, Finland
2. Wednesday July 30
• Russell Taylor, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
3. Thursday July 31
• Jean Holley, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Tellabs, USA

Download the Call-for-Papers in pdf format, jointly with IPSJ/IEEE SAINT 2008: (http://saintconference.org/).

IEEE COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss the state of art, new advances, and future trends in software technologies and practices. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of workshops on emerging important topics.

The creation of trustworthy and dependable software spans all aspects of software engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum to bring together these facets and their major stakeholders. Building on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable software themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 32nd conference is INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS.

The program of COMPSAC 2008 will continue to feature research and industrial practice papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on the software engineering of critical infrastructure systems such as, but not limited to, civil, telecommunications, and medical systems. To properly engineer such systems, the foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the design, modeling, and evaluation of software systems must come from diverse sources. Topics of interest include requirement analysis, co-analysis and co-design, modeling, design, development, testing, measurement, verification and validation for performance, safety, security, and dependability constraints. Effective construction of these systems is not limited solely to the field of computer science and engineering and comes as a synergetic effort, between various domains of research. Multidisciplinary work, research and development software prototypes, industry-university collaborations, all based on new emerging and critical technologies will be of particular interest to this conference. All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and automatic inclusion in the IEEE digital library. Plans had been made to forward selected papers to archival journals for publications.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other publication venues are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel and workshop proposals, tutorial proposals, fast abstracts, doctoral symposium and review process can be found at http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the camera-ready of an accepted paper will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages, and printed on 10-12 point fonts. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted paper (regular, short, workshop) or fast abstract is required to pay full registration fee to the conference. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by the author or one of the authors. At least one Best Paper Award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by COMPSAC 2008. The first author of the best student papers must be a full-time student. Doctoral Symposium papers are encouraged with reduced student registration rate.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

• Aug 3, 2007: IEEE COMPSAC 2008 Call-For-Papers (pdf) published
• Dec 8, 2007: Workshop Proposals due
• Nov. 15, 2007: Preliminary Workshop Proposal submission due
• Dec. 1, 2007 : Feedback provided to the workshop proposers
• Dec. 8, 2007 : Final workshop proposal submission due
• Jan 15, 2008: Abstract due
• Jan 31(Feb 4), 2008: Full paper due
• Mar 31, 2008: Decision notification (electronic)
• Apr 30(May 2), 2008: Camera-Ready copy Pre-registration due
  

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chairs   Jan Bosch Intuit Inc., USA Johnny Wong Iowa State University USA   Program Chairs   Hannu Tenhunen Turku Centre for Computer Science University of Turku, Finland Email: hannu.tenhunen@utu.fi  T.Ming Jiang Department of EE and Communications Engineering National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Email: mjiang@ee.ccu.edu.tw Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu Department of Computer Science University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Email: fliu@umr.edu Best Practices Track(Track description) Chairs   Juha-Markus Aalto Nokia, Finland Email: juha-markus.aalto@nokia.com Thomas Weigert University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Email: weigert@umr.edu Education Track(Track description) Chairs   Pradip Srimani School of Computing Clemson University, USA Email: srimani@cs.clemson.edu Nancy Mead Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: nrm@sei.cmu.edu Embedded Systems Track(Track description) Chairs   Ahmed Jerraya Head of Design Programs CEA-LETI MINATEC, France Email: Ahmed.Jerraya@cea.fr Sahra Sedigh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Email: sedighs@umr.edu Formal Methods Track(Track description) Chairs   Cristina Seceleanu Mälardalen Real-time Research Centre (MRTC) Mälardalen University, Sweden Email: cristina.seceleanu@mdh.se Rustan Leino Programming Languages and Methods Group Microsoft Research, USA Email: leino@microsoft.com Informatics Track(Track description) Chairs   Bruce McMillin Department of Computer Science University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Email: ff@umr.edu Roy Campbell Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Email: rhc@uiuc.edu Mission Critical Track(Track description) Chair   Ivica Crnkovic Department of Computer Science and Electronics Mälardalen University, Sweden Email: ivica.crnkovic@mdh.se Stephen Chen Motorola Software Group USA Email: stephen.chen@motorola.com Software Quality Track(Track description) Chairs   Rajesh Subramanyan Siemens Corporate Research, USA Email:rajesh.subramanyan@siemens.com Joao Cangussu Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas, USA Email: cangussu@utdallas.edu Requirements Track(Track description) Chairs   Klaus Pohl Institute for Computer Science & Business Information Systems Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Email: klaus.pohl@sse.uni-due.de Jawed Siddiqi Software Engineering Sheffield Hallam University,UK Email: J.I.Siddiqi@shu.ac.uk Security Track(Track description) Chairs   Sheikh Ahamed Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Marquette University, USA Email: iq@mscs.mu.edu Virgil Gligor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: gligor@cmu.edu Software Architecture TrackTrack description) Chairs   Paolo Bellavista Computer Engineering at DEIS University of Bologna, Italy Email: pbellavista@deis.unibo.it Karl Leung Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong,China Email: phleung@cs.hku.hk Software & System Evolution Track(Track description) Chairs   Samik Basu Department of Computer Science Iowa State University, USA Email: sbasu@cs.iastate.edu Atilla Elçi Department of Computer Engineering Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Email: atilla.elci@emu.edu.tr Testing Track(Track description) Chairs   Fevzi Belli Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Paderborn, Germany Email: Fevzi.Belli@adt.upb.de Eric Wong Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas, USA Email: ewong@utdallas.edu Organization Chair   Tiberiu Seceleanu ABB Corporate Research Västerås, Sweden Email: tiberiu.seceleanu@se.abb.com   Workshop Chairs Mehmet A Orgun Macquarie University, Australia Email: mehmet@comp.mq.edu.au Lin Liu Tsinghua University, China Email: linliu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Fast Abstract Chair Hsinyi Jiang Department of Computer Science Iowa State University, USA Email: hsinyij@cs.iastate.edu Doctoral Symposium Chair Jinchun Xia Department of Computer Science Iowa State University, USA Email: jxia@cs.iastate.edu Proceedings Chair Ville Leppänen University of Turku and TUCS, Finland Email: Ville.Leppanen@cs.utu.fi Finance Chairs   Simanta Mitra Department of Computer Science Iowa State University, USA Email: smitra@cs.iastate.edu Christel Donner Turku Center for Computer Science, Finland Email: cdonner@abo.fi Local Arrangements Chairs Irmeli Laine Turku Center for Computer Science, Finland Email: Irmeli.Laine@abo.fi Tomi Mäntylä University of Turku, Finland Email: bgt@it.utu.fi Industrial Liaison Sussana Avessta Digital Media Service Innovations(DIMES), Finland Email: susanna.avessta@dimes.fi Registration Chair   Kaishin Lu Iowa State University, USA Email: kslu@cs.iastate.edu     Web Chair   Hua Ming Iowa State University, USA Email: hming@cs.iastate.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE

Carl K. Chang (Chair) Aditya Mathur Dick Simmons T. H. Tse Eric Wong Johnny Wong Stephen S. Yau Atilla Elçi Hong Mei Fevzi Belli Bruce McMillin Iowa State University, USA Purdue University, USA Texas A&M University, USA The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Texas at Dallas, USA Iowa State University, USA Arizona State University, USA Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Peking University, China University of Paderborn, Germany University of Missouri-Rolla, USA   chang@cs.iastate.edu apm@purdeu.edu simmons@cs.tamu.edu thtse@cs.hku.hk ewong@utdallas.edu wong@cs.iastate.edu yau@asu.edu atilla.elci@emu.edu.tr meih@pku.edu.cn Fevzi.Belli@adt.upb.de ff@umr.edu

GENERAL ENQUIRIES

For further information, please contact: Standing Committee Chair Carl Chang Iowa State University, USA Email: chang@iastate.edu