********************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The 33rd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC 2009 http://www.compsac.org Seattle, USA, July 20 - 24, 2009 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ********************************************************************************* COMPSAC, first held in Chicago in 1977, is one of the major international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advances and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. 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, dependable and distributed computer services satisfying the needs of today's pervasive and ubiquitous computing environments spans all aspects of software systems engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum bringing together these facets and their major stakeholders. It gives research and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspective with others interested in the various aspects of computer systems and applications. Building on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable distributed software themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 33rd conference is HARMONIZING HUMANS, COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE IN SERVICE ENVIRONMENT The program of COMPSAC 2009 will continue to feature research and industrial practice papers with a wide range of topics, focusing (but not exclusively) on software and middleware development for distributed platforms, social and collaborative networks, services computing, cloud computing, data center design and applications, communication applications, and mobile and embedded systems. To properly engineer such domains, the foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the design, modelling, and evaluation of software systems and computer applications must come from diverse sources. Topics of interest include but are not limited to requirement analysis, co-analysis/co-design, modelling, development, testing, measurement, verification, validation, performance, autonomy, 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 of 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 proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and automatically included in the IEEE digital library. 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, fast abstracts, doctoral symposium and review process can be found at http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the camera-ready accepted papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages, and printed with 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 2009. The first author of the best student papers must be a full-time student. Doctoral Symposium papers are encouraged with reduced student registration rate. Student travel grants wiill be made available. Check the conference website for details. IMPORTANT DATES December 21, 2008: Workshop proposals due January 12, 2009: Main conference abstracts due January 30, 2009: Main conference full manuscripts due; Panel proposals due March 30, 2009: Decision notification (electronic) for Main conference papers April 30, 2009: Camera-ready manuscript submission and pre-registration due SUBMISSION Upload regular papers and fast abstracts in PDF, Postscript or RTF format at http://www.compsac.org/ Submit panel proposals according to the requirements posted on the conference web to Panel Chair Rajesh Subramanyan at rajesh.subramanyan@siemens.com with a copy to compsac@cs.iastate.edu Submit workshop proposals according to the requirements posted on the conference web to Workshop Chair Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed at iq@mscs.mu.edu with a copy to compsac@cs.iastate.edu Information on accepted panels, workshops and the submissions of workshop papers will be available at the conference website http://www.compsac.org/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair Tony Hey, Microsoft, USA Program Chairs (for Technical Program Inquiries) Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA at Bertino@cs.purdue.edu Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK at V.S.Getov@westminster.ac.uk Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China at linliu@tsinghua.edu.cn Best Practice Track Co-Chairs Darren Kerbyson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Jenny Li, Avaya Labs, USA Education and Learning Track Co-Chairs Hussein Zedan, Demontfort University, UK James Cross, Auburn University, USA Embedded Systems Track Co-Chairs Tiberiu Seceleanu, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Formal Methods Track Co-Chairs Michele Bugliesi, University of Venice, Italy Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden Location Based Services Track Co-Chairs Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Axel Küpper, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany Quality Track Co-Chairs Ron Kenett, KPA Ltd., Israel Joao Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Requirements Track Co-Chairs Eric Dubois, CRP Henry Tudor, Luxembourg Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Security Track Co-Chairs Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Jan Camenisch, IBM Research Zurich , Switzerland Social & Collaborative Networks Track Co-Chairs Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Software Architecture Track Co-Chairs Jose Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Software Evolution Track Co-Chairs Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Hongji Yang, Demontfort University, UK Testing Track Co-Chairs Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany Hong Zhu, Oxford Brooks University, UK Mobile & Pervasive Computing Track Co-Chairs Karl Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Workshop Chair Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Panel Chair Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Fast Abstract Chair Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, JAPAN Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs Jinchun Xia, San Jose State University, USA Massimo Copolla, CNR, Italy Technical Program Publicity Chairs Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Xianping Tao, Nanjing University, China Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA (More Progam Committee members are shown on the conference website.) CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Finance Chair Simanta Mitra, Iowa State University, USA Proceedings Chair Hua Ming, Iowa State University, USA Organizing Chair Laurel Tweed, Iowa State University, USA Registration Chair Kaishin Lu, Iowa State University, USA Web Chair Heyong Wang, Iowa State University, USA GENERAL INQUIRIES For more detailed and updated information, please refer to: http://www.compsac.org/ For further information, please contact: Carl Chang, Chair, Standing Committee, at chang@iastate.edu