[aosd-announce] Software Engineering and Middleware Workshop CFP

[Eric Wohlstadter]

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  CALL FOR PAPERS 

 

  Software Engineering and Middleware Workshop (SEM 2006)

  10-11 November 2006

  Co-located with FSE 2006, Portland, Oregon

  Workshop web site: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~wohlstad/sem/

  

  IMPORTANT DATES 

  

  Submission deadline: 23 August 2006

  Acceptance notification: 18 September 2006 

  

  DETAILS

  

  Software is becoming pervasive thanks to the increasing availability of
computing power on many different devices, each with different capabilities
in terms of display, storage space, mobility, and operating system. A
driving vision is collaboration and cooperation among multiple devices, each
with tasks tailored to their users and capabilities. Managing the complexity
creating this vision naturally leads to the development of stable middleware
frameworks to help developers address issues such as scale, heterogeneity,
dynamicity, and composability. Middleware can be roughly characterized as
support for object oriented systems (e.g., CORBA, DCOM, J2EE), support for
message oriented systems (Publish/Subscribe), support for application
service integration (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), or other modalities tailored to
specific environments. Complex applications benefit from the abstractions of
middleware, but only if the middleware itself is complex enough to address
and deal with the environment. Therefore, middleware must incorporate the
research results from areas such as distributed computing, object-oriented
design methods, programming languages, security, etc. Such a combination
introduces new challenges for middleware developers. Software engineers are
thus challenged to support the development of new middleware and to support
the new development practices for those writing applications on top of
middleware. 

 

  SEM is the premier workshop that brings together the research and practice
community of software engineering working in both areas. SEM 2006 is the
sixth international workshop on software engineering and middleware of the
EDO/SEM workshop series. Previous workshops of this series were held in
1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005. SEM 2006 will be held in Portland as a
workshop associated to the FSE 2006 conference. The program committee seeks
papers related to all aspects of middleware and its relationship to software
engineering. 

 

  Topics include, but are not limited to: 

  

  Software Architectures for MW

  Automatic Reasoning of MW          

  MW Interoperability

  Aspect-oriented Programming and MW       

  MW and Component-based SE   

  MW for Ubiquitous Systems          

  Testing of MW-Based Apps.       

  MW for Extreme Environments       

  MW for Mobile Environments       

  MW and Web Tech. Integration      

  Web Service Design and Development     

  MW for Service-Based Systems

  SW Development methods for MW-based Apps. 

  MW-Based Applications: Modeling and Specification

  MW Issues: Performance, Reliability, Security, Heterogeneity, Scalability 

   

  Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted electronically from the
workshop web site. Submissions should use the LNCS format, be no more than

15 pages, and be in English. Selection will be based both on originality of
the idea as well as its ability to generate productive discussion. 

  

  ORGANIZATION 

  

  Program Chair 

  

  Eric Wohlstadter

  Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

  wohlstad at cs.ubc.ca 

  

  Co-Organizer 

  

  Charles Zhang

  Univ. of Toronto, Canada

  czhang at eecg.utoronto.ca 

  

  Program Committee 

  

  Boualem Benatallah, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

  Antonio Carzaniga, Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland. Univ. of Colorado, USA.

  Betty Cheng, Michigan State Univ., USA

  Eric Eide, Univ. of Utah, USA

  Benoit Garbinato, Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland

  Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands

  H.-Arno Jacobsen, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

  Christine Julien, UT Austin, USA

  Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

  Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech., USA

  Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascal Univ., France

  Steve Vinoksi, IONA, USA

  

  Steering Committee 

  

  Alberto Coen-Porisini, Univ. dell'Insubria, Italy

  Premkumar Devanbu, Univ. of Calif. Davis, USA

  Wolfgang Emmerich, Univ. College London, UK

  Volker Gruhn, Univ. Leipzig, Germany

  Stefan Tai, IBM Research, USA

  Andre van der Hoek, Univ. of Calif. Irvine, USA

  Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

  Cecilia Mascolo, Univ. College London, UK

  

 

 

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