[agents] CFP ICSOFT-PT 2013 - 8th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends

Tue Sep 25 09:47:24 EDT 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - ICSOFT-PT 2013

Website: http://www.icsoft-pt.org

July  29 - 31, 2013

Reykjavík, Iceland

Important Deadlines: 

Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2013

Authors Notification (regular papers): April 4, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 23, 2013 

ICSOFT-PT is part of ICSOFT, the International Conference on Software
Paradigm Trends

Registration to ICSOFT-PT allows free access to all other ICSOFT conferences

ICSOFT 2013 will be held in conjunction with DATA 2013 and SIMULTECH 2013  

Registration to ICSOFT allows free access to the DATA and SIMULTECH
conferences (as a non-speaker) 

The purpose of the ICSOFT-PT 2013, the 8th International Conference on
Software Paradigm Trends, is to bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners interested on information technology and software development.
This eighth edition will focus in priority on the four main paradigms that
have been intensively studied during the last decade for software and system
design, namely: Models, Aspects, Services and Context.

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to the design and development
of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level models and
computer-based automation to achieve significant improvements in both
productivity and quality. Model Driven Engineering has been popularized
during the last decade by a specific incarnation, model-driven architecture
(MDA) of OMG (Object management group).

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is an established technology for
separation of concerns (SOC) in software development. The techniques of AOSD
make it possible to modularize crosscutting aspects of a system. Like
objects, aspects may arise at any stage of the software lifecycle, including
requirements specification, design, implementation, etc. In recent years,
AOSD has been applied successfully for developing complex modern systems -
particularly software and software-intensive systems.

Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can
be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML
artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable
applications. During the last decade, Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has
been introduced as a new paradigm for distributed computing and e-business
processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to
enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications
distributed within and across organizational boundaries.

The term context awareness was first coined by Schilit in 1994. Context
encompasses all of the information relevant to an interaction between a
service and its set of users including the participants as well. In the
scope of pervasive computing, a context aware application is a class of
application that has raised increasing interest in the research community.
These applications can capture dynamically and take advantage of contextual
information.

These four paradigms will drive the design and development of future
software systems encompassing a large number of research topics and
applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical
aspects of software engineering; from models and services to the most
complex management information systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data
interoperability; context understanding and many other topics are included
in the scope of ICSOFT-PT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by
combining these paradigms, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering
or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or
technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general
survey papers indicating future directions around these paradigms are also
encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas
listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the
authors, will be published on the Proceedings of ICSOFT-PT, with an ISBN.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full
research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be
both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as
well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies
or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session
are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference
website.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal 

PROGRAM CHAIR

Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICSOFT 2013 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet
confirmed. 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). 

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
CCIS Series book. 

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index).

AWARDS

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information
(http://www.icsoft.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

Program Committee 

http://www.icsoft-pt.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

(list not yet complete)

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.icsoft-pt.org). 