[Om-announce] ICECCS 2011: Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

[Carlo Alberto Furia]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS:  ICECCS 2011
                       http://www.iceccs.org/2011

              16th Annual IEEE International Conference on the
              Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS)
sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing (TCCX)

                          April 27th-29th, 2011
                           Las Vegas, NV, USA

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           Submission deadline (may be extended): November 30th, 2010
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The success of key human activities ranging from research and business to
everyday services relies on the use of ever more sophisticated,
feature-rich and complex computer systems. These complex computer systems
are regularly required to accomplish more, faster and on a broader scale,
to adapt dynamically to changing workloads, scenarios and objectives, and
to achieve guaranteed levels of performance and dependability. Satisfying
such demanding requirements in the presence of the variability,
heterogeneity and non-linear behaviour that characterise complex computer
systems poses numerous challenges to both their developers and their
users.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners
and leading experts from academia and industry, to advance the state of
the art in the specification, development, validation and verification,
and management of complex computer systems.

Scope and topics:
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished
research results, case studies and tools. Additionally, submissions of
poster papers are sought for two separate poster sessions: an "ongoing
research" poster session, and a "PhD research" poster session. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to the following aspects of complex
computer systems:

- Requirement specification and analysis
- Verification and validation
- Model-driven development
- Reverse engineering and refactoring
- Design by contract
- Agile methods
- Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures
- Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems
- Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems
- Systems of systems
- Tools and tool integration
- Industrial case studies

Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research,
lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems
faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich
and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs
of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers,
and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include
both academic and industrial papers on a given topic, and culminate with
panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research.

Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and
Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be
reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either
category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers
should describe original research, and experience reports should present
practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons
learnt from them.

Poster paper submissions should specify in their abstract whether they
describe ongoing or PhD research. Both types of poster papers will be
reviewed by program committee members, and accepted posters will be
published in the conference proceedin


Submission of Papers:
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Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of
the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Papers should not exceed 10
pages for full papers and 2 pages for poster papers, including figures,
references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format.
Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be
rejected immediately, without review.

See the submission guidelines on the conference web site.

Important Dates:
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Submission of titles and abstracts            ASAP
Submission of all papers                      30 November, 2010
Notification of acceptance                    17 December, 2010
Camera-ready material for publicatio          15 January,  2011
Registration deadline for authors             15 January,  2011
Early registration deadline for non-authors   22 February, 2011


General Chair:
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Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Program Chairs:
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Karin Breitman, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Isabelle Perseil, Inserm, France

Program Committee:
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Marc Aiguier, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Yamine AitAmeur, LISI/ENSMA, France
Luis Almeida, Fac. de Eng. da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Luciano Baresi, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jonathan P. Bowen, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Phil Brooke, University of Teesside, United Kingdom
Jean-Michel Bruel, IRIT, France
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Jordi Cabot, INRIA-École des Mines de Nantes, France
Radu Calinescu, Aston University, United Kingdom
Antonio Cerone, International Institute for Software Technology United 
Nations
University, Macau SAR China
Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Patrick Cousot, New York University and École normale supérieure, France
Jim Davies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Juan deLara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Mieso Denko, UoG, Canada
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Gilles Dowek, Laboratoire d'Informatique(LIX), École Polytechnique and 
INRIA, France
Kerstin Eder, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Huascar Espinoza, ESI Tecnalia, Spain
François Fages, INRIA, France
Hector Figueiredo, BAE Systems, United Kingdom
Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Norway
Robert France, Colorado State University, United States
Carlo Alberto Furia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Louis Giavitto, CNRS and University of Evry, France
Mark Grechanik, Accenture Labs, United States
Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Gaétan Hains, Univeristy Paris Est, France
Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
Joseph Kiniry, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria
Daniel Krob, Laboratoire d'Informatique(LIX), École Polytechnique and 
CNRS, France
Ralf Laemmel, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Regine Laleau, Paris Est Creteil University, France
Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, United States
Kung-Kiu Lau, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Zhiming Liu, International Institute for Software Technology United Nations
University,Macau SAR China
Giuseppe Longo, École normale supérieure and CNRS, France
Gerald Luettgen, University of Bamberg, Germany
Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada
Tiziana Margaria, Potsdam University, Germany
Julie McCann, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Paul Mckee, BT Innovate and Design, United Kingdom
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom
Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France
Isabelle Perseil, Inserm, France
Robert Pettit, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
Ivan Porres, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, United States
Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Janet Smart, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Ian Sommerville, St Andrews University, United Kingdom
Jörn Guy Süß, ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia
Volker Stolz, United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macau SAR China
Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, United States
Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey
Suresh Thummalapenta, NC State University, United States
Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga, Spain
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom
Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China
Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, United Kingdom