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The Fifth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE)

Call for Papers

Scope

The Fifth International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE) will be held from July 4th to July 7th, 2011 in Verona, Italy. The conference will focus on the state of the art in the design, implementation and use of communication systems software and middleware systems, ranging from traditional telecommunication systems to mobile computing, multimedia systems, peer-to-peer networks and Internet services. The areas of interest will also include the interoperation, integration, connectivity and management of communication systems software and middleware systems. The COMSWARE conference is the premier international forum for researchers, business leaders, educators and practitioners to present and discuss the performance of current systems, in conjunction with the current trends and potential concerns in the field of communication systems software and middleware systems. The conference will feature a high quality technical program consisting of invited speakers, research and industry papers and workshops.

Topic areas

The specific topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Innovative architectures for Internet services, Web services, service computing, and cloud computing
Middleware and communication support for mobile devices, smart phones and smart applications
Security, and quality of service in communication networks, middleware, and Internet services
Methods and tools for designing and evaluating software and middleware communication systems
Middleware for social networking systems, social networking applications and case studies
Large-scale system integration, software evolution, software engineering methodologies, and requirements engineering for software and middleware communication systems, and Internet services
Wireless and mobile networking, wireless operating systems, mobile platforms and embedded systems
Communication systems architecture, design, development methodologies, and business models
Middleware for mobile computing, embedded systems, peer-to-peer systems and applications
Middleware for event processing, event-based systems, publish/subscribe and messaging middleware
Designing, implementing, and evaluating middleware for service oriented architectures
Case studies of specification, design, and use of software and middleware communication systems
Innovations in operations and management of large networks and large-scale enterprise systems

Submission guidelines

Two types of paper submissions will be accepted:

Research papers - full research papers (max. 12 pages), which must describe new results that advance the state-of-the-art in basic and applied research or short papers (max. 6 pages) presenting work-in-progress.
Industry papers (max. 10 pages) - describing the designing, production, deployment, evaluation, and practical experiences for a software or middleware system.

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by independent referees, according to significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Series. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. More detailed submissions instructions are posted here.

Important Dates

Abstract submission (Extended Deadline):	Friday, March 18th 2011
Paper submission (Extended Deadline):	Friday, March 25th 2011
Author notification:	Thursday, April 30th 2011
Manuscripts due:	Thursday, June 9th 2011

Organizing Committee

General Chair	Paul Grace	lancaster University
Technical Program Co-Chairs	Rene Meier Liviu Iftode	Trinity Dollege Dublin, Ireland Rutgers University, USA
Industry Track Chair	Juha Savolainen	Nokia, Finland
Workshop Chair	Luis Veiga	Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Steering Committee Chair	Imrich Chlamtac	University of Trento, Italy

Program Committee

Christian Becker (University of Mannheim)

Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna)

Gordon Blair (Lancaster University)

Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa)

Roy Campbell (University of Illinois)

Guohong Cao (Penn State)

Antonio Casimiro (University of Lisbon)

Gianpaolo Cugola (Politechnic of Milan)

Marios Dikaiakos (University of Cyprus)

Simon Dobson (University of St Andrews)

Frank Eliassen (University of Oslo)

Lidia Fuentes (University of Malaga)

Mario Gerla (UCLA)

Stephan Haller (SAP Research Center, Zurich

Sumi Helal (University of Florida)

Tom Holvoet (Catholic University of Leuven)

Jadwiga Indulska (University of Queensland)

Valerie Issarny (INRIA Paris)

Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)

Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki)

Fabrice Kordon (University Paris 6)

Reinhold Kroeger (University of Wiesbaden)

Tomi Mannisto (Helsinki University of Technology)

Scott Midkiff (Virginia Tech)

Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs, Palo Alto)

Michael Mock (Fraunhofer IAIS)

Alberto Montresor (University of Trento)

Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh)

Matt Mutka (Michigan State University)

Tamer Nadeem (Siemens Research, USA)

Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)

Badri Nath (Rutgers University)

Daniela Nicklas (University of Oldenburg)

Paddy Nixon (University of Tasmania)

Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

Kishore Ramachandran (Georgia Tech)

Mukesh Singhal (University of Kentucky)

Phillip Stanley-Marbell (IBM Research, Zurich)

Anand Tripathi (University of Minnesota)

Marteen van Steen (Vrije University)

Vinny Wade (Trinity College Dublin)

Alexander L. Wolf (Imperial College London)

Jianli Xu (Nokia Devices)

Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University)

Charles Zhang (Hongkong University)

Last updated 25th November 2011 at 16:23