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

Call for Papers

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Scope

The Fourth International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE) will be held from June 16th to June 19th, 2009 at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 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, posters and workshops.

Topics

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

Innovative architectures for Internet services, Web services, service computing, and cloud computing
Security, and quality of service in communication networks, middleware, and Internet services
Methods and tools for designing and evaluating software and middleware communication systems
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 as part of the ACM

International Proceedings series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. A number of selected papers from the conference will also be published in a special issue of the Elsevier journal Science of Computer Programming. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. More detailed submission instructions are posted at the conference web site.

Important Dates

Paper submission:	~~Monday, February 23rd 2009~~
Author notification:	Friday, April 17th 2009
Manuscripts due:	Thursday, May 14th 2009

Sponsorship

A limited number of partial sponsorships may be available to support the lead author of an accepted paper attending the conference. These sponsorships are awarded based on the circumstances of the author.

Organizing Committee

General Chairs:

Jan Bosch (Intuit Inc. California, USA)

Siobhan Clarke (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Technical Program Chairs:

Juha Savolainen (Nokia Ltd., Finland)

Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)

Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac (University of Trento, Italy

Industry Track Chair:

Sten Minor (Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sweden)

Workshop Chairs:

Lidia Fuentes (Malaga University, Spain)

Hassnaa Moustafa (France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France)

Panel Chair: Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Local Arrangements Chair:

René Meier (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Program Committee

Roberto Baldoni (Sapienza University of Rome)

Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii / SEI)

Gordon Blair (Lancaster University)

Hannu Kokko (Nokia Siemens Networks)

Alejandro Buchmann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Wayne C. Lim (Infosys)

Brian Cooper (Yahoo!, U.S.)

Mike Mannion (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)

Gianpaolo Cugola (Politechnic of Milan, Italy)

Tomi Mannisto (Helsinki University of Technology)

Frank Eliassen (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)

Steve Minor (Sony Ericsson, Sweden)

Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto, Canada)

Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys)

Andy Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

Camille Salinesi (University Paris Sorbonne, France)

Tony Groschek (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

Indranil Gupta (UIUC, U.S.)

R.S. Kshetrimayum (IIT Guwahati, India)

Chi Chi Hung (Tsinghua University, China)

Bran Selic (University of Carleton / IBM, Canada)

Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)

Roman Vittenberg (University of Oslo, Norway)

Wouter Joosen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)

David Weiss (Avaya, US)

Martin Karsten (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Jianli Xu (Nokia, Finland)

Shanika Karunasekera (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Charles Zhang (HKST, China)

Last updated 22nd May 2009 at 14:42