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| Submission deadline for ALL special sessions has been set for March 19th by 11:30PM (Pacific Time) | |
| Session I : Modularization and Re-use in Software Architecture: Is it time to look outside the box? Chair: Kendra Cooper, University of Texas-Dallas Contact: kcooper[AT]utdallas.edu The
discipline of software architecture has been maturing for over 40
years. The challenging problems of how to systematically modularize and
re-use software engineering artifacts in software architecture continue
to be open research issues. Recently, these problems have been
considered from multiple paradigms in distinct, active communities
including agent-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based,
product-line engineering, service-oriented
and others. Although the re-usable artifacts are specific to each paradigm (e.g., agents, aspects, components, core assets, services), from a broader perspective they share key characteristics. Methodologies (processes, tools, techniques, heuristics) are needed to systematically specify/model, evaluate, store, select, and compose the re-usable artifacts with respect to functional and non-functional/quality of service attributes. Interesting and useful results have been achieved within research sub-communities, but they tend not to be widely disseminated across sub-communities. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum to share knowledge and results across different sub-communities, to explore commonalities and differences. More specifically, this session is intended to provide an opportunity to consider the potential for a more general approach, perhaps a re-use meta-model. For this session, roadmap style papers on individual paradigms are preferred, which address technical topics related to modularization and re-use in software architecture. The papers should include a discussion on the current state-of-the-research and important future directions for the paradigm. As much as possible, topics such as but not limited to the following are anticipated to be of great interest to the participants, from either process or product perspectives:
The session will be organized around presentations and interactive discussions
Session II: Software Correctness, Testing and Verification Chair (s): Mark Burgin, University of California - Los Angeles and Narayan Debnath, Winona State University Contact: mburgin[AT]math.ucla.edu or ndebnath[AT]winona.edu Session III: Deployment of Component-Based Software Systems and Service Oriented Applications Chair: Noureddine Belkhatir, University of Grenoble, France & Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Contact: Noureddine.Belkhatir[AT]imag.fr or dascalus[AT]cse.unr.edu Deployment is a complex process which covers all the activities to make
a S/W system operational after the end of development. Software deployment is
emerging as a new research field with the development of large network
environments as enterprise intranets and the internet. This session focuses on
deployment of component based S/W systems. One of the characteristics of these
systems is the large number of
components linked by complex interdependencies that can be installed, updated
and removed as separate entities. This special issue is intended to collect the latest research,
experiences, and results concerned with software deployment, and thus provide a
framework for exchanging and disseminating new ideas and progress both within
the research community and industry.
| Session IV: Agent Based Systems and Social Simulation: Theory and Applications Chair: Sharad Sharma, Bowie State University Contact: ssharma[AT]bowiestate.edu
The aim of this special session is to provide a forum to discuss and
disseminate recent and significant research efforts on Agent Based
Systems and Social Simulation, dealing with current challenges and new
trends on this topic (both on theoretical and practical aspects). Agent
Based System is a paradigm of software engineering methodology. The
development of intelligent agents brings new challenges to the field.
Agent technologies and multi-agent-systems are one of the most vibrant
and active research areas of computer science. We encourage work in
using agent-oriented software engineering approach to development of
agent-based systems, such as multi-agent systems and mobile agent
systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Session V: Technologies for Biomedical Applications Chair (s): Maurice Cohen and Donna Hudson, University of California - San Francisco Contact: dhudson[AT]fresno.ucsf.edu Technology has contributed to many advances in
medicine, including imaging, biomedical signal analysis, bioinformatics, and
electronic health records. This session
will focus on the application of new technologies to diagnosis, treatment, and
prognosis of disease as well as new methods for analyzing biomedical data including
genetic information, biomedical signals, automated imaging analysis, and
methods for automated analysis of electronic health records. Specific topics include, but are not limited
to the following:
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