COMPSAC 2009 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 33rd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 33rd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
COMPSAC 2009 http://www.compsac.org

Seattle, USA, July 20 - 24, 2009

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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COMPSAC, first held in Chicago in 1997, is one of the major international forums
for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advances and
future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The
technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case
studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of
workshops on emerging important topics.

The creation of trustworthy, dependable and distributed computer services
satisfying the needs of today's pervasive and ubiquitous computing environments
spans all aspects of software systems engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum
bringing together these facets and their major stakeholders. It gives research
and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspective with others
interested in the various aspects of computer systems and applications. Building
on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable distributed software themes of highly
successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 33rd
conference is

HARMONIZING HUMANS, COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE IN SERVICE ENVIRONMENT

The program of COMPSAC 2009 will continue to feature research and industrial
practice papers with a wide range of topics, focusing (but not exclusively) on
software and middleware development for distributed platforms, social and
collaborative networks, services computing, cloud computing, data center design
and applications, communication applications, mobile and embedded systems. To
properly engineer such domains, the foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms
that support the design, modelling, and evaluation of software systems and
computer applications must come from diverse sources. Topics of interest include
but are not limited to requirement analysis, co-analysis/co-design, modelling,
development, testing, measurement, verification, validation, performance,
autonomy, safety, security, and dependability constraints. Effective
construction of these systems is not limited solely to the field of computer
science and engineering and comes as a synergetic effort, between various
domains of research. Multidisciplinary work, research and development of
software prototypes, industry-university collaborations, all based on new
emerging and critical technologies will be of particular interest to this
conference. All accepted papers will be published in the electronic proceedings
by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and automatic
inclusion in the IEEE digital library.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as
industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other publication venues
are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel
and workshop proposals, fast abstracts, doctoral symposium and review process
can be found at http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the camera-ready of an
accepted paper will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages, and printed
on 10-12 point fonts. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted
paper (regular, short, workshop) or fast abstract is required to pay full
registration fee to the conference. Each accepted paper must be presented in
person by the author or one of the authors. At least one Best Paper Award and
1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by COMPSAC 2009. The first
author of the best student papers must be a full-time student. Doctoral
Symposium papers are encouraged with reduced student registration rate. Student
travel grants wiill be made available. Check the conference website for details.

IMPORTANT DATES

November 15, 2008: Workshop proposals due
January 12, 2009: Main conference abstracts due
January 30, 2009: Main conference full manuscripts due; Panel proposals due
March 30, 2009: Decision notification (electronic)
April 30, 2009: Camera-ready copy and pre-registration due

SUBMISSION

Upload regular papers and fast abstracts in PDF, Postscript or RTF format at
http://www.compsac.org/

Submit panel proposals according to the requirements posted on the conference
web to Panel Chair Rajesh Subramanyan at rajesh.subramanyan-AT-siemens.com with a
copy to compsac2009-AT-computer.org

Submit workshop proposals according to the requirements posted on the conference
web to Workshop Chair Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed at iq-AT-mscs.mu.edu with a copy to
compsac2009-AT-computer.org

Information on accepted panels, workshops and the submissions of workshop papers
will be available at the conference website http://www.compsac.org/

GENERAL INQUIRIES
For more detailed and updated information, please refer to:
http://www.compsac.org/ For further information, please contact: Carl Chang,
Chair, Standing Committee, at chang-AT-iastate.edu

OTHER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INQUIRIES

Program Co-Chairs:
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA at Bertino-AT-cs.purdue.edu,
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK at
V.S.Getov-AT-westminster.ac.uk,
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China at linliu-AT-tsinghua.edu.cn


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