ICFI 2009 - ICFI 2009 The 10th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems

ICFI 2009 -- First Call for Papers
The 10th International Conference on Feature Interactions
in Software and Communication Systems
June 11-12, 2009
Lisbon, Portugal
(in conjunction with IFIP's DisCoTec'09)
http://www27.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp/wiki/icfi/
// OVERVIEW //
ICFI is the primary international forum for discussing and
reporting about research on the Feature Interaction problem in
telecommunications and software systems since 1992. ICFI2009 will
be held in conjunction with Distributed Computing Techniques 2009
(DisCoTec'09), a major cluster of conferences sponsored by IFIP.
ICFI2009 aims to bring together representatives of the
communications industry, the software industry, and the research
community working on various aspects of feature interactions in
order to discuss possible solutions and their practical applications,
as well as setting directions for further research.
ICFI2009 will feature presentations by invited speakers,
presentations of research and industrial papers (including short
presentations), a doctoral symposium as well as posters and tool
demonstrations.
// THE FEATURE INTERACTION PROBLEM //
Feature interactions refer to conflicts among different features
on a system. The features may be functions, services, concerns or
aspects. Even if each individual feature works as intended, using
multiple features together may cause unexpected (and often
undesirable) behaviors, due to the feature interactions.
The feature interaction problem was first studied in the domain
of telecommunications systems. However, the phenomenon can occur in
any software system that is subject to evolution, because the
features of the new version of the system can interact with the
features of the old system in an undesired way.
Emerging application domains for which the feature interaction
problem becomes relevant include policy-driven systems, Web services
/service-oriented architecture, home network systems, building
automation systems, mobile and ubiquitous systems, Parlay, 3G, grid
and active networks, product-line engineering, etc.
Detecting, resolving, preventing, and managing the feature
interactions at different phases of the system life-cycle are more
than ever important problems that need to be addressed with
cost-effective techniques and tools.
// TOPICS //
The following topics are relevant for the conference. Yet, we
welcome other contributions related to the feature interaction problem.
- Feature interactions in software systems / applications
- Feature interactions in emerging telecom and network architectures
- Feature interactions in mobile and broadband services
- Feature interactions in ubiquitous/pervasive computing
- Service interactions (Web Services, SOA)
- Current industrial practice and experience
- Enterprise-level aspects of the feature interaction problem
- Mechanisms for interaction detection and resolution
- User-centric view on the interaction problem
- Software-engineering view including requirements engineering
and design
// PAPER SUBMISSION //
All submissions must be in English. Technical papers submitted may
be full papers or short papers. Accepted papers must be presented
at the conference by one of the authors.
* Full papers: These must be unpublished and must not be submitted
for publication elsewhere.
* Short papers: In order to make the conference as complete as
possible from the point of view of coverage of current research in
the area, we also solicit short papers. These can be;
(I) industrial reports
- describe industrial case studies or research directions
(E) example papers
- describe examples of FIs that occurred in real-life systems
(P) position papers
- describe novel research directions
(W) work-in-progress papers
- describe slightly immature, but exciting new ideas
(S) summary/survey papers
- share FI research already published elsewhere with the FI
community
Further instructions to authors and publication details will be
made available on the ICFI'09 website in due course.
// IMPORTANT DATES //
- Deadline for abstract submission: January 9, 2009
- Deadline for full paper submission: January 16, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2009
- Camera-ready version due: March 10, 2009
- Conference dates: June 11-12, 2009
// ORGANIZATION //
Conference Co-Chairs
- Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
- Masahide Nakamura, Kobe University, Japan
Programme Committee
- Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Lydie du Bousquet, University Joseph Fourier, France
- Jan Bredereke, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany
- Rui Crespo, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Tom Gray, PineTel, Canada
- Jean-Charles Gregoire, INRS-Telecommunications, Canada
- Gang Huang, Peking University, China
- Hiroshi Igaki, Kobe University, Japan
- Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK
- Francis Leung, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Fuchun Joseph Lin, Telcordia Technologies, USA
- Luigi Logrippo, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
- Evan Magill, University of Stirling, UK
- Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Tadashi Ohta, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan
- Jean-Luc Richier, CNRS, LIG, France
- Marc Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
- Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur, Belgium
- Ken Turner, University of Stirling, UK
- Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
- Pamela Zave, AT&T, USA