RTSE4CAA 2010 - 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications - RTSE4CAA 2010

1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications - RTSE4CAA 2010

23 July, 2010 - Athens, Greece

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2010

Co-Chairs

Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.
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Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France
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Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France
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Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.
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Background and Goals
Advances in sensor technologies, wireless communications, and mobile devices have resulted into software applications, usually known as ubiquitous, that can be used anywhere and everywhere. These applications are sensible to the context in which they operate, which makes them adaptable and responsive to users’ profiles and personal requirements. Context-awareness is increasingly featured in many instances of application domains such as e-commerce, e-learning, e-healthcare, just to cite a few. Despite this recent flurry of interest in context-awareness, modelling, capturing and processing contextual information pose a new set of challenges, resulting in high application development overheads. Sensing, localizing, recognizing, profiling, provisioning, discovering and dealing with the uncertainty and privacy of, contextual information are typical processes associated with such application development overheads. Traditional software engineering techniques and tools have already shown their limitations, which calls for new techniques and tools. This workshop aims at addressing these challenges.

This first workshop on Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present results, applications, and experiences in software engineering approaches for context-aware applications. The organizing committee welcomes high quality contributions that describe original and unpublished works in the field of context-aware application engineering in terms of design, development, testing, and deployment.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Modelling of context and of context aware applications
Model driven engineering of context aware applications
Ontologies for context-aware applications
Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware applications
Intelligent context aware applications
Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware applications
Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
Context aware business processes
Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications

Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010

Keynote Speaker
A Keynote Speaker will be invited to address the workshop’s audience on recent trends on the theory, practice and applications of software engineering techniques for context-aware applications.

Workshop Program Committee

Moushir M. El-Bishouty, University of Tokushima, Japan
Mohamed Boukhebouze, University of Namur, Belgium
Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Michael Mrissa, Université de Lyon, France
Jogesh Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Rachid Hamadi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Georgia M. Kapitsaki, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Low Chor Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Michel Riveil, Polytech Nice, France
Chantal Taconet, Télécom Sud Paris, France
Gaëtan Rey, Université de Nice, France
Slim Trabelsi, SAP Labs, France

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Paper Submission
The workshop welcomes three types of submissions:

Full papers describing novel ideas on recent trends in software engineering for context-aware applications at practical or theoretical levels. The maximum length of a full paper is 10 pages.
Position papers describing work in progress or an author’s position regarding the recent practice of software engineering for context-aware applications and/or its future trends. The maximum length of a position paper is 4 pages.
Demo papers describing practical context-aware application/prototype. The maximum length of a demo paper is 4 pages. It is expected that the authors of the paper will showcase their application in public.
All papers will undergo a double-blind review and be selected on the basis of relevance, clarity and technical quality. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper.
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

Publications
All accepted papers will be published by INSTICC Press in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support. The workshops proceedings will be distributed to the participants in printed form at the registration desk.
Publication of a selection of the workshop's best papers in a special issue of an international journal is under investigation.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by May 19, 2010, the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.

Secretariat Contacts
ICSOFT Workshops - RTSE4CAA 2010
e-mail: icsoft.workshops.secretariat-AT-insticc.org