ECAP 2009 - ICSOFT 2009-4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

ICSOFT is organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

SCOPE

The purpose of the ICSOFT 2009, the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. The conference tracks are "Software Engineering", "Information Systems and Data Management", "Programming Languages", "Distributed and Parallel Systems" and "Knowledge Engineering".
Software and data technologies are essential for developing any computer information system, encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of software engineering; from databases and data-warehouses to the most complex management information systems; knowledge-base systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data quality and many other topics are included in the scope of ICSOFT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining software development and data technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICSOFT, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer. Additional information can be found at http://www.icsoft.org.


CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following conference areas:
Programming Languages
Software Engineering
Distributed and Parallel Systems
Information Systems and Data Management
Knowledge Engineering
AREA 1: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
- Algorithms and data structures
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Visual Programming
- Complexity
- Languages and compilers
- Declarative languages
- Aspect-orientation

AREA 2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
- Requirements Analysis
- Case-based reasoning and development
- Reliable software technologies
- Dependable computing
- Software components
- Software architectures
- User modeling
- Software maintenance
- Reverse engineering
- Real-time software
- Software economics

AREA 3: DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS

- Mobility
- Ubiquitous computing
- High performance computing
- Grid computing
- Load Balancing and Scheduling
- Internet information systems
- Multi-Agent Systems

AREA 4: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATA MANAGEMENT

- Data and information quality
- Databases, Data-mining and Data-warehouses
- Data Semantics
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Information retrieval
- Geographic Information Systems
- Information Systems Development
- Management Information Systems

AREA 5: KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Management
- Expert Systems Applications
- Machine Learning
- Intelligent Problem Solving
- Natural language processing

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jorge Cardoso, SAP AG, Germany
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Loughborough, UK
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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided.
Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.
Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.


PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.
A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer-Verlag.
The proceedings will be indexed by ISI Proceedings, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICSOFT2006. Proceedings of ICSOFT 2007 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICSOFT 2008 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Paper Submission: March 17, 2009
Authors Notification: May 12, 2009
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 26, 2009
Conference Date: July 26-29, 2009


SECRETARIAT

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Set¨?bal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: + 44 203 014 5433
Email: secretariat-AT-icsoft.org
Web: http://www.icsoft.org


VENUE

Sofia,the Bulgarian capital city was born 7,000 years ago in the green embrace of the Vitosha Mountain. Today, Sofia is a cosmopolitan city.
Like any other European capital it is the hub of the country's political, business and cultural life, the center of various international events.
There are many theatres,an Opera,an Operetta, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries.
Shining shops offer design clothes, small antique shops ,private art galleries displaying icons, modern art and jewels,music shops and shops for traditional crafs feast the eyes.
Most restaurants in Sofia serve European and Bulgarian cuisine.
A visit to a tavern is a must. They entertain with folk music, songs and dances in addition to a menu of delicious typically Bulgarian dishes and choice drinks.
Each night in Sofia is a thrilling experience. An option is a concert,opera or theatre.Jazz and rock clubs or piano bars are also there.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Jos¨¦ Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Set¨?bal / INSTICC, Portugal
Alpesh Ranchordas, INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Boris Shishkov, University of Twente / IICREST, The Netherlands