***************************************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 32nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference IEEE COMPSAC 2008 : http://www.compsac.org IEEE-CS Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications Co-located with IEEE SAINT : http://www.saintconference.org Turku,Finland, July 28th-August 1st, 2008 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ****************************************************************************************************************** COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications. Beginning 2006, COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss the state of the art, new advances, and future trends in software technologies and practices. 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 and dependable software spans all aspects of software engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum to bring together these facets and their major stakeholders. Building on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable software themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 32nd conference is INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS. The program of COMPSAC 2008 will continue to feature research and industrial practice papers with a wide range of topics, focusing (but not exclusively) on software development for distributed platforms, communication applications, and embedded systems. To properly engineer such domains, the foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the design, modelling, and evaluation of software systems must come from diverse sources. Topics of interest include requirement analysis, co-analysis and co-design, modelling, design, development, testing, measurement, verification and validation for performance, 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 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 conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and automatically included in the IEEE digital library. Plans had been made to forward select papers to archival journals for publications. 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, tutorial 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 2008. The first author of the best student papers must be a full-time student. Doctoral Symposium papers are encouraged with reduced student registration rate. IMPORTANT DATES December 8, 2007: Workshop Proposals due (Nov. 15, 2007: Preliminary Workshop Proposal submission due Dec. 1, 2007: Feedback provided to the workshop proposers Dec. 8, 2007: Final workshop proposal submission due) January 15, 2008: Abstract due January 31, 2008: Full Paper and Short Paper due March 31, 2008: Decision Notification (electronic) April 30, 2008: 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 in plain text via email to compsac2008@compsac.org Submit workshop proposals in plain text via e-mail to Lin Liu at linliu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn or Mehmet A Orgun at mehmet@comp.mq.edu.au Information on accepted workshops and the submissions of workshop papers will be available at the conference website http://www.compsac.org/ COMPSAC 2008 Keynotes Schedule Tuesday July 29 Lee Williams, Senior Vice President, Nokia, Finland Wednesday July 30 Russell Taylor, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA Thursday July 31 Jean Holley, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Tellabs, USA 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@iastate.edu OTHER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INQUIRIES Program Chairs: Hannu Tenhunen, University of Turku, Finland at hannu@ele.kth.se T. Ming Jiang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan at mjiang@ee.ccu.edu.tw Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA at fliu@umr.edu CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chairs Jan Bosch Johnny Wong Intuit Inc., Iowa State University USA USA Program Chairs Hannu Tenhunen, University of Turku, Finland at hannu@ele.kth.se T. Ming Jiang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan at mjiang@ee.ccu.edu.tw Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA at fliu@umr.edu Best practice Track Chairs Juha-Markus Aalto Thomas Weigert Nokia University of Missouri-Rolla Finland USA Education Track Chairs Pradip Srimani Nancy Mead Clemson University Carnegie Mellon University USA USA Embedded Systems Track Chairs Ahmed Jerraya Sahra Sedigh CEA-LETI, MINATEC University of Missouri-Rolla France USA Mission Critical Systems & Applications Chair Ivica Crnkovici Stephen Chen Mälardalen University Motorola Software Group Sweden USA Formal Methods Track Chairs Cristina Seceleanu Rustan Leino Mälardalen University Microsoft Research Sweden USA Quality Track Chairs Rajesh Subramanyan Joao Cangussu Siemens Corporate Research University of Texas at Dallas USA USA Requirements Track Chairs Jawed Siddiqi Klaus Pohl Sheffield Hallam University Duisburg-Essen University UK Germany Security Track Chairs Virgil Gligor Sheikh Ahamed University of Maryland at College Park Marquette University USA USA Software Architecture Track Chairs Paolo Bellavista Karl Leung University of Bologna University of Hong Kong Italy Hongkong Software & System Evolution Track Chairs Atilla Elci Samik Basu Eastern Mediterranean University Iowa State University North Cyprus USA Testing Track Chairs Fevzi Belli Eric Wong University of Paderborn University of Texas at Dallas Germany USA Informatics Track chairs Bruce McMillin Roy Campbell University of Missouri-Rolla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA USA Organization Chair Tiberiu Seceleanu ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH Västerås, Sweden Email: tiberiu.seceleanu@se.abb.com Workshop Chairs Mehmet A Orgun Lin Liu Macquarie University, Australia Tsinghua University, China Email: mehmet@ics.mq.edu.au Email: linliu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Fast Abstract Chair Hsin-yi Jiang Iowa State University, USA Email: hsinyij@iastate.edu Doctoral Symposium Chair Jinchun Xia Iowa State University, USA Email: jxia@iastate.edu Proceedings Chair Ville Leppänen University of Turku and TUCS, Finland Email: Ville.Leppanen@cs.utu.fi Finance Chairs Simanta Mitra Christel Donner Department of Computer Science Turku Center for Computer Science, Finland Iowa State University, USA Email: cdonner@abo.fi Email: smitra@cs.iastate.edu Local Arrangements Chair Irmeli Laine Turku Center for Computer Science, Finland Email: Irmeli.Laine@abo.fi Industrial Liaison Sussana Avessta Digital Media Service Innovations(DIMES), Finland Email: susanna.avessta@dimes.fi Registration Chair Kaishin Lu Iowa State University, USA Email: kslu@cs.iastate.edu On-site Registration Jana Lindgren Congress Manager, M.A. University of Turku Congress Office, Finland Email: jaana.lindgren@utu.fi Web Chair Hua Ming Iowa State University, USA Email: hming@cs.iastate.edu Program Committee: Sheikh Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Juha-Markus Aalto, Nokia, Finland Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea Samik Basu, Iowa State University, USA Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany Koen Bertels, Delft University, The Netherlands Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Victor Bos, Space Systems,Finland Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Joao W. Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Dave Card, DNV, USA W.K. Chan, City University of Hongkong, Hong Kong Stephen Chen, Motorola, USA T.Y. Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Y. C. Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong William Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Ivica Crnkovici, Mälardalen University, Sweden James Cross, Auburn University, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR Institute and DEIS Department, University of Calabria, Italy Alan Davis, University of Colorado at Colorado Spring, USA Radu Dogaru, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, London, UK Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Ahmed Jerraya, CEA, France Linpeng Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Mohamed Jemni, Tunis University, Tunis Hsin-yi Jiang, Iowa State University, USA Li Jiang, Adelaide University, Australia Lujie Jiang, HP, China Michael Jiang, Motorola, USA John Koo, Shantou University, China Dave Kung, University of Texas at Arlington,USA Robert Lai, Beijing Cyber Recreation District, China Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Ville Leppanen, University of Turku, Finland Karl Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Jenny Li, Avaya Labs, USA Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi, Finland Jigang Liu, Metropolitan State University, USA Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Xiaodong Liu, Napier University, UK Yan Liu, NICTA, Australia Jukka Märijärvi, Nokia, Finland Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri at Rolla, USA Nancy Mead, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hong Mei, Peking University, China Armin Mikler, University of North Texas, USA Simanta Mitra, Iowa State University, USA Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA Mehmet A Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia Paul Pettersson, Mälardalen University, Sweden Klaus Pohl, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Juha Savolainen, Nokia, Finland Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Sahra Sedigh, University of Missouri at Rolla, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University,Sweden Tiberiu Seceleanu, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Cristina Serban, AT&T, USA Sakir Sezer, Queens University-Belfast, UK Jawed Siddiqi, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Pradip Srimani, Clemson University, USA Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Michiharu Takemoto, NTT Labs, Japan Daniel Tauritz, University of Missouri at Rolla, USA Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Ji Wang, Changsha Institute of Technology, China Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China Jun Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Thomas Weigert, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas,USA Jinchun Xia, Iowa State University, USA Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA Y. T. Yu, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Mohammad Zulkernine, Queens University, Canada STEERING COMMIITTEE Carl K. Chang (Chair), Iowa State University, USA,chang@cs.iastate.edu Aditya Mathur, Purdue University, USA, apm@purdeu.edu Dick Simmons, Texas A&M University, USA, simmons@cs.tamu.edu T. H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, thtse@cs.hku.hk Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, ewong@utdallas.edu Johnny Wong, Iowa State University, USA, wong@cs.iastate.edu Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA,yau@asu.edu Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus,atilla.elci@emu.edu.tr Hong Mei, Peking University, China, meih@pku.edu.cn Fevzi Belli,University of Paderborn, Germany, Fevzi.Belli@adt.upb.de Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri, Rolla, USA, ff@umr.edu