Reminder: Deadline for NCA submissions

Hello All: I write with a quick reminder to submit your manuscripts/panels to the Environmental Communication Division for the annual NCA conference. The conference theme "building bridges" is particularly interesting for scholars/practitioners of environmental communication to engage. Information regarding the conference can be found at: http://www.natcom.org/index.asp?bid=14381 The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 17 @ 9:00 PM Eastern Time. Please feel free to contact me as the program planner for the ECD. I am happy to help out in whatever way I am able. Looking forward to lots of quality work and a great conference in November. Best Regards, Todd Norton tmnorton@wsu.edu ECN - Mailing list of the Environmental Communication Network: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/ To subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change your settings for ECN go to: http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ecn&A=1 Indications: Environmental Communication and Culture blog: http://indications.wordpress.com/ Hello All: I write with a quick reminder to submit your manuscripts/panels to the Environmental Communication Division for the annual NCA conference. The conference theme "building bridges" is particularly interesting for scholars/practitioners of environmental communication to engage.   Information regarding the conference can be found at: http://www.natcom.org/index.asp?bid=14381   The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 17 @ 9:00 PM Eastern Time.   Please feel free to contact me as the program planner for the ECD. I am happy to help out in whatever way I am able. Looking forward to lots of quality work and a great conference in November.   Best Regards,   Todd Norton tmnorton@wsu.edu   ECN - Mailing list of the Environmental Communication Network: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/ To subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change your settings for ECN go to: http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ecn&A=1 Indications: Environmental Communication and Culture blog: http://indications.wordpress.com/

DSS 2010 extended submission deadline

DSS 2010 extended deadline: 30th January, 2010 * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. * We appreciate you distribute this CFP among your colleagues and students Call for Papers DSS 2010 – the 15th IFIP WG 8.3 International Conference on Decision Support Systems under the theme "Bridging the socio-technical gap in DSS - Challenges for the next decade" July 7-10, 2010, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal http://dss2010.di.fc.ul.pt In recent years, bridging the socio-technical gap has been a challenge in many areas of research. The socio-technical gap is the great divide between the social aspects aimed to be supported and those that are actually supported, due in part to technical limitations and in part to the complexity of the contexts where decision support must be provided. In Decision Support Systems, this challenge has raised several important questions concerned with the account and encapsulation of social aspects of managerial decision making as well as with the representation of certain human cognitive aspects, such as intuition or insights within computational systems. The 2010 International Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 will focus on the theme "Bridging the socio-technical gap in DSS - Challenges for the next decade". The IFIP TC8/Working Group 8.3 conferences present the latest innovations and achievements of academic communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS). These advances include theory, systems, computer aided methods, algorithms, techniques, applications and technologies supporting decision making. DSS 2010 is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the Faculty of Sciences at University of Lisbon, Operations Research Center-UL and FCT. Submissions from academics and practitioners are invited and showcases of real case studies will be especially welcomed. Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. The acceptance of the contributions will be based on the originality of the work, the relevance for the conference theme and its overall quality. Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to: - Affect and emotion in Decision Support Systems, e.g. - From rationality to intuition in decision making - Decision making in high risk situations - Decision Models in the real-world, e.g. - Inclusion of ethical considerations in real-world decision models - Supporting complex decisions, e.g. urban planning and environmental policy - Supporting multiple perspectives and conflicting objectives - Executive Information Systems, e.g. - Value judgments in executive information systems - Understanding how to represent soft information for decision support - Communication and decision support in managerial groups - Negotiation Support Systems, e.g. - Cultural diversity in negotiation support systems - Problem specific design of NSS - Knowledge Management, e.g. - Organizational issues in knowledge management - People management as KM – designing DSS to leverage human capital - Social software and networks in KM - Knowledge and Resource Discovery, e.g. - Knowledge and resource discovery in corporate decision making - Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, e.g. - Role of context in business intelligence and data warehousing - Methods and tools to support the communication between developers and managers - Developing BI systems that educate as well as provide information - Group Support Systems, e.g. - Supporting creativity in self-directed groups - Distributed DM - Collaborative Decision Making, e.g. - Tradeoffs in collaborative decision making - Understanding the articulation of individual and group decision making / how are managers’ contributions integrated into the corporate decision making - Socio-technical aspects for DM in Geographic Information Systems, for instance: - Privacy in geographic information systems - Socio behavioral dynamics of geographic information system - Rich language for Decision Support, e.g. - Methods and tools to support the communication between DSS developers and managers - Developing decision support systems that educate as well as provide information - Web 2.0 Systems in Decision Support, e.g. - Crowd sourcing decisions in Web 2.0 - Collective intelligence and Web 2.0 - Incorporating Complex Factors in Decision Support, e.g. - Including the value of intellectual capital - Framing the decision problem - Decision making for socio-technical systems - Understanding the role of context in decision making All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Papers will be considered for publication as chapters of a book with the conference theme, published and distributed by IOSPress, in the FAIA series. Submitted manuscripts must be original contributions which have not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published only if at least one of the authors is registered to attend the conference in due time. Following the tradition of IFIP WG 8.3 conferences, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special issues of such international scientific journals as Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), Intelligent Decision Technologies International Journal (IDTJ), International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST), and the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS). Submissions categories The submission categories are the following: - Full papers – 8-12 pages - Short papers – maximum of 6 pages - Posters – maximum of 4 pages - Workshop proposals – 2 pages Important dates * Paper submission due: January 30th, 2010 (extended) * Notification to authors: March 1st, 2010 * Final version of accepted papers: March 26th, 2010 * Workshop proposal submission due: February 15th, 2010 * Poster submission due: April 1st, 2010 * Doctoral Consortium submission due: April 1st, 2010 * Main Conference: July 8th-10th, 2010 * Doctoral Consortium: July 7th, 2010 * Workshops: July 7th, 2010 The official language of the conference is English. Keynote Speakers Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California, USA Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland Carlos Bana e Costa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Conference Chair Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Steering Committee Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics, UK Piero Migliarese, University of Calabria, Italy Gloria Philips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA José Alberto Pino, University of Chile, Chile Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Pascale Zaraté, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France Program Committee Chairs Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland Gloria Philips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA Doctoral Consortium Chair Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia Organising Committee Joao Telhada, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Carlos Teixeira, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Rita Almeida Ribeiro, Uninova-CA3, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Ana Respicio, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Program Committee Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Carlos Antunes, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Pedro Antunes, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal David Arnott, Monash University, Monash, Australia Marko Bohanec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Marcos Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Patrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, Paris, France Tung Bui, University of Havaii, Hawaii, USA Frada Burstein, Monash University Monash, Australia Guy Camilleri, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Athena Chatjoulis, National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens,Athens, Greece Joao Climaco, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Fatima Dargam, SimTech / Austria & ILTC / Brazil, Austria Marco De Marco, Catholic University, Milan, Italy Luis Dias, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, London School of Economics, London, UK Shanks Graeme, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics, London, UK Peter Keenan, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Garrick Jones, London School of Economics, London, UK Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany Shaofeng Liu, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK Andrew McCosh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Robert Meredith, Monash University, Monash, Australia Piero Miglarese, University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy Lapo Mola, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico Jose Maria Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain M. Franca Norese, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Sergio F. Ochoa, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Zita Zoltay Paprika, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary David Paradice, Florida State University, Florida, USA Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, USA Jose A. Pino, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Daniel Power, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa, USA Franck Ravat, Université Toulouse I Capitole, Toulouse, France Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Rita Ribeiro, UNINOVA, Lisbon, Portugal David Sammon, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Chantal Soule-Dupuy, IRIT, Toulouse, France Stanislaw Stanek, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland Carlos Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Joao Telhada, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Gerard Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey George Widmeyer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA Pascale Zaraté, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France Martin Znidarsic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia For updated relevant informations, Committees, Programme, Submission, and Venue, please visit DSS 2010 website at http://dss2010.di.fc.ul.pt Contacts: dss2010@di.fc.ul.pt Secretariat: Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques, OR Center, University of Lisbon, Portugal Voice (+351) 217 500 027 Fax (+351) 217 500 022

W4A2010 - Second Call for Papers

Here's our second call for the next W4A Conference: 'Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?'. The deadlines are rapidly approaching, so we wanted to remind possible participants to start getting your papers in. The Seventh International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010) Co-Located with the Nineteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 26-27 April 2010. Important Dates * SUBMISSIONS: TECHNICAL and COMMUNICATION Papers: 01 Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) WEB ACCESSIBILITY CHALLENGE: 19th Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) More details: Keynote Speakers * Steve Bratt (CEO, WWW Foundation) * Gregg Vanderheiden (Director Trace R&D Center, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison) This year, we will also have an After Dinner Keynote at the conference dinner. We feel that this more casual environment will allow for an extended discussion among the conference attendees of the topics covered throughout the conference. Our 2010 After Dinner Keynote will be: * William Loughborough (Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Science) Publications * The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available at the ACM Digital Library. * Authors of selected papers presented at W4A 2010 will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers for publication in a Special Issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) journal. This follows two previous successful Special Issues of the same journal presenting research from past W4A conferences, and we're pleased to be able to continue our association with the journal. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia: Topics and Content A revolution in the information society is now starting, based on the use of mobile phones in developing countries. The hyper-growth of mobile phone penetration is deeply changing the lives of people in most of the world; their ways of communicating, working, learning, and structuring their societies. The promising next step is obviously to access the Web. The Web has already touched the lives of over a billion people and now is the time for the next billions. However, this expansion faces unprecedented accessibility challenges. Even the word "accessibility" needs a new definition for people in the developing regions. How can someone who is illiterate or barely literate access the Web? In some cases, a language may not even have a written form. The affordability of the technology is also a challenge, while access is constrained by low computational power, limited bandwidth, compact keyboards, tiny screens, and even by the lack of electric power. All of these constraints compound the problems of access and inclusion. The desire for access in developing regions and the resourcefulness of the people who want inclusion unite the communities of people in developing regions and the communities of disabled people in the developed world. Will complex and highly graphical interfaces exclude developing regions from access? What problems exist, what are the newly appearing problems, and what solutions are required? How do the adoption patterns for Web accessibility and inclusion vary across cultures? What effect will the Web in the developing regions have on accessibility in the developed regions and vice versa? Note that while the commonalities between Web Accessibility and Developing Regions are this year's theme, please don't be deterred if this somewhat unique area is not yours. We would like to see all quality work on Web Accessibility regardless of the particular field within accessibility. The overriding reason for a paper being accepted is its high quality in relation to the broad area of Web Accessibility. In this case topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Inclusion and Citizen Empowerment in Developing Regions; * Inclusion and Literacy in Developing Regions; * Enhancing Education in Developing Regions; * Accessibility Problems in Developing Regions; * Web Based Employment in Developing Regions; * Web Based Health Care in Developing Regions; * Evaluation and Validation tools and techniques; * User Experimentation looking at Social Networking and Freedom of Expression; * User Agents for Developing Regions and User Agent Guidelines; * Web Authoring Guidelines; * Design and best practice to support Web accessibility; * Technological advances to support Web accessibility; * End user tools; * Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools; * Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios; * Innovative techniques to support accessibility; * Universally accessible graphical design approaches; * Design Perspectives; * Adapting existing Web content; and * Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation. Submission We will accept position and technical papers, and short communications. Position papers should only be submitted as a communication of (up to 4-pages) whereas technical papers should be in full paper format (up to 10-pages). Accepted papers and communications will appear in the Conference proceedings contained on the Conference CD, and will also be accessible to the general public via the ACM Digital Library website. The official language of the Conference is English. Submission details are available at: Web Accessibility Challenge Sponsored by Microsoft since 2008, the "Web Accessibility Challenge" is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and developers of advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing their technologies to technical leaders in this area not only from academia and industry but also from end-users. More details: ttp://www.w4a.info/2010/submissions/challenge.shtml W4A Google Student Awards Thanks to financial support from Google, these Awards will provide financial support towards travel and accommodation, plus free conference registration, to two students conducting postgraduate research in the web accessibility field and who otherwise would be unable to attend W4A. We now invite submissions from interested students - the deadline is **Thursday 4th February**, midnight Hawaii Standard Time. More information including details of the submission procedure is available on the W4A Google Student Awards page at: Endorsement W4A 2010 is endorsed by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) General Chair Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi Accessibility Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Tokyo Japan Email: gc-2010-at-w4a.info Programme Chairs Leo Ferres Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Concepción, Chile Cynthia Shelly Microsoft Co. USA Email: pc-2010@w4a.info Challenge Chairs Julio Abascal, Myriam Arrue and Markel Vigo UPV/EHU, Spain Special Issue Chair David Sloan University of Dundee, UK. Programme Committee Margherita Antona, ICS-FORTH, Greece Helen Ashman, The University of South Australia, Australia Armando Barreto, Florida International University, USA Eugene Borodin, Stony Brook University, USA Giorgio Brajnik, Universita di Udine, Italy Andy Brown, University of Manchester, UK Anna Cavender, University of Washington Wendy Chisholm, University of Washington Alan Chuter, ONCE Foundation Michael Cooper, W3C, USA Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium David Duce, Oxford Brookes University, UK Kelly Ford, Microsoft, Inc., USA Renata Fortes, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil Becky Gibson, IBM Emerging Internet Technologies, USA Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee, UK Simon Harper, University of Manchester, UK Sarah Horton, Dartmouth College, USA Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Rui Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Darren Lunn, University of Manchester, UK Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software Eleni Michailidou, University of Manchester, UK Klaus Miesenberger, University of Linz, Austria David Novick, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Zeljko Obrenovic, Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e), Netherland Michael Paciello, The Paciello Group, USA Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA I.V. Ramakrishnan, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Paola Salomoni, University of Bologna, Italy Andrew Sears, UMBC, USA David Sloan, University of Dundee, UK Shari Trewin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Victor Tsaran, Yahoo, Inc., USA Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK Takayuki Watanabe, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK W4A on the Web * *

Final CFP SDM 2010 Workshop on High Performance Analytics

CALL FOR PAPERS SIAM Data Mining 2010 Workshop on High Performance Analytics Algorithms, Implementations, and Applications Co-located with the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining April 29 -- May 1, 2010 Columbus, Ohio The Columbus, A Renaissance Hotel http://sites.google.com/site/workshophpa/ Objectives: With advances in data collection and storage technologies, large data sources have become ubiquitous. Today, organizations routinely collect terabytes of data on a daily basis with the intent of gleaning non-trivial insights on their business processes. To benefit from these advances, it is imperative that data mining and machine learning techniques scale to such proportions. Such scaling can be achieved through the design of new and faster algorithms and/or through the employment of parallelism. Furthermore, it is important to note that emerging and future processor architectures (like multi-cores) will rely on user-specified parallelism to provide any performance gains. Unfortunately, achieving such scaling is non-trivial and only a handful of research efforts in the data mining and machine learning communities have attempted to address these scales. At the other end of the spectrum, the past few years have witnessed the emergence of several platforms for the implementation and deployment of large-scale analytics. Examples of such platforms include Hadoop (Apache) and Dryad (Microsoft). These platforms have been developed by the large-scale distributed processing community and can not only simplify implementation but also support execution on the cloud making large-scale machine learning and data mining both affordable and available to all. Today, there is a large gap between the data mining/machine learning and the large scale distributed processing communities. To make advances in large-scale analytics it is imperative that both these communities work hand-in-hand. The objectives of the high performance analytics workshop are as follows. • Characterize the state of the high performance analytics arena • Promote algorithm design for high performance data mining/machine learning on the terabyte scale • Identify large-scale data mining/machine learning problems by studying applications • Identify infrastructure/programming model requirements to implement large scale data mining/machine learning • Bring together researchers in high performance data mining/machine learning and large scale distributed data processing Topics of Interest: • Application case studies that showcase the need for large scale machine learning/data mining in business, science, engineering, and other domains • Parallel and distributed algorithms for large scale machine learning/data mining • Exploiting modern and specialized hardware such as multi-core processors, GPUs, STI Cell processor, etc • Memory hierarchy aware data mining/machine learning algorithms • Streaming data algorithms for machine learning and data mining • New platforms and/or programming model proposals for parallel/distributed machine learning and data mining for batch and/or stream domains • Evaluation of platforms (such as Hadoop) and/or programming models (such as map-reduce) for batch and/or stream domains Submission dates and guidelines: Submission deadline: January 15th, 2010 Notification of acceptance: February 1st, 2010 Final papers due: February 12th, 2010 All papers accepted should have a maximum length of 10 pages (single-spaced, 2 column, 10 point font, and at least 1" margin on each side). Authors should use US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper size. Papers must have an abstract with a maximum of 300 words and a keyword list with no more than 6 keywords. Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format by email to whpa.chairs (at) gmail.com. We would like to encourage you to prepare your paper in LaTeX2e. Papers should be formatted using the SIAM SODA macro, which is available through the SIAM website. You can access it at http://www.siam.org/books/authors/p_handbook8.php. The filename is soda2e.all. Make sure you use the macros for SODA and Data Mining Proceedings; papers prepared using other proceedings macros will not be accepted. For Microsoft Word users, please convert your document to the PDF format. If you need information about the formats for preparing the paper using Word, you may contact Nancy Griscom at griscom@siam.org. All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails. Organization: Workshop Co-chairs: • Amol Ghoting (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) • Rong Yan (Facebook) • Xifeng Yan (University of California at Santa Barbara) PC Members (confimed): • Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University) • Alexander Gray (Georgia Tech) • Yuan Yu (Microsoft Research) • Anthony Nguyen (Intel Research) • Philip Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) • Edwin Pednault (IBM Research) • Jimeng Sun (IBM Research) • Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories) • Hong Tang (Yahoo!) • Jie Tang (Tsinghua University) • Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota) • Jerry Zhao (Google)

Deadline Extension: Early Aspects @ AOSD 2010 - Workshop on Aspect Oriented Requirements Engineering and, Architecture Design

Please note that the deadline for submissions for the workshop Early Aspects @ AOSD 2010 has been extended to 20 January. Workshop on Aspect Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design (Early Aspects @ AOSD 2010) "Early Aspects and Climate Change" Call for Papers http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaAOSD2010 to be held in conjunction with AOSD 2010: International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development March, 2010 Rennes, France *DESCRIPTION* Early aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist in requirements analysis, domain analysis and architecture design activities of software lifecycle. Work on early aspects focuses on systematically identifying, modularizing, and analyzing such crosscutting concerns and their impact at these early phases of the software development. The Early Aspects workshop provides a forum for an open set of early-aspects related topics. Although submissions to the workshop are NOT restricted to a particular domain, the theme of this year's workshop at AOSD'10 is "Early Aspects and Climate Change". Climate change affects us all. Thus, we would like to encourage the early aspects community to consider what particular contributions the AO requirements and architecture design can contribute to tackling the climate change issues. For instance, since AOSD focuses on modularisation of crosscutting concerns, climate change lends itself as an excellent domain for AOSD techniques. This is because such issues as carbon emission, energy use, nature conservation affect all areas of software (e.g., processor use, application archtiecture, requirements level trade-off analysis, modelling of the sustainability goals, etc.). Thus, climate change can be addressed in software engineering in a multitude of ways, ranging from minimising the environmental impact of newly developed software to reducing the environmental impact of business processes, and creating software for analysing and understanding the climate-change effects. In all of these cases a range of crosscutting concerns will arise (environmental impact not least of them), making it natural to look to early-aspects technologies for their modularisation and treatment in software. In summary, the specific objectives of this AOSD 2010 workshop are: (a) Solicit submissions of new research on early aspects. (b) Trigger work on identifying and tackling the problems related to climate change via the early aspects technology *TOPICS OF INTEREST* The topics of the workshops include (but are not limited to) the following: + Early Aspects and Climate Change = Climate Change as a crosscutting concern in early stages: + How to modularise environmental impact in an aspect? + What are the archtiectural patterns triggered by a "carbon neutral" NFR? + How does the "carbon neutral" NFR interact with other NFRs? = Techniques for modeling climate change with early aspects; = Case studies demonstating use of early aspects for tackling climate change issues in/with software; + Aspect-oriented requirements engineering = Identification and modelling of aspects in requirements; = Composition of early aspects; = Use of requirements level aspects for conflict identification and resolution; + Aspect-oriented domain engineering = Deriving aspects from domain knowledge; = Composition of domain aspects; = Beyond well-known crosscutting concerns; = Linking early aspects with domain-specific applications (Distributed software systems, software product lines, ambient intelligence, P2P systems) + Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis and architecture = Formal or informal mappings; = Language features required to support aspect mapping; + Aspect-oriented architecture design = Use of aspects to reason about architectures; = Evaluation of alternative architectures with aspects; + Tool support and automation for aspect-orientation + Formalisms and notations for specifying aspects + Dynamic early aspects = Accommodation of run-time change in the requirement models; = Run-time variability resolution in requirements and architecture, etc. + Evaluation of Early Aspects = Aspect-oriented evaluation methods; = Aspect-oriented metrics for early aspects; = Change impact analysis for early aspects; + Early Aspects in Industry = Industry problems and practices; = Successful stories of adoption of early aspects in industry; = Empirical results; + Composition-related issues for early aspects = Semantics; = Fragility; *IMPORTANT DATES* + 20 January 2010 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Paper submission. + 10 February 2010 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Notifications sent to authors. + 22 February 2010 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Camera-ready version. *WORKSHOP FORMAT* The workshop will be highly interactive with a few presentations in the morning followed by group work for the rest of the day. The participants will work in small groups, formed based on their specific interests. The group work will be focused on making a tangible progress by identifying possible solutions of the discussion problems; by furthering the problem understanding; by providing practical examples and motivation for the discussion topics, etc. The last session of the workshop will be dedicated to integrating the results of the group discussions into the overall workshop results. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REVIEW* Prospective participants are invited to submit a 3-5 page position paper in standard ACM SIG Proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must use a 9pt size font. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the organizing committee for quality and relevance to AOSD. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and published on http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaAOSD10/. Submissions should be sent to both rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk and szschaler[at]acm.org. *WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS* Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will also be published on workshop web site (http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaAOSD10/). *PRELIMINARY PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)* + Mehmet Askit, University of Twente, The Netherlands + Thais Batista, University of Natal, Brazil + Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil + Jean-Michel Bruel, University of Toulouse, France + Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada + Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK + Xavier Franch, University of Barcelona, Spain + Juan Hernández, University of Extremadura, Spain + Michael Jackson, The Open University, UK + Jean-Marc Jezequel, University of Rennes, France + Wouter Joosen, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium + John McGregor, Clemson University, USA + Paulo Merson, Software Eng. Institute, USA + Gunter Mussbacher, University of Ottawa, Canada + Monica Pinto, University of Málaga, Spain + Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, AG, Germany + Stan Sutton, IBM Research, USA *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* + Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK (Primary Contact Organizer, contact at rouza_at_comp.lancs.ac.uk) + Steffen Zschaler, Lancaster University, UK, (szschaler_at_acm.org) *STEERING COMMITTEE* + Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK + Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, USA + Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal + João Araújo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal + Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong + Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Bilkent, Turkey -- Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler Marie Curie Fellow Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom Email szschaler@acm.org Phone +44 (01524) 510354 WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/ Consider coming to the 15th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010) http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ICECCS2010/

CFPs: IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010)

Call for Papers IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010) http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf Miama, Florida, U.S.A., one day between July 5-10, 2010 In conjunction with IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010 Description Scientific workflows have become an increasingly popular paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex scientific processes to enable and accelerate many significant scientific discoveries. A scientific workflow is a formal specification of a scientific process, which represents, streamlines, and automates the analytical and computational steps that a scientist needs to go through from dataset selection and integration, computation and analysis, to final data product presentation and visualization. The importance of scientific workflows has been recognized by NSF since 2006 and was reemphasized recently in a science article titled ¡°Beyond the Data Deluge¡± (Science, Vol. 323. no. 5919, pp. 1297 ¨C 1298, 2009), which concluded, ¡°In the future, the rapidity with which any given discipline advances is likely to depend on how well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies." The goal of SWF 2010 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their recent research results and best practices of scientific workflows, and identify the emerging trends, opportunities, problems, and challenges in this area. Authors are invited to submit regular papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) that show original unpublished research results in all areas of scientific workflows. Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of scientific workflows are welcome. Accepted SWF 2010 papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE SERVICES 2010, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Topics o Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics o Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management o Scientific workflow architectures, models, and languages o Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, and failure handling o Streaming data processing in scientific workflows o Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows o Service, Grid, or Cloud-based scientific workflows o Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows o Scientific workflow composition o Security issues in scientific workflows o Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows o Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling o Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification o Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability o Scientific workflow applications Important dates Paper Submission March 17, 2009 Decision Notification (Electronic) April 17, 2009 Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration April 30, 2009 Workshop chairs: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University Calton Pu, Georgia Tech Liqiang Wang, University of Wyoming For any questions, please send e-mails to Shiyong Lu at shiyong@wayne.edu.

WMSWM 2010 - Call for Papers

WMSWM 2010 - 7th Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance (In conjunction with the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality) Belém, PA, Brazil, June 11, 2010 http://www.wmswm2010.ufla.br/ Call for Papers Submission Deadline: April 09, 2010 MOTIVATION Several studies indicate that software maintenance is the most consuming phase of the software life cycle, being responsible for 90% of the total cost and around 60% of the total effort. Software maintenance can be defined as the activity during which one or more software development artifacts are modified in order to keep them available, free of failures, with higher performance or in conformance with new or modified requirements. According to some estimates, around 250 billions of lines of code were in maintenance in 2000. In 1993, around 70 billion dollars were spent in the software maintenance market, only in the USA. Software maintenance occurs due to many reasons, such as: requirements and environment changes, discovery of failures in software code, performance improvement needs, migration to more modern platforms or technologies etc. Despite of being an established area, in accordance with existing revised policies, the adoption of new development paradigms (e.g.: model driven, aspects, components, and service-oriented), new team organizations (e.g.: global software development, eXtreme Programming, and open source), new scope restrictions (e.g.: short deliveries, time-to-market, and variable scope) etc. bring a revival in the area with new challenges. Although there are many software reengineering approaches already proposed, these new software development scenarios emphasize the need of new proposals, allowing to take advantage of business knowledge and development effort of legacy systems in new developments. The high software maintenance effort and these new development scenarios rise the need of new and improved methods, techniques, approaches, metrics, and tools for the area. TOPICS OF INTEREST The Brazilian Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance is a forum dedicated to discuss alternatives to perform software maintenance and software reengineering, in a way that the maintenance process and the final product can be in conformance with software quality requirements. The topics of interest include, being not limited to, are: - Modern maintenance processes - Metrics and maintenance quality - Maintenance of non-traditional systems (web applications, component-based systems, aspect-oriented software, model-driven, product lines, service-oriented etc.) - Tool support and integrated environments for maintenance - Reverse engineering - Static and dynamic analysis - Visualization techniques for program comprehension - Reengineering and system migration - Maintenance education - Experimentation in software maintenance - Model Driven Application and software maintenance - Maintenance management (risks management, configuration management, planning and estimates) - Legacy systems tests - Economic aspects of software maintenance (maintenance cost, previous estimates of effort etc.) SUBMISSION ORIENTATION Submissions must be written in English or Portuguese. All submissions must follow SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) style format (available at SBC - http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads&id=286). All papers will be evaluated by, at least, 3 members of the program committee. There will be three types of submissions: - Technical papers, presenting an interesting result for the advance of the research in the area. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, relevance and technical quality. The work must be considered consistent, clear and original. The maximum paper size is 8 pages. - Experience reports, presenting concrete data, lessons learned or any other fact relevant to the event. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, practical application, presentation consistency, and contributions to the advance of maintenance practice. The maximum paper size is 4 pages. - Challenge reports, presenting real industrial problems concerning maintenance that represent research challenges in the area from the academic point of view. The aim is not to describe hypothetical situations, but real challenges detected in concrete software maintenance environments. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, relevance and presentation consistency. The maximum paper size is 2 pages. Evaluation studies are desirable, although this is not a pre-requisite for WMSWM submission. Papers with original, new, and promising ideas are welcome. All papers must present comparisons with related work in the area. Technical papers must emphasize their contribution for software maintenance practice. Papers about practical experiments must describe the employed method and interpretation of the obtained qualitative and quantitative results. All submissions must be electronically sent by JEMS system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br) until the submission deadline. One of the authors must present the paper at the workshop. Finally, authors must respect the final version submission deadline, as well as subscription date for the workshop, in order for the paper to be included in workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be available at the workshop site. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 09, 2010 - Author notification: May 07, 2010 - Camera-ready copy: May 17, 2010 - Workshop: June 11, 2010 COORDINATION - Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA - Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense (CEFET Campos) STEERING COMMITTEE - Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense (CEFET Campos) - Profa. Dra. Cláudia Maria Lima Werner - COPPE/UFRJ - Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA - Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP - Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Masiero - ICMC/USP - Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga - ICMC/USP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense Profa. Dra. Cláudia Maria Lima Werner - UFRJ Prof. Dr. Dalton Dario Serey Guerrero - UFCG Prof. Dr. Delano Medeiros Beder - USP Leste Profa. Dra. Elisa Hatsue Moriya Huzita - UEM Prof. Dr. Guilherme Horta Travassos - UFRJ Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA Prof. Dr. Jorge César Abrantes de Figueiredo - UFCG Prof. Dr. Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta - UFF Prof. Dr. Marcelo de Almeida Maia - UFU Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Pereira Araújo - FMG Prof. Dr. Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente - UFMG Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP Leste Profa. Dra. Maria Istela Cagnin - UFMS Prof. Dr. Nicolas Anquetil - UCB Prof. Dr. Ricardo Argenton Ramos - UNIVASF Prof. Dr. Roberto Bigonha - UFMG Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Quites Reis - UFPA Prof. Dr. Rogério Atem de Carvalho - IF-Fluminense Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga - USP São Carlos Profa. Dra. Rosângela Aparecida Delosso Penteado - UFSCar Prof. Dr. Valter Vieira de Camargo - UFSCar