CAWOPS2010 Call for Paper

Call for Papers The University of Calgary’s Software Quality Engineering Research Group (SoftQual) will be organizing CAWOPS2010 (The First Canadian Workshop on Optimization of Energy Pipelines and its Software Engineering Aspects) from 5 to 7 February 2010. CAWOPS 2010 aims at bringing together ideas from all Canadian researchers on designing and developing optimization engines and intelligent software systems for improving efficiency in energy pipelines (focusing on oil and gas). Important dates: Call for Full Paper Submission, Submission dead line December 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance January 15, 2010 The Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): -Necessity for optimal operation of energy pipelines -costs that could be saved -Challenges facing formulation of optimization problems for batch product Pipelines -challenges versus outcomes -Accuracy versus complexity in modeling pipelines for optimized operation -Current and future software tools for optimizing energy pipelines’ operation -Software engineering aspects and challenges in the domain of energy engineering (a.k.a. developing scientific software) Prospective authors are invited to email a copy of their full papers to the organizers: eabbasi@ucalgary.ca vgarousi@ucalgary.ca All other active scholars and practitioners in this area who are interested to participate in discussions (without presenting papers) are also encouraged to send an email to the organizers identifying their background and the reason they are interested to attend CAWOPS 2010. For more detailed information, please visit CAWOPS2010 website at http://people.ucalgary.ca/~eabbasi/CAWOPS.htm Please feel free to forward this announcement on to anyone who might be interested in the subject. Regards, Ehsan Abbasi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Office: ICT 520DD Tel: +1 (403) 210-5480 Email: eabbasi@ucalgary.ca Home Page: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~eabbasi/ To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.