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ICSOFT is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

The purpose of the ICSOFT 2012, the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. This seventh edition will focus in priority on the four main paradigms that have been intensively studied during the last decade for software and system design, namely: Models, Aspects, Services and Context.

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to the design and development of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level models and computer-based automation to achieve significant improvements in both productivity and quality. Model Driven Engineering has been popularized during the last decade by a specific incarnation, model-driven architecture (MDA) of OMG (Object management group).

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is an established technology for separation of concerns (SOC) in software development. The techniques of AOSD make it possible to modularize crosscutting aspects of a system. Like objects, aspects may arise at any stage of the software lifecycle, including requirements specification, design, implementation, etc. In recent years, AOSD has been applied successfully for developing complex modern systems - particularly software and software-intensive systems.

Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable applications. During the last decade, Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has been introduced as a new paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries.

The term context awareness was first coined by Schilit in 1994. Context encompasses all of the information relevant to an interaction between a service and its set of users including the participants as well. In the scope of pervasive computing, a context aware application is a class of application that has raised increasing interest in the research community. These applications can capture dynamically and take advantage of contextual information.

These four paradigms will drive the design and development of future software systems encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of software engineering; from models and services to the most complex management information systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data interoperability; context understanding and many other topics are included in the scope of ICSOFT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining these paradigms, 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 around these paradigms 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 on 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.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

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 main topic areas:

1. MODELS
2. ASPECTS
3. SERVICES
4. CONTEXT


AREA 1: MODELS

  • Domain-Specific Languages
  • Metamodeling
  • Model Analysis and Checking
  • Model Transformation
  • Model Evolution
  • Model Execution and Simulation
  • Model Testing
  • Model Composition
  • Model Versioning
  • Model Tools
  • Modeling Languages
AREA 2: ASPECTS

  • Aspect Analysis and Design
  • Domain Engineering
  • Modularity with Aspects
  • Aspects Interference and Composition
  • Aspects Testing and Verification
  • Aspects Evaluation and Metrics
  • Advice/Pointcut Specification
  • Aspect Mining
AREA 3: SERVICES

  • Service Technology and Infrastructure Issues
  • Service Registration, Update, De-registration
  • Service Discovery, Selection and Replacement
  • Service Invocation, Interaction, Monitoring
  • Service Choreography, Mediation, Orchestration
  • Principles of SOC/SOA, Service Science
  • Service Modelling Approaches
  • Services Applications
  • Service Interoperability, Matching and Composition
AREA 4: CONTEXT

  • Context-Aware Systems
  • Context Identification
  • Context Formalization
  • Context Representation
  • Context Analysis
  • Context Design
  • Context Sensitive Applications
  • Context Aggregation and Inference
Keynote Speakers
Stephen Mellor, Freeter, United Kingdom
Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred 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. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

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.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 24 - 27 July, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: March 6, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 23, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 4, 2012
Secretariat

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
e-mail: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.icsoft.org/

Venue

The Meliá Roma Aurelia Antica is a magnificent modern building surrounded by 10 hectares of Mediterranean forest in a quiet area near the airport Fiumicino and just a few kilometers away from Vatican City.
Rome is one of Europe's leading business travel destinations and one of the most attractive destinations in the world for congresses, meetings and incentives.

Conference Chair

José Cordeiro,  Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, France
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

Program Committee

Muhammad Abulaish, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Rafa E. Al-Qutaish, Al Ain University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
Guy-Alain Amoussou, Humboldt State University, United States
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Kenneth  Anderson, University of Colorado, United States
Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan
Farhad Arbab, CWI, Netherlands
Jose Luis Arciniegas Herrera, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg , Germany
Noureddine Belkhatir, Grenoble University, France
Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile
Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - ISEC, Portugal
Marcello Bonsangue, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Marko Boškovic, Athabasca University, Canada
Lisa Brownsword, Software Engineering Institute, United States
Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München, Germany
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Olivier Camp, ESEO, France
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
Mauro Caporuscio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano , Italy
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Cagatay Catal, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz , AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland
Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre Australia, Australia
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Kung Chen, National Chengchi University , Taiwan
Chia-Chu Chiang , University of Arkansas at Little Rock, United States
Marta  Cimitile, UNITELMA Sapienza, Italy
Peter Clarke, Florida International University, United States
Rem Collier, University College Dublin, Ireland
Kendra Cooper, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Claudio de la Riva, University of Oviedo, Spain
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, United States
Giovanni Denaro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
María J. Domínguez-Alda, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Juan C. Dueñas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Philippe Dugerdil, Haute École de Gestion, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Jürgen Ebert, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Fikret Ercal, Missouri University of Science & Technology, United States
Maria Jose Escalona, University of Seville, Spain
João Faria, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
Luis Fernandez Sanz, University of Alcala, Spain
Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy
Rita Francese, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Paola Giannini, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
J. Paul Gibson, TSP - Telecom SudParis , France
Itana Gimenes, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil
Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Mendivil, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, France
Christian Heinlein, Aalen University, Germany
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Jose R. Hilera, University of Alcala, Spain
Jang-eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Milan Ignjatovic, Prosoftwarica GmbH, Switzerland
Ilian Ilkov, IBM Nederland B.V., Netherlands
Ivan  Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, United States
Bharat Joshi, University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States
Yong-Kee Jun, Gyeongsang National University, Korea, Republic of
Sanpawat Kantabutra , Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Foutse Khomh, Queen's University, Canada
Roger (Buzz) King, University of Colorado, United States
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University, United States
Jun Kong, North Dakota State University, United States
Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva , Switzerland
Walter Kosters, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Martin Kropp, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Tei-wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Konstantin Läufer, Loyola University Chicago, United States
Yu Lei, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Hareton Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hua Liu, Xerox Research Center at Webster, United States
David Lorenz, Open University, Israel
Ricardo J. Machado, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland / Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Poland
Ahmad Kamran Malik, TU Vienna, Austria, Austria
David  Marca, University of Phoenix, United States
Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Katsuhisa Maruyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Antonia Mas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Tommaso Mazza, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy
Fergal Mc Caffery, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Bruce McMillin, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Stephen  Mellor, Freeter, United Kingdom
Antoni Lluís Mesquida Calafat, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Spain
Marian Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Valérie Monfort, SOIE Tunis, Tunisia
Mattia Monga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi Dell'insubria, Italy
José Arturo Mora-Soto, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy
Jianwei Niu , University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Pasi Ojala, Nokia, Finland
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - IRISA-UBS, France
Marcos  Palacios, University of Oviedo, Spain
Vincenzo Pallotta, interAnalytics, Switzerland
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Pascal Poizat, LRI, France
Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Engineering at University Potsdam, Germany
Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Anders Ravn, Aalborg University, Denmark
Arend Rensink, University of Twente, Netherlands
Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Colette  Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Gustavo Rossi, Lifia, Argentina
Mortaza S. Bargh, Seeking a new career, Netherlands
Gunter Saake, Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Germany
Krzysztof Sacha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Sreedevi Sampath, UMBC, United States
Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., United States
Beijun Shen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Harvey Siy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States
Yeong-tae Song, Towson University, United States
George Spanoudakis, City University, United Kingdom
Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, United States
Cosmin Stoica Spahiu, University of Craiova - Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States
Davide Tosi, University of Insubria, Italy
Mark Van Den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Sergiy Vilkomir, East Carolina University , United States
Gianluigi Viscusi, Università Di Milano-bicocca, Italy
Florin Vrejoiu, ATIC - Association for Information Technology and Communication of Romania, Romania
Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dietmar Wikarski, FH Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Qing Xie, Accenture Technology Labs, United States
Bin Xu, Tsinghua University , China
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States
Tuba Yavuz-kahveci, University of Florida, United States
I-Ling  Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Xiaokun Zhang, Athabasca University, Canada
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
Elena Zucca, University of Genova, Italy

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