Conference announcements

Call for Papers -
36th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'2012)


Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:27:23 -0500
From: Anestis Toptsis <anestis@cse.yorku.ca>
To: seworld@sigsoft.org
Subject: [SEWORLD] compsac2012 CFP

COMPSAC 2012 Call For Contributions
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The 36th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
(www.compsac.org)

Izmir, Turkey, 16-20 July 2012

Sponsored by IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society

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About COMPSAC and COMPSAC 2012
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COMPSAC is the IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software,
and Applications. It is one of the major international forums for
academia, industry, and government to discuss research results,
advancements and future trends in computer and software technologies
and applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses,
research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions, fast
abstracts, doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and a number of
workshops on emerging important topics. COMPSAC is a unique forum
to bring together all facets of computing world and their major
stakeholders.

Building on the themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences,
the main theme of the 36th conference is "Trustworthy Software
Systems for the Digital Society". Creating the digital society calls
for all aspects of computing, software development, software systems
engineering, and applications. To sustain it, however, trust in systems
is of paramount importance, thus the need for trustworthy software
systems. Foundations, methodologies, architectures, and mechanisms
that support modeling, design, implementation, and evaluation of
trustworthy software systems and applications are of great concern.

Conference Venue: Swissôtel Grand Efes, Izmir, a member of “The
Leading Hotels of the World”, set in 40 thousand square meters of
landscaped gardens, is a five-star deluxe hotel located in the heart
of the Izmir’s commercial hub and overlooking the spectacular Kordon
Promenade, on Turkey's Aegean Sea.


Topics of interest (Tracks)
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* Software life cycle, evolution, and maintenance
* Requirements engineering
* Formal methods
* Software architecture and design
* Software testing
* Reliability, metrics, and fault tolerance
* HCI and usability
* Security
* Real-time and embedded systems
* Mobile & pervasive computing
* Smart computing
* Web semantics
* Web services and systems
* Cloud computing
* Education and learning
* Applications


Paper Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work
as well as industrial practices. Simultaneous submissions to other
publication venues are not permitted. Detailed instructions for
electronic paper submission, panel and workshop proposals, fast
abstracts, poster papers, doctoral symposium, and review process is
available at www.compsac.org.

New! An alternative approach for the presentation of ongoing
projects/new work or activities of interest to participants will
be made by the Poster Session. An area on the conference premises
will be designated for the presentation of posters which will be
exhibited from July 17 to 19, 2012. Poster presenters are expected
to bring their printed poster and handouts and stay during the entire
session. Attendees will browse the posters and directly interact with
the presenters. Thus, the poster session is intended to be an informal,
conversational forum for new ideas.

The length of the camera-ready of an accepted regular (full) paper
and industry paper will be limited to 10 IEEE-proceedings-style pages
using 10-12 point fonts. Short papers and workshop papers are limited
to 6 pages, fast abstracts to 2 pages, and posters to 1 page. Please
follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines
to prepare your paper. Each accepted paper (regular, short, industry,
workshop, fast abstract) is required to be registered at full rate
by one of its authors. The reduced registration rates for posters and
doctoral symposium papers may have some limited privilege during the
conference. All accepted papers will be published in the electronic
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. In order to enable indexing
through INSPEC and EI Index, and inclusion in the IEEE digital library,
a paper must be presented in person by one of its authors.

Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by COMPSAC
2012. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time
student. Doctoral Symposium papers and posters are encouraged with
reduced registration rate. Authors of the best technical contributions
will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible
publication in reputable journals.

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Important Dates
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Main Conference Papers and Industry Paper Deadlines
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January 15, 2012:
Abstracts due
January 31, 2012:
Full papers due
April 2, 2012:
Paper notifications

May 2, 2012:
Camera-ready copy and registration due

Satellite Workshops and Panels Deadlines
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December 8, 2011:
 Workshop and panel proposals due

March 15, 2012:
Workshop papers due

April 2, 2012:
Workshop paper notifications

May 2, 2012:
Camera-ready copy and registration due

Fast Abstracts, Posters, Doctoral Symposium Paper Deadlines
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April 20, 2012: Fast abstract, poster, and doctoral symposium papers due
May 2, 2012: Fast abstracts, posters, and doctoral symposium papers notifications
May 16, 2012: Camera-ready copy and registration due


Submission
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Upload papers in PDF format at www.compsac.org.
Submit panel or workshop proposals in plain text via email to cs_compsac@iastate.edu.
Information on workshops will be available at www.compsac.org.


General Inquiries and Contact Information
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For more detailed information, please visit the
conference website at www.compsac.org.

Chair of the COMPSAC Standing Committee
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (chang@iastate.edu)

General Chairs
Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany (belli@upb.de)
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (bertino@purdue.edu)

Program Chairs
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China (baixy@tsinghua.edu.cn)
Atilla Elci, Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey (atilla.elci@gmail.com)
Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen’s University, Canada (mzulker@cs.queensu.ca)

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Last update: 2011/12/11.

Dirk Craeynest