Workshops on ICSoft: ACT4SOC, ACES, DMIA, RTABIS, RTSE4CAA, S2C

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WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010
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ACT4SOC 2010
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm
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Co-chairs:
Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Supported by IICREST and seekda

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Service foundation and design issues
o principles of SOC/SOA, service science
o service modelling approaches
o formal specification and analysis
o reasoning approaches
o model-driven development, platform-independence
o service interoperability (semantic, pragmatic), matching and
(dynamic) composition
o ontology-centered design
o requirements-functionality (business-IT) alignment
o Web 2.0, social networking, mash-ups
o REST vs WS
o repeated aggregation of services into composite applications and
business processes

* Service technology and infrastructure issues
o architectural patterns
o service registry management
o requirements management, service evolution
o quality-of-service management
o cross-domain service delivery
o specific technology platform solutions
o language-specific solutions
o tool support
o applicability and performance experiences
o service level agreements

* Service usage issues and applications of SOC/SOA
o service registration, update, de-registration
o service discovery, matching, selection, replacement
o service invocation, interaction, monitoring
o service choreography, mediation, orchestration
o traceability of technology changes in requirements and vice
versa
o mobile and ubiquitous applications
o health and homecare applications
o supply chain management applications
o e-commerce applications

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ACES 2010
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm
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Co-chairs:
Frances Brazier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Martijn Warnier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1 - Software engineering methods for building autonomic systems
2 - QoS management in autonomic and dynamic environments
3 - Emergent behavior, emergent configurations
4 - Service agreements and negotiation
5 - Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems

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DMIA 2010
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm
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Co-chairs:

Markus Helfert
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ireland

Brian Donnellan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ireland

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Managing large Data Manufacturing systems
* Organizational Concepts and best practice
* Architectural Concepts
* Data and Information Quality
* Data Modeling
* Methods for Data Management
* Modeling and Analyzing Relationship Data
* Modeling large Data Manufacturing systems
* Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing
* Data Visualization
* Data privacy and integrity
* Management of uncertain data
* Accessibility of data
* Mobile data management
* Management of Sensor Data
* Data integration
* Integration and analyzing semi-structured and unstructured data
* Text Analytics
* Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis of Data Management Approaches

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RTABIS 2010
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm
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Co-chairs:

Philippe Lahire
Laboratoire I3S, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France

Jean-Yves Tigli
I3S Laboratory, Polytech'Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia
Antipolis
France

Valérie Monfort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISIG, Kairouan University
France / Tunisia

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Software engineering

* Requirements engineering
* Analysis and design modeling
* Domain engineering
* Software architectures
* Evaluation and metrics
* Modular Reasoning
* Testing and verification
* Interference and composition
* Traceability
* Software development methods
* Process and methodology definition
* Patterns

- Programming languages

* Language design
* Compilation and interpretation
* Verification and static program analysis
* Formal languages and calculi
* Execution environments & dynamic weaving
* Dynamic and scripting languages
* Domain-specific aspect languages

- Related paradigms

* Model-driven development
* Generative programming
* Software product lines
* Meta-programming
* Contracts and components
* View-based development

- Tool support

* Aspect mining
* Evolution and reverse engineering
* Crosscutting program views
* Refactoring

- Applications

* Distributed/concurrent systems
* Middleware, services, and networking
* Pervasive computing
* Runtime verification
* Performance improvement SOA and aspects
* Multi Agent Systems and aspects
* E-learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and aspect

- Industrial feed back

* Project management with AOP
* Success story or failure
* Other applications experiences

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RTSE4CAA 2010
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm
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Co-chairs:
Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.

Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France

Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France

Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Modelling of context and of context aware applications
* Model driven engineering of context aware applications
* Ontologies for context-aware applications
* Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
* Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware
applications
* Intelligent context aware applications
* Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware
applications
* Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
* Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
* Context aware business processes
* Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
* Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
* Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications

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S2C 2010
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm
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Co-chairs:

Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Mamadou Seck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Theory formation for hierarchical and component-based modeling
2 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the software engineering
field
3 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the simulation field
4 - Use of libraries of components to enhance (distributed) systems
development
5 - Best practices for component development, reuse, and hierarchical
systems development

Kind regards,
Monica Saramago
ICSOFT Workshops Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org
Website: http://www.icsoft.org

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FOIS 2010 Call for Participation - Early registration deadline March 12

Sixth International Conference on
Formal Ontology in Information Systems
(co-located with KR 2010)

http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca

C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento,
Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004,
2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto,
Canada, on 11-14 May 2010.

Starting from this conference, FOIS will be an official initiative of
the new International Association for Ontology and its Applications
(IAOA, www.iaoa.org), which will hold its first Assembly on May 13th.
IAOA members will be entitled to get reduced rates for conference
registration (see below - early registration deadline March 12).

Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of
philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation
of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical
turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which
are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject
matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations
and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern
discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such
diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics,
bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and
the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming
increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology,
understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations
making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid
foundation for their work.

FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers from these
and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both
theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a
spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Conference chair: Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Program chairs: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Local organisation: Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA)
Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)

TOPICS COVERED

Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are:

Foundational Issues
* Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs
occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent,
natural vs artificial
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence,
constitution, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Identity and change
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)
* Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells,
organisms, ...)
* Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and
other mental attitudes; emotions, ...)
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms,
social relationships, artistic expressions, ...)
* Ontology of the information society (information, communication,
meaning negotiation, ...)
* Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition

Methodologies and Applications
* Top-level vs application ontologies
* Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontology-based application systems
* Requirements engineering
* Knowledge engineering
* Knowledge management and organization
* Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling
* Computational lexicons; Terminology
* Information retrieval; Question-answering
* Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing
* Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics,
Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business,
Enterprise integration, ...

PROGRAMME

The programme will comprise three invited talks:

Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Ontological Lessons from the Semantics of
Mass and Count Nouns
John Bateman: Ontological Diversity: The Case from Space
Alan Rector: Knowledge-Driven Software and "Fractal tailoring":
Ontologies in Development Environments for Clinical Systems

as well as 28 submitted papers. In addition, there will be a poster
session and two workshops:
- The 4th International Workshop on Modular Ontologies
- Workshop on Ontology Education

REGISTRATION

Registration for FOIS may be done from the AAAI web-sit at
http://www.aaai.org/Forms/fois-registration-form.php. Note that there
are reduced rates for members of the International Association for
Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). The deadline for early
registration is 12th March 2010.

Registration includes attendance at the FOIS workshop
programme. Workshop-only registration is also possible.