9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2014), Vienna, Austria, 29 - 31 August 2014

9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies
ICSOFT website: http://www.icsoft.org/

August 29 - 31, 2014
Vienna, Austria
In Cooperation with: IEICE/SWIM
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: OMG and WfMC
Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS

IMPORTANT DATES:
  Regular Paper Submission: March 18, 2014
  Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2014
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: June 26, 2014

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Dear Eliza Stefanova,

Let me kindly inform you that the 9th International Joint Conference on
Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2014 - http://www.icsoft.org/) steering
committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the ICSOFT 2014
Conference, to be held in Vienna, Austria. The deadline for paper submission
is scheduled for March 18, 2014.

The purpose of ICSOFT - since 2013 designated as the International Joint
conference on Software Technologies - is to bring together researchers,
engineers and practitioners working in areas that are either related to new
software paradigm trends or to mainstream software engineering and
applications. ICSOFT is composed of two co-located conferences, each
specialized in the aforementioned areas. Together, ICSOFT-PT and ICSOFT-EA
aim at becoming a major meeting point for software engineers worldwide.
 
ICSOFT-PT (9th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends) will
focus 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.
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-PT.

ICSOFT-EA (9th International Conference on Software Engineering and
Applications) will have a practical focus on software engineering and
applications. The conference tracks are "Enterprise Software Technologies",
"Software Engineering and Systems Security", "Distributed Systems", and
"Software Project Management".
Software technologies are essential for developing any enterprise
information system, encompassing a large number of research topics and
applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical
aspects of software engineering; from software security to mobile
applications; distributed systems, ubiquity, software quality as well as
project management and other related topics are included in the scope of
ICSOFT-EA.

We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
 - Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
 - J.C. (Hans) van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
 - Ivona Brandic, Vienna UT, Austria
 - Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria

ICSOFT is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be
confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 121 submissions, 7% were
accepted as full papers. Additionally, 26% were presented as short papers
and 29% as posters.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an
ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier
Index) and Scopus.
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/).

Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated
to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies
interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers
interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference
secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from
logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and
financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

ICSOFT 2014 will be held in conjunction with ICETE 2014
(http://www.icete.org), SIMULTECH 2014 (http://www.simultech.org) and DATA
2014 (http://www.dataconference.org).
Registration to ICSOFT allows free access to the ICETE, SIMULTECH and DATA
conferences (as a non-speaker).

We hope to welcome you in Vienna, Austria next August, 2014!

Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me.

Kind regards,
Marina Carvalho  
ICSOFT Secretariat

Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
Email: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org

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ICSOFT CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Stephen Mellor (honorary), Freeter, United Kingdom

ICSOFT-PT PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany
Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

ICSOFT-PT PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
http://www.icsoft-pt.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

ICSOFT-EA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Therese Libourel, University of Montpellier II (IRD ,UR, UAG), France
Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland and Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia

ICSOFT-EA PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
http://www.icsoft-ea.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

ICSOFT-PT CONFERENCE TRACKS:

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

ICSOFT-EA CONFERENCE TRACKS:

AREA 1: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

    Business Process Modelling
    Client/Server Computing
    IT Service Management
    Customer Relationship Management
    Enterprise Resource Planning
    Interoperability
    Middleware
    Business Intelligence
    Decision Support Systems
    Intelligent Problem Solving
    User Modelling and HCI
    Virtual Organizations

AREA 2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

    Requirements Elicitation and Specification
    Software Integration
    Software Testing and Maintenance
    Model-driven Engineering
    Software Quality
    Software and Information Security
    User Identification and Intrusion Detection
    Web Services
    Formal Methods
    Programming Languages

AREA 3: DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

    Distributed Architectures
    Cloud Applications
    Web-based Software Development
    Mobile Technologies and Applications
    Pervasive Computing and Communications
    Ambient Intelligence
    Agents and Multi-agent Systems
    Communication Networks and Protocols
    Parallel and High Performance Computing
    Process Coordination and Synchronization
    Distributed Systems Privacy

AREA 4: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

    Project Management Software
    Scheduling and Estimating
    Software Metrics
    Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
    Agile Methodologies
    Performance Evaluation
    Risk Management
    Quality Assurance
    Certification
    Case Studies of Project Management