ICCBSS is for the first time extending the spectrum of the conference from COTS to Web-services and Open Source in order to address current trends in Europe, bringing the possibility for researchers, vendors and users to join in the same place to exchange ideas about current best practices and future trends in the COTS business market.

Join us at the ICCBSS conference for a full program of keynotes, refereed papers, experience reports and panel discussions to address these timely issues. Workshops and tutorials will give beginners and veterans an opportunity to investigate selected topics in greater depth.

January 5^th: Deadline for early registration - Save 100 € with early registration!

The following keynote speakers will set the tone for the conference:

John Kemp, Technical Architect, Web Services Technologies Nokia
"Mobile Web Services - Bridging fixed and mobile networks with COTS Software"

Patrice Degoulet, Head of medical informatics at Pompidou Hospital
"Building a COTS-based Hospital Medical System"

Tom Glover, President and Chairman of The Web Services Interoperability Organization and Senior Program Manager - Web Services Standards at IBM
"Evolving COTS and GOTS software into the 21^st Century"

One key topic will be the development of open platforms to facilitate the adoption of third party components, and to extend the business contributions of small COTS vendors.

Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

Consolidating COTS Market
Interoperability
Architecture
Maintenance and obsolescence
Standards
Domain specific
Total cost of ownership

COTS Legal Issues
Export regulation issues
Legal industrial issues
COTS Benchmarking
COTS vendors roadmap

COTS Success Stories
COTS market population
Integration success stories
Critical Systems with COTS

The conference theme for ICCBSS 2005, "Build and Conquer", emphasizes the importance of relying on the use of existing components available in the market instead of developing all functionalities oneself. Therefore, one key topic will be the development of open platforms to facilitate the adoption of third parties' components, and to extend the business contributions of the small COTS vendors.

Also for the first time, the ICCBSS 2005 will offer a two-day course prior to the conference, in which novices and not so novices will have the opportunity to learn about the key issues regarding the evaluation, acquisition, testing, integration, management, and legalities of using commercial components (COTS).