Refereed Papers

The ICCBSS Program Committee solicits papers that describe innovative approaches and promising research in systems integration and interoperability, including the creation and maintenance of systems that incorporate COTS software products. Research papers that present case studies or surveys that show the current state of the practice in systems integration and interoperability are also sought. Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of originality and significance of contribution, relevance to the conference topics, relationship with prior research, and technical quality.

Accounts of experiences in systems integration and interoperability, including the creation and maintenance of systems that incorporate COTS software products are solicited. These reports should be designed to allow others to learn about the problems encountered and how they were overcome to meet the needs of the organization Surveys that informally collect and present data about interoperability projects, techniques or technologies are also welcome. No commercial or sales oriented presentations will be considered. The difference between a research paper and an experience report or survey is in the process followed and the amount of analysis presented. A research paper will have much more analysis and retrospection of the results.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted papers must present their papers at the conference in order to be included in the proceedings. To further encourage paper submissions, a Best Paper Award will be formally presented during the conference. Experience reports and surveys are not eligible for the Best Paper Award.

The following information is provided to help you with your paper submission and conference preparation.

1. Initial abstract submission - intent to submit
   • Initial abstracts should not exceed 200 words in length, should summarize the topic of your paper, and must be in English. Submitted initial abstracts will not be evaluated and will be used by the Program Chairs to gauge the type and coverage of conference topics.
   • Submitted initial abstracts are in ASCII entered into a submission form
   • Initial abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference paper submission Website at witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 30 June 2006.
     
     NOTE: Should you miss this deadline, please contact the program chairs via email at iccbss-2007@sei.cmu.edu and submit your paper as instructed in Paper preparation.
2. Paper preparation
   • Papers should not exceed ten (10) pages in length, must be written in English, and must be previously unpublished.
   • Experience reports must be 4-7 pages and describe the problems encountered and your solutions.
   • Surveys must be 4-7 pages and present the data collected, the technique used, and a preliminary analysis of results.
   • Submitted papers must be in either MS Word or pdf format. We recommend following the conference MS Word document template.
   • Papers must be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference paper submission Website at witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 14 July 2006.
3. Paper acceptance
   • Papers will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of originality and significance of contribution, relevance to the conference topics, relationship with prior research, and technical quality.
   • Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by e-mail and will be provided with the reviewer comments by 15 September 2006.
4. Final submission
   • Authors of accepted papers are requested to make modifications to their submitted papers according to the reviewer comments.
   • Authors of accepted papers will be sent an author kit (including instructions and copyright form). Individual authors will submit their camera-ready papers and copyright forms no later than 3 November 2006.
5. Presentation material submission
   • Your presentation should fit within a 40-minute time period, including questions.
   • Presentations slides should be created using MS PowerPoint 98 or later and use standard fonts.
   • Make sure you follow your submitted paper and keep your audience in mind when developing your presentation.
   • Your presentation should be educationally focused – "sales pitches" are not appropriate.
   • Presentations should not include proprietary materials that cannot be distributed to the general public.
   • Please reserve 10 minutes before your presentation is finished for an audience question and answer session.
   • Final presentation material must be submitted via the ICCBSS paper submission Website at witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 15 December 2006 to be included in the Conference CD as a pdf and be preloaded for presentation at the conference.
     NOTE: It is our intent to post presentations and conference summaries on the ICCBSS Web site. Submission of final accepted papers, abstracts, and presentation slides will be considered as permission to the organizers to print and distribute them at the conference, enclose them in the Conference CD, and post the materials on the conference Web site.

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