7^th IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS)

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Call for Participation

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems follows on the success of the six previous conferences therefore establishing ICCBSS as the flagship conference in the field of composition-based systems development and interoperability. ICCBSS 08 will continue the tradition of providing a premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to present and discuss their most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in composition-based software systems development.
Previous ICCBSS conferences narrowly focused on COTS-based systems development. ICCBSS 07 expanded its focus to include issues of interoperability that have become critical for system of systems acquisition and development. ICCBSS 08will primarily focus on Composition-Based Software Systems (CBSS) development paradigm that ‘weaves’ existing or custom-developed systems, COTS-software components or applications and service oriented systems into composite systems-of-systems. The challenge for Composition-Based Software Systems development is to shift systems development approaches away from paradigms that result in ‘static systems’ to new development paradigms that are suitable for the development of ‘dynamic systems’ that can evolve and adapt to rapidly changing environments. The envisioned hybrid system-of-systems will need to be dynamically constructed and configured from a set of interconnected existing or customed-build systems, COTS-software components, leased or rented applications or service-oriented systems with the resulting composite systems designed to cope with dynamic and evolving systems and user requirements. New frameworks and infrastructures to handle all the complexities are required; various concepts and technologies need to be considered; flexible development methods and processes are required; issues of interoperability and compatibility need to be considered, etc.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Paper categories

We are seeking for submissions of high quality papers in the following categories:

• Technical solution papers should present solutions that are novel and advance the state of the art in hybrid/composite systems-of-systems development either through theoretical or experimental analysis.
• Evaluation criteria: The proposed solution or its application to Composition-Based Software Systems must be novel and sound. Results must be clearly stated so that others can further validate them in later research. A technical solution paper should also be clear about its contributions with respect to related work by others and to previous work by the author(s).
• Size: A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.
• Industrial practice and experiences papers should present problems or challenges covering the state of practice and real-world experiences in developing hybrid/composite systems-of-systems.
• Evaluation criteria: The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to follow easily and to draw conclusions for their own practice. The conclusion and lessons learned should be justified by quantitative or qualitative evidence.
• Size: A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.
• Vision papers should be revealing, thought-provoking and propose new views and theories underpinning the Composition-Based Software Systems development paradigm. Vision papers should present creative new ideas that rethink current notions.
• Evaluation criteria: A vision paper need sound propositions and argumentation with illustration of how the vision could improve Composition-Based Software Systems development.
• Size: A paper of this category must not exceed 6 pages.

Originality

Papers must describe original work that has not been submitted to or presented at other forums. To further encourage paper submissions, a Best Paper Award will be formally presented during the conference.

Submission information

All submissions must be made electronically through the ICCBSS08 Electronic submission system. Authors without internet access must make advance arrangements with the Program Chairs well before the deadline.

Submissions must be formatted according to the 8.5x11 inch IEEE CS proceedings format. For templates, go to the Information for Authors - Formatting webpage of the IEEE Computer Society.

• Reviewing Process: All submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously by at least 3 members of the ICCBSS08 Program Committee and evaluated according to the criteria stated above that includes relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, understanding of the state of the art and overall quality of technical contribution. A Senior Program Committee member will be in charge of supervising the review process of each paper. The decision of the Program Committee Chairs will be final and cannot be appealed. Based on the reviews and on the discussion of papers by program committee chairs, the ICCBSS08 Program Chairs will decide which papers to accept for the conference. Papers that do not conform to the submission instructions will be rejected without review. In particular, this will be the case for papers that exceed the size limit, are obviously out of the scope of the conference, or clearly do not fit the selected paper category. In the latter case, the Program Chairs will first try to reclassify a submission to a proper category.
  Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author by September 21^st, 2007. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the Proceedings. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and to attend the conference in order to present the work.
• Publication of accepted papers: Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE CS Press Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library.

Other contributions

We also invite proposals for workshops, tutorials, research students track/posters and panels.

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