CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ICSSEA 2007 20th International Conference

Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY

December 4-6, 2007 - CNAM, Paris, France

SPONSORS: CNAM/CMSL, Génie Logiciel, SEE (Société de l’Électricité, de
l’Électronique et des Technologies de l’Information et de la
Communication), SIA (Société des Ingénieurs de l’Automobile)

www.icssea.org

In the face of increasing integration of technical, social and
informational environments, it is no longer possible to bind information
systems or computer applications to the sole context of a particular group
of users or organization. In the context of more and more integrated
business processes, involving increasing numbers of companies of different
sectors as a virtual enterprise, a real cooperation between computer
systems is strongly required. Correlatively to the emergence of Internet
and mobile communications, the trend is now to offer to the citizen more
powerful, sophisticated context-aware, and ubiquitous services, requiring a
reliable ad hoc orchestration of multiple and heterogeneous information
sources and systems.

In the past, industry and software vendors were coping with the "plumbing"
aspects of interoperability, i.e. ensuring that the bits could reliably
flow from a computer to another. Now that connectivity to diverse sources
has eased with standard protocols, the emphasis is shifting to semantic
interoperability, i.e., to the ability to achieve meaningfully exchange of
information among independently developed systems, including the
“understanding” of the information's format, meaning, and information
quality. Information interoperability continues to be a major challenge for
industries that have now to cope with continuous change, mergers, splits,
as well as technology evolution. Ontology and knowledge-based approaches
are constantly proposed as a basis for solutions to such a challenge, but
new approaches facilitating an “a posteriori” interoperability of already
existing systems are also strongly required.

Beyond information interoperability, cooperation between systems should be
possible, i.e. different systems should be able to provide each other with
context-aware services, enabling the emergence of a set of higher level
services. In this context, the emerging idea of systems of systems puts the
emphasis on the need for new system engineering methods taking cooperation
into account.

The classical approach of software and system design, based on the paradigm
of well-known and fixed environment and user community should evolve
towards new methods taking into account the ability to interoperation. New
approaches such as collaborative systems, agent-based systems or ambient
information environments have to be developed.

With regard to the above trend, software and systems processes, methods,
architecture models, and tools ineluctably require novel approaches adapted
to interoperability. Assuredly, this concerns system global life cycle,
particularly requirements engineering, designing as well as testing and
validating software & systems.

Co-organized by SEE and the Center for Mastering Systems & Software (CMSL)
of CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), the 20th edition of
the ICSSEA Conference (International Conference on Software & Systems
Engineering and their Applications) will be held in Paris on December 4-6,
2007. It aims at providing a critical survey of the current status of
tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software & systems, in
gathering actors from the enterprise and research worlds. However, lectures
and discussions will be conducted with service and system interoperability
as a leitmotiv.

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SESSIONS

Tuesday, December 4
Session 1: Inaugural Lectures
Session 2: Systems Engineering
Session 3: Products & Prototypes

Wednesday, December 5
Session 4: Architectures
Session 5: Requirements Engineering
Session 6: Platforms
Session 7: Business Process Engineering
Session 8: Refactoring & Reengineering

Thursday, December 6
Session 9: Integration & Interoperability
Session 10: Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
Session 11: Project Management
Session 12: V&V and Certification
Session 13: Model-Driven Engineering
Session 14: Knowledge Engineering
Session 15: Quality Engineering
Session 16: Closing

TUTORIALS
Tutorial 1: Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3)
Tutorial 2: Groupware & CSCW requirements specification for acceptance testing
Tutorial 3: Systems of Systems’ Quality Assurance

ASSOCIATED EVENT
STV 07: Systems Testing and Validation

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