CALL FOR PAPERS


ICSSEA '2001
14th International Conference

Paris, France - December 4-6, 2001
Conference Web site: www.cnam.fr/CMSL


SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Software & Systems Engineering: Two disciplines for e-computing?

Born with the industrial emergence of general-purpose DBMS, the main
information systems and enterprise management systems have undergone over
the years several, and sometimes divergent influences. These divergences
were due to both the strategies of the IS managers and to the commercial
strategies of the software salesmen. The former were concerned by
centralization and power, whereas the second group were seeking a certain
hegemony on the market by bringing forward the argument that a sole
supplier was in the interest of the user. It was in this way that ERPs came
on the scene wishing to be generic and adaptable to the diversity of the
functions within the enterprise, such as the commercial departments,
after-sales services, manufacturing and logistics departments as well as to
the diversity of the economic fields of the users. The opponents of the
universal tool and sole supplier approach invoke all sorts of reasons for
its rejection. For example, the sole supplier curbs innovation, or again,
the internal systems tending towards inter-enterprise systems, a same
enterprise cannot manage the idiosyncrasies of all ERPs in creation.
Conversely, the defendants of the computer engineering radicalism explain
that the setting-up of a modern information system requires the integration
of multiple applications and that only a supplier is able to carry this out
in a reliable manner, in particular, when the communication between
applications depends on real time.

The development of the Web has radically changed this exchange of arguments
and counter arguments concerning applications architecture. Today, whether
about creation, overhaul or the fusion of information systems, the
predominant concerns are those of opening up, interoperability, respect of
standards, ease of maintenance and testing or the taking into account of
functional and non-functional requirements. However, according to surveys
carried out good precepts such as tools and methods for software and
systems engineering do not appear to have been assimilated by those who
develop applications to what is now called the "e-computing". These
different aspects are precisely those, which will constitute the guiding
principles of the ICSSEA '21001 Conference.

Organized by the Center for Mastering Systems & Software (CMSL) of CNAM
(Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), the 14th edition of the
ICSSEA Conference aims at providing a critical survey of the current status
of tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software and systems.
Particular emphasis will be laid on software & systems engineering
approaches useful in defining, building and deploying today's many
e-computing applications, i.e. the net-based ones, or, conversely, on the
impact of Internet on the above two complementary disciplines.

The program will be a combination of invited lectures, parallel sessions
with presentation of papers, tutorials, and workshops focussing on
particular topics.


Call for papers

As for previous editions, any topic in connection with software engineering
& systems engineering as well as any to application area are eligible
(information systems, process management, EAI, transaction processing,
e-services, Web-based systems, multimedia systems, distributed systems,
real-time systems, embedded systems, e-computing,...). However, the
following topics will be particularly appreciated:

- Systems engineering tools, techniques, and methods: requirements,
analysis, specification, testing, V&V,...
- Process engineering: evaluation, improvement, approaches, flexible
processes, extreme programming, co-design, concurrent engineering,
distributed development, virtual teams, experience feedback, knowledge
management...
- Project management: cost and delay estimation, indicators & dashboards,
experience feedback, risk management, value analysis, customer-contractor
relationship management,....
- Requirements & specification engineering: modeling, prototyping,
simulation, scenario-based analysis, goal-directed approaches, formal
methods, multifaceted reasoning, approaches based on natural language
processing, V&V... 
- Software & systems architecture: interoperability, urbanization,
enterprise models integration, information systems coupling and decoupling,
EAI, evolution, non-functional features, distribution constraints, agents,
object-orientation, mobile and adaptive applications, ...
- Reengineering: architecture, code, documentation, reconfiguration
mechanisms... 
- Components & reuse: frameworks, components, COTS, product lines,
composition mechanisms, customizing, distributed components,
interoperability between frameworks, metamodels, generative development,
variant creation, generic programming, aspect orientation, archiving &
retrieval, distribution, reuse & Internet, testing in the presence of third
party components, validation, certification...
- Quality control & assurance: V&V, testing, metrics, reliability,
assessing non-functional characteristics (dependability, usability...),
assessing customer satisfaction...
- Web-based software and systems engineering tools and methods (multimedia,
XML...)
- Software & systems engineering tools and methods for Web-based
applications and systems: architecture, design, testing, assessment
(complexity, reliability, integrity, maintainability, performances,
quality, scalability...)

Papers submitted may concern industrial implementations or experiments,
describe significant results from ongoing projects, or deal with
socioeconomic issues associated with software & systems engineering.

Instructions to authors

Paper submission and selection will be conducted as follows:

1- Interested authors should submit (through email preferably) an extended
abstract (at least 500 words) by July 13, 2001. If available, a full text
would be welcome. Abstracts should include the authors' address, phone and
fax numbers, and email address.

2- Acceptance notification: September 17, 2001

3- Authors of accepted abstracts should provide a full text (not exceeding
20,000 characters, figures included) by October 19, 2001. The International
Program Committee will review final papers.


Submission address:

Jean-Claude Rault
c/o CNAM-CMSL
Chaire d'Intégration de Systèmes
292, rue Saint-Martin
75141 Paris Cedex 3
France

Fax: +33 (0) 1 40 27 23 77

Electronic submission is accepted (attach a Word 97 file to your message)
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