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SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRACK
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 244-3087
Fax: (217) 333-3501
agha@cs.uiuc.edu
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/agha.html
Minitracks
Adaptive and Evolvable Software Systems: Techniques, Tools and Applications (Yvonne Coady, Jeff Gray and Raymond Klefstad)
Applications of Generic Programming and Evolutionary Techniques (Istvan Jonyer and Manfred Huber)
Fault-Tolerant and Dependable Distributed Systems and Web Services (Karl Göschka, Francesc Daniel Muñoz Escoí, Pablo Galdámez-Saiz)
Flexible and Distributed Software Development Processes (Pär Ågerfalk and Brian Fitzgerald)
Information Security Education and Foundational Research (Linda Morales & Melissa Dark)
Peer to Peer Infrastructures and Applications (Bill Yeager, Karl Aberer, Jean-Henry Morin and Aris Ouksel)
Security and Survivability in Unbounded Networked Systems (Axel Krings, Paul Oman and Azad Azadmanesh)
Software Engineering Decision Support (Guenther Ruhe)
Strategic Software Engineering (Rick Kazman and Dan Port)
Wireless Personal Area and Ad-hoc Networks (Frank Kargl, Elaine Lawrence and Gergely Záruba)
Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (G. Anastasi, Edoardo Biagioni and Stephan Olariu)
Adaptive and Evolvable Software Systems: Techniques, Tools and Applications
This mini-track features novel work of researchers and practitioners actively involved in development of software technology that facilitates either static or dynamic adaptation and evolution of software systems. It covers a wide range of topics applicable to different software engineering problems in this area. It focuses on practical issues of design and implementation of adaptation and evolution as a primary concern of software system development.
This mini-track will be based on the novel results of researchers and practitioners actively involved in the development of software systems that can adapt to requirements change, and/or the execution environment in which they run. The mini-track will be appealing to anyone with interests in:
Website:
http://www.cis.uab.edu/HICSS-AESS/
Yvonne Coady (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria
PO Box 3055, STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P6
Phone: 1 (250) 721-7205
Fax: 1(250) 721-7292
Department Phone: 1 (250) 721-7209
ycoady@cs.uvic.ca
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1170
Phone: (Office) 205-934-8643
Fax: 205-934-5473
gray@cis.uab.edu
Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Phone: 949-824-1901
Fax: 949-824-3203
http://www.zen.uci.edu/~klefstad/
klefstad@uci.edu
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Applications of Generic Programming and Evolutionary Techniques
Automated programming techniques provide the ability for engineers to define problems at a high-level and solve those problems without having to explicitly program a computer. Genetic programming and other evolutionary techniques have proven to be very successful in this regard. The time is ripe for a wide range of IT and software researchers to be introduced to such techniques which has so far been limited largely to the relatively small artificial intelligence community who have developed these techniques.
We specifically seek to introduce the latest achievements of genetic programming, evolutionary programming and search-based software engineering. We seek application of these techniques to real-world problems, both inside and outside of computer science and information technology.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Istvan Jonyer (Primary Contact)
Oklahoma State University
Department of Computer Science
700 N Greenwood
Tulsa, OK 74106
Phone: (Office) 918-594-8577
Fax: 918-594-8281
University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
416 Yates St.
Arlington, TX 76109-0015
Phone: (Office) 817-272-2345
Fax: 817-272-3784
Fault-Tolerant and Dependable Distributed Systems and Web Services
The minitrack provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings and practical experiences on selected topics in dependable distributed systems. The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Website:
http://www.dedisys.org/hicss06/
Karl M. Göschka (Primary Contact)
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 58801 18412
Fax: +43 1 58801 18491
Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica
Distributed Systems Group
UPV, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Phone: +34 96 3877069
Fax: +34 96 3877239
Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica
Distributed Systems Group
UPV, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Phone: +34 96 3877069
Fax: +34 96 3877239
pgaldam@iti.upv.es
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Flexible and Distributed Software Development Processes
This
minitrack addresses two partially intertwined themes in software development:
process flexibility and globally distributed software development. Flexibility
concerns the move from traditional plan-based approaches towards agile methods
and the need for adaptation of traditional approaches to suit particular
development situations. Distributed development concerns software development in
globally distributed settings, including outsourcing of software development to
low-cost countries and utilization of local expertise to satisfy local demands.
Many of the difficulties faced in globally distributed software development are
the same issues put to the fore by agile methods. Still, we are yet to see a
coherent body of research that investigates the crossbreed between agility and
distribution. Thus, although each area is important in its own right, we
particularly encourage contributions that study their integration.
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Pär J Ågerfalk (Primary Contact)
Dept of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Phone: +353 61 213543
Fax: +353 61 202734
Dept of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Phone: +353 61 202720
Fax: +353 61 202734
Information Security Education and Foundational Research
This minitrack has two focuses: information security education and fundamental research in information security. In the information security education area, we are interested in papers about:
In the fundamental research area, we are interested in papers describing new results in the theory and foundations of information security. We invite papers giving new analytic results, mathematical developments and proofs. The topics covered in this category include:
Linda Morales (Primary Contact)
Texas A & M Univ. Commerce
CS Dept/Texan A&M Univ., Commerce
PO Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
Phone: (214) 642-0728
Linda_Morales@tamu-commerce.edu
Purdue University
School of Technology
Knoy Hall
401 N. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2021
Phone: (765) 494-7661
mjdark@tech.purdue.edu
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Peer to Peer Infrastructures and Applications
This mini-track is provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss software technology issues related to the peer-to-peer paradigm. We envisage an interdisciplinary forum of practitioners from the industry, open source and research communities. While file sharing bootstrapped the P2P application space, we now see P2P systems and applications such as chat rooms; global VoIP networks; computing grids; collaborative document preparation; collaborate software design and implementation; robotic and sensor networks; distributed disk storage; Multi-Agent Systems; mobile, ad-hoc networks; email storage and access; and successful production networks that place new demands on user interfaces, access, reliability and performance that are deterministically mediated by super-peers.
Topics related to the emerging P2P paradigm include, but are not limited to, the following:
Dynamical Systems Research, Ltd.
121 Beaufort Mansions, Beaufort Street,
London, SW3 5AE, United Kingdom
Phone: (Mobile) 1-650-776-9973
EPF Lausanne, Dept. of Communication Systems
Ecublens, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (21) 693 4679
Fax: +41 (21) 693 8115
University of Geneva - CUI,
24 rue General-Dufour, CH-1211 Geneva 4,
Switzerland
Phone: +41 (22) 705 7661
Fax: +41 (22) 705 7780
The University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration (M/C 294)
601 South Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone:
312-996-0771
Fax: 312-413-0385
Security and Survivability in Unbounded Networked Systems
This minitrack addresses issues of security and survivability in large, non-trivial, unbounded networked computer systems, with an emphasis on Recovery and Adaptation. It considers systems and networks, including dynamic paradigms based on migratory agents, ad-hoc networks or grid computing. Papers on Resistance and Recognition that address the need or capacity for safety critical software systems to “fail-safe” and “fail-secure” are also desired. Submissions will be sought from researchers in the area of system survivability, software dependability, computer and network security, fault-tolerance and intrusion tolerance, and economic or statistical modeling of secure/survivable systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Axel W. Krings (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer Science
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1010
Phone: 208-885-4078
Fax: 208-885-9052
krings@cs.uidaho.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1010
Phone: 208-885-6899
Fax: 208-885-9052
Department of Computer Science
Office: PKI 282G
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: 402-554-3976
Fax: 402-554-3400
Software Engineering Decision Support
Decision support in software engineering helps to make more informed decisions in the development and maintenance of software systems. Decision support based on hybrid intelligent systems is intended not only to integrate different techniques based on a formal problem description, but to also bring in human intelligence in the evolutionary process to find most appropriate solutions. Formalized computational technique in isolation is unlikely to determine meaningful results because only a subset of the reality can be taken into account. Human intelligence provided by domain and/or solution experts is more likely to address hidden impacting factors that are part of human decision-making. This is one of the key problems in software engineering decision-making.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
University of Calgary
ICT Building; Room 545
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4
Phone: 1-403-220-7692
Fax: 1-403-284-4707
Strategic Software Engineering
The focus of this minitrack is broadly construed as Strategic Software Engineering. By this, we mean the application of strategic decision-making to the software development process. A strategic decision (as opposed to a tactical one) is one that helps plan for and achieve particular project-wide cost/schedule/quality goals and benefit/value/risk factors. Strategic decision-making helps to set a context in which rational tactical decisions can subsequently be made.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
· economic models of software development, return-on-investment decisions, options valuations for decision-making
· independent verification and validation
· software insurance
· COTS assessment, acquisition, and management
· allocation of project resources in constrained environments
· cost/schedule/benefit/quality estimations and processes
· “how much is enough” decisions e.g. how much inspection is enough, how much defect reduction is enough, etc.
· portfolio management of software development projects
· value-based software engineering
· effort/cost/risk modeling
· model based project management, monitoring and control
· product lines and reusable architectures
· strategic use of architecture frameworks and architecture evaluation
· software development process and composable processes
· software engineering decision-making processes
Department of Information Technology Management
Room C401c
University of Hawaii
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-6948
Fax: 808-956-9889
Department of Information Technology Management
Room E601k
University of Hawaii
2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-7494
Fax: 808-956-9889
Wireless Personal Area and Ad-hoc Networks
The minitrack concentrates on research in wireless personal area and ad-hoc networking. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Frank Kargl (Primary Contact)
University of Ulm
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89081 Ulm
Germany
frank.kargl@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Dept of Computer Systems Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology
P O Box 123, Broadway
Sydney, 2007 NSW
Australia
Phone: (work) +61 2 9514 1861
Fax: (work) +61 2 9514 4535 CRICOS Provider
Gergely Záruba (Primary
Contact)
The University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19015
416 Yates
300 Nedderman Hall
Arlington, Texas 76019-0015
Phone: 817-272-3602
Fax: 817-272-3784
Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
This minitrack focuses on fundamental challenges and issues arising in wireless sensor networks and their applications. Wireless sensors require communication among large numbers of nodes, often scattered over large distances and often requiring ad-hoc communication and organization. Wireless Sensor Networks must deal with power management and security, as well as support collaboration among nodes for tasks such as distributed calibration or detection. Wireless sensor networks are often mission-oriented, but the fundamental challenges are shared among networks used for very different tasks.
Topics of interest to the minitrack include but are not limited to the following:
· Hardware aspects of sensor design
· Self-organization and governance
· Work models for wireless sensor networks
· Location management and placement
· Energy-aware protocols
· Security and
· Dependability issues
· Scalability of wireless sensor networks
· Infrastructure-based protocols
· Embedded, network-oriented operating systems
· Middleware and software tools
· MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
· Interfacing with other wireless/mobile systems
· Efficient data transfer protocols, data combining, and prediction
· Visualization of sensor data
· Modeling and Performance evaluation
· Demos - prototypes - WSN architecture
· Implementation experience and measurements
Department of Information Engineering
University of Pisa
Via Diotisalvi 2
56126 Pisa
Italy
Phone: +39 050 2217 559
Fax: +39 050 2217 600
Dept of Information and Computer Sscience
1680 East-West Road
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808 956-3891
Fax: 808 956-3548
Dept of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
Phone: 757 683-4417
Fax: 757 683-4900
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