Dear Colleagues:

Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested.
Thanking you in advance, SERP Steering Committee.
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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                              SERP'12
                The 2012 International Conference on 
             Software Engineering Research and Practice

         Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Software
                   Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'12)

Citation information for prior years' offering of the conference appears at:
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineering-research-and-practice

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of
selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research
books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, ...).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Software architectures
O  Software design and design patterns
O  Architectural analysis, verifications and validation methods
O  Quality oriented software architecture (design and Support)
O  Software reliability, safety critical systems and security methods
O  Software reuse and component engineering
O  UML/MDA and AADL
O  Object oriented technology (design and analysis)
O  Software metrics
O  Reverse and architectural recovery methods
O  Domain specific software engineering
O  Aerospace software and system engineering
O  Software engineering methodologies
O  Survivable systems
O  Software testing, evaluation and analysis technologies
O  Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
O  Project management issues
O  Distributed and parallel systems
O  Legal issues and standards
O  Automated software design
O  Real-time embedded software engineering
O  Automated software design and synthesis
O  Software security engineering
O  Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...)
O  Software, domain modeling and meta-modeling
O  Model driven engineering
O  Software maintenance and evolution
O  Reflection and metadata methodologies
O  AI approaches to software engineering
O  Component based software engineering
O  Software engineering standards and guidelines
O  Reports on intelligent CASE tools and eclipse plugins issues
O  Multimedia and hypermedia software engineering
O  Enterprise software, middleware, and tools
O  Industry system experience and report
O  Service-centric software engineering
O  Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, and management)
O  Runtime service management
O  Software engineering and semantic web
O  Program understanding methods
O  Tutoring, documentation systems
O  Software assurance
O  Software economics
O  Software product lines
O  Usability engineering
O  Novel software tools and environments
O  Pervasive software engineering
O  Requirement engineering and processes
O  Critical and embedded software design
O  Service oriented software architecture
O  Software cost estimation
O  Web engineering and web-based applications
O  Human computer interaction and usability engineering
O  Model based software engineering
O  Aspect oriented software engineering
O  Agent oriented software engineering
O  Programming languages and compilers
O  Education and law
O  Case studies and emerging technologies


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
SERP (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, SERP) that the paper is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded
review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels). Proceedings of SERP will be published
in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online.
The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track
citation frequency/data for each published paper (science citation databases
such as: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The
French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL
(covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions
are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected
to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is
no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in
EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, SERP proceedings were included
in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers (such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after the conference.
Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal special issues to be
published after the conference.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Co-chair of SERP'12: Dr. Hassan Reza, U. of North Dakota, USA
Program Committee of SERP is currently being finalized.
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 WORLDCOMP congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof. Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society;
Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab,
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor,
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for SERP is currently being compiled. Many
who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should email  editor@world-comp.org  the following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes
research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to help with.
The list of Program Committee of SERP 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/serp11/committee


GENERAL INFORMATION:

SERP is one of the premier research conferences in software engineering.
processing. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from
over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.),
Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program
Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT &
Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster
U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director,
CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice
President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many
other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 32229


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to
February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations
to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record
is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact
(based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search"
has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list
of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in
computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of SERP'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
   The proceedings' Table of Contents of last offering of SERP (2011) appears at:
   http://world-comp.org/proc2011/serp/contents-vol-i.pdf
2. Detailed information about citations to worldcomp proceedings:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
   as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
   announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: editor@world-comp.org

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