-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012 (July 16-19, 2012, USA, Conference on Software Engineering, SERP) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:21:23 -0400 From: Software Engineering wcom12@world-comp.org To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012

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

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/serp12 ======================================================================

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. The proceedings of the congress that SERP is part of, enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations so far.

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages) April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days) May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'12)

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 Nonlinear Software Engineering Theory and Practice 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

SUBMISSION OF REGULAR 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 April 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).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work (ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

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, the proceedings in which SERP was part of (PDPTA/WORLDCOMP) was 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 - 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. For a very few examples of such recent books and journal issues, see the links below: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9 http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6 + a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics: http://www.biomedcentral.com

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

SERP is one of the premier research conferences in bioinformatics and computational biology. 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. The congress 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 the congress 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 PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of the congress enjoys a high number of citations. As of March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers. In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatic... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-internationa... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-re... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-a... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-fr... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-kno... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-model... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-dis... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-manag... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineer... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-se...

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION: 1. Web site of SERP'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/serp12 2. To see the caliber of the past offering of SERP, refer to the web site of the 2011 congress and its affiliated conferences and tracks: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws 3. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606 4. 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: sc@world-comp.org

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