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The Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
ICSEA 2009
September 20-25, 2009 - Porto, Portugal |
| Submission (full paper) |
April 20, 2009 |
| Notification |
May 25, 2009 |
| Registration |
June 12, 2009 |
| Camera ready |
June 15, 2009 |
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press
Posted: IEEE Digital Library
Indexing process
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All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
Tracks:
- Advances in fundamentals for software development
Fundamentals in software development;
Software architecture, patterns, frameworks;
Software analysis and model checking;
Software architectural scalability;
Requirements engineering and design;
Software design (methodologies, patterns, experiences, views, design by contract, design by responsibilities, etc.);
Software modeling (OO, non-OO, MDA, SOA, patterns, UML, etc.);
Software process and workflow;
Software validation and verification;
Software testing and testing tools;
Software implementation;
Software project management (risk analysis, dependencies, etc.)
- Advanced mechanisms for software development
Software composition;
Process composition and refactoring;
Co-design and codeplay;
Software dependencies;
Plug&play software;
Adaptive software;
Context-sensitive software;
Policy-driven software design;
Software rejuvenation;
Feature interaction detection and resolution;
Embedded software;
Parallel and distributed software
- Advanced design tools for developing software
Formal specifications in software;
Programming mechanisms (real-time, multi-threads, etc.);
Programming techniques (feature-oriented, aspects-oriented, generative programming, agents-oriented, contextual-oriented, incremental, stratified, etc.);
Requirement specification languages;
Programming languages;
Automation of software design and implementation;
Software design with highly distributed resources (GRID);
Web service based software;
Scenario-based model synthesis;
Merging partial behavioral models;
Partial goal/requirement satisfaction
- Advanced facilities for accessing software
Information modeling;
GUI related software;
Computer-aided software design;
Hierarchical APIs;
APIs roles in software development;
Ontology support for Web Services;
Rapid prototyping tools;
Embedded software quality;
Thread modeling;
Flexible Objects;
Use cases;
Visual Modeling
- Software performance
Software performance modeling;
Software performance engineering (UML diagrams, Process algebra, Petri nets, etc.);
Software performance requirements;
Performance forecast for specific applications;
Performance testing;
Web-service based software performance;
Performance of rule-based software;
Methods for performance improvements;
Software performance experience reports;
Program failures experiences;
Error ranking via correlation;
Empirical evaluation of defects
- Software security, privacy, safeness
Security requirements, design, and engineering;
Software safety and security;
Security, privacy and safeness in software;
Software vulnerabilities;
Assessing risks in software;
Software for online banking and transactions;
Software trace analysis;
Software uncertainties;
Dynamic detection of likely invariants;
Human trust in interactive software;
Memory safety;
Safety software reuse;
High confidence software;
Trusted computing;
Next generation secure computing
- Advances in software testing
Formal approaches for test specifications;
Advanced testing methodologies;
Static and dynamic analysis;
Strategies for testing nondeterministic systems;
Testing software releases;
Generating tests suites;
Evolutionary testing of embedded systems;
Algorithmic testing;
Exhaustive testing;
Black-box testing;
Testing at the design level;
Testing reactive software;
Empirical evaluation
- Specialized software advanced applications
Database related software;
Software for disaster recovery applications;
Software for mobile vehicles;
Biomedical-related software;
Biometrics related software;
Mission critical software;
Real-time software;
E-health related software;
Military software;
Crisis-situation software;
Software for Bluetooth and mobile phones;
Multimedia software applications
- Open source software
Open source software (OSS) methodologies;
OSS development and debugging;
Security in OSS;
Performance of OSS;
OSS roles and responsibilities;
OSS incremental development;
Division of labor and coordination mechanisms;
Distribution of decision-making;
Operational boundaries;
Experience reports and lessons learnt;
Versioning management;
Towards generalizing the OSS methodologies and practices;
Open source licensing;
Industrial movement towards open source
- Agile software techniques
Agile software methodologies and practices (extreme programming, scrum, feature-driven, etc.);
Agile modeling (serial in the large, iterative in the small);
Agile model driven design;
Agile methodologies for embedded software;
Software metrics for agile projects;
Lifecycle for agile software development;
Agile user experience design;
Agility via program automation;
Testing into an agile environment;
Agile project planning;
Agile unified process
- Software deployment and maintenance
Software in small and large organizations;
Deploying and maintaining open source software;
Software maintenance;
Software assurance;
Software reuse;
Software quality metrics (complexity, empiric metrics, etc.);
Software re-engineering (reverse engineering);
Consistency checking
- Software economics, adoption, and education
Patenting software;
Software licensing;
Software economics;
Software engineering education;
Academic and industrial views on software adoption and education;
Good-to-great in software adoption and improvement;
Software knowledge management
- Improving reasearch productivity
Developing frameworks to support research;
Methods and tools to improving the research environment;
Supporting domain specific research needs;
Teaching research skills in Computer Science;
Experience reports on well developed research processes;
Experience reports on empirical approaches to software engineering research;
Approaches to supporting higher degree students in their research;
Approaches to enlarge the research / teaching nexus to improve academics productivity;
Approaches to integration between university research and industry research;
Tools to support the research process;
Approaches to measuring research metric
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