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* 1st International Workshop on *
* Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications *
* (RTSE4CAA’10) *
* July 22 –24, 2010, Athens, Greece *
* to take place during *
* 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies *
* http:// www.icsoft.org/ *
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Papers Due : 6th April 2010
Website : http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm

BACKGROUND AND GOALS
Advances in sensor technologies, wireless communications, and mobile devices
have resulted into software applications, usually known as ubiquitous, that can
be used anywhere and everywhere. These applications are sensible to the context
in which they operate, which makes them adaptable and responsive to users’
profiles and personal requirements. Context-awareness is increasingly featured
in many instances of application domains such as e-commerce, e-learning,
e-healthcare, just to cite a few. Despite this recent flurry of interest in
context-awareness, modelling, capturing and processing contextual information
pose a new set of challenges, resulting in high application development
overheads. Sensing, localizing, recognizing, profiling, provisioning,
discovering and dealing with the uncertainty and privacy of, contextual
information are typical processes associated with such application development
overheads. Traditional software engineering techniques and tools have already
shown their limitations, which calls for new techniques and tools. This workshop
aims at addressing these challenges.
This first workshop on Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware
Applications provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present
results, applications, and experiences in software engineering approaches for
context-aware applications. The organizing committee welcomes high quality
contributions that describe original and unpublished works in the field of
context-aware application engineering in terms of design, development, testing,
and deployment.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
A keynote speaker will be invited to address the workshop’s audience on recent
trends on the theory, practice and applications of software engineering
techniques for context-aware applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The workshop welcomes three types of submissions:
1.Full papers describing novel ideas on recent trends in software engineering
for context-aware applications at practical or theoretical levels. The
maximum length of a full paper is 10 pages.
2.Position papers describing work in progress or an author’s position
regarding the recent practice of software engineering for context-aware
applications and/or its future trends. The maximum length of a position
paper is 4 pages.
3.Demo papers describing practical context-aware application/prototype. The
maximum length of a demo paper is 4 pages. It is expected that the authors
of the paper will showcase their application in public.

Instructions for preparing manuscripts (in Word and Latex format) are available
at the ICSOFT web site. Papers should be submitted through the online submission
system.

All papers will undergo a double-blind review and be selected on the basis of
relevance, clarity and technical quality. At least one author should attend the
workshop to present the paper.

All accepted papers will be published, under an ISBN reference, by INSTICC Press
in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be distributed to the
participants in printed form at the registration desk.

Publication of a selection of the workshop's best papers in a special issue of
an international journal is under investigation.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Modelling of context and of context aware applications
- Model driven engineering of context aware applications
- Ontologies for context-aware applications
- Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
- Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware
applications
- Intelligent context aware applications
- Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware
applications
- Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
- Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
- Context aware business processes
- Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
- Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
- Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission Deadline: 6th April 2010
* Author Notification: 4th May 2010
* Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 19th May 2010.

CHAIRS
Yacine Atif : College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates
University, U.A.E
E-mail: yacine(dot)atif(at)uaeu(dot)ac(dot)ae
Olivier Camp : ESEO, Angers, FRANCE
E-mail : olivier(dot)camp(at)eseo(dot)fr
Slimane Hammoudi : ESEO, Angers, FRANCE
E-mail : slimane(dot)hammoudi(at)eseo(dot)fr
Zakaria Maamar : College of Information Technology, Zayed University, U.A.E
E-mail : zakaria(dot)maamar(at)zu(dot)ac(dot)ae

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)
Moushir M. El-Bishouty (University of Tokushima, Japan)
Mohamed Boukhebouze (University of Namur, Belgium)
Giacomo Cabri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Markus Endler (PUC Rio, Brazil)
René Meier, Trinity (College Dublin, Ireland)
Michael Mrissa (Université de Lyon, France)
Jogesh Muppala (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Rachid Hamadi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Georgia M. Kapitsaki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Low Chor Ping (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jamie Payton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Gaëtan Rey (Université de Nice, France)
Abdelmounaam Rezgui (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Michel Riveil (Polytech Nice, France)
Chantal Taconet (Télécom Sud Paris, France)
Slim Trabelsi, SAP Labs France