CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex
Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010)

St Anne's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 24-26 March 2010

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ICECCS2010/

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The success of key human activities ranging from research and business to
everyday services relies on the use of ever more sophisticated, feature-rich
and complex computer systems. These complex computer systems are
regularly required to accomplish more, faster and on a broader scale, to adapt
dynamically to changing workloads, scenarios and objectives, and to achieve
guaranteed levels of performance and dependability. Satisfying such demanding
requirements in the presence of the variability, heterogeneity and non-linear
behaviour that characterise complex computer systems poses numerous challenges
to both their developers and their users.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners and leading
experts from academia and industry, to advance the state of the art in the specification,
development, validation and verification, and management of complex computer systems.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE AND TOPICS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results,
case studies and tools. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following aspects
of complex computer systems:

* Requirement specification and analysis
* Verification and validation
* Model-driven development
* Reverse engineering and refactoring
* Design by contract
* Agile methods
* Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures
* Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems
* Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems
* Systems of systems
* Tools and tool integration
* Industrial case studies

Different kinds of contributions are sought, including research papers,
lessons learned, experience reports, and discussion of practical problems
faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a
rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests
and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals,
researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize
several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a
given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between
industrial and academic research.

Papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience
Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by
program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will
be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should
describe original research, and experience reports should present practical
projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

PAPER SUBMISSION
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style
of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Papers should not
exceed 10 pages including figures, references, and appendices and be in
PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length
may be rejected immediately, without review.

Submissions of papers will be carried out electronically via the web site
of the ICECCS Submission Service at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2010

Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form.
IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of
accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages in the aforementioned IEEE
proceedings format.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract submission deadline 23 Oct 2009
Paper submission deadline 30 Oct 2009
Author notification 18 Dec 2009
Final version due: 22 Jan 2010
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bill Roscoe, University of Oxford, UK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

GENERAL CHAIR
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

PROGRAM CHAIRS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Radu Calinescu, University of Oxford, UK
Richard Paige, University of York, UK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------