CASCON 2008

CASCON 2008 is the 18th Annual International Conference hosted by the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies. This "Meeting of Minds" provides an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in the ever-expanding and critical fields of software development and computing. The CASCON 2008 program will include keynote presentations, technical papers, workshops, and a technology showcase. The technical papers program will feature experience reports and original research papers.  The technology showcase will feature poster presentations and demonstrations on research in progress.  As such, CASCON 2008 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, sharing results and experiences, and networking with researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government.

Important Dates

• May 5, 2008: Abstracts for technical papers due
• May 26, 2008: Full technical papers due
• July 21, 2008: Acceptance notification to technical paper authors
• August 11, 2008: Camera-ready technical papers due
• October 27-30, 2008: Conference dates

Suggested Topics

CASCON 2008 invites authors to submit original papers addressing any of the
following topics:

• Software Development Processes:
• development methods and techniques;
• measurement and metrics;
• agile methods;
• open-source and global software development;
• COTS-based systems;
• requirements elicitation
• Software Design & Comprehension:
• software architecture;
• object-oriented techniques;
• program understanding and reengineering
• Reliability:
• verification and validation;
• model checking;
• software testing;
• reliability engineering;
• quality assurance
• Software Development Tools:
• compilers;
• integrated development environments;
• testing frameworks;
• supporting distributed and parallel computation; supporting collaboration and awareness
• Databases:
• query processing;
• information integration;
• semi-structured data;
• data mining;
• knowledge discovery;
• schema migration;
• digital libraries;
• data warehousing
• Security and Privacy:
• cryptography;
• access control;
• security in domain-specific applications;
• privacy and trust
• Services Science:
• service-oriented architectures;
• new computation and business models;
• large-scale system integration;
• legal, economic and societal issues;
• User Experience:
• interaction design;
• multimodal interfaces;
• privacy and trust;
• web-based interface design;
• development tool adoption
• Web-based Systems:
• communities of practice;
• wikis and blogs;
• scripting languages;
• privacy and trust models;
• mobile web;
• semantic web
• Next generation Systems: 
• power-computing services and clients, real-time-aware systems.
• Autonomic Computing:
• provisioning and allocation of resources;
• policy-based management
• Grid Computing:
• Applications;
• data management;
• scheduling;
• resource management;
• information services