CASCON 2009

CASCON 2009 is the 19th 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 2009 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 2009 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 11, 2009: Abstracts for technical papers due
• June 1, 2009: Full technical papers due
• July 27, 2009: Acceptance notification to technical paper authors
• August 19, 2009: Camera-ready technical papers due
• November 2-5, 2009: Conference dates

Topics

CASCON 2009 invites authors to submit original papers addressing any of the following topics:

• Cloud computing: virtualization; software as a service; software appliance, identity and security; business models.
• User interaction: cognitive support for interaction: user interaction patterns; social software; multimodal interfaces; web-based interface design, context adaptive interactions, end user programming.
• Business intelligence: data warehouses; OLAP; data mining and analytics; data visualization; intelligent search; data quality; data integration; recovery, display and manipulation of business rules.
• Software development processes: development methods and techniques; measurement and metrics; software development data mining and intelligence; agile methods; service-oriented system development; open-source and global software development; verification and validation; model checking; software testing; reliability engineering; quality assurance; end-user software development.
• Software development tools: compilers; collaborative integrated development environments; testing frameworks; service-oriented programming models; supporting distributed and parallel computation; supporting collaboration and awareness.
• Security and Privacy: cryptography; access control; security in domain-specific applications; privacy and trust
• Software design & comprehension: software architecture; service-oriented architecture; object-oriented techniques; program understanding and reengineering, web application architecture.
• Next generation systems: multi-core systems; stream processing systems; graphical processing systems.
• Database infrastructure and technology: stream data; XML and text data; query processing and optimization; data mining; self-management.
• Services science: new computation and business models; large-scale system integration; legal, economic and societal issues.
• Web-based systems: web application architecture, communities of practice; wikis and blogs; scripting languages; privacy and trust; mobile web; semantic web; new collaboration environments and technologies.

Submission Instructions

The deadline for paper submissions is June 1, 2009 . However, please submit an abstract by May 11, 2009 to assist us with planning.

To submit a technical paper, please register at the submission site http://witanweb.ca/cascon2009/ . Once registered, instructions will be provided regarding how to submit your abstract and paper. The paper submission web site will open on March 16, 2009 .

Technical papers should be, at most, 15 2-column pages long, using 10pt font, in 2 columns. Detailed style descriptions, as well as templates are available at the submission web site.

CASCON 2009 will NOT accept submissions that have been previously published, are in press or have been submitted elsewhere.

The proceedings from CASCON 2009 will be published by IBM, and will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

To submit a workshop proposal, poster presentation, or demonstration please refer to the conference site http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon .

Please help us publicize CASCON 2009 by linking to the conference web site http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon from your own Web site and by bringing this announcement to the attention of your colleagues.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and meeting you at CASCON in November.