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ICSOFT-PT is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the ICSOFT-PT 2016, the 11th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. This edition will focus in priority on the four main paradigms that have been intensively studied during the last decade for software and system design, namely: Models, Aspects, Services and Context.

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to the design and development of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level models and computer-based automation to achieve significant improvements in both productivity and quality. Model Driven Engineering has been popularized during the last decade by a specific incarnation, model-driven architecture (MDA) of OMG (Object management group).

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is an established technology for separation of concerns (SOC) in software development. The techniques of AOSD make it possible to modularize crosscutting aspects of a system. Like objects, aspects may arise at any stage of the software lifecycle, including requirements specification, design, implementation, etc. In recent years, AOSD has been applied successfully for developing complex modern systems - particularly software and software-intensive systems.

Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable applications. During the last decade, Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has been introduced as a new paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries.

The term context awareness was first coined by Schilit in 1994. Context encompasses all of the information relevant to an interaction between a service and its set of users including the participants as well. In the scope of pervasive computing, a context aware application is a class of application that has raised increasing interest in the research community. These applications can capture dynamically and take advantage of contextual information.

These four paradigms will drive the design and development of future software systems encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of software engineering; from models and services to the most complex management information systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data interoperability; context understanding and many other topics are included in the scope of ICSOFT-PT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining these paradigms, either in the scope of R&D; projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions around these paradigms are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published on the Proceedings of ICSOFT-PT, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. MODELS
2. ASPECTS
3. SERVICES
4. CONTEXT


AREA 1: MODELS


  • Domain-Specific Languages
  • Metamodeling
  • Model Analysis and Checking
  • Model Transformation
  • Model Evolution
  • Model Execution and Simulation
  • Model Testing
  • Model Composition
  • Model Versioning
  • Model Tools
  • Modeling Languages

AREA 2: ASPECTS


  • Aspect Analysis and Design
  • Domain Engineering
  • Modularity with Aspects
  • Aspects Interference and Composition
  • Aspects Testing and Verification
  • Aspects Evaluation and Metrics
  • Advice/Pointcut Specification
  • Aspect Mining

AREA 3: SERVICES


  • Service Registration, Update, De-registration
  • Service Discovery, Selection and Replacement
  • Service Invocation, Interaction, Monitoring
  • Service Choreography, Mediation, Orchestration
  • SOC/SOA
  • Service Descriptions and Modelling
  • The Web of Services
  • Service Interoperability, Matching and Composition
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Service Pricing and Legal Agreements
  • Services Science
  • Ontology and Semantics for Services Computing
  • Security, Privacy and Trust for Service Interoperation
  • Service Networks
  • Cloud Computing Management

AREA 4: CONTEXT


  • Context-Aware Systems
  • Context Identification
  • Context Formalization
  • Context Representation
  • Context Analysis
  • Context Design
  • Context Sensitive Applications
  • Context Aggregation and Inference

ICSOFT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Uwe Assmann, TU-Dresden, Germany
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Italy

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus.

SECRETARIAT

ICSOFT-PT Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: https://www.icsoft-pt.org/

VENUE

Our conference will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel, this 4 star Venue was considered Portugal’s leading conference hotel.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Available soon.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Huawei European Research Center, Germany
André Ludwig, Kühne Logistics University, Germany
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Farhad Arbab, CWI, Netherlands
Jose Luis Arciniegas Herrera, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Uwe Assmann, TU-Dresden, Germany
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Wolfgang Bein, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
Fevzi Belli, Izmir Istitute of Technology, Turkey
Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, United States
Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, Netherlands
Frances Brazier, TU Delft, Netherlands
Thomas Buchmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Nelio Cacho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Demetrescu Camil, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Gerardo Canfora, Rcost - Research Centre On Software Technology, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marta Cimitile, UNITELMA Sapienza, Italy
Rem Collier, University College Dublin, Ireland
Agostino Cortesi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, United States
John Derrick, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK-IRST, Italy
María J. Domínguez-Alda, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Markus Endler, Puc Rio, Brazil
Fikret Ercal, Missouri University of Science & Technology, United States
Morgan Ericsson, Linnaeus university, Sweden
Santiago Escobar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Anne Etien, Université Lille 1, France
Jean-Rémy Falleri, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, France
João Faria, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Marian Fernández de Sevilla, Alcalá University, Spain
Alain Finkel, École Normale Supérieure Cachan, France
Kehan Gao, Eastern Connecticut State University, United States
Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Paola Giannini, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
J. Paul Gibson, Mines-Telecom - Telecom SudParis, France
Gregor Grambow, University of Ulm, Germany
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Øystein Haugen, Østfold University College, Norway
Christian Heinlein, Aalen University, Germany
Jose R. Hilera, University of Alcala, Spain
Dieter Hogrefe, University of Göttingen, Germany
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Jang-eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, United States
Milan Ignjatovic, Prosoftwarica GmbH, Switzerland
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, United States
Pooyan Jamshidi, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Maria Jose Escalona, University of Seville, Spain
Hermann Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Dean Kelley, Minnesota State University, United States
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University, United States
Jun Kong, North Dakota State University, United States
Martin Kropp, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Carolyn L. Talcott, SRI International, United States
Konstantin Läufer, Loyola University Chicago, United States
David Lorenz, Open University, Israel
Ahmad Kamran Malik, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Bernardi Mario Luca, University of Sannio, Italy
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russian Federation
Fergal Mc Caffery, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Hamid Mcheick, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
Gergely Mezei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Marian Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Tommi Mikkonen, Institute of Software Systems, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mattia Monga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
José Arturo Mora-Soto, Mathematics Research Center, Mexico
Claude Moulin, JRU CNRS Heudiasyc, University of Compiègne, France
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy
Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - IRISA-UBS, France
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Marcos Palacios, University of Oviedo, Spain
Jennifer Pérez, Technical University of Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Frantisek Plasil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Roman Popp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Henrique Rebelo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Sandeep Reddivari, University of North Florida, United States
Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Amelia Ritahani Ismail, IIUM, Malaysia
Carlos Rodriguez, University of Trento, Italy
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
Carlos Rossi, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gustavo Rossi, Lifia, Argentina
Gunter Saake, Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Germany
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille, France
Harvey Siy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States
Layth Sliman, Olab-Dynamics, France
Yeong-tae Song, Towson University, United States
Cosmin Stoica Spahiu, University of Craiova - Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Hiroki Suguri, Miyagi University, Japan
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, United States
Maurice H. ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Chouki Tibermacine, LIRMM, CNRS and Montpellier University, France
Claudine Toffolon, Université du Maine, France
Gianluigi Viscusi, EPFL-CDM, Switzerland
Dietmar Wikarski, FH Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Andreas Winter, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Jongwook Woo, California State University Los Angeles, United States
Jinhui Yao, Xerox Research, United States
Jingyu Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia
Elena Zucca, University of Genova, Italy

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