[OSGeo-Discuss] SITIS 2009 - Track on "Open Source Software Development and Solution" (OSSDS)

Tue Aug 11 19:53:36 PDT 2009

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The 5th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet
Based Systems (SITIS'09)

November 29 - December 3, 2009

Farah Kenzi Hotel
Marrakech, Morocco
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS

In cooperation with ACM SigApp.fr, IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13, IEEE (pending)
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             *** New deadline : September 20, 2009 ***

The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used
to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging
multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data
found in the web.
SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a
key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to
allow distributed computing and information sharing.

SITIS 2009 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on
research activities centered on the following tracks:

* The focus of the track "Information Management & Retrieval
Technologies" (IMRT) is on the emerging modeling, representation and
retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and
diversity of information accessible in distributed computing
environment. The topics include data semantics and ontologies, spatial
information systems, Multimedia databases, Information retrieval and
search engine, and applications.

* The track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems"
(WITDS) is devoted to emerging and novel concepts, architectures and
methodologies for creating an interconnected world in which information
can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, and
communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while
addressing security threats that are present more than ever before.  The
topics include information system interoperability, emergent semantics,
agent-based systems, distributed and parallel information management,
grid, P2P, web-centric systems, web security and integrity issues.

* The track "Open Source Software Development and Solution" (OSSDS)
focuses on new software engineering method in distributed and large
scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, and using Open
Source Solutions and case studies or success stories in specific
domains. The topics include software engineering methods, users and
communities' interactions, software development platforms, open Source
developments and project management, applications domain, case studies.

In addition to the above tracks, SITIS 2009 includes workshops. The
final list of workshop will be provided later.

Submission and publication
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The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular
and workshop sessions. SITIS 2009 invites submission of high quality and
original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for
technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics.

Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication
format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore
and major indexes.

Submission site : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis09

Important dates
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* Paper Submission: extended deadline August 3rd, 2009
* Acceptance/Reject notification: August 15th, 2009
* Camera ready / Author registration: September 1st, 2009

Local organizing committee (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco)
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* Aziz Elfaazzikii (Chair)
* El Hassan Abdelwahed
* Jahir Zahi
* Mohamed El Adnani
* Mohamed Sadgal
* Souad Chraibi
* Said El Bachari

Track Open Source Software Development and Solutions (OSSDS)
IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13
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The focus of this track is on new software engineering method for
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) development in distributed
and large scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, using
FLOSS solutions and case studies or success stories in specific domains.

Software Engineering methods, users and communities interactions,
software development platforms:

     * Architecture and patterns for FLOSS development
     * Testing and reliability of FLOSS
     * Software engineering methods in distributed collaborative
       environments
     * Licencing and other legal issues
     * Documentation of FLOSS projects
     * CASE tool to support FLOSS development
     * Agile principles and FLOSS development
     * Mining in FLOSS projects

Applications domain, case studies, success stories:

     * Geospatial software, services and applications
     * Bioinformatics
     * FLOSS for e-government and e-administration
     * FLOSS in public sector (e.g. education, healthcare...)
     * FLOSS solutions for data intensive applications
     * FLOSS and SOA, middleware, applications servers
     * FLOSS for critical applications
     * FLOSS in Grid and P2P environments
     * Tools and infrastructures for FLOSS development
     * Scientific computing
     * Simulation tools
     * Security tools

Development and project management:

     * Ecology of FLOSS development
     * FLOSS stability, maintainability and scalability
     * FLOSS evaluation, mining FLOSS data
     * FLOSS and innovation
     * Experiments, reports, field studies and empirical analysis
     * FLOSS for teaching software engineering
     * Revenue models
     * Security concerns in using FLOSS
     * Users involvement in design and development of FLOSS
     * Building sustainable communities

Track Chairs

     * Thierry Badard (Laval University, Canada)
     * Eric Leclercq (University of Bourgogne, France)

Program Committee

   Abdallah Al Zain (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
   Claudio Ardagna (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
   Carlo Daffara (Connecta, Italy)
   Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
   Mehmet Gokturk (Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey)
   Scott A. Hissam (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Frédéric Hubert (University of Laval, Canada)
   Puneet Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
   Frank Van Der Linden (Philips, Netherlands)
   Gregory Lopez (Thales group, France)
   Sandro Morasca (Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy)
   Pascal Molli (University of Nancy, France)
   Eric Piel (University of Delft, The Netherlands)
   Eric Ramat (University of Littoral, France)
   Sylvain Rampacek (University of Bourgogne, France)
   Marinette Savonnet (University of Bourgogne, France)
   Charles Schweik, University of Massachussets, Amherst, USA)
   Alberto Sillitti (University of Bolzano, Italy)
   Megan Squire (Elon University, USA)
   Marie-Noelle Terrasse (University of Bourgogne, France)
   Christelle Vangenot (EPFL, Switzerland)

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Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D.
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Professeur au Département des sciences géomatiques
(http://www.scg.ulaval.ca)
Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique
(http://www.crg.ulaval.ca)
Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE
(http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca)
Chercheur collaborateur de la chaire de recherche
industrielle en base de données géospatiales décisionnelles
(http://mdspatialdb.chair.scg.ulaval.ca)
Responsable du projet de formation sur les normes
internationales en géomatique
(http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca)
Administrateur des projets open source :
   GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org)
   GeoMondrian (http://www.geo-mondrian.org)
   Spatialytics (http://www.spatialytics.org)
   GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net)
Membre votant de la fondation OSGeo
(http://www.osgeo.org)

Département des sciences géomatiques
Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique
Pavillon Louis-Jacques Casault
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Université Laval
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Canada

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Courriel : Thierry.Badard at scg.ulaval.ca
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