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Dear Colleague,
We would like to bring the Software Engineering and Middleware Workshop to
your attention, which next year will be co-located with ICSE. We would very
much like you to submit a paper and I attach the CfP below. The proceedings of
the previous workshop were published as LNCS 1999 with Springer Verlag and we
intend to continue this tradition for the next workshop.
With kind regards,
Wolfgang Emmerich, Andre van der Hoek and Alberto Coen Porisini
(General Chair) (Programme Co-Chairs)
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Call for Papers
3rd International Workshop on
Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2002)
May 20-21, 2002
Buenos Aires, Argentina
SEM 2002 is the third international workshop on software engineering and
middleware and it continues the international workshops on engineering
distributed objects (EDO), which were held in 1999 in Los Angeles and in 2000
at UC Davis. The proceedings of the second workshop are available from
Springer Verlag as LNCS 1999. SEM 2002 will be held as a co-located event
before ICSE 2002.
Middleware consists of a set of services and resources that are located
between applications and the underlying communication infrastructure. Even
though there is no generally agreed definition of the precise borders that
identify such domains there is a general consensus upon the existance and the
importance of middleware.
The first conceptualizations of middleware originated with the distributed
operating systems research of the late 1970s. Distributed object technologies
have led to the development of environments, such as CORBA, DCOM, and J2EE
that are commonly defined as middleware and that have been increasingly
adopted by many enterprises as the backbone of their IT infrastructure. In
addition, a different approach based on explicit component mediation and
asynchronous communication, has led to message oriented middleware (MOM) in
which distributed components interact by means of a publish/subscribe message
broker or a message queuing mechanism.
Thus, in order to support advanced applications, middleware services and
requirements combine areas such as: distributed computing, distributed data
bases, object oriented design methods and programming languages, network
security etc. and they introduce new challenges to infrastructure developers.
At the same time application developers have to adapt their development
methodologies to take benefit from the advances made by infrastructure
developers.
Software engineers are therefore challenged both in the area of infrastructure
development, where open, heterogenous, component-based platforms must provide
richer functionality and services, and in the area of application development
where it is necessary to provide engineering solutions of proven practice for
issues peculiar to systems based on such technologies. SEM is the premier
workshop that brings together the research and practice community of software
engineering working in both areas.
Topics of Interest
The program committee seeks high quality papers related to all aspects of
middleware and its relationship with software engineering. Topics to be
discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Modelling and specification of middleware-based applications and
platforms (UML, XML, ADLs and IDLs)
* Software architecture and architectural styles for middleware
* Impact of middleware on software architecture design
* Ensuring appropriate quality-of-service including performance,
reliability, security
* Use of CORBA and CORBA Services, COM+, EJB / J2EE, and MOM in distributed
software architectures
* Selection of middleware, combination of OOM and MOM and diverse middleware
products
* Software development methods and processes for
- enterprise application integration using OOM and MOM
- database integration and distributed transactions
- integration with Web technologies
Deadlines
January 31, 2002 Electronic paper submission
February 28, 2002 Acceptance Notification
April 15, 2002 Camera-ready copy Submission
How to submit?
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication
elsewhere. Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 5000 words.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF and be sent by e-mail to
Alberto Coen Porisini
Centro di Ricerca in Informatica Interattiva
Universit� dell�Insubria, Varese
via Ravasi 2 � I-21100 Varese, Italy
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://web.crii.uninsubria.it/sem2002
A separate email with the following information on the paper should be sent at
same address
* title of the paper
* abstract of the paper
* all authors with affiliations and email
* contact author address
* declaration of intent to attend SEM 2002 if the paper is accepted
* indication whether the attending author is a student, who needs financial
help (a limited number of bursaries are kindly provided by IBM Research)
Publication
Submitted papers will be refereed by the international program committee. It
is planned to publish accepted papers after the workshop in a volume of
Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Organization
General Chair:
Wolfgang Emmerich (University College London, UK)
Programme Co-Chairs:
Alberto Coen-Porisini (Universit� dell�Insubria, Italy)
Andre van der Hoek (University of California Irvine, USA)
Local Chair:
Sebastian Uchitel (Imperial College London, UK)
Programme Committee:
Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK)
Alfred Br�ckers (Adesso, Germany)
Peter Croll (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Flavio De Paoli (Universit� di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Premkumar Devanbu (University of California - Davis, USA)
Naranker Dulay (Imperial College, UK)
Wolfgang Emmerich(University College London, UK)
Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)
Arno Jacobson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Mehdi Jazayeri (TU Vienna, Austria)
Wojtek Kozacynski (Rational, USA)
Peter L�hr (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Dino Mandrioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Julien Maisonneuve (Alcatel, France)
Koichiro Ochimizu (Japan Institute of Technology, Japan)
David Rosenblum (University of California Irvine, USA)
Gustavo Rossi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Isabelle Rouvellou (IBM Watson Research, USA)
Dirk Slama (Shinka Technologies, Germany)
Stefan Tai (IBM Watson Research, USA)
