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(c) Copyright 2004 by Software Research, Inc. ======================================================================== Contents of This Issue o International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing o Important Notice About eValid Version Upgrade o International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, Inaugural Issue January 2006. o Information System Journal (ISJ) Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Systems Analysis and Design o 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29) o 1st International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites (WWV-2005) o You Know You're Living In The Year 2004 When... o IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-2005) o eValid: A Quick Summary o QTN Article Submittal, Subscription Information ======================================================================== Call for Papers - TGC '05 International Symposium on "Trustworthy Global Computing" http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/TGC05/ co-Located with ETAPS 2005 (http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/) With the co-sponsorship of IFIP TC-2 Computing technology has become ubiquitous, from global applications to miniscule embedded devices. Trust in computing is vital to help protect public safety, national security, and economic prosperity. A new area of research, known as global computing, has recently emerged that aims at defining new models of computation based on code and data mobility over wide area networks with highly dynamic topologies, and that aims at providing infrastructures to support coordination and control of components originated from different, possibly untrusted, sources. Trustworthy Global Computing aims at guaranteeing safe and reliable network usage, also by providing tools and framework for reasoning about behaviour and properties of applications. In the working conference we would like to listen and discuss the above topics. We are looking for papers dealing with the issues below (the list should nor be considered exhaustive): -- resource usage, -- language-based security, theories of trust and authentication, -- privacy, reliability and business integrity -- access control and mechanisms for enforcing them, -- models of interaction and dynamic components management, -- language concepts and abstraction mechanisms, -- test generators, symbolic interpreters, type checkers, -- finite state model checkers, theorem provers. -- software principles to support debugging and verification -- .... Program Chairs Rocco De Nicola - Dip . Sistemi e Informatica Universite di Firenze - E-mail: denicola@dsi.unifi.it Davide Sangiorgi - Dip . Scienze dell'Informazione Universite di Bologna - E-mail: davide.sangiorgi@cs.unibo.it ======================================================================== Important Notice About eValid Version Upgrade ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <http://www.e-valid.com> We're writing to let all eValid users for whom there is an assigned Customer ID (CID Number) know about the upcoming release of eValid Version 5. Availability of eValid Version 5 -- we call it "V5" for short -- is planned for January 2005. V5 is a major upgrade to the product technology. The new release includes many new features and capabilities such as: o New PageMap facility to allow in-depth analysis of pages and their properties. You can use the PageMap to see how pages are composed and you can use the PageMap information for additional scripting power and reliability. o New LoadTest licensing options that simplify provisioning for server loading activities. o New formats and structure for site analysis to make your runs quicker, easier to analyze, and easier to archive. o Improved detailed timing for individual page components. o Reorganized and updated online documentation to reflect eValid's support for XP applications. o Enhanced support for monitoring operations, including new CSV- style output files and improved batch mode control. o Major changes to the powerful 3D-SiteMap applet that include manipulating the focus, depth, and content of the 3D page- dependency diagrams. o A new and improved JavaScript interface to allow scripting activity to interact with browsing activity. These are combined with new features for extracting the current contents of a page direct from the internal DOM (Document Object Model). o Revised dashboard (eValid's floating control panel) to simplify record/play and site analysis operations. o ...and much more... Let us know if you want to try out eValid V5 before the official release date. Use the question request form: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Information/question.request.html For Current Maintenance Subscription Holders ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you are have a current eValid maintenance and support description you will be able to get new license keys for eValid V5 on request and at no charge. If your maintenance subscription has lapsed then an upgrade fee may be needed to get the advantages of eValid V5. Version Compatibility ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ V5 will fully replace V4 when you install it, and V4 will replace V5 if you choose to go back to the prior version. All V4 scripts will play without modification on V5, but some V5 scripts may not work reliably in V4. Some of the feature licensing and internal support structures have changed in V5. ======================================================================== The International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering An official publication of the Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (Print and Electronic) Inaugural Issue: January 2006 Editor-in-Chief David C. Rine Professor of Computer Science George Mason University Drine@gmu.edu Co-Editor-in-Chief Ghazi I. Alkhatib Senior Lecturer of MIS Qatar College of Technology alkhatib.JITWENG@qu.edu.qa Organizations are continuously overwhelmed by a variety of new information technologies, many Web based. These new technologies are capitalizing on the widespread use of network and communication technologies for seamless integration of various issues in information and knowledge sharing within and among organizations. This emphasis on integrated approaches is unique to this journal and dictates cross platform and multidisciplinary strategy to research and practice. The Mission of the Journal The main objective of the journal is to publish refereed papers in the area covering Information Technology (IT) concepts, tools, methodologies, and ethnography, in the contexts of global communication systems and Web engineered applications. In accordance with this emphasis on the Web and communication systems, the journal publishes papers on IT research and practice that support seamless end-to-end information and knowledge flow among individuals, teams, and organizations. This end-to-end strategy for research and practice requires emphasis on integrated research among the various steps involved in data/knowledge (structured and unstructured) capture (manual or automated), classification and clustering, storage, analysis, synthesis, dissemination, display, consumption, and feedback. The secondary objective is to assist in the evolving and maturing of IT-dependent organizations, as well as individuals, in information and knowledge based culture and commerce, including e-commerce. Coverage Among topics to be included (but not limited to) are the following: * Web systems architectures, including distributed, grid computer, and communication systems processing * Web systems engineering design * Web systems performance engineering studies * Web user interfaces design, development, and usability engineering studies * RFID research and applications in web engineered systems * Mobile, location-aware, and ubiquitous computing * Ontology and semantic Web studies * Software agent-based applications * Integrated user profile, provisioning, and context-based processing * Security, integrity, privacy and policy issues * Quality of service and service level agreement issues among integrated systems * Information filtering and display adaptation techniques for wireless devices * Metrics-based performance measurement of IT-based and Web-based organizations * Data analytics for business and government organizations * Integrated heterogeneous and homogeneous workflows and databases within and across organizations and with suppliers and customers * Case studies validating Web-based IT solutions * Data and knowledge capture and quality issues * Data and knowledge validation and verification * Knowledge structure, classification and search algorithms or engines * Strategies for linking business needs and IT * IT readiness and technology transfer studies * IT Education and Training * Human factors and cultural impact of IT-based systems * Virtual teams and virtual enterprises: communication, policies, operation, creativity, and innovation * Competitive/intelligent information systems. In addition to complete research articles, the journal will publish book reviews and research notes on current innovative, substantial and novel concepts and research areas to foster collaboration research and encourage further exploration and exploitation by academicians and practitioners. Both research and instructional case studies of success stories of IT-augmented systems development will be solicited form practitioner of business and government organizations. Publisher The International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering will be published by Idea Group Inc., publisher of Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, Cybertech Publishing, and Idea Group Reference imprints. The inaugural issue of this journal is due for publication in January 2006. For additional information regarding manuscript submission and subscriptions, please contact the Co-Editor-in-Chief at, alkhatib.JITWENG@qu.edu.qa, DavidCRine@aol.com, or contact the publisher at cchandler@idea-group.com or visit their website at http://www.idea-group.com. ======================================================================== Information Systems Journal (ISJ) Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Systems Analysis and Design The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is running a special issue on Empirical Studies in Systems Analysis and Design. The special issue is motivated by several factors. The systems analysis and design landscape has seen a few major revolutions and evolutions in the last few years. The movement towards agile modeling, extreme modeling, enterprise modeling, and others has created a lot excitement and anxiety in the field. The continued standardization of Unified Modeling Language (with UML 2.0 accepted by OMG in 2003) and the adoption of Unified Process (UP) have a potential significant impact on the practice of systems analysis and design. This special issue is dedicated to understanding and analyzing these changes on the research and practice of systems analysis and design. This special issue is interested in soliciting papers focusing on empirical studies in systems analysis and design. We define empirical studies broadly and we welcome both interpretive and positivist approaches. Case studies, action research, grounded theory approach, and other innovative research methodologies are encouraged. However, purely technical or mathematical papers will not be suitable for this special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Systems analysis and design practices in organizations; * Studies on introducing new systems analysis and design approaches into organizations; * Studies on effect of changes in systems analysis and design practices; * Studies that describe application of analysis and design methods and methodologies; and * Studies that compare and/or evaluate the various systems analysis and design methods and methodologies. Guest Editors of the Special Issue Keng Siau Department of Management 209 College of Business Administration University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0491. USA Phone: 1-402-472-3078 Fax: 1-402-472-5855 Email: ksiau@unl.edu Matti Rossi Helsinki School of Economics, Information Systems and Electronic Commerce P.O. Box 1210 00101 Helsinki Finland Phone (358) 9-43131 Fax (358) 9-4313 8700 E-Mail: mrossi@hkkk.fi ======================================================================== 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29) Greenbelt Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, MD, USA 6-7 April 2005 http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEW-29 Co-located with 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/ECBS2005, as part of Systems and Software Week Sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Software Engineering Laboratory IEEE Computer Society, Technical Council on Software Engineering Background The 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop will be held at the Greenbelt Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, Maryland, in Metropolitan Washington DC, 6-7 April 2005, as part of Systems and Software Week Scope The workshop aims to bring together NASA technical staff, contractors, academics and industrial practitioners interested in the advancement of software engineering principles and techniques. The workshop provides a forum for reporting on past experiences for describing new and emerging results and techniques, and for exchanging ideas on best practice and future directions. Of particular importance is relevance to NASAs mission and goals, and how techniques might be applied, or adapted for use, at NASA, or how NASAs techniques might be used or adapted for more generic use. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Metrics and experience reports * Software quality assurance * Formal methods and formal approaches to software development * Software engineering processes and process improvement * CMM and CMMI * Requirements engineering * Software Architectures * Real-time Software Engineering * Software maintenance, reuse, and legacy systems * Agent-based software systems Any inquiries should also be directed by email to Michael.G.Hinchey@nasa.gov; for faster responses, please include "SEW" in the subject line. ======================================================================== 1st International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites (WWV-2005) March 14-15 2005, Valencia, SPAIN http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05 The increased complexity of Web sites and the explosive growth of Web-based applications has turned their design and construction into a challenging problem. Nowadays, many companies have diverted their Web sites into interactive, completely-automated, Web-based applications (such as Amazon, on-line banking, or travel agencies) with a high complexity that requires appropriate specification and verification techniques and tools. Systematic, formal approaches to the analysis and verification can address the problems of this particular domain with automated and reliable tools that also incorporate semantic aspects. We solicit paper on formal methods and techniques applied to Web sites, Web services or Web-based applications, such as: * rule-based approaches to Web site analysis, certification, specification, verification, and optimization * formal models for describing and reasoning about Web sites * model-checking, synthesis and debugging of Web sites * abstract interpretation and program transformation applied to the semantic Web WWV'05 provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Rule-based programming, Automated Software Engineering, and Web-oriented research to facilitate the cross-fertilization and the advancement of hybrid methods that combine the three areas. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, position papers and reports of practical experiences. WWV'05 is supported by the EU Commission under ICT for EU-India Cross-Cultural Dissemination project ALA/95/23/2003/077-054. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maria Alpuente (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Moreno Falaschi (University of Siena, Italy) ======================================================================== You Know You're Living In The Year 2004 When... 1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail addresses. 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. 3. You text your son to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?" 4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site. 5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next-door neighbor yet this year. 6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea. 7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver. 8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home. 9. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen. 10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid. 11. Leaving the house without your cell phone (which you didn't have for the first 20 or 30 years of your life) is now a cause for panic, and you turn around to go get it. 12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning. 13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car. 14. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 15. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow. 16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet. 17. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored Post-it notes. 18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person. 19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls. 20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one. 21. You get up in morning and go on-line before getting your coffee. 22. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed. 23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :) ======================================================================== 7th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (IEEE CEC-2005) July 19-22, 2005, TU Mnchen, Munich, Germany http://cec05.in.tum.de Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (TCEC) Supported by - IBM Deutschland GmbH - SAP AG - Computerzeitung, IDS Scheer AG, o2 Germany, - Roland Berger Strategy Consultants - Association for Information Systems (AIS) - Gesellschaft fr Informatik (GI) TF 5.5 on E-Commerce IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05) is the 7th annual event (formerly WECWIS) and the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce. CEC is a primary forum for the exchange of information regarding advancements in the state of the art of theory and practice in E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of E-Commerce technology, applications and service-oriented computing. The conference focuses on IT infrastructures and new technologies to facilitate dynamic e- business and Web-based information systems. It is our pleasure to announce invited talks by: => Stuart Feldman, Ph.D. (IBM Research) => Dr. Lutz Heuser (SAP AG) => Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer (DFKI) The main conference theme for 2005 will be "Service-oriented E- Commerce". Topics for submission include but are not limited to: => E-Commerce Infrastructure - E-Commerce architectures and enabling technologies - Intellectual property and digital rights management - Mobile commerce - QoS support, workload monitoring and benchmarking - Real-time Internet delivery technologies - Business applications of Grid technology - Security, privacy and trust issues => Business Process Integration and Management - Electronic data interchange - Web service computing and composition - Transaction and workflow management - Supply chain management and planning - IT service management => Intelligent E-Commerce Applications - Auction and negotiation technology - Automated shopping, trading, and contracting - Decision support and recommender systems - Marketing and advertising technology General Chairs Martin Bichler, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research, USA Program Chairs Gnter Mller, University of Freiburg, Germany Kwei-Jay Lin, UC Irvine, USA ======================================================================== eValid: A Quick Summary http://www.e-valid.com eValid technology incorporates virtually every quality and testing functionality in a full-featured browser. Here is a summary of the main eValid benefits and advantages. o InBrowser(tm) Technology. All the test functions are built into the eValid browser. eValid offers total accuracy and natural access to "all things web." If you can browse it, you can test it. And, eValid's unique capabilities are used by a growing number of firms as the basis for their active services monitoring offerings. o Mapping and Site Analysis. The built-in WebSite spider travels through your website and applies a variety of checks and filters to every accessible page. All done entirely from the users' perspective -- from a browser -- just as your users will see your website. o Functional Testing, Regression Testing. Easy to use GUI based record and playback with full spectrum of validation functions. The eV.Manager component provides complete, natural test suite management. o LoadTest Server Loading. Multiple eValid's play back multiple independent user sessions -- unparalleled accuracy and efficiency. Plus: No Virtual Users! Single and multiple machine usages with consolidated reporting. o Performance Tuning Services. Outsourcing your server loading activity can surely save your budget and might even save your neck! Realistic scenarios, applied from multiple driver machines, impose totally realistic -- no virtual users! -- loads on your server. o Web Services Testing/Validation. eValid tests of web services start begin by analyzing the WSDL file and creating a custom HTML testbed page for the candidate service. Special data generation and analysis commands thoroughly test the web service and automatically identify a range of failures. o Desktop, Enterprise Products. eValid test and analysis engines are delivered at moderate costs for desktop use, and at very competitive prices for use throughout your enterprise. o HealthCheck Subscription. For websites up to 1000 pages, eValid HealthCheck services provide basic detailed analyses of smaller websites in a very economical, very efficient way. o eValidation Managed Service. Being introduced soon. the eValidation Managed WebSite Quality Service offers comprehensive user-oriented detailed quality analysis for any size website, including those with 10,000 or more pages. Resellers, Consultants, Contractors, OEMers Take Note We have an active program for product and service resellers. We'd like to hear from you if you are interested in joining the growing eValid "quality website" delivery team. We also provide OEM solutions for internal and/or external monitoring, custom-faced testing browsers, and a range of other possibilities. Let us hear from you! Use this request form: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Information/question.request.html ======================================================================== 7th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (IEEE CEC-2005) July 19-22, 2005, TU Mnchen, Munich, Germany http://cec05.in.tum.de Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (TCEC) Supported by - IBM Deutschland GmbH - SAP AG - Computerzeitung, IDS Scheer AG, o2 Germany, - Roland Berger Strategy Consultants - Association for Information Systems (AIS) - Gesellschaft fr Informatik (GI) TF 5.5 on E-Commerce IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05) is the 7th annual event (formerly WECWIS) and the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce. CEC is a primary forum for the exchange of information regarding advancements in the state of the art of theory and practice in E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of E-Commerce technology, applications and service-oriented computing. The conference focuses on IT infrastructures and new technologies to facilitate dynamic e- business and Web-based information systems. It is our pleasure to announce invited talks by: => Stuart Feldman, Ph.D. (IBM Research) => Dr. Lutz Heuser (SAP AG) => Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer (DFKI) The main conference theme for 2005 will be "Service-oriented E- Commerce". Topics for submission include but are not limited to: => E-Commerce Infrastructure - E-Commerce architectures and enabling technologies - Intellectual property and digital rights management - Mobile commerce - QoS support, workload monitoring and benchmarking - Real-time Internet delivery technologies - Business applications of Grid technology - Security, privacy and trust issues => Business Process Integration and Management - Electronic data interchange - Web service computing and composition - Transaction and workflow management - Supply chain management and planning - IT service management => Intelligent E-Commerce Applications - Auction and negotiation technology - Automated shopping, trading, and contracting - Decision support and recommender systems - Marketing and advertising technology General Chairs Martin Bichler, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research, USA Program Chairs Gnter Mller, University of Freiburg, Germany Kwei-Jay Lin, UC Irvine, USA ======================================================================== ------------>>> QTN ARTICLE SUBMITTAL POLICY <<<------------ ======================================================================== QTN is E-mailed around the middle of each month to over 10,000 subscribers worldwide. 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