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(c) Copyright 2004 by Software Research, Inc. ======================================================================== Contents of This Issue o French Software Testing Board o Special Issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research o The IT Metrics and Productivity Journal o eValid News and Product Items o ACM Symposium on Software Visualization o Conference on Trust Management o New Section on Software Architecture, Journal of Systems & Software o Montreal Conference on Internet Technologies o European Performance Engineering Workshop o Web Information Systems and Technologies o QTN Article Submittal, Subscription Information ======================================================================== French Software Testing Board The CFTL (French Software Testing Board) is proud to announce its participation to the ICSSEA conference organized by the CNAM in Paris on 29-30 November and 1st December 2005. ICSSEA is a yearly conference in Paris (France) organized by the CMSL department of CNAM. This year's conference is entitled : 18mes Journaes Internationales "Genie Logiciel & Ingenierie de Systemes et leurs Applications" More detailed information can be obtained at http://deptinfo.cnam.fr/CMSL/icssea/icssea2005/ ======================================================================== Special Issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) On Web Services Discovery and Composition Systems Using service-oriented computing approaches (i.e. web services), the capabilities of organizations can be openly exposed, easily searched and discovered, and made readily-accessible to humans and particularly to machines. Artificial intelligence and software engineering researchers alike are intrigued by the promise of ubiquitously discovering and incorporating services into their own business processes (i.e. composition and orchestration). With growing acceptance of service-oriented computing, an emerging area of research is the investigation of technologies that will enable the discovery and composition of web services. This proposed special issue solicits high-quality papers on software components and/or intelligent agents that can discover pertinent web services and compose them to create higher-level functionality. For this special issue, all the submitted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-reviewing process and the selection criteria include both the system design's elegancy as well as its practicability. Each manuscript should include the evaluation section on the effectiveness of the proposed approach based on a given Web services repository. Repositories and example software are available at http://ws- challenge.georgetown.edu/ . Alternatively, authors may submit the repository used in their evaluation. This will provide a uniform section in each paper that will allow readers to understand the benefits and limitations of the variety of approaches that were implemented. The readers of this special issue will get an understanding of the benefits and limitations of various approaches for composing web services using Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files. Paper submissions should be full research papers, typically between 17-27 journal pages. Guest Editors: M. Brian Blake, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Georgetown University E-mail: blakeb@cs.georgetown.edu William K. Cheung, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University E-mail:william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Kwok Ching Tsui, Ph.D. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) E-mail: kwokchingtsui@hsbc.com.hk Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D. Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science University of Twente E-mail: a.wombacher@utwente.nl Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: M. Brian Blake (blakeb@cs.georgetown.edu) or William Cheung (william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk) ======================================================================== The IT Metrics and Productivity Journal Covering Best Practices in Software Development, Maintenance, and Management The International Software Benchmarking Repository: An Interview with Peter Hill, ISBSG Executive Director 1. Interview with Peter Hill, Executive Director of the ISBSG 2. The ISBSG Data and its Uses 3. ISBSG Special Analysis Report: Early Lifecycle Software Estimation 4. Site of the Week 5. Book of the Week 6. Archives 7. FAQ 8. Dilbert Quote of the Week "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) ======================================================================== eValid: News and Product Items ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ New features in the current eValid release include: o New DOM Validation Support There now is full support for validation of the value of any object in the internal DOM of the page. See the writeup of the new command at: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Validation/validate.doc.obj.property.html o Microsoft Vista (Beta) and IE 7 eValid has been confirmed operational on the new Microsoft Windows/Vista (Beta) operating system, and also has been confirmed operational on machines that run the new IE V7 browser. o eValid Training Classes There is limited seat availability at the two upcoming public eValid training courses: > 21-23 February 2005 You can sign up for a 1-day, a 2-day, or a 3-day training. The complete eValid course curriculum is given at: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Training/curriculum.html Please use this form to request registration information (be sure to mention "eValid Training"): http://www.soft.com/eValid/Information/info.request.html Product Download Details ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here is the URL for downloading eValid if you want to start [or re- start] your evaluation: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Download.5/down.evalid.5.phtml?status=FORM ======================================================================== ACM Symposium on Software Visualization -- SOFTVIS '06 September 4-5, 2006 Brighton, UK http://www.softvis.org/softvis06 Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to discuss and present original research on software visualization. Over the years SOFTIVS has become the premier venue for presenting all types of research on software visualization. After SOFTVIS03 in San Diego, and SOFTVIS05 in St. Louis, the third iteration of this conference series will be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing and with the Psychology of Programmers Interest Group (PPIG) Workshop in Brighton, UK. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: - Visualization of algorithms and programs - Visualization "beyond programs", eg: software design, database schemas, software process, security, debugging. - Software visualization in education - Integration of software visualization tools with development environments - Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization - Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness General Chair: Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Stephan Diehl, Catholic University Eichstaett, Germany ======================================================================== 4th International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust'2006) 16-19 May 2006, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy http://www.iit.cnr.it/iTrust2006 The iTrust international Conference looks at trust from multidisciplinary perspectives: economic, legal, psychology, philosophy, sociology, as well as information technology. Building upon the work of the IST iTrust working group (http://www.itrust.uoc.gr) and the success of the three previous iTrust International conferences, the aims of iTrust'2006 are to attract a critical mass of experts from industry, government, and academia with a keen interest in the area of trust management. The objectives of the Conference are: - To facilitate the cross-disciplinary investigation of fundamental issues underpinning computational trust models by bringing together expertise from technology oriented sciences, law, philosophy and social sciences. - To facilitate the emergence of widely acceptable trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications. - To facilitate the development of new paradigms in the area of dynamic open systems which effectively utilize computational trust models. - To facilitate the integration of new trust management paradigms and emerging architectures for Grid computing and Virtual Organizations. - To help the incorporation of trust management elements into existing standards. Topics of Interest: Full technical papers contributing to the issue of trust management are solicited in relevant areas, including but not limited to: - The legal notion of trust in computer science and engineering - Requirements and methodologies to ensure that the user can reasonably trust the functioning of software systems - Trust management frameworks for secure collaborations in dynamic Virtual Organizations - Design of trust-based architectures and decision-making mechanisms for e-community and e-service interactions - Trust specification, analysis, and reasoning - Dynamics of trust dispositions and relations - Realization of prototypes of software architectures and applications - Trust elements in contract negotiation, execution monitoring, re- negotiation and arbitration - Legal contribution to trust in technological infrastructures and interactions: the on-line identification of subjects, the evaluation of their reliability, data protection, security, privacy and, confidentiality, commercial transactions, the resolution of disputes, software agents, and management of access to source code - Trust in interaction and cooperation mediated through computer and network, and the balance of control and intervention - Research in on-line trust, the trust of the consumer towards the web sites of distribution companies - Analysis of the relationship between trust and such notions as confidence, distrust, diffidence, expectation, risk, and reliance - The economics of trust, privacy and security Organization: General Chairs: Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Fabio Massacci, University of Trento, Italy Program Co-Chairs: Ketil Stoelen, SINTEF & University of Oslo, Norway William H. Winsborough, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ======================================================================== New Section on Software Architecture, Journal of Systems and Software The idea that the front end of the software development process offers great leverage for producing good software has become accepted wisdom in the academic and industrial communities. A software architecture, reflecting the earliest and most far-reaching design decisions about a system, epitomizes this wisdom. Over the past several years software architecture has become an important ingredient in successful software system development. Consequently, the Journal of Systems and Software has introduced a new section focusing on innovations in this field. Our goal is to publish quality papers in this special section in every issue. The Software Architecture Section provides a platform for academic and industrial research in software architecture. Software architecture reflects the earliest and most far-reaching design decisions about a system. Authors submitting papers in software architectures to the Journal through the web site (http://ees.elsevier.com/jss) should direct them to Hans van Vliet or Paul Clements for editing. We look forward to receiving quality contributions from researchers in software architectures. ======================================================================== The Montreal Conference on Internet Technologies (www.mcetech2006.org) The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the many facets of Internet applications and technologies. Original and inter-disciplinary approaches to these problems are highly encouraged. Authors focusing on the technological aspects are encouraged to highlight economic, managerial, or organizational implications of their work, and vice- versa.The conference also includes an industrial track, providing a forum for practitioners to present problems and case studies of the uses of Internet technologies in their business. The program committee will grant an Award to the best paper in terms of originality, presentation, and impact. The finalists will be submitted to the IEEE Internet Computing journal for publication. TOPICS: Submissions are invited in the following areas: 1) Inter- organizational processes, 2) electronic marketplaces, 3) Web services, 4) Security and trust, 5) Middleware and infrastructure services, 6) Internet-based collaborative work, 7) Developing for the internet, and 8) Applications. ======================================================================== 3rd European Performance Engineering Workshop -- EPEW'06 http://webspn.hit.bme.hu/~epew2006 21-22 June 2006 Budapest, Hungary The European Performance Engineering Workshop is an annual event that aims to gather researchers working on all aspects of performance modeling and analysis. The venues of previous events were: in 2004: Toledo, Spain (www.info- ab.uclm.es/epew2004/program.htm) nd in 2005: Versailles, France (www.prism.uvsq.fr/communication/conferences/2005/epew2005/programme1.html Papers on or related to the following topics are particularly welcome. * Performance-oriented design and analysis methods * Formal modeling paradigms: - stochastic process algebra - stochastic Petri nets - stochastic automata networks - Markov chains - queuing theory ... * Solution and simplification techniques for Markov processes * Model checking and validation * Simulation techniques and experimental design * Performance tools * Performance case studies: - communication networks - mobile and wireless networks - software systems - distributed systems - system architectures - grid computing ... ======================================================================== 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST 2006 http://www.webist.org Setubal, Portugal, 19-22 April 2006 Organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). 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