Call for Papers

2008 Workshop of Software Engineering, SOA, and Databases

(in conjunction with ICS 2008)

 

November 13-15, 2008, Tamkang University, Damsui, Taipei County, Taiwan, R.O.C.

http://ics2008.csie.tku.edu.tw

 

Sponsored by

Ministry of Education

Computer Society of the Republic of China

The National Science Council, and

Tamkang University

 

2008 International Workshop of Software Engineering, SOA, and Databases intends to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and professionals to exchange their discoveries and practices, and to explore future trends and applications in Software Engineering, SOA, and Databases. Your presentation at the workshop would be an excellent opportunity for you to meet colleagues and to discuss technology advancements. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for publication in special issues of Journal of Information Science and Engineering (SCI cited), Journal of Internet Technology (EI cited), and The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (EI cited). This year, ICS 2008 is held in one of the best locations for conference in Taiwan. Tamkang University is located close to the northern seashore of Taiwan, with nearby famous sightseeing spots such as Yang-Ming Mountain and the National Palace Museum.

 

Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to

  • Agent-based software engineering

  • Agile methods

  • Aspect-orientated software development

  • Design patterns and software architectures

  • Empirical software engineering and metrics

  • Formal methods and formal approaches to software development

  • Requirements engineering

  • Software engineering for real-time and embedded systems

  • Software maintenance, reuse, and legacy systems

  • Software processes, process improvement, and workflows

  • Software quality management and CMMI

  • Data and knowledge representation

  • Data and knowledge visualization

  • Data mining and the Internet

  • Data mining in advanced (OO, spatial, multimedia) databases

  • Embedded and mobile databases

  • Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining

  • Interactive and online mining

  • KDD process and human interaction

  • Mining high dimensional data

  • Multi-agent, multi-task KDD systems

  • Novel data mining algorithms and applications

  • Personalized information systems

  • Security and privacy issues

  • Statistical methods

  • Temporal data mining

  • Text and semi-structured data mining

 

Submission Guideline

All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare PDF files of their full papers. Papers must be written in ENGLISH and not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type. The instructions of electronic submission will be posted on the website http://ics2008.csie.tku.edu.tw together with the style files.

Paper format: http://ics2008.csie.tku.edu.tw/docs/paper_format.pdf

 

Important dates

Paper Submission Due: 10 Aug. 2008 24 Aug. 2008 (Extended)

Acceptance Notification: 20 September, 2008

Final Camera-Ready Due: 30 September, 2008

 

 

Organization

Chair: Deron Liang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

Co-Chair:

Co-Chair: Young-Chang Hou, Tamkang University, Taiwan

 

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Program Committee

William C. Chu, Tung Hai University, Taiwan
Yu Chin Cheng, National Taipei University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Ing-Yih Chen, National Taipei University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chi Chi Hung, Tsinghua University, China
I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Xiaoling Wang, Fudan University, China
Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK
Alan Liu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

 

 

 

Contact

Dr. Young-Chang Hou

Department of Information Management

Tamkang University

Tamsui, Taiwan

E-mail: ychou@mail.im.tku.edu.tw