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CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION
PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS
Submission Deadline: June 4, 2014
SERP'14
The 2014
International Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice
July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit their
papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore, authors who have
already submitted papers in response to earlier
"Call For Papers" should
IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified
that their papers have
been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that
were emailed to them;
including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent
to them).
INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a "Late Breaking
Paper", "Position Paper", or
"Abstract/Poster Paper" for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published
in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will
also be made available
online. Like prior years, extended versions of selected
papers (about 45%) will
appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include: Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others). In addition to the above, we
have arranged two new
book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging
Trends in Computer Science
and Applied Computing) and another with Springer
publishers (Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the conference, a
significant number of authors of accepted papers of our
congress, will be given
the opportunity to submit the extended version of their
papers for publication
consideration in these books. Each book in each series
will be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes: Scopus,
Ei village, SCI, ...).
IMPORTANT DATES:
June 4, 2014:
Submission of papers for evaluation (the sooner, a submission
is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
June 14, 2014:
The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically one
week after the paper has been submitted.
June 26, 2014:
Registration
July 21-24, 2014:
The 2014 International Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice (SERP'14)
August 20, 2014:
Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
(Papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
will go to press soon after the conference; they will also be
indexed in science citation index databases.)
SERP'14 is composed of a number of tracks, including:
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials
are free to registered
conference attendees - for a partial list of approved
tutorials, see:
The conference will be held July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas,
USA.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
o Software
architectures
o Software design
and design patterns
o Architectural
analysis and verifications Methods
o Quality oriented
software architecture (design and Support)
o Software
reliability, safety and security methods
o Software reuse
and component engineering
o UML/MDA and AADL
o Object oriented
technology (design and analysis)
o Software metrics
o Reverse and
architectural recovery methods
o Domain specific
software engineering
o Aerospace
software and system engineering
o Software
engineering methodologies
o Survivable
systems
o Engineering of
safety/mission critical systems
o Software
testing, evaluation and analysis technologies
o Workflow -
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
o Project
management issues
o Distributed and
parallel systems
o Legal issues and
standards
o Automated
software design
o Real-time
embedded software engineering
o Automated
software design and synthesis
o Software
security engineering
o Theoretic
approaches (formal methods, graph, ...)
o Domain modeling
and meta-modeling
o Software
maintenance
o Reflection and
metadata methodologies
o AI approaches to
software engineering
o Component based
software engineering
o Software
engineering standards and guidelines
o Reports on
intelligent CASE tools and eclipse plugins issues
o Multimedia in
software engineering
o Usability
engineering
o Novel software
tools and environments
o Pervasive
software engineering
o Requirement
engineering and processes
o Critical and
embedded software design
o Service oriented
software architecture
o Human computer
interaction and usability engineering
o Model based
software engineering
o Aspect oriented
software engineering
o Agent oriented
software engineering
o Programming
languages and compilers
o Case studies and
emerging technologies
SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:
In response to this announcement, authors are given the
opportunity to submit
their papers for evaluation in one of the following three
categories:
1. Late Breaking
Papers: describe late-breaking/recent developments in
the field.
The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the following
on the first
page of your submission "SERP: LATE BREAKING PAPER".
If accepted,
The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
to 7
(two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
opportunity
to present the paper in a formal session.
2. Position
Papers: enable discussions on emerging topics without the
experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,
such papers
will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward
with evidence
from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.
The maximum
number of pages is 4. Please write the following on the
first page of
your submission "SERP: POSITION PAPER".
If accepted,
The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
to 4
(two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
opportunity
to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.
3.
Abstract/Poster Papers: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD
plan or PhD
prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please
write the
following on the first page of your submission
"SERP:
ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER".
If accepted,
The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
to 2 (two-column
IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
opportunity
to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers
(see above for paper
categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site
at:
Submissions must be uploaded by June 4, 2014 and must be
in either MS doc or
pdf formats. All reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later, the
authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting
format to prepare their final papers for publication.)
Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first
page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the
field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose
authors include a member
of the conference program committee will be evaluated
using the double-blinded
review process. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay
type, or about
controversial topics/applications will not be refereed
but may be considered
for discussion/panels/presentation).
The SERP'14 proceedings will be published in printed
conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings
will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for each
published paper. Science citation databases include:
Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French
National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL
(accessable from INIST,
Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, &
STN International);
and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the
proceedings will also be
included in SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the
past, many of the
proceedings of the federated congress that SERP is part
of were included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the
proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration
in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference
(the conference would then make the necessary arrangements
to ship the printed
proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of
the conference
proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except
for a number of
sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
SERP is an international conference that serves
researchers, scholars,
professionals, students, and academicians who are looking
to both foster
working relationships and gain access to the latest
research results. It is
being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research
conferences; namely, The 2014 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing. The Congress is among
the top five largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from
about 85
countries/territories.
The 2014 Congress will be composed of research
presentations, keynote lectures,
invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations.
In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included:
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of
Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun
Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A.
Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars
Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation
& Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar
System
Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE,
ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U.
of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and
Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President &
Chief Technology
Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh
(Dean, Cornell
University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey,
USA and former
director of Division of Information and Intelligent
Systems, National
Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre
(Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor,
Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
Coordinates and
author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed
Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science
and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University,
Colorado, USA);
and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos
available at:
An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a
unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The
congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that
have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with
institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a
quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum
of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time.
This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different
fields of computer
science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also
encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives;
ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
TUTORIALS:
All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the
list of tutorials
that have been approved so far can be found at:
We plan to offer more tutorials (in addition to what is
already posted on
the web). As of the writing of this announcement, the
following tutorials
have been approved and they will be presented by
distinguished speakers:
O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology
(ABET)
accreditation of
Computer Science Program
O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data
O. Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
O. Hacking with Kali Linux
O. Cryptography and Network Security
O. First Programming Language in CS Education - The
Argument For Scala
O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond
O. Agents at High Seas
O. Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges
(Cloud
Architectures and Big Data Tools)
O. The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality
Currently, we are evaluating 6 other proposals and they
are in the areas of
Big Data and Data Analytics (3 proposals); Entrepreneurial
Spirits;
Visualization and Datamining; and Computational Biology.
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USEFUL LINKS:
Conference web site:
Partial list of tutorials:
Partial list of keynotes:
Location of the conference:
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the congress
proceedings that
SERP is part of, have received over 27,500 citations
(includes about 3,300
self-citations). Citation data obtained from Microsoft
Academic Search. This
citation data does not even include more than 15,000
other citations to
papers in tracks whose first offerings were initiated by
the congress. Based
on citation record and other relevant metrics, Microsoft
Academic has listed
SERP annual conferences in its list of Top Conferences:
SERP's citation record appears at:
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of May 19,
2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
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