COMSWARE: The Fourth International Conference on Communication System 
Software and Middleware

In-cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, ACM SIGMOBILE, and ACM SIGAPP.
In-cooperation with IEEE (pending).

SCOPE

The Fourth International Conference on Communication System Software
and Middleware (COMSWARE) will be held from June 15th to June 19th,
2009 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will focus
on important innovations and recent advances in the specification,
design, construction and use of communication systems software and
middleware systems. Current communication systems cover a large range
of computing platforms from traditional fixed-line telecommunication
systems to mobile computing, multimedia systems, peer-to-peer networks
and Internet services. The interoperation of all these systems is
crucial. Integrating, connecting and coordinating communication is
critical for communication systems software and middleware systems.

The COMSWARE conference is the premier international forum for
researchers, business leaders, educators and practitioners to present
and discuss recent innovations, advances in technology, experiences in
current systems and potential concerns in the field of communication
systems software and middleware systems. The conference will feature a
high quality technical program consisting of invited speakers, regular
papers, short papers, software demonstrations, industrial papers,
posters and workshops.

PAPERS

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research,
not currently under review by another conference or journal, are
solicited. The specific topics of the conference include, but are not
limited to:

 *  Innovative architectures for Internet services, Web services,
    service computing, and cloud computing
 *  Security, reliability, and quality of service in communication
    networks, protocols, middleware, applications, and Internet
    services
 *  Methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating
    communications systems software and middleware systems
 *  Large-scale system integration, software evolution, software
    engineering methodologies, and requirements engineering for
    communication systems software, middleware systems, and Internet
    services
 *  Wireless and mobile networking, wireless operating systems,
    mobile platforms and embedded systems
 *  Communication and middleware systems architecture, design
    principles, development methods and methodologies, and business
    models
 *  Middleware for ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing, embedded
    systems, peer-to-peer systems and applications
 *  Middleware for complex event processing, event-based systems,
    publish/subscribe and messaging middleware
 *  Real-world experiences in specification, design, construction and
    use of communication systems software and middleware systems
 *  Innovations in operations and management of large networks and
    large-scale enterprise systems

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:    Thursday, February 12th
Author notification: Thursday, April 9th
Manuscripts due:     Thursday, May 14th


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Roberto Baldoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Gordon Blair (Lancaster University)
Alejandro Buchmann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Brian Cooper (Yahoo!, U.S.)
Gianpaolo Cugola (Politechnic of Milan, Italy)
Frank Eliassen  (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)
Yashar Ganjali (Toronto, Canada)
Andy Gokhale (Vanderbilt University)
Tony Groschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Indranil Gupta (UIUC, U.S.)
Chi Chi Hung, Tsinghua University
Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)
Wouter Joosen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Martin Karsten (Waterloo, Canada)
Shanika Karunasekera (Univ. of Melbourne)
Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii / SEI
Hannu Kokko, NSN
Wayne C. Lim, Infosys
Mike Mannion, Glascow Caledonian University
Tomi Männistö, Helsinki University of Technology
Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne
Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University)
Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Bran Selic, University of / IBM
Roman Vittenberg (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)
David Weiss, Avaya
Jianli Xu, Nokia Devices
Charles Zhang (HKST, China)