Linda Rising | 3 Mar 2012 18:28

PLoP 2012 Call for Submissions

Sorry for multiple posts!!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This is your invitation to participate in this year’s Pattern Languages 
of Programs (PLoP) conference and share your knowledge with experts in 
your field. Patterns help to shape our world in a positive way by 
reporting successful solutions that have shown to work in the past. 
Whether you have been a pattern author in the past or wonder why no one 
has written down those patterns you know all too well, this is your 
chance to contribute your expertise and receive feedback from pattern 
experts and practitioners!

PLoP is the premier international conference on patterns. The purpose of 
PLoP is to promote the development of pattern languages, primarily about 
aspects of software: design and programming, testing, software 
architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, education, human 
relations, and software processes. Patterns and pattern languages for 
domains outside software are also welcome.

PLoP 2012 will take place October 19-21 in Tucson, Arizona in 
conjunction with the SPLASH (formerly OOPSLA) conference. At the PLoP 
2012 conference you will meet pattern enthusiasts from all over the 
world, learn about successful designs and architectures, and receive 
constructive feedback from your peers on your own writing.

IMPORTANT DATES

Initial Draft Submission deadline: May 20, 2012
Start of shepherding: June 11, 2012
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Linda Rising | 7 Mar 2012 23:06

Re: PLoP 2012 Call for Submissions

A correction about the PLoP Call for Submissions:

PLoP conference days are October 21-23, 2012 and not October 21-23, 2011 
as sent bellow.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Best regards!

-----------------------------------------------------
Eduardo Guerra
PLoP 2012 - Conference Chair
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On 3/3/2012 11:28 AM, Linda Rising wrote:
> Sorry for multiple posts!!
>
>
>
> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
>
> This is your invitation to participate in this year’s Pattern 
> Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference and share your knowledge with 
> experts in your field. Patterns help to shape our world in a positive 
> way by reporting successful solutions that have shown to work in the 
> past. Whether you have been a pattern author in the past or wonder why 
> no one has written down those patterns you know all too well, this is 
> your chance to contribute your expertise and receive feedback from 
> pattern experts and practitioners!
>
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Dragos Manolescu | 12 Mar 2012 19:46
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Patterns for self-updateable systems?

Hi --

I'm building a system that needs the ability to self-update (software)
from the network, at run time. This is an area I don't have first hand
experience with but I know that it's been done for years--for example,
telecom switches. If you know of patterns that focus on
self-updateable software I would appreciate your pointing me their
way.

Thanks,

-Dragos

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Pascal Costanza | 13 Mar 2012 18:41

Re: Patterns for self-updateable systems?

Hi,

A good starting point is to use a dynamic language, where you don't need that many patterns to update
software at runtime.

Pascal

On 12 Mar 2012, at 19:46, Dragos Manolescu wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> I'm building a system that needs the ability to self-update (software)
> from the network, at run time. This is an area I don't have first hand
> experience with but I know that it's been done for years--for example,
> telecom switches. If you know of patterns that focus on
> self-updateable software I would appreciate your pointing me their
> way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Dragos
> 
> 
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Donald McLean | 13 Mar 2012 19:04

Re: Patterns for self-updateable systems?

I don't know about the pattern literature, but this kind of thing can be 
done with custom class loaders in JVM environments (and possibly other 
virtual machines).

On 3/12/12 2:46 PM, Dragos Manolescu wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm building a system that needs the ability to self-update (software)
> from the network, at run time. This is an area I don't have first hand
> experience with but I know that it's been done for years--for example,
> telecom switches. If you know of patterns that focus on
> self-updateable software I would appreciate your pointing me their
> way.

Hanmer, Robert S (Robert | 13 Mar 2012 19:56
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Re: Patterns for self-updateable systems?

Hi Dragos,

Not a whole lot has been published in the form of patterns for self-update.  There are of course ideas and
techniques but some are not published for competitive reasons.

I'll point you first to chapter 12 of "Robust Communications Software" by Greg Utas.  He talks about the core
techniques for Hitless Patching, Hitless Upgrade and Rolling Upgrade.  These aren't quite patterns as we
know them and I'm pretty sure you won't find earlier versions from Greg in any of the PLoP proceedings.
http://www.amazon.com/Robust-Communications-Software-Availability-Carrier-Grade/dp/0470854340/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331664530&sr=1-1

There is a forthcoming book from two colleagues, Randee Adams and Eric Bauer, "Reliability and
Availability of Cloud Computing", that might have something of relevance to your search, I'm not sure.  It
is coming from IEEE Press this summer.
http://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Availability-Cloud-Computing-Bauer/dp/1118177010/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331664253&sr=8-2

One of the biggest problems is always the data conversion from one release to the next release.  The schema
update in database terms.  I wonder (but don't know) if concepts like meta-programming and reflection can help.

Bob

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Jens Dietrich | 13 Mar 2012 21:33
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Re: Patterns for self-updateable systems?


I agree, class loaders are the answer (in particular java.net.URLClassLoader). However, they are pretty
low-level. For a more declarative way to deal with the problem check technologies like WebStart/JNLP or
OSGi. In OSGi, bundles have an update URL and the OSGi runtime does the update for you. 

On 14/03/2012, at 7:04 AM, Donald McLean wrote:

> I don't know about the pattern literature, but this kind of thing can be 
> done with custom class loaders in JVM environments (and possibly other 
> virtual machines).
> 
> 
> On 3/12/12 2:46 PM, Dragos Manolescu wrote:
>> Hi --
>> 
>> I'm building a system that needs the ability to self-update (software)
>> from the network, at run time. This is an area I don't have first hand
>> experience with but I know that it's been done for years--for example,
>> telecom switches. If you know of patterns that focus on
>> self-updateable software I would appreciate your pointing me their
>> way.
> 
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Christian Köppe | 14 Mar 2012 10:21
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open source Java system with defined architecture

Hello all,

 

We are currently preparing a comparison of architecture compliance checking tools (with a strong focus on layered architectures) and also would like to run a performance test using a somewhat bigger system written in Java (as some of the tools we compare are only able to handle Java). There also should exist a defined architecture for this system which we can use as input (preferably already including of the mapping between architecture and source code artifacts).

 

I wonder if someone on this list knows an available system which fulfills these requirements and can point me to it.

 

 

Thanks a lot in advance and cheers from Utrecht!

 

Christian Köppe

| Docent Informatica | Hogeschool Utrecht | Institute for ICT | Nijenoord 1| kamer D01.20 | T. 088 - 481 8056 | 3552 AS Utrecht | christian.koppe-vM+il9jT4KQ@public.gmane.org|

 

<div>
<div class="Section1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<p></p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are currently preparing a comparison of architecture compliance checking tools (with a strong focus on layered architectures) and also would like to run a performance test using a somewhat bigger system written in Java (as some of the
 tools we compare are only able to handle Java). There also should exist a defined architecture for this system which we can use as input (preferably already including of the mapping between architecture and source code artifacts).<p></p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if someone on this list knows an available system which fulfills these requirements and can point me to it.<p></p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks a lot in advance and cheers from Utrecht!<p></p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="NL">Christian K&ouml;ppe<p></p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="NL">| </span><span lang="NL">Docent Informatica
</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL"> Hogeschool Utrecht
</span><span lang="NL">| </span><span lang="NL">Institute for ICT
</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL"> Nijenoord 1</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL"> kamer D01.20
</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL"> T. 088 - 481 8056
</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL"> 3552 AS Utrecht
</span><span lang="NL">|</span><span lang="NL">
</span><span lang="NL"><a href="mailto:christian.koppe@..."><span>christian.koppe@...</span></a></span><span lang="NL">|
</span><span lang="NL"><p></p></span></p>
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Jens Dietrich | 14 Mar 2012 20:42
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Re: open source Java system with defined architecture

Hi Christian,

We did a study on the architecture of a large set of Java open-source programs (the so-called qualitas corpus - http://qualitascorpus.com/) focusing on architectural antipatterns (degenerated inheritance, subtype knowledge, strong circular dependencies and abstraction without decoupling) and found that all systems investigated are riddled with instances of those antipatterns. To give you an idea about what we have found (from the OpenJDK JRE 1.6): java.lang depends on java.awt, java.awt and javax.swing depend on each other, and the 3 jars within the JRE also depend on each other. There is not much architecture there, it is very much a big ball of mud .. 

This is the paper: Dietrich, J., McCartin, C., Tempero, E., Ali Shah, Syed M.: Barriers to Modularity - An empirical study to assess the potential for modularisation of Java programs. Proceedings QoSA2010, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13821-8_11 .

There is a public interface to the tools we have developed for this analysis (http://xplrarc.massey.ac.nz/), and all qualitas corpus systems are preloaded into the system. This tool can also be used as architecture compliance checking tool if you consider the absence of those antipatterns as part of the architecture. Ad-hoc dependency queries can be used to represent explicit rules (such as the absence of dependencies between certain layers).

Cheers, Jens



On 14/03/2012, at 10:21 PM, Christian Köppe wrote:

Hello all,

 

We are currently preparing a comparison of architecture compliance checking tools (with a strong focus on layered architectures) and also would like to run a performance test using a somewhat bigger system written in Java (as some of the tools we compare are only able to handle Java). There also should exist a defined architecture for this system which we can use as input (preferably already including of the mapping between architecture and source code artifacts).

 

I wonder if someone on this list knows an available system which fulfills these requirements and can point me to it.

 

 

Thanks a lot in advance and cheers from Utrecht!

 

Christian Köppe

| Docent Informatica | Hogeschool Utrecht | Institute for ICT | Nijenoord 1| kamer D01.20 | T. 088 - 481 8056 | 3552 AS Utrecht | christian.koppe-vM+il9jT4KQ@public.gmane.org|

 

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	<p>Hi Christian,</p>
<p>We did a study on the architecture of a
large set of Java open-source programs (the so-called qualitas corpus -
<a href="http://qualitascorpus.com/">http://qualitascorpus.com/</a>)
focusing on architectural antipatterns (degenerated inheritance,
subtype knowledge, strong circular dependencies and abstraction
without decoupling) and found that all systems investigated are
riddled with instances of those antipatterns. To give you an idea
about what we have found (from the OpenJDK JRE 1.6): java.lang
depends on java.awt, java.awt and javax.swing depend on each other,
and the 3 jars within the JRE also depend on each other. There is not
much architecture there, it is very much a big ball of mud ..&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is the paper: Dietrich,
J., McCartin, C., Tempero, E., Ali Shah, Syed M.: Barriers to
Modularity - An empirical study to assess the potential for
modularisation of Java programs. Proceedings QoSA2010, 2010.<span><span>
</span></span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13821-8_11">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13821-8_11</a>
.</p>
<p>There is a public interface to the
tools we have developed for this analysis
(<a href="http://xplrarc.massey.ac.nz/">http://xplrarc.massey.ac.nz/</a>), and all qualitas corpus systems are preloaded into the system.
This tool can also be used as architecture compliance checking tool
if you consider the absence of those antipatterns as part of the
architecture. Ad-hoc dependency queries can be used to represent
explicit rules (such as the absence of dependencies between certain
layers).</p>
<p>Cheers, Jens</p>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
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<div class="">We are currently preparing a comparison of architecture compliance checking tools (with a strong focus on layered architectures) and also would like to run a performance test using a somewhat bigger system written in Java (as some of the tools we compare are only able to handle Java). There also should exist a defined architecture for this system which we can use as input (preferably already including of the mapping between architecture and source code artifacts).<p class=""></p>
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<div class="">I wonder if someone on this list knows an available system which fulfills these requirements and can point me to it.<p class=""></p>
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<div class=""><p class="">&nbsp;</p></div>
<div class=""><p class="">&nbsp;</p></div>
<div class="">Thanks a lot in advance and cheers from Utrecht!<p class=""></p>
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Daniele Gianni | 15 Mar 2012 23:26
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***Extended deadline: March 26*** COMETS 2012 - 3rd International Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers

************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 ***************

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              MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

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June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France)
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# Papers Due: March 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline ****
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.

Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.

A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S
* collaborative DEVS M&S

To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CoMetS'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.

This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:

(1) papers
(2) poster and industrial presentations

(1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.

Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending).
Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should
register to attend WETICE 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the
paper published in the proceedings.

(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in
any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission
requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the
organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of
a poster which will be displayed at conference time.
With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be
allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.
The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not
include commercial details.

Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for
expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.

Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission
site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012),
which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system.
Please feel free to contact the track chairs (comets2012@...)
if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.

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* Submission Deadline: March 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline ****
* Notification to authors: April 16, 2012
* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012
* Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012

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Organizing Committee
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

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Program Committee
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS,
Germany
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: danielegmail-comets@...

COMETS 2012 - 3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
- Call for Papers

************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 ***************

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message)

#################################################################
                      IEEE WETICE 2012
    3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
                        (Comets 2012)

                      in cooperation with
                  AFIS (INCOSE France Chapter)
              MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

#################################################################

June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12

#################################################################
# Papers Due: March 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline ****
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.
#################################################################

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.

Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.

A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S
* collaborative DEVS M&S

To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CoMetS'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.

This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:

(1) papers
(2) poster and industrial presentations

(1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.

Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending).
Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should
register to attend WETICE 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the
paper published in the proceedings.

(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in
any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission
requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the
organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of
a poster which will be displayed at conference time.
With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be
allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.
The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not
include commercial details.

Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for
expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.

Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission
site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012),
which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system.
Please feel free to contact the track chairs (comets2012@...)
if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.

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Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: March 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline ****
* Notification to authors: April 16, 2012
* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012
* Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012

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Organizing Committee
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

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Program Committee
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute
FOKUS, Germany
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: danielegmail-comets@...


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