Software Technology Track

Agile software development processes have been influenced by best practices in Japanese industry, particularly by lean product development principles implemented at companies like Honda and Toyota, and knowledge management strategies developed by Takeuchi and Nonaka, now at the Hitotsubashi Business School in Japan, and Peter Senge at MIT. This Minitrack will focus on advancing the state of the art or presenting innovative ideas related to agile methods, individual practices and tools. Accepted papers will potentially enrich the body of knowledge and influence the framework of thought in the field by investigating Agile methods in a rigorous fashion.

We are open to research papers on multiple aspects of agile methods, particularly those that bring best practices in knowledge management and lean development to scalable, distributed, and outsourced Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), and other agile practices. Topics include:

Ø Research on existing or new methodologies and approaches: informal modeling techniques and practices, adapting/trimming existing methods, and new product/project planning techniques

Ø Research on existing or new techniques or practices: pairing, war-rooms, test-first design, paper-based prototyping, early acceptance test driven development, exploratory testing, refactoring, or others.

Ø Research on special topics or tools: configuration and resource management, testing, project steering, user involvement, design for agility, virtual teams or others.

Ø Research on integrating ideas from other fields, e.g. interaction design, requirements engineering, cognitive science, organizational psychology, usability testing, software security, into agile processes.

Ø Research studies of development teams using ethnographic or social research techniques.

Ø Research on agile software engineering economics.

Ø Quantitative and qualitative studies of agile methods, practices, and tools.

Ø Research on agile compliance and cost benefits within CMMI, ISO 9000, and FDA certified development projects.

Papers are particularly relevant when agile process implementations are shown to produce quantitative and qualitative benefits on distributed, outsourced, large, or standards compliant software development projects which have been previously been viewed (erroneously) as unsuited for agile development.

Jeff Sutherland (primary contact)

Chief Technology Officer

PatientKeeper Inc.

275 Washington St., 2nd Floor

Newton MA 02458

Tel: (617) 987-0394

Email: jeff.sutherland@computer.org

Hubert Smits

Services Dept

Rally Software Development

1050 Walnut St., Ste 202

Boulder CO 80302

Email: Hubert@rallydev.com

Algorithmic Challenges in Emerging Applications of Computing

Algorithmic challenges arise in many emerging areas of computing. Security, bioinformatics, quantum computing, power management and algorithmic game theory are examples of such areas. For instance, in the area of algorithmic game theory, economic agents are in varying degrees of collaboration and competition, and questions about equilibria arise. The study of combinatorial auctions gives insight into complex interactions of such agents on the Internet. In the area of power management for mobile devices like PDAs, sensors, cell phones and laptops, improvements in battery technology lag behind the dramatic improvement in hardware. Online algorithms allow power management schemes to schedule resources without full knowledge of future demands. In information security, investigations into efficient algorithms for secure dissemination of information, cyberforensics, and prevention of cybercrime are in great demand.

This Minitrack explores algorithmic challenges in these and other realms involving online and randomized algorithms, scheduling theory, approximation algorithms, optimization, and algorithmic complexity. Papers will be reviewed by a panel of experienced researchers across the breadth of computing and from around the globe: D. Bein, W. Bein, S. Bettayeb, L. Morales, J. Noga, K. Pruhs, H. Sudborough, and S. Tate from the USA; F. Chin and G. Zhang, China; H. Choo, Korea; J. Correa, Chile; V. Deineko and L. Gasieniec, UK; C. Demetrescu, Italy; Q. Gu, Canada; K. Iwama, E. Miyano, and S. Peng, Japan; B. Litow, Australia; M. Mahajan, India; S. Pickl and R. Reischuk, Germany; and J.P. Vergara, Philippines.

Linda Morales (primary contact)

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Texas A & M University-Commerce

P.O. Box 3011

Commerce TX 75249-3011

Tel: (903) 886-5409 or (903) 886-5617 (direct)

Fax: (903) 886-5404

Email: Linda_Morales@tamu-commerce.edu

Wolfgang W. Bein
Director, Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms (CASA)
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
School of Computer Science
University of Nevada
Las Vegas NV 89154-4019

Tel: (702) 895-3681 Dept or (702) 895-1477 Direct

Fax: (702) 895 5222 Dept

Email: bein@cs.unlv.edu

CERT Software Application Security

This Minitrack focuses on the research and automation techniques required to develop secure software systems that do not compromise other system properties such as performance or reliability. Current security engineering methods are demonstrably inadequate as software vulnerabilities are currently being discovered at the rate of over 4,000 per year. These vulnerabilities are caused by software designs and implementations that do not adequately protect systems and by development practices that do not focus sufficiently on eliminating implementation defects that result in security flaws. An opportunity exists for systematic improvement that can lead to secure software applications and implementations.

The following topics are appropriate topics for research papers:

Ø Static analysis tools and techniques for detecting security flaws and software vulnerabilities in source or binary code.

Ø Dynamic analysis tools for detecting security flaws and software vulnerabilities in source or binary code.

Ø Model checking tools for detecting security flaws and software vulnerabilities in software systems.

Ø Software architectures and designs for securing against denial-of-service attacks and other software exploits.

Ø Coding practices for improved security and secure library implementations.

Ø Computational security engineering.

Ø Other tools and techniques for reducing or eliminating vulnerabilities during the development and maintenance.

Robert C. Seacord (primary contact)

CERT/CC

Software Engineering Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh PA 15213

Tel: (412) 268-7608

Fax: (412) 268-6989

Email: rcs@cert.org

Jason Rafail

CERT/CC

Software Engineering Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh PA 15213

Tel: (412) 268-6305

Fax: (412) 268-6989

Email: jrafail@cert.org

Daniel Plakosh

CERT/CC

Software Engineering Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh PA 15213

Tel (412) 268-7197

Fax: (412) 268-6989

Email: dplakosh@sei.cmu.edu

Digital Forensics - Pedagogy and Foundational Research Activity

This Minitrack attempts to bring together papers from academia and practitioners which

address current directions in digital forensics. Digital forensics involves the use of software, computer science, software engineering, and criminal justice procedures to explore and or investigate digital media with the objective of finding evidence to support a criminal or administrative case. It involves the preservation, identification, extraction, and documentation of computer or network evidence.

We solicit papers in the following areas:

Ø Pedagogical papers that describe digital forensics degree programs or the teaching of digital forensics within other programs internationally.

Ø Papers that address a research agenda that considers practitioner requirements, multiple investigative environments and emphasizes real world usability.

Ø Papers that present an experience report involving the discovery, explanation and presentation of conclusive, persuasive evidence from digital forensics investigation.

Ø Papers that combine research and practice.

Rayford Vaughn (primary contact)

Billie J. Ball
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Director, Center for Computer Security Research

PO Box 9637

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State MS 39762

Tel: (662) 325-7450

Fax: (662) 325-8997

Email: vaughn@cse.msstate.edu

http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~vaughn

David Dampier

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Director, Forensics Training Center

PO Box 9637

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State MS 39762

Tel: (662) 325-2756

Fax: (662) 325-8997

Email: dampier@cse.msstate.edu

Enterprise Modeling for Information Systems Development

The organizational environment increasingly requires that information systems are capable of meeting changing business needs. This situation is evidenced in the general cost profile of systems development where the bulk of spending and effort lies in the (evolutionary) maintenance, integration and interoperability of existing systems. This situation provides a challenge to the generally accepted approaches to systems development and, in response, one stream of thought seeks to divorce business issues from the underlying technology platforms by placing 'models' at the heart of systems development. In principle, model-driven approaches see the system development process as consisting only of models and their transformations. A concern for these approaches is that of providing a structure within which models can be developed at the right level of abstraction and can then be transformed into more concrete models. In fundamental terms, however, model-driven development requires significant thinking in relation to both models and the modeling process.

Relevant topics of study for this Minitrack include, but are not limited to:

Ø Conceptualizing and modeling Information Systems (IS)

Ø Conceptualizing and modeling enterprises

Ø Limitations of current IS modeling approaches

Ø Human issues of modeling the enterprise and IS

Ø Model-driven development and change

Ø Coping with ambiguity and unforeseen requirements

Ø Modeling, tools, techniques and methods for IS development

Ø Flexible and adaptable business models and architectures

Ø Traceability of IS models

Sergio de Cesare (primary contact)

School of Information Systems and Computing, and Mathematics

Brunel University

Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
UNITED KINGDOM

Tel: +44 (0)1895 265842
Fax: +44 (0)1895 251686

Email: sergio.decesare@brunel.ac.uk

Mark Lycett

School of Information Systems and Computing, and Mathematics

Brunel University

Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH

UNITED KINGDOM

Tel: +44 (0)1895 265843

Fax: +44 (0)1895 251686

Email: mark.lycett@brunel.ac.uk

Alan Serrano

School of Information Systems and Computing, and Mathematics

Brunel University

Uxbridge, Middlesex

UB8 3PH

UNITED KINGDOM

Tel: +44 (0)1895 266048

Fax: +44 (0)1895 251686

Email: alan.edwin.serrano-rico@brunel.ac.uk

Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications

This Minitrack focuses on fundamental challenges and issues arising in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their applications. Wireless sensor nodes and networks must provide solutions to practical problems, and must be both cost-effective and an improvement over previous practice. This may require improvements in the theoretical understanding of the issues specific to networking a large number of low-energy, low-cost wireless devices, some of which may be in motion.

Topics of interest will include but are not limited to the following:

Ø Hardware aspects of sensor design

Ø Self-organization and governance

Ø Work models for wireless sensor networks

Ø Location management and placement

Ø Energy-aware protocols

Ø Routing and data transport in wireless sensor networks

Ø Security and dependability issues

Ø Scalability of wireless sensor networks

Ø Infrastructure-based protocols

Ø Embedded, network-oriented operating systems

Ø Middleware and software tools

Ø MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks

Ø Interfacing with other wireless/mobile systems

Ø Efficient data transfer protocols, data combining, and prediction

Ø Visualization of sensor data

Ø Modeling and Performance evaluation

Ø Demos - prototypes - WSN architecture

Ø Implementation experience and measurements

Edoardo Biagioni (primary contact)

Dept of Information and Computer Science

University of Hawaii

Honolulu HI 96822

Email: esb@hawaii.edu

Stephan Olariu

Dept of Computer Science

Old Dominion University

Norfolk VA 23529-0162

Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu

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