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abstract: Through its successful sessions since 2004, the LASER summer school (Laboratory for Applied Software Engineering Research), organized by ETH Zurich, brings together the concepts and practice of software engineering in the idyllic setting of the Elba Island off the coast of Tuscany, easily reachable by air, car, bus or train. The LASER school is intended both for researchers (including PhD students) and for professional software engineers and managers who want to benefit from the best in software technology advances. The focus of LASER is resolutely applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers. The 2008 LASER school brings together six speakers, each having made major contributions to concurrency. Speakers include: * Maurice Herlihy * Tryggve Fossum * Bertrand Meyer * Robin Milner * Peter O'Hearn * Daniel A. Reed

abstract: This workshop's theme is advances in QoS-oriented techniques and tools for managing enterprise architectures, encompassing approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, runtime analysis and prediction and adaptation. Serviced-oriented and model-driven approaches will be a special focus of the workshop.

abstract: ICFP 2008 provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries.

abstract: The German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to promote its theory and applications.

For the sixth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering committee of MATES and thereby continues this very successful track of events. MATES 2008 will be co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008) and will take place from September 23 to 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern. The participants of MATES 2008 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the KI 2008 conference.

abstract: The Haskell Symposium 2008 is part of the 2008 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) as an associated ACM SIGPLAN sponsored symposium. The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experience with Haskell, and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell.

abstract: This workshop aims to look specifically at how to develop, apply, evaluate and compare all kinds of OCL-related tools. The workshop will bring together OCL practitioners and OCL tool builders (from both academy and industry) in order to evaluate today’s state-of-the-practice.In particular, the workshop will focus the discussion on how to evaluate, compare and select the right OCL tools for a given purpose, how to deal with the expressiveness and complexity of the language and how to tackle its ambiguous or underdefined issues from a practical point of view. The workshop is also interested in disputing about new OCL tools and about patterns, libraries, or algorithms that may facilitate its development and reuse. In addition, all other aspects that may facilitate a wider adoption and support of OCL or its usability are also welcome.As a result of the workshop, we expect to consolidate and expand the role of OCL among the modeling community by creating a road map for research and development that could potentially drive the building of a new generation of OCL tools.

abstract: The MoDELS series of conferences are devoted to the topic of model-driven engineering, covering both languages and systems used to create complex systems. These conferences are both an expansion and a re-direction of previous Unified Modeling Language (UML) conferences, and replaced that series of conference since 2005.

Model-driven system development has long been used in the development of complex hardware systems. It is becoming more prevalent in complex software or combined hardware and software systems development as methodologies and tools become available

abstract: The ML family of programming languages, whose most popular dialects are Standard ML and Objective Caml, has inspired a tremendous amount of computer science research, both practical and theoretical. ML continues to be employed successfully in applications ranging from compilers and theorem provers to low-level systems software, web applications and video games. The Workshop on ML aims to bring together researchers, developers and users of ML to hear about and discuss the latest work on the design, semantics, implementation and application of ML and ML-like languages. Previous ML workshops have been held in Orlando, Florida (1994), Baltimore, Maryland (1998), Tallinn, Estonia (2005), and Portland, Oregon (2006).

The 2007 Workshop on ML will be held in conjunction with the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2007) in Freiburg, Germany on Friday, October 5, 2007

abstract: The Workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between requirements engineering and conceptual modeling, and in particular, to investigate how goal- and intention-driven approaches help in conceptualising purposeful systems.

abstract: Parallel Computing (PC) is a subject discussed in the context of high performance computing (HPC). The goal of HPC is to find faster solutions to larger and more complex problems. This area is a highly interdisciplinary area ranging from numerical analysis and algorithm design to programming languages, computer architectures, software and real applications. The participants include engineers, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists, and many others. This concentrates on well developed and more research oriented parallel algorithms in science and engineering that have traditionally relied on high performance computing.

PC operates on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently.

There are several different forms of parallel computing:

1. Bit-level parallelism
2. Instruction-level parallelism
3. Data parallelism
4. Task parallelism

abstract: Domain-specific knowledge is traditionally integrated in the software development process in an ad hoc and partial fashion, without much formal basis or tools. Nevertheless, the concept of domain expertise intervenes at all stages of the continuum of modeling, programming, and compiling. Putting domain expertise at the center of the software development process entails providing abstractions that are well adapted to expressing problems in the domain, providing verifications that capture essential domain properties, and providing implementation strategies that take domain requirements into account.

These issues have been considered in the fields of modeling, programming, and compiling, but in isolation. Indeed, the field of domain-specific modeling has had little influence on the design of domain-specific programming languages, and the design of domain-specific programming languages has been considered independently of implementation techniques. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers in these fields to identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, and visions for the future.

abstract: The International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2008) initiates a series of events covering a broad spectrum of software-related topics. The conference covers fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing, validating and maintaining various kinds of software. Several tracks are proposed to treat the topics from theory to practice, in terms of methodologies, design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons learnt. The conference topics cover classical and advanced methodologies, open source, agile software, as well as software deployment and software economics and education.

Whatever ones specific discipline, all researchers in Computer Science and related disciplines are additionally experts in the domain of research itself. The nature of research varies slightly with the specific discipline researchers work in, yet there is much common ground and room for a sharing of best practice, frameworks, tools, languages and methodologies.

abstract: SIGSOFT 2008 brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange new results related to both traditional and emerging fields of software engineering. SIGSOFT 2008 includes the 16th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, which features invited speakers and technical paper presentations. SIGSOFT 2008 also includes a program of workshops on current hot topics in software engineering, sessions for educators and students, and collocated events.

SIGSOFT 2008 workshops will provide opportunities for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results in various areas of software-engineering research and applications. SIGSOFT 2008 Software Engineering Educators Symposium (SEES) will consist of sessions on practical aspects of software-engineering education. A Doctoral Symposium and a Student Poster Session will provide special activities for students. Finally, SIGSOFT 2008 will host collocated events, includ

abstract: Software project managers require reliable methods for estimating software project costs, and assessing software development productivity. For over 25 years, there has been considerable research effort directed towards software cost estimation and software productivity analysis, various algorithmic approaches developed and their performance reported in the research literature. But nevertheless, cost estimation and productivity analysis remains a complex problem in the software industry.

The goal of the workshop on software productivity analysis and cost estimation, SPACE 2008, is to bring together practitioners and researchers for discussion and presentation on the emerging aspects pertaining to software cost estimation, productivity analysis, prediction models and techniques, and lessons learned. The workshop provides a forum to present new ideas and to explore future directions in these areas for software engineering and software project management.

abstract: The 41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture is the premier forum for presenting, discussing, and debating innovative microarchitecture ideas and techniques for advanced computing and communication systems. This symposium brings together researchers in fields related to microarchitecture, compilers, chips, and systems for technical exchange on traditional microarchitecture topics and emerging research areas. The MICRO community has enjoyed a close interaction between academic researchers and industrial designers and we aim to continue this tradition at MICRO-41.

abstract: PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agents integrating the activities in Asia Pacific countries. The emergence of the agent paradigm is an exciting development in Computer Science and Information Technology and the paradigm is expected to play a central role during the coming years in the development of complex distributed systems and networked systems impacting a wide variety of endeavors in our civilization. PRIMA08 will build on the great successes of its predecessors PRIMA2007 held in Bangkok, Thailand, PRIMA2006 in Guilin, China, PRIMA2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, PRIMA2004 in Auckland, New Zealand, PRIMA2003 in Seoul, Korea, PRIMA2002 in Tokyo, Japan, PRIMA2001 in Taipei, Taiwan, PRIMA2000 in Melbourne, Australia, PRIMA99 in Kyoto, Japan, and PRIMA98 in Singapore.

abstract: The OOP is one of the most well-respected and well-established software engineering conferences in Europe.

abstract: Simulation, Modeling and Optimization of Complex Processes

abstract: The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. ETAPS 2009 is the twelfth event in the series.

abstract: EuroSys 2009 is organized by EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS, sponsored by ACM SIGOPS (pending), in cooperation with Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). EuroSys welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world and aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences.

As a result, EuroSys 2009 will follow the pattern established by the previous EuroSys conferences, by seeking papers on all aspects of computer systems. EuroSys 2009 will also include a number of workshops to allow junior and senior members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a conference.

abstract: The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering.

We invite high quality submissions of technical papers describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Incremental improvements over previously published work should have been evaluated through systematic empirical or experimental evaluation. Submissions of papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will be considered based on timeliness and potential impact. Incremental improvements over previously published work are expected to be evaluated through rigorous analyses, empirical studies, or experiments.

abstract: The IWOMP 2009 is an annual series of international workshops dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects focusing on parallel programming with OpenMP. The workshop serves as a forum to present the latest research ideas and results related to this shared memory programming model. It also offers the opportunity to interact with OpenMP users, developers and people working on the next release of the standard.

abstract: You might think that since objects have become mainstream there wouldn't be much left to explore about object oriented programming. Well, think again. What's left to discover? Lots!

Like how to address today's software challenges. OOPSLA attracts attendees interested in and presenters with innovative ideas about:

Programmer productivity Secure and reliable software Changing hardware platforms Ultra-large scale systems OOPSLA is the premier conference for innovative and thought-provoking ideas, for seeking comment on works in progress, and (frequently, we're proud to say) for presenting Turing Award lecturers on significant works.