Ubuntu-Pakistan Call for Research Papers: The First International Conference on Open-Source Technologies ICOST-2006 28-29 Dec 2006, Lahore, Pakistan.

[Fouad Riaz Bajwa]

The First International Conference on Open-Source Technologies ICOST-2006
28-29 December 2006, Lahore, Pakistan

Venue:
ICOST 2006 Secretariat
Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology (UET)
Lahore, Pakistan

Conference Flyer: http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006/icost2006-flier.pdf

ICOST-2006 will create a scientific venue where participants can share ideas
for tackling the research and development challenges related to open-source
tools and open-source development environments supporting and facilitating
CMMI-styled life-cycle of complex information systems for the critical
applications.
Conference Theme: CMMI driven Open-Source Software Developement 
  
Introduction:
Open-Source Software Engineering (OSSE) has emerged as a cross-disciplinary
paradigm for distributed enterprise computing. OSS, in many cases, has kept
the software market away from monopolies. It is helping organizations to
keep a control on the cost of development and deployment. OSSE has also
changed the way software applications are architected, deployed, and
consumed. 

The Conference:
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and
Technology, Lahore, (in collaboration with IEEE, USA) is organizing a
two-day workshop to invite researchers and practitioners from across the
world to share their ideas and experiences related to the state-of-the-art
and the future of open-source software. OSSTT-2006 thus aims at
consolidating as an international forum where a diverse audience of OSS
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public
administration will come together to present research papers and tutorials
addressing the state-of-the-art open-source research and development in the
critical areas such as: 

- E-Business 
- E-Government 
- Telecommunication 
- Enterprise Security 
- Healthcare 
- Higher Education and Research 
- Enterprise Resource Planning  
- Educational Institution Management and Administration. 

OSSTT-2006 will create a scientific venue where participants can share ideas
for tackling the research and development challenges related to open-source
tools and open-source development environments supporting and facilitating
CMMI-styled life-cycle of complex information systems for the critical
application domains mentioned above. Open-source system development poses a
number of research challenges related to open-source work practices,
development processes, applications, and tools. However, ICOST-2006 will
focus on achieving three main goals.

Aims and Objectives of ICOST-2006 

Developing open-source stand-alone software tools, toolsets, and complete
integrated development environments (IDEs) that support and facilitate CMMI
life-cycle methodologies (or process areas) for developing critical,
complex, and robust enterprise information systems. The CMMI process areas
span requirements to analysis, design, development, and deployment. The
enterprise systems in this case are regular information systems, i.e, they
may not themselves be open-source systems.

Developing open-source tools, toolsets, and IDEs that facilitate development
of critical, complex, and robust open-source systems in a CMMI development
style as much as and where possible. That is, what process areas of CMMI
would apply, or would need to be adapted and how, to create an open-source
system in a style conforming level-1 maturity, level-2 maturity, and so on.
The end systems in this case may either themselves be open-source enterprise
systems, or they may be the toolsets and IDEs that can in turn be used to
develop such systems. 

Focusing not just on software tools that work in a single IDE, or tools that
only help fix a single project. Rather, the focus will be basic developer
tools, with categories like modeling, editors, build automation, continuous
integration, logging, debugging, tracing, performance, code generators,
document generators, installers, search, rule engines, database, and
presentation. 

Registration: http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006/registration.htm 

Call for Papers: http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006/guideline.html 

Important Dates for ICOST-2006:          
Last date for submission of papers November 12, 2006 
Acceptance/Rejection notification November 30, 2006 
Camera ready papers December 07, 2006 

Conference Sponsors:
HEC-Higher Education Commission Pakistan 
PITB-Punjab Information Technology Board

In co-operation with:
IEEE Lahore Section

Travel Information: http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006/travel_service.htm 

More information about this event visit: 

http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006 

http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/pakistan/events/ICOST2006 


Forwarded for information by:

Fouad Riaz Bajwa
FOSS Advocate 

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