Call for Papers - 6th Annual International Conference
on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2007)
Theme: Systems Composition and Interoperability: A World in Transition.
February 26 - March 2, 2007
The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Web: http://www.iccbss.org/

*** All inquiries to iccbss-2007@sei.cmu.edu ***

Organized by:
European Software Institute, Spain; Software Engineering Institute, USA;
and the National Research Council Canada
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society - (sponsorship pending approval)

IMPORTANT DATES:
Note: the deadline for submitting technical papers, experience
reports, panels, tutorials, and workshops has been extended to
July 28, 2006. For more information see:
http://www.iccbss.org/2007/submissions.html
September 2006 - Registration will be open
September 29, 2006 - Acceptance Notification
November 3, 2006 - Final Submission for Proceedings

For more information, see the ICCBSS call for papers Web page:
http://www.iccbss.org/2007/submissions.html
To submit a paper, see the ICCBSS paper submission page:
http://witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/main.do

Conference Description:
Successful integration and interoperation of components, including commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) software, and existing systems has become essential to
creating and maintaining responsive systems that meet business and mission
goals. Very few organizations can afford to build such large systems of
systems from scratch. In this sixth ICCBSS we look forward to expanding
to issues of inter-operability that have become critical for system
development and acquisition. New technologies and domains have exploded
in growth, along with the complexity and number of systems and systems of
systems. We see a wide range of service-oriented architectures, migration
to network-centric operations, and an increasing application of free and
open source software (FOSS).

This Conference will provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners
from industry, government, and universities can gather to exchange ideas
about current best practices and promising research directions in systems
integration and interoperability, including the creation and maintenance of
systems that incorporate COTS software products.

The Banff Conference Centre is a setting ideally suited to creative
activities. ICCBSS 2007 will address a wide scope of challenges and
approaches -- technological and organizational -- for constructing,
acquiring, deploying, and sustaining software-intensive systems that
require interoperation among a wide variety of systems and components.
We are looking for contributions related to COTS-Based systems, systems
of systems, and systems interoperability. These contributions can take
the form of research papers, experience reports, or surveys. We are
focusing on the following areas:
. Software Engineering . Management: ownership
. Development Process . Technology
. Marketplace

Workshop Proposals: the conference aims to build and expand on existing
communities of interest; to define and describe integration and inter-
operability; and to develop a roadmap for the new research agendas,
a wonderful opportunity to be at the forefront of the new research
in integration and interoperability. We look for the workshop proposals
to facilitate this process.
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