The 1st International Workshop on 

Wireless Software Engineering (WSE-2003)

8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal

Call for Papers

held in connection with IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003 (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003)

Workshop Chair:

Luminita Vasiu,

Middlesex University,

London, UK

l.vasiu@mdx.ac.uk

Scope:

Wireless information technology is an emerging field that builds on radio engineering, distributed systems and data management. Wireless networks suffer from lowbandwidth, and handheld devices have constrained computing environments. They tend to have less memory, less powerful CPUs, different input devices, and smaller displays. These new requirements make developing wireless software hard and challenging.

Software development methods and processes required to build software for conventional systems are not optimal for all wireless systems. In particular, the development of wireless software does not always fit into the development model originated to cope with large, conventional software systems.

Theme and Goals:

The theme of the workshop is wireless software construction. There are many challenges involved in wireless software design and construction, including: architecture, tools, testing, and the use of UML in wireless software analysis and design.

The goal of this workshop is to identify the challenges as well as to discuss and document the OO techniques for building wireless software systems. The aim is to provide a forum for stimulating discussion between the participants.

Topics of Interest:

Topics may include, but need not be limited to, the following:

• Design techniques for wireless software;

• Development methods and processes for wireless software;

• UML in wireless software design;

• Reference architectures for wireless applications; 

• Architectural patterns; 

• Frameworks and components for wireless software; 

• Testing wireless software; 

• Security-driven wireless applications. 

Workshop Format:

The workshop will be divided into four technical sessions covering different aspects of the key workshop objectives. Each session will include presentations of submitted papers and/or by invited speakers, and there will be time for discussion after each presentation.

Types of Submissions:

The workshop will be composed of the following kinds of contributions:

Full Papers – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).

Short Papers – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

Posters/demonstrations – These have one page at the maximum (625 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the workshop.

Papers and posters should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in Word or RTF format to Luminita Vasiu, Workshop Chair, by 25 May 2003 (see contact information above).

An international program committee will review the proposals, and authors will be notified of decisions by 16 June 2003. The deadline for submission of papers to the printed workshop proceedings will be 27 June 2003.

Important dates:

Submission Deadline - 25 May 2003

Notification to Authors - 16 June 2003

Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 27 June 2003

Late Registration - After 27 June 2003

Workshop Program Committee*:

Cris Garcia (Brasil)

A. Salem (Egypt)

Barry Eaglestone (UK)

Simon Podvalny (Russia)

Marin Litoiu (IBM Canada)

Konstantinos Margaritis (Greece)

Vladutiu Mircea (Romania)

Gary Evans (UK)

Anthony Fulgoni (UK)

* list not yet complete

Registration Information:

To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iadis.org /icwi2003

Secretariat: secretariat@iadis.org