PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

7th ACIS International Conference on

Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2009)

December 2-4, 2009
Haikou, Hainan Island, China

Sponsored by International Association for Computer and Information Science (ACIS)

In cooperation with

Hainan University, Haikou, China

Conference organizers will select approximately 20 outstanding papers from SERA 2009 to be published in Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI). The book series will be distributed at the conference site.

The International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2009) brings together researchers, practitioners, and advanced graduate students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results and research-in-progress about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of research topics as:

Software Agent Technology	Middleware Design Techniques	Reliability Modeling and Analysis
e-Government Engineering	Modeling with UML	Cost Modeling and Analysis
Component-Based Software Engineering	Mobile/Wireless Computing	Computer & Software Engineering
Communication Systems and Networks	Parallel and Distributed Computing	Technology Transfer
Data Mining and Knowledge Recovery	Safety and Security Critical Software	Business Process Reengineering & Science
Artificial Intelligence	Reengineering, Reverse Engineering	Design & Process Engineering & Science
Design Patterns and Frameworks	Software Process Models	Process Management & Improvement
Software Architecture	Software Testing Techniques	Telecommunications
Economic and Financial Systems	Software Reuse and Metrics	Healthcare Engineering
Requirements Engineering	Object-Oriented Technology	Distributed Intelligent Systems
Software Engineering Education and Training	Software Architecture Education and Training

Conference Chairs:	Dr. Roger Lee Central Michigan University, USA	Dr. Wencai Du Hainan University, China
Program Chairs:	Dr. Haeng-Kon Kim Catholic University of Daegu, Korea	Dr. Simon Xu Algoma University, Canada

Publicity Chairs

Prof. Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Prof. Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan

Prof. Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Prof. Ahmed Jerraya, MINATEC, France

Prof. Jongkun Lee, Changwon National University, Korea Prof. Ville Leppänen, University of Turku and TUCS, Finland

Prof. Yinglin Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong  University, China Prof. Qiyong Lu, Fudan University, China

Prof. Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany Prof, Cristian S. Calude, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Prof. Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China Prof. Dehua Ju, ASTI Shanghai, China

Prof. Ling Li, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia Prof. Vai Mang I, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Prof. Changji Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Prof. Cangzhou Yuan, Software College of  Beihang University, China

Prof. Shaohua Tang, South China University of Technology, China Prof. Andy Koronios, University of South Australia, Australia

Prof. Hong Shen, The University of Adelaide, Australia Prof. Ahmed Jerraya, MINATEC, France

Prof. Dongguang Li , Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Prof. Yi Lu, Prairie View A&M University, USA

Prof. Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Prof. Jawed Siddiqi, Sheffield Hallam University

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Paper Submission: June 1, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2009
Early Registration: September 18, 2009
Camera-ready Paper: September 18, 2009

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and indexed by EI, INSPEC and DBLP.