Goals

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) has emerged as a key technology for developing and maintaining global networked information systems and services, distributed real-time automation systems, grids and sensor networks. CBSE combines elements of object-oriented technologies, software architecture, software verification, modular software design, configuration and deployment. CBSE has made major inroads into mainstream networked software-intensive systems. If you are taking a train, accessing your bank account or health insurance over the Internet, searching and ordering a book or tracking its delivery, very likely CBSE is at work in the distributed software enabling such everyday activities in transport, commerce, health, automation, environment and defense.

The CBSE symposium has a track record of bringing together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to promote a better understanding of CBSE from a diversity of perspectives, and to engage in active discussion and debate. CBSE 2007 is open to all participants interested in CBSE and related areas. The symposium addresses participants from both universities and industry.

Scope

The theoretical foundations of component specification, composition, analysis and verification continue to pose research challenges. While the engineering models and methods for component software development are slowly maturing, new trends in global services and distributed systems architectures push the limits of established and tested component-based methods, tools and platforms:

• model-driven development and grid technologies with their high-performance demands in massive data storage, computational complexity and global co-scheduling of scientific models in flagship science, technology and medicine research;
• global software development with its lowering of cost of software capabilities and production, through automation, off-shoring and outsourcing of key components and subsystems;
• networked enterprise information systems and services architectures crossing enterprise, nation, legal and discipline boundaries;
• shift from (globally distributed) software products to pervasive and ubiquitous services supported by deep software-intensive infrastructures and middleware and by increasingly flexible, adaptive and autonomous client and application server software.

Topics of interest

• Software quality and extra-functional properties for components and component-based systems;
• Component-based web services and service-oriented architectures;
• Component software architectures and product lines;
• Global generation, adaptation and deployment of component-based systems and services;
• Grid component software, services, workflows, co-ordination and choreography;
• Components and model-driven development;
• Specification, verification, testing and checking of component systems;
• Compositional reasoning techniques for component models;
• Global measurement, prediction and monitoring of distributed and service components;
• Patterns and frameworks for component-based systems and services;
• Integrated tool chains and methods for building component-based services;
• Components for networked real-time information systems and sensor networks.

Paper Submission

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members (four for papers with an author on the program committee). Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Any duplicate submissions will be rejected without review.

As always, the symposium seeks reports on innovative contributions to the science and technology of CBSE. Papers describing practical experience with CBSE in mission- and performance-critical systems are of particular interest. Long and short papers on leading-edge research and development in progress are also encouraged. Long papers must not exceed 16 pages and short papers must not exceed 8 pages, in the required format.

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