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<h1 style="color: #ca0000; font-size: 40px; line-height: 30px; padding:20px 0 5px 0; margin: 0; display:block; text-align:center; ">Call for Proposals/ Papers</h1>
<h2 style=" color: #67d5e6; text-align:center; padding:0; margin: 10px 0; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;">OSSCOM 2016</h2>
<h3 style="color: #002e6c; font-weight:normal; font-size: 18px; padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align:center; line-height: 25px; margin: 10px 0; ">The
2<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">nd</sup> International Conference on Open Source Software Computing </h3>
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<strong style=" background: #ca0000; color: #fff; padding: 10px 20px; display:inline-block; font-size: 25px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; ">1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> - 3<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">rd</sup> December 2016 </strong> <br>
Lebanese University, Beirut - Lebanon <br>
<a href="http://osscom2016.OSSCOM.org/ " target="_blank" style=" color: #67d5e6;" >http://osscom2016.OSSCOM.org/</a><br>
Partially funded by EC - Tempus and technically sponsored by IEEE </p>
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<div style="color: #ca0000; font-size: 35px; line-height: 30px; padding:20px 0 5px 0; margin: 0; display:block; border-top: 5px solid #ca0000; ">Objectives </div>
<p style=" line-height: 21px; padding:0; margin:0;">To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling OSS key technologies, building cross-cutting sciences, and driving disruptive innovations; to disseminate research on technology and applications of open source software computing; and to expand the framework of effective participation of universities in developing OSS industry through incubators and business accelerators. </p>
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<h5 style="color: #fff; background: #6ad3e6; font-size: 25px; padding: 3px 10px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: normal;">Structure</h5>
<p style=" line-height: 21px;"> - Keynotes <br>
- Panel and roundtable discussions <br>
- Presentation sessions <br>
- Industry and technology discussions <br>
- Consultation meetings, focus groups, and roundtables <br>
- Best practice showcases and practical demonstration <br>
- Workshops </p>
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<h3 style="color: #fff; background: none; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding:0; margin: 0;"> Submission Deadline</h3>
1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> September, 2016 (Manuscripts)<br/>
1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> October, 2016 (Proposals) </td>
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<h5 style="color: #fff; background: #6ad3e6; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding: 3px 10px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: normal;">Topics of Interest</h5>
<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 1: Systems Software</h3>
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- Operating systems: Linux Kernel, Server and Desktop Linux: RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Caldera, SuSe, Fedora <br>
- Distributed Operating systems: Open source platforms and software for the cloud platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Open stack, Open-source software in scientific computing including clouds, grids and HPCs <br>
- Embedded and Realtime Operating systems <br>
- Ubiquitous mobile computing and technologies: middleware, operating system (e.g. Android), new I/O and user interfaces, mobile protocols
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 2: Applications and Services</h3>
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- Open-source software services and applications in energy, environment, education, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine and other pressing global issues and problems<br/>
- Open-source software for e-Services, including e-Government, e-Libraries, e-Learning and any e-*<br/>
- Open-source software for Smart Education, Smart Cities, Smart Power Grids, Smart Transportation<br/>
- Open Source applications for mobile and tablets
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- Open source network simulation/emulations tools <br>
- Open source platforms for network security deployment, testing and verification <br>
- Network and security open source management software
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 4: Open Source Development and Support</h3>
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- Perspectives on open-source software development and services, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, and security <br>
- National, regional and international organizations and their role in funding and supporting open-source software applications in research and education <br>
- Collaborative projects and initiatives in research and education at national, regional and global levels <br>
- Research and education challenges and open access paradigm <br>
- Business models for open-source software development and services </p>
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 5: Software Engineering</h3>
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This track will bring together researchers, students and industry experts from diverse areas associated with software engineering who are utilizing, developing or even improving open source software systems during their research and experiments. Software Engineering influences all aspects of computer science research and touches every software researchers and practitioners.
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There are diverse Free and open-source software that could be utilized in many fields under the umbrella of Software Engineering such as but not limited to:<br/><br/>
- Software Process Models<br>
- Software Process Improvement<br>
- Software Architecture<br>
- Component-Based Software Engineering<br>
- Software Verification and Validation<br/>
- Model Checking<br>
- Software Impact Analysis<br>
- Design Patterns and Frameworks<br>
- Model Driven Architecture<br>
- Modeling with UML<br/>
- Reusable Software and Metrics<br/>
- Reverse Engineering, Re-engineering<br>
- Adaptive Software<br>
- Software Define Network<br>
- Data Mining and Machine Learning<br>
- Safety and Security in Critical Software
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Lebanese University, Beirut - Lebanon
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<h3 style="color: #fff; background: none; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding:0; margin: 0;"> Registration Fees </h3>
<div style="color: #6ad3e6; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; border-bottom: 1px dashed #fff;"> OSSCOM members <br> 50 Euro </div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; "> OSSCOM non-members <br> 100 Euro </div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; "> Authors and Speakers <br> 50 Euro </div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; "> Students <br> Free </div>
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<u> <strong>All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Explore.</strong></u>
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- Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany <br>
- German Jordanian University, Jordan<br>
- Lebanese University, Lebanon<br>
- Brunel University, United Kingdom<br>
- Yarmouk University, Jordan<br>
- Notre Dame University, Lebanon<br>
- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain<br>
- Tarent AG, Germany<br>
- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International, Jordan<br>
- Information Management Ltd, Lebanon<br>
- Le Cnam Liban</td>
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<h5 style="color: #fff; background: #6ad3e6; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding: 3px 10px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: normal;">Important Dates
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<p style="color: #002e6c; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">Manuscript Submission Deadline</p>
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1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> Oct, 2016 <br>
<p style="color: #002e6c; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;"> Acceptance Notification</p>
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15<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">th</sup> Nov 2016 <br>
<p style="color: #002e6c; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">Registration Deadline</p>
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1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> – 3<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">rd</sup> Dec 2016 <br>
<p style="color: #002e6c; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">OSSCOM 2016 Conference </p>
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<div style="color: #fff; font-size: 17px; padding: 5px; margin: 20px 0 0 0; display:block; background: #002e6c; ">For more information and paper submission, <em>please contact </em>
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<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;"> Paper Submission:</h6>
- Please submit your manuscript or proposal at: <a style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=39834998.OFSERI5RukZsfC0u" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=39834998.OFSERI5RukZsfC0u</a><br>
<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;">Registration:
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- Please register for OSSCOM 2016 conference at: <a style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="http://osscom2016.osscom.org/?q=Forms/registration" target="_blank">http://osscom2016.osscom.org/?q=Forms/registration</a><br>
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Publicity:</h6>
- Dr. Yaser Jararweh, <a style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo">yijararweh@just.edu.jo</a> <br>
- Dr. Muhannad Quwaider, <a style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="mailto:mqquwaider@just.edu.jo" >mqquwaider@just.edu.jo</a> <br>
<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;"> More Information:</h6>
- Please contact us through our email: <a style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="mailto:office@osscom.org">office@osscom.org</a><br/>
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All information is available at: <a href="http://osscom2016.osscom.org" target="_blank" style=" color: #67d5e6;">http://osscom2016.osscom.org</a>
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