5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies(ICSOFT)

The purpose of the ICSOFT 2010, the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. The conference tracks are "Software Engineering", "Information Systems and Data Management", "Programming Languages", "Distributed and Parallel Systems" and "Knowledge Engineering".

CONFERENCE AREAS

1. Enterprise Software Technology
2. Software Engineering
3. Distributed Systems
4. Data Management
5. Knowledge-Based Systems

AREA 1: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY

- Enterprise Service Architectures
- Interoperability of Enterprise Software
- Technologies for Inter-Enterprise Collaboration
- Enterprise Integration
- Business-IT Alignment
- Virtual Organizations
- Supply-chain Enterprise Systems
- Enterprise Information Systems
- Context-aware Enterprise Systems

AREA 2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

- Software Architectures
- Requirements Elicitation and Specification
- Software Testing and Maintenance
- Model-Driven Engineering
- Aspect-Oriented Software Development
- Software Economics
- Service-Oriented Computing
- Reverse Engineering
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Programming Languages

AREA 3: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

- Distributed Architectures
- Mobile Technologies
- Communication Networks and Protocols
- Ad-hoc Networks
- Grid, Peer-to-peer, and Cluster Computing
- Pervasive Computing
- Web-based Computing
- Multi-agent Systems
- Process Coordination and Synchronization
- Security and Privacy

AREA 4: DATA MANAGEMENT

- Data and Information Quality
- Databases, Data-mining and Data-warehouses
- Data Storage and Query Processing
- Data Exchange and Integration
- Data Semantics
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Data and Information Retrieval
- Media Search and Retrieval
- Multi-media Databases

AREA 5: KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS

- Ontology Engineering
- Decision Support Systems
- Intelligent Problem Solving
- Expert Systems
- Reasoning Techniques
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Mining
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Human-Machine Cooperation

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: July 22-24, 2010

Regular Paper Submission:February 1, 2010
Authors Notification:April 6, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration:April 20, 2010

Contacts:

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal