The FTRA 3rd International Workshop - Privacy Enhanced Technology and Security Engineering (PETSE 2011)

Co-organizers: Jongsung Kim (jongsung.k@gmail.com), Qi Shi, Zhenfu Cao, Heng Xu
URL: http://www.ftrai.org/petse2011/
Abstract
The integration of advanced wireless technology and internet tends to increase connections of computing devices. However, in order to achieve such integration, security problems and privacy concerns such as personal information outflows should be considered. Privacy enchanced technology and security engineering are required for technical security and personal information protection.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Privacy Enchanced Technology and Security Engineering.
PETSE-11 is a successor of the 2009 Special Session on Security & Privacy in Pervasive Computing environments (SPCC-09, Suwon, Korea, June 29 - July 2, 2009).

The 2011 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Healthcare and Application (UHA 2011)

Organizer: soonseok kim (soonseok.kim@gmail.com)
URL: http://www.ftrai.org/uha2011/
Abstract
International Workshop on Ubiquitous Healthcare and Application (UHA'2011) provides state-of-the-art forum for the latest services, technologies and researches in the field of information and communication technology assisted healthcare and well-being. The objectives of this workshop are to advance medical diagnosis, treatment, and patient care through application of wireless communications, mobile computing, security, and sensing technologies. Participants include IT professionals, researchers, clinicians, hospital administrators, educators, solutions vendors, device manufacturers, system designers, integrators and consultants.
Enhancement in the welfare for future requires the change to the current healthcare system. For the care of daily health level we need special kinds of methods and technologies that we can be applied into our daily life smoothly. In this point, UHA'2011 will provide an excellent opportunity for university researchers and industry representatives as well as decision makers to review and discuss the state-of-art and trends of u-Healthcare and related biomedical engineering systems. We would like to send a particular welcome to those of you who might be new to the u-Healthcare area. This workshop offers a wonderful opportunity to understand the problems and exchange ideas about your work in organized sessions and also in an informal, relaxed setting.

The 2011 International Workshop on SOA-based Software Architecture and Assessment
(SSAA 2011)

Organizer: Hang-bae Chang (hbchang@daejin.ac.kr)
URL: http://www.ftrai.org/ssaa2011/
Abstract
SOA (Service-oriented architecture) is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration in computing, and a system based on SOA architecture will provide a loosely-integrated suite of services that can be used within multiple separate systems from several business domains. Recently, As SOA is having a substantial impact on development of software architecture many architectures/systems are being developed and designed by utilizing SOA-based style. Although some progresses have been made in several aspects regarding various issues including assessment concerns, there still exist needs for much research in addressing SOA-based software architecture in the design, development and operation.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners having the common objective of transforming SOA-based software architecture and method to assess them into a mature discipline with both solid scientific foundations and mature software engineering development methodologies In particular, we will encourage works and discussions about what SOA-based software architecture still needs in order to achieve its original goal.

Interface Verification and Validation for Components and Services (CSIVV 2011)

Organizers: Yamine Ait Ameur (yamine@ensma.fr)
URL: http://selab.iyte.edu.tr/workshops/csivv2011/
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As web services become a promising technology for the effective automation of inter-organizational interactions, service-oriented architectures are emerging to facilitate intelligent, adaptive and automated integration of services. Similarly, architectures and/or frameworks providing (generic) components and multimodal interfaces appear more and more as software artifacts. One of the several issuses to be addresses for the trustworthiness of these software entities is reliable, safe and secure integration, which can be achieved through verification and validation (V&V) in addition to other reliable and secure software development approaches.
Verification and validation methodologies have the potential to increase user confidence in software artifacts. Therefore, theoretical foundations for quality assurance should be investigated to discover new methods that will bring high certainty to the trustworthiness of software entities. Verification and validation methods deliver important analytical techniques for quality assurance of component and service interfaces.

International Workshop on Principles and Practices of Autonomic Software Systems (PASS 2011)

Co-organizers: Tolga Ayav ( tolgaayav@iyte.edu.tr), Tugkan Tuglular
URL: http://arf.iyte.edu.tr/autonomics
Abstract
In recent years, autonomic computing has gained extensive interest from various areas, including computer systems, architecture, databases, machine learning and control theory. Many commercial products such as IBM¡¯s SMART and Micrososft¡¯s AutoAdmin also began to rely on self-management and other autonomic computing techniques. Many conferences and workshops devoted to autonomic computing were held. Despite these efforts, autonomics is still an emerging research area and needs to be studied both in theory and practice.
The 1st workshop on on Principles and Practices of Autonomic Software Systems aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners across various disciplines to address a wide range of issues in autonomic computing.

International Workshop on Semantic Analysis Methods in Software Engineering (SAMSE 2011)

Organizers: Selma Tekir ( selmatekir@iyte.edu.tr),
URL: http://arf.iyte.edu.tr/samse2011/
Abstract
Software quality needs functions or mechanisms to relate directly measurable software attributes (e.g. cyclomatic complexity) to external quality attributes (e.g. reliability). Similarly, in the information modeling area, high-level information characteristics are represented in terms of low-level syntactic features by the use of semantic analysis methods. Software is knowledge as it contains data structures, instructions and documentation. Thus, there exists a need for software semantic analysis methods that process software as a knowledge source.
The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in the fields of knowledge and software engineering to discuss the commonalities and differences in representing and evaluating high-level information characteristics and software quality attributes respectively, determine the potential for similar and complementary approaches, and establish a common framework for this purpose. In addition to this, the workshop will provide a platform for the formation of special interest groups to define and discuss a joint research agenda and stimulate future developments.