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ICSOFT is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the ICSOFT 2018, the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on software technologies. The conference areas are "Software Engineering and Systems Development", "Software Systems and Applications" and "Foundational and Trigger Technologies".

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICSOFT with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
2. SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
3. FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES


AREA 1: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

Mainstream topics in software engineering with wide adoption in practice, but where new methods, tools and techniques can bring further improvements in systems development.


  • Agile Development
  • Architectural Design, Refactoring and Patterns
  • Automated Software Engineering
  • Change and Configuration Management
  • Data-driven Software Engineering
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Formal Methods
  • Mobile and Cross Platform Development
  • Model-driven Software Engineering
  • Open Source Development
  • People Management
  • Process Modeling
  • Programming Frameworks and Platforms
  • Project Management
  • Quality Management
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Software Engineering Tools
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Software and Systems Modeling
  • Risk Management
  • Software Project Planning and Tracking
  • Testing and Testability
  • User-centered Design

AREA 2: SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Topics with emphasis on results and products of software development in specific application areas.


  • Agent and Multi-agent Systems
  • Ambient Intelligence and Digital Ecosystems
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications
  • Complex Systems
  • Cyber-physical Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Embedded Systems
  • Enterprise Systems and Applications
  • Government Systems and Applications
  • Mobile Apps
  • Real-time Systems
  • Robotics
  • Social Systems and Applications
  • Software Product Line
  • System Software
  • Web Systems and Applications
  • 3D Printing

AREA 3: FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES

Foundational technologies for software development as well as trigger technologies for software systems. Trigger technologies are technologies which are promising but have not yet been proven in practice (i.e., they belong to the early hype cycle phase).


  • Big Data and Data Science
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cybersecurity Technologies
  • Digital Divide Technology Factors
  • High performance computing
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Information Age and Digital Revolution
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile Technologies
  • Natural Language Technologies
  • Network and Data Communications
  • Software as a Service
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Web Technologies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Gian Pietro PiccoUniversity of Trento, Italy
Jan MendlingHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Tobias HoellwarthEuroCloud Europe, Austria
Miguel CorreiaUniversidade de Lisboa, Portugal

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by .

SECRETARIAT

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://icsoft.scitevents.org

VENUE

Overlooking the Douro River, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities, It was born and developed from the northern bank of this river during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Leszek MaciaszekInstitute of Business Informatics Wroclaw and Department of Computing Sydney, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

PROGRAM CHAIR

Marten van SinderenComputer Science, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Markus Aleksy, Industrial Software and Applications, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Waleed Alsabhan, CS, KACST, United Kingdom
Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay, CS&IS and System Analysis and Modelling Group, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus and Hasso Plattner Institute, India
Wolfgang Bein, Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
Fevzi Belli, Izmir Institute of Technology Dept. Comp. Engineering Urla, Izmir Turkey, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
Jorge Bernardino, DEIS, Polytechnic of Coimbra - ISEC, Portugal
Mario Berón, Informatica, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Thomas Buchmann, Faculty of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany
Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Nelio Cacho, Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics - DIMAp, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Gerardo Canfora, Department Of Engineering, University of Sannio, Italy
Ana Cavalli, TELECOM SudParis, France
Rui César das Neves, Cerebro and Cardiovascular Diseases National Program, Directorate-General of Health, Portugal
Marta Cimitile, Unitelma Sapienza, Italy
Rem Collier, School Of Computer Science And Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland
Agostino Cortesi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Lidia López Cuesta, ESSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Boguslaw Cyganek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Sergiu Dascalu, Computer Science And Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Cléver Ricardo G. de Farias, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jaime Delgado, Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Steven Demurjian, Department Of Computer Science And Engineering, University of Connecticut, United States
Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK-IRST, Italy
Philippe Dugerdil, Information Systems, Geneva School of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Morgan Ericsson, Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Jean-Rémy Falleri, Bordeaux INP, France
João P. Faria, DEI - Departament of Informatics Engineering, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
Luis Fernandez Sanz, Edificio Politecnico, Campus Universitario, Ctra Madrid-Barcelona km.33, University of Alcala, Spain
Kehan Gao, Computer Science, Eastern Connecticut State University, United States
Felix J. Garcia Clemente, Computer Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain
Mauro Gaspari, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Bologna, Italy
Hamza Gharsellaoui, Computer Science, National School of Advanced Sciences and Technology of Borj Cedria (ENSTAB), University of Carthage, Tunisia
Paola Giannini, Computer Science Institute, DiSSTE, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
John P. Gibson, Le département INFormatique, Mines-Telecom - Telecom SudParis, France
Gregor Grambow, Elektronik und Informatik, Hochschule Aalen, Germany
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Computer Science, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hatim Hafiddi, MIR, INPT, Morocco
Slimane Hammoudi, Computer Science Department, ESEO, ERIS, France
Jean Hauck, Informatics and Statistics, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Pedro R. Henriques, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Portugal
Jose A. Herrera, Depto de Telemática, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Mercedes Hidalgo-Herrero, Facultad de Educación. Universidad Complutense de MadridC/ Rector Royo-Villanova s/n, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jose R. Hilera, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Alcala, Spain
Andreas Holzinger, Human-Centered AI Lab, Institute for Medical Informatics and Statistics, Medical University Graz, Austria
Jang-Eui Hong, Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Shihong Huang, Computer and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, United States
Ivan Ivanov, Science, Mathematics and Technology, SUNY Empire State University, United States
Judit Jasz, Software Engineering Department, University of Szeged, Hungary
Lingxiao Jiang, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Bo N. Jørgensen, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller instituttet, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Maria Jose Escalona, Languages And Computer Sciences, University of Seville, Spain
Hermann Kaindl, ICT, TU Wien, Austria
Dimitris Karagiannis, Dept. of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Austria
Carlos Kavka, Department of Research and Development, ESTECO SpA, Italy
Dean Kelley, Integrated Engineering, Minnesota State University, United States
Chris Kemerer, Information Systems and Technology Management, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Foutse Khomh, DGIGL, École Polytechnique, Canada
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, United States
Jitka Komarkova, Institute Of System Engineering And Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Administation, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Jun Kong, Computer Science, North Dakota State University, United States
Martin Kropp, Institute Of Mobile And Distributed Systems, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Winfried Kühnhauser, Computer Science, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Rob Kusters, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands
Wing Kwong, Engineering, Hofstra University, United States
Giuseppe Lami, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Konstantin Läufer, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, United States
David Lorenz, Computer Science, Open University, Israel
Ivan Lukovic, Department of Computing and Control, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia
Stephane Maag, RS2M, Telecom SudParis, France
Ivano Malavolta, Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Katsuhisa Maruyama, Computer Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russian Federation
Tom McBride, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Francesco Mercaldo, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Antoni L. Mesquida Calafat, Ctra. de Valldemossa Km. 7,5 (Campus UIB) Ed. Anselm Turmeda, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Spain
Gergely Mezei, DAAI, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Mattia Monga, Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Antao Moura, Systems and Computing Department, Federal Universisty of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Antonio Muñoz, Computer Science, University of Malaga, Spain
Takako Nakatani, Department of Informatics, The Open University of Japan, Japan
Joan Navarro, Quatre Camins, 30, La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
Elena Navarro, Computing Systems Deparment, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Viorel Negru, Computer Science, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Paolo Nesi, Department of Information Engineering, Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab, University of Florence, Italy
Jianwei Niu, Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Rory O'Connor, School Of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Marcos Palacios, Calle Ramón Bautista Clavería 15 - 8º (Langreo), University of Oviedo, Spain
Vincenzo Pallotta, Business and Technology, HEIG-VD (Swiss Applied Science University, Vaud), Switzerland
Luis Pedro, Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Jennifer Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Dana Petcu, Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Giuseppe Polese, Management and Information Technology, Università Degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Roman Popp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rosario Pugliese, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Traian Rebedea, Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Michel Reniers, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Werner Retschitzegger, Dept. Of Cooperative Information Systems, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Colette Rolland, CRI, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Higher School of Technology and Management (ESTG-IPVC), Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Matteo Rossi, Dipartimento di Mecccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gustavo Rossi, Facultad De Informatica. Universidad Nacional De La Plata, Lifia, Argentina
Stuart H. Rubin, University of California San Diego, United States
Chandan Rupakheti, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, United States
Gunter Saake, Database Research Group, Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Germany
Krzysztof Sacha, Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Computer Science, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Davide Sangiorgi, Dip. Informatica (DISI), Università di Bologna, Italy
Elad M. Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille, France
Istvan Siket, Hungarian Academy of Science, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Hungary
Harvey Siy, Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States
Michal Smialek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Yeong-Tae Song, COSC, Towson University, United States
Cosmin S. Spahiu, Computers and information technology, University of Craiova - Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Anongnart Srivihok, Computer Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Miroslaw Staron, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ketil Stølen, Software Systems Innovation, SINTEF, Norway
Hiroki Suguri, School of Project Design, Miyagi University, Japan
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Information Technology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Claudine Toffolon, Computer Science, Université du Mans, France
Joseph Trienekens, Management Science and Technology, Open University Heerlen, Netherlands
Michael Vassilakopoulos, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
Dessislava Vassileva, Dep. Of Information Technologies, Sofia University “st. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria
László Vidács, Software Engineering Department, University of Szeged, Hungary
Sergiy Vilkomir, Department of Computer Science , East Carolina University, United States
Jie Wang, Indiana University Northwest, United States
Dietmar Winkler, Institute for Information Systems Engineering (E194), Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andreas Winter, Software-Engineering, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Jinhui Yao, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Research, United States
Murat Yilmaz, Computer Engineering, Gazi University, Turkey
Jingyu Zhang, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Australia

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