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|                      CALL FOR PAPERS
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|                       SESENA 2012
|       3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for
|                  Sensor Network Applications
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|                 Zurich, Switzerland, 2 June 2012
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|                       In conjunction with
|          ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
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|                Paper submission: 17 February 2012
|                Author notification: 19 March 2012
|                Camera-ready copy: 29 March 2012
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|               http://www.sesena.info
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By acting as the interface between digital and physical worlds, wireless
sensor networks (WSNs) represent a fundamental building block of the upcoming
Internet of Things and a key enabler for Cyber-physical and Pervasive
Systems. Despite the interest raised by this decade-old research topic, the
development of WSN software is still carried out in a rather primitive
fashion, by building software directly atop the operating system and by
relying on an individuals hard-earned programming skills. WSN developers must
face not only the functional application requirements but also a number of
challenging, non-functional requirements and constraints resulting from scarce
resources. The heterogeneity of network nodes, the unpredictable environmental
influences, and the large size of the network further add to the
difficulties. In the WSN community there is a growing awareness of the need
for methodologies, techniques, and abstractions that simplify the development
task and increase the confidence in the correctness and performance of the
resulting software. Software engineering (SE) support is therefore sought, not
only to ease the development task but also to make it more reliable,
dependable, and repeatable. Nevertheless, this topic has received so far very
little attention by the SE community.

SESENA12 aims to attract researchers belonging to both the SE and WSN
communities, not only to exchange recent research results on the topic, but
also to stimulate discussion about the core open problems and to define a
shared research agenda. The workshop welcomes both research contributions and
position statements. The former will foster in depth technical discussions of
novel results with an audience composed of both SE and WSN researchers. The
latter will provide the opportunity for presenting open problems, provocative
views, or previously unexplored ideas in an informal fashion. SESENA12 will
also host two special sessions: (i) a "speakers’ corner" composed of impromptu
presentations where attendees (including those without accepted papers) will
have the opportunity to present their own views in very short segments (e.g.,
2-4 minutes), and (ii) a session dedicated to the VISION project, an FP7 ERC
Starting Grant focusing on developing an innovative infrastructure for
real-time sensing services. In the latter session, the intermediate project
results will be presented with the dual goal of sharing the uniqueness of the
ERC-style grants and discussing technical elements to identify possible future
collaborations.

Topics of interest:

The workshop focuses on software engineering issues arising in networked
(embedded) sensing systems and their possible integration in Internet of
Things scenarios. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- environment and context modeling;
- development methodologies;
- (macro-)programming languages and compilers;
- testing, debugging, and validation;
- non-functional modeling and analysis;
- security and trust;
- formal verification and model-checking;
- model-driven approaches;
- middleware systems;
- interfacing WSNs and business services;
- integration of WSNs in IoT applications.

Workshop Organizers

Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany & ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Program Chairs

Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Amy L. Murphy, FBK-IRST, Italy

                         PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marcus Chang, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sebastian Elbaum, University of Nebraska, USA
Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan
Christine Julien, University of Texas, USA
Pedro José Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Neno Medvidovic, University of South California, USA
Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Animesh Pathak, INRIA, France
Luigi Pomante, DEWS, Italy
Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia
Cormac Sreenan, University of Cork, Ireland
Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA
Matthias Woehrle, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

                      SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Prospective participants are invited to submit research or position papers
containing original unpublished material describing ongoing work and new
ideas, mature research results, or experience reports. Submissions must
conform to the ICSE submission format and rules. Research papers may not
exceed 6 pages, position papers must be limited to 2 pages. Papers must be
submitted electronically through
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sesena12. The program committee
will review all submissions for quality, relevance, and their potential to
trigger discussions at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the
ICSE companion proceedings and on the workshop web site.

                          IMPORTANT DATES

  * Submission of papers:             17 February 2012
  * Notification of acceptance:       19 March 2012
  * Camera Ready:                     29 March 2012
  * Conference:                       2 June 2012

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