Research Topics for the Conference Theme "Instrumented. Interconnected. Intelligent."

We envision that the grand challenge for computing and for software engineering will be that of scaling up three pivotal technology areas, namely: Instrumentation, Interconnectivity and Intelligence. As the degree of integration across systems and users increases, we foresee challenges around the amount of data we will be managing and analyzing, the computational platforms on which software will be developed and run, the tools that will be supporting software development and the business models that will evolve around this new breed of software systems and data. We also foresee challenges in making software systems smarter over time by learning from both the users' and the systems' historical data, in order to predict and adapt.

CASCON 2011 invites authors to submit original papers addressing these challenges, including but not limited to the following topics:

* Cloud Computing: cloud platforms and frameworks; autonomic management; adaptive systems; virtualization.
* Intelligence and Analytics: predictive modeling and analytics; data warehouses; OLAP; data mining; data visualization; intelligent search; data integration.
* Software Development Processes and Tools: compilers; collaborative integrated development environments; quality assurance, testing and model checking; service-oriented programming models; distributed and parallel computation models; collaboration and awareness; development methods; metrics; agile methods; open-source and global software development; end-user software development; software design; software comprehension; web application architecture.
* Next Generation Systems: multi-core systems; stream processing systems; graphical processing systems, FPGA, GPGPU.
* Information Management: Database infrastructure and technology; stream data; XML and text data; query processing and optimization; data mining.
* Smart Systems: web-based systems; communities of practice; scripting languages; privacy and trust; mobile web; semantic web; new collaboration environments and technologies; cognitive support for smarter interactions; interaction patterns; end user programming; data relationship discovery; RDF and Linked Data; data visualization, HCI, context, personal agents.
* Software as a Service: new computation and business models; large-scale system integration; legal, economic and societal issues.
* Dynamic Business Processes: RESTful services; Smart services, BPM, SOA.