Objectives

To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling OSS key technologies, building cross-cutting sciences, and driving disruptive innovations; to disseminate research on technology and applications of open source software computing; and to expand the framework of effective participation of universities in developing OSS industry through incubators and business accelerators.

Conference Venue

German Jordanian University Campus, Madaba - Jordan

Topics of Interest

Track 1: Systems Software

- Operating systems: Linux Kernel, Server and Desktop Linux: RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Caldera, SuSe, Fedora.

- Distributed Operating systems: Open source platforms and software for the cloud platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

- Embedded and Realtime Operating systems: Microkernel, uC/OS, VxWorks, pSOS, OSEK, iRMX, QNX, RTLinux.

- Ubiquitous mobile computing and technologies: middleware, operating system (e.g. Android), new I/O and user interfaces, mobile protocols.

Track 2: Applications and services

- Open-source software services and applications in energy, environment, education, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine and other pressing global issues and problems.

- Open-source software for e-Services, including e-Government, e-Libraries, e-Learning and any e-*.

- Open-source software for Smart Education, Smart Cities, Smart Power Grids, Smart Transportation.

- Open Source applications for mobile and tablets.

Track 3: Networking, and security

- Open source network simulation/emulations tools.

- Open source platforms for network security deployment, testing and verification.

- Network and security open source management software.

Track 4: Open Source Development and Support

- Perspectives on open-source software development and services, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, and security.

- National, regional and international organizations and their role in funding and supporting open-source software applications in research and education.

- Collaborative projects and initiatives in research and education at national, regional and global levels.

- Research and education challenges and open access paradigm.

- Business models for open-source software development and services.

All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available through IEEE Explorer.