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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). Open stack, Open-source software in scientific computing including clouds, grids and HPCs
- Embedded and Realtime Operating systems
- 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
Track 5: Software Engineering
This track will bring together researchers, students and industry experts from diverse areas associated with software engineering who are utilizing, developing or even improving open source software systems during their research and experiments. Software Engineering influences all aspects of computer science research and touches every software researchers and practitioners.
There are diverse Free and open-source software that could be utilized in many fields under the umbrella of Software Engineering such as but not limited to:
- Software Process Models
- Software Process Improvement
- Software Architecture
- Component-Based Software Engineering
- Software Verification and Validation
- Model Checking
- Software Impact Analysis
- Design Patterns and Frameworks
- Model Driven Architecture
- Modeling with UML
- Reusable Software and Metrics
- Reverse Engineering, Re-engineering
- Adaptive Software
- Software Define Network
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Safety and Security in Critical Software
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Conference Venue
AUB - LU, Beirut - Lebanon
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