[pkg-horde] OSSCOM 2015 Conference - Sept, 2015

Wed Jul 8 01:44:34 UTC 2015

*Call for Proposals/ Papers*

*OSSCOM 2015*

*/Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal/*

*/1st International Conference on Open Source Software Computing/*

10 - 13 September 2015, German Jordanian University Campus, Madaba - Jordan

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Partially funded by EC - Tempus and technically sponsored by IEEE

*Objectives*

To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling Open Source
Software 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.

*Structure* 

- keynotes

- Panel and roundtable discussions

- Presentation sessions

- Industry and technology discussions

- Consultation meetings, focus groups, and roundtables

- Best practice showcases and practical demonstration

- Exhibition, Posters and Demonstrations

- Specialized OSS workshops 

- OSSCOM Consortium meeting

- EUMEDCONNECT/ Africa Connect 2 meeting

*Submission Deadline*

15 August, 2015 (full papers, short papers, demonstrations, special
sessions) 

*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.*

*Language *

English 

*Partners and Organizers*

· Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

· German Jordanian University, Jordan

· The Lebanese University, Lebanon

· Brunel University, United Kingdom

· Yarmouk University, Jordan

· Notre Dame University, Lebanon

· University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

· tarent AG, Germany

· Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International, Jordan

· Information Management Ltd, Lebanon

· IEEE Jordan section

*Important dates*

*15**th** August, 2015 **Submission Deadline (Papers, Posters and
Presentations)*

*30**th ** August, 2015** **Acceptance Notification*

*5**th** September, 2015 **Registration Deadline*

*10**th** - 13**th** September, 2015** ** OSSCOM 2015 Conference *

*Registration Fees*

*OSSCOM/ IEEE members 50 Euro*

*OSSCOM/ IEEE non-members 100 Euro* 

*For more information and paper submission, please contact *

Paper submission:

- Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, alagtash at gju.edu.jo <mailto:alagtash at gju.edu.jo>

- Prof. Rainer Herpers, rainer.herpers at h-brs.de
<mailto:rainer.herpers at h-brs.de>

- Dr. Mowafaq Otoom, motoom at gmail.com <mailto:motoom at gmail.com>

Proposals, Presentations and Program:

- Dr. Mohammad Aldaoud, mohammad.aldaoud at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:mohammad.aldaoud at gju.edu.jo>

- Dr. Sahel Alouneh, sahel.alouneh at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:sahel.alouneh at gju.edu.jo>

- Dr. Ismail Hababeh, ismail.hababeh at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:ismail.hababeh at gju.edu.jo>

- Dr. Ala Khalifeh, ala.khalifeh at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:ala.khalifeh at gju.edu.jo>

- Dr. Bassam Elasir, bassam.alasir at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:bassam.alasir at gju.edu.jo>

Publicity:

- Dr. Yasser Rajjal, yasser.rajjal at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:yasser.rajjal at gju.edu.jo>

- Mr. Ramez Quneibi, rquneibi at tagorg.com <mailto:rquneibi at tagorg.com>

- Dr. Muhannad Quwaider, mqquwaider at just.edu.jo
<mailto:mqquwaider at just.edu.jo>

Logistics:

- Ms. Ikram Al Naji, ikram.alnaji at gju.edu.jo
<mailto:ikram.alnaji at gju.edu.jo>

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