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Welcome to the
ICSSEA’2007
20th International Conference on Software &
Systems Engineering and their Applications
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY
In the face of increasing integration of technical, social and informational environments, it is no longer possible to bind information systems or computer applications to the sole context of a particular group of users or organization. In the context of more and more integrated business processes, involving increasing numbers of companies of different sectors as a virtual enterprise, a real cooperation between computer systems is strongly required. Correlatively to the emergence of Internet and mobile communications, the trend is now to offer to the citizen more powerful, sophisticated context-aware, and ubiquitous services, requiring a reliable ad hoc orchestration of multiple and heterogeneous information sources and systems.
In the past, industry and software vendors were coping with the "plumbing" aspects of interoperability, i.e. ensuring that the bits could reliably flow from a computer to another. Now that connectivity to diverse sources has eased with standard protocols, the emphasis is shifting to semantic interoperability, i.e., to the ability to achieve meaningfully exchange of information among independently developed systems, including the “understanding” of the information's format, meaning, and information quality. Information interoperability continues to be a major challenge for industries that have now to cope with continuous change, mergers, splits, as well as technology evolution. Ontology and knowledge-based approaches are constantly proposed as a basis for solutions to such a challenge, but new approaches facilitating an “a posteriori” interoperability of already existing systems are also strongly required.
Beyond information interoperability, cooperation between systems should be possible, i.e. different systems should be able to provide each other with context-aware services, enabling the emergence of a set of higher level services. In this context, the emerging idea of systems of systems puts the emphasis on the need for new system engineering methods taking cooperation into account.
The classical approach of software and system design, based on the paradigm of well-known and fixed environment and user community should evolve towards new methods taking into account the ability to interoperation. New approaches such as collaborative systems, agent-based systems or ambient information environments have to be developed.
With regard to the above trend, software and systems processes, methods, architecture models, and tools ineluctably require novel approaches adapted to interoperability. Assuredly, this concerns system global life cycle, particularly requirements engineering, designing as well as testing and validating software & systems.
Co-organized by SEE and the Center for Mastering Systems & Software (CMSL) of CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), the 20th edition of the ICSSEA Conference (International Conference on Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications) will be held in Paris on December 4-6, 2007. It aims at providing a critical survey of the current status of tools, methods, and processes for elaborating software & systems, in gathering actors from the enterprise and research worlds. However, lectures and discussions will be conducted with service and system interoperability as a leitmotiv.
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