As part of the activities of IEEE ISSPIT 2002, the second in a series of international symposia that aims to cover most of the aspects in the fields of signal processing and information technology, a special workshop on Communication Software Engineering will be organized.

Communication Software is a discipline at the intersection of Telecommunication Networks and Software Engineering. Both areas are at heart of the Information Technology and the Internet, which are playing a more and more important role in our societies.

The aim of this special workshop is to bring together researchers, from both academia and industries, to present and discuss their recent research results in this discipline. Papers dealing with any aspect of communication software engineering are solicited for submission to the workshop. Topics of particular interest include but not limited to: Quality of Service, Formal methods, Verification, Specification, Testing, features interaction, Real-time systems, Mobile Agents, Network and Service Management, and Mobile Systems. Poster Proposals on these topics are also invited.

With the Internet we are entering a new era where telecommunication systems are playing a key role. Software is critical component of these systems. Understanding its development process and mastering is becoming a must. We are confident that the contributions in this special event will help to better understand communication software, and the recent development in this discipline.

Authors are invited to submit four-page papers in two-column formats including diagrams and references in attached PDF or Postscript files to an email message. The title page should include author(s) name(s), affiliation, mailing address, fax, and email address. Papers should be submitted to the workshop chair.

Important Dates :

  Full-Paper Submission :         July 24 , 2002

  Notification for Acceptance:  September 6th, 2002

  Final Version Due :                September 30, 2002

Chair: Mohammed Erradi

       Mohamed V-Souissi University, ENSIAS,

       B.P.713, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

       Phone : (212) 37-77 73 17 / 37 77 85 79

       Fax : (212) 37- 77 72 30

       Email:   erradi@ensias.ma

Steering Committee

  Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco

               Email : erradi@ensias.ma

  Kokou Yetongnon, Université de Bourgogne, France

               Email : Kokou.Yetongnon@u-bourgogne.fr

Technical Program Committee

  Driss Aboutajdine, Mohamed-V University, Morocco      

  Paul Amer, University of Delaware, USA

  Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA

  Gregor Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada

  Raouf Boutaba, Waterloo University, Canada

  Isabelle Chrisment, INRIA-LORIA, Nancy, France

  Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

  Rachida Dssouli, Concordia University, Canada

  Mohamed El-Koutbi, ENSIAS, Morocco

  Loïc Helouet , INRIA, IRISA, France

  Michel Kadoch, ETS, Canada

  Ferhat Khendek Concordia University , Canada

  Najib Naja, INPT, Morocco

  T. RadhaKrishnan, Concordia University, Canada

  Andre Shaff, LORIA, France

Local Arrangements:

  Zahi Jarir, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech

          Email: zahijarir@ucam.ac.ma

  Said Rakrak, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech

          Email: rakrak@fstg-marrakech.ac.ma