IEEE Conference
on Open Systems 2012
The 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21st – 24th October 2012. The conference is organized to invite international delegates to enjoy the capital city of Malaysia; the modern and dynamic yet still preserve natural rainforest inside the heart of it.
We aim to provide an excellent opportunity to share and exchange technologies and applications in the area of Open Systems for professionals, engineers, academics and industrial people worldwide. ICOS 2012 will be sponsored by the IEEE Malaysia Computer Chapter. ICOS 2010 and 2011 was successfully organized in Kuala Lumpur from 5-8 December 2010 and Langkawi from 25-28 September 2011, respectively.
* The Proceedings of ICOS 2012 will be included in the IEEE Xplore database. Here is the ICOS 2011 and ICOS 2010 Proceedings on IEEE Explore .
Conference Tracks
Papers on original works are solicited from prospective authors. Topics includes; but not limited to the following tracks:
A. OPEN SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
- Smart, Adaptive & Intelligent Systems Technologies
- Automation & Robotics
- Information Retrieval & Knowledge Management
- Embedded & Real-Time Systems
- Processor Architectures
- Parallel & Distributed Systems
- Grid & Cloud Computing
B. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND TOOLS
- Programming Languages
- Operating Systems
- Software Requirements Engineering
- Product / Systems Integration
- Critical Systems Specification
- Software Testing and Analysis
- Models of Reuse
- Agile Development
- User Interface Design & Human Factors
- Usability, Scalability, Maintainability & Quality Issues
C. OPEN SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
- Engineering & Industrial Applications
- Bio-Tech & Medical Applications
- Web & Content Management Applications
- Educational, e-Learning Games Applications
- AI & Neural Networks Applications
- Virtual Environments & Games Applications
- Wireless & Mobile Applications
- Remote Sensing & GIS Applications
- E-Commerce Applications
- Social Networks
D. SECURITY
- Security in Mobile Applications
- Cyber Security and Strategies
- Secure Communications
- Encryption and Cryptography
- Security and Privacy Standards
- Tools in managing security and privacy
E. OPEN SYSTEMS IN PUBLIC SECTOR
- Health Service Management & E-Health
- E-Government & e-Governance
- E-Services
F. STANDARDS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
- Open Infrastructure
- Software Standards
- Communication Standards
G. BUSINESS, LICENSING AND LEGAL ISSUES
- IPR and Legal Implications in Open Systems
- Business Models & Strategies in Open Systems
- Innovation in Open Systems
- Case studies of Open Systems deployment and migration models
Submission Guidelines
Guidelines for final camera-ready paper submission
The following information is provided to help you with the preparation and submission of the final camera ready paper before it can be published in ICOS 2012 conference proceedings. In order for your paper to be successfully included in ICOS 2012 conference proceeding, it is required that you strictly follow the following instructions:
Step 1. Your final paper has to follow the Full Paper Template. The length of final paper should be no more than 6 pages in A4 size, including figures, tables and references.
Step 2. Your final paper must be converted to PDF format using http://www.pdf-express.org using icos2012x as Conference ID (if this is your 1st time using PDF-Express, you can follow step by step instruction here ).
Step 3. Upon conversion, please upload the PDF file to http://edas.info/N11927.
Step 4 . You are also required to sign and complete the IEEE Electronic Copyright Transfer Form (eCF). To do so, choose 'My Papers' tab in EDAS system and click the 'Copyright' column of your paper. Please note that failure to follow the above instructions may result in your paper to be excluded from the conference proceeding.
Information about Visa Requirement can be obtained here.
Organizers
IEEE Malaysia Computer Chapter
David Alan Grier (IEEE Fellow; 2013 President Elect for IEEE Computer Society)
Tony Wasserman (IEEE Fellow; Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Arif Ghafoor (Purdue University, USA)
Chua Tat Seng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
David Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
Mukesh Mohania (IBM, India)
Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Scott Hissam (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,USA)
Sajal K. Das (University of Texas, Arlington)
Thanos Demiris (Intracom, S.A. Telecom Sys., Greece)
Zaiki Awang (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
Zainab Abu Bakar (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
General Chair: Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim
Program Chair: Zainal Abu Kassim
Program Co-Chair: L. Chockhalingam
Secretary: Nursuriati Jamil
Finance Chair: Ibrahim Mat
Publication Chair: Fakhrul Hazman Yusoff
Publication Co-Chair: Sharifalillah Nordin
Website/Publicity Chair: Mohd Naim Mohd Ibrahim
Website/Publicity Co-Chair: Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman
Logistics/Event Chair: Abdul Rahim Ahmad
Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair: Mohd Redzuan Affandi
Exhibition & Sponsorship Co-Chair: Nor Azura Md Ghani
Technical Program Chair: Zainab Abu Bakar
Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim
Zainal Abu Kassim
L. Chockhalingam
Nursuriati Jamil
Ibrahim Mat
Fakhrul Hazman Yusoff
Mohd Naim Mohd Ibrahim
Abdul Rahim Ahmad
Mohd Redzuan Affandi Ab
Mustafar Kamal Hamzah
Farhat Anwar
Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman
Nor Azura Md Ghani
Dianne Cheong Lee Mei
Ali Selamat
Emma Nuraihan Mior Ibrahim
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for grammar and spelling. ICOS 2012 accepts both regular (completed) research papers and research-in-progress as well as case study papers.
Paper Format
All manuscripts must be in English.
Papers submitted for review MUST NOT contain any author information (no authors, affiliation or address, and no explicit self-reference) due to the double-blind review process.
All submitted papers should be in the form of PDF file and are to be limited to a maximum length of 6 pages (A4 size, single space, Times Roman of font size 10, two columns format), including figures, tables and references.
Papers must conform to the format defined by the IEEE template available on ICOS 2012 below.
* The Proceedings of ICOS 2012 will be included in the IEEE Xplore database and will normally be indexed in SCOPUS.
Conference Fees
CONFERENCE FEESIn order to participate in the activities of ICOS 2012, at least one author of each paper must register for the conference. Registrants may register up to two papers per registration. The page limit is 6 pages. Each additional page incurs a fee of USD40 (RM120.00) per page. Author registration payment must be made by 15 September 2012; otherwise your paper will not be included in the proceedings.
EARLY REGISTRATION(EARLY BIRD) Authors who make their payment before 15 August 2012 will benefit from the Early Bird Registration rate.
IEEE MEMBERS REGISTRATION IEEE members will receive a discount on the ICOS 2012 registration fee. Members are required to indicate their IEEE membership number during registration (please update your EDAS profile) and to bring along their current IEEE membership card for verification at the conference.
STUDENT RATE Participants are eligible for student rate if he/she is a full-time undergraduate or postgraduate student. Students must email the scanned copy of their 'Student Identification Card' to icos@ieee.org. Participants must bring along their Student Identification Card and/or IEEE Membership Card to the conference for verification. Only one paper per person per-registration is allowed under this rate. An IEEE graduate student member also qualifies for student member rate.
REGISTRATION FEE All credit card payment are to be made in United States dollar (USD) either by Visa/Master Card. For credit card payment please go to the EDAS ICOS2012 registration website at http://edas.info/r11927 Bank Draft and Wire Transfer will be allowable upon request direct into the IEEE ICOS account. Registrations by residents of Malaysia are payable using the local RM currency either through wire transfer or bank draft/cheque, local orders are not accepted.
PAYMENT USING EURO CURRENCY For payments in Euro currency, you may wire transfer or send demand/bank draft using the details in the procedure shown below.
PAYMENT BY WIRE TRANSFER/BANK DRAFT Bank Account name (please be exact)/Beneficiary : IEEE-ICOS
Bank Name: MAYBANK BERHAD
Bank Address :Technology Park Malaysia
City: Bukit Jalil
State:KUALA LUMPUR
Country :Malaysia
SWIFT/BIC: MBBEMYKL
Bank Account # : 564418601845
Account Address :
c/o Ibrahim Mat, MIMOS Berhad,Product and Systems Development Division, Technology Park Malaysia,Bukit Jalil,57000 Kuala Lumpur,MALAYSIA.
Email: ibm@mimos.my
After performing the wire-transfer, please email a copy of the transaction to us at icos@ieee.org for record management. All bank charges are to be borne by the participant.
| EARLY BIRD/NORMAL REGISTRATION | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYPE | INTERNATIONAL (Credit Card) | WIRE Transfer | DEADLINE | |
| Early Bird IEEE Member (1 paper) | USD450 | RM1300 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Early Bird Non-member (1 paper) | USD520 | RM1500 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Normal Reg. IEEE Member (1 paper) | USD550 | RM1600 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| Normal Reg. Non-member | USD620 | RM1800 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| Early Bird IEEE Member (2 papers) | USD720 | RM2100 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Early Bird Non-member (2 papers) | USD780 | RM2300 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Normal Registration IEEE Member (2 papers) | USD820 | RM2400 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| Normal Registration Non-member (2 papers) | USD880 | RM2600 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| STUDENT EARLY/NORMAL REGISTRATION | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYPE | INTERNATIONAL (Credit Card) | WIRE Transfer | DEADLINE | |
| Early Bird Student IEEE Member | USD320 | RM900 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Early Bird Student Non-member | USD350 | RM1000 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Normal Reg. Student IEEE | USD380 | RM1100 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| Normal Reg. Student Non-member | USD410 | RM1200 | 15 Sept 2012 | |
| OTHER REGISTRATIONS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYPE | INTERNATIONAL (Credit Card) | WIRE Transfer | DEADLINE | |
| Gala Dinner (Spouse) | USD50 | RM150 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Additional Page | USD40 | RM120 | 15 August 2012 | |
| Additional Certificate (Local) | RM50 | 15 August 2012 | ||
| Additional Certificate (International) | USD30 | RM90 | 15 August 2012 | |
ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE REGISTRATION FEE (NORMAL/EARLY BIRD)
Symposium registration fee (Normal/Early Bird) includes a copy of the conference proceedings (CD-ROM); admission to all tutorials, technical sessions, morning and afternoon tea/coffee breaks, lunches, sightseeing trip and symposium banquet (Gala Dinner).
ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE STUDENT REGISTRATION FEE (EARLY/NORMAL)
Symposium registration fee (Normal/Early Bird) includes a copy of the conference proceedings (CD-ROM); admission to all tutorials, technical sessions, morning & afternoon tea/coffee breaks and lunches. Students are not eligible to attend the symposium banquet (Gala Dinner).
OFFICIAL RECEIPTS & CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
The official receipts for payment will be issued during the conference at the Registration Desk. Each attendee will be issued with a certificate of participation based on the original registration (person who paid/registered) after they have presented their papers at the conference. The name printed on the certificate will be based on the EDAS registration. Any changes without prior notification will incur extra charges for reproduction of certificates at RM50.00 per certificate for local participants/address and USD30/RM90 (international address). Additional certificates for co-authors who are not present will incur extra charges for reproduction of certificates at RM50.00 per certificate.
Important Dates
Paper submission:
15 May 2012 15 June 2012
Notification of acceptance:
15 July 2012
Early bird registration:
15 Aug 2012
Final registration and payment:
15 Sept 2012
Final camera ready paper submission:
01 Oct 2012
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Events
The conference program can be viewed at here.
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Contact Us
Contact :
ICOS 2012 Secretariat
Faculty of Computer & Mathematical Sciences,
Universiti Teknologi MARA,
40450 UiTM Shah Alam,
Selangor,
Malaysia
Attn : Dr. Nursuriati Jamil
Email : icos@ieee.org
Conference Venue
Conference venue: Grand Seasons Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
List of hotels near Grand Seasons:
1. Vistana Hotel http://www.vistanahotels.com2. City Villa http://www.hotelcityvilla.com/
3. Cititel Express http://www.cititelexpress.com/
4. Brisdale Hotel http://www.brisdalehotel-
5. Mayfair Hotel
Keynote Speaker
Tony Wasserman
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) and Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation, which he created upon joining CMU-SV in 2005.
In 1980, as a Professor at University of California, San Francisco, he released software under a BSD license to work with BSD Unix. In 1984, as CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), he incorporated some of that software in IDE’s innovative Software through Pictures multiuser modelling environment, making it among the very first commercial products to include open source software.
After IDE, Tony was VP of Engineering for a dot-com, and later became VP of Bluestone Software, where he led the creation of its open source Total-e Mobile toolkit, which allowed mobile devices to connect to web applications.
Tony is very active in the open source research community, and served as General Chair of the 2009 International Conference on Open Source Systems. He is on the Board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and a member of the Board of Advisors of Open Source for America.
Tony is a Fellow of the ACM and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. Dr Wasserman earned his PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his BA in Mathematics and Physics from UC Berkeley.
Keynote Speech: How the Internet Transformed the Software Industry
The growth of the Internet has had a huge impact on the software industry, from the ease of creating new businesses to the processes
that companies use to develop, distribute, and support their products. Software architectures and platforms for web applications differ
significantly from traditional desktop and client-¬‐server applications, and require a new generation of programming languages and development tools.
Developers make extensive use of open source software, particularly at the infrastructure level of their applications. Development teams can easily use
Internet-¬‐based tools for collaboration, thus facilitating distributed organizations. Product marketing now emphasizes attracting prospective
customers to the company's website. Companies can release products over the Internet, or provide a hosted web application, both of which are more
efficient and less expensive ways to sell their products. Companies can also support their products over the Internet through online discussion
forums, often with users helping one another. Ongoing advances in mobile and cloud computing, styles of user interaction, and software business
models are certain to have a large effect, leading to innovative new products from both new and established companies.
Tan King Ing
Tan King Ing currently serves as the Deputy Director of the ICT Policy and Planning
Division, MAMPU, (Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management
Planning Unit) in the Prime Minister’s Department. She is primarily responsible for the
implementation of the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program.
In the course of her duty as the Project Director of the OSS program, she has been
invited and spoken in various international ICT events and Open Source Conference in
countries such as Spain, Norway, Sudan, South Africa, Singapore, China, Sri Lanka,
Thailand and Brazil. Her other work experience covers IT strategic planning, policy
formulation, systems development, operations, project management and consulting.
She has contributed in drafting the Malaysian Electronic Government Vision and
various ICT policies, standards and guidelines for government agencies in ICT
implementation. She was also actively involved in the implementation of the
Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)/Electronic Government flagship projects. She has
been in the Malaysian civil service for 32 years. In 2011, His Majesty The King,
bestowed upon her the award Kesatria Mangku Negara (K.M.N) for her service to the
country.
Keynote Speech: The Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program – A Journey towards Open System.
In our continuous effort to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Public
Service, MAMPU has been promoting open systems through open standard
compliance and increased interoperability among Government agency systems.
OSS with the availability of its source codes has made increased interoperability
and open system easier. In 2004, the Malaysian Government launched the
Public Sector OSS Master Plan with expectation of achieving financial benefits,
as well as process improvements besides greater integration and increased
interoperability among systems in the Public Service. As an early adopter of
OSS, the Malaysian Public Sector has made significant inroads in changing
mindsets and beliefs and proliferating Open Source projects, products and
services throughout the Public Sector making the Government more open to the
public. The paper will start by examining the difference between Open
Standards and Open Source and how both have facilitated integration and
making systems more open. The presentation also shares the journey, exploring
the challenges, achievements and lesson learnt along the way.
Tutorial Session
Tutorial 1 : The Business of Open Software - Tony Wasserman
This session will present an overview of various business issues relating to open source software, including:1) Introduction: history of open source software, popular open source projects.
2) Adoption and use of open source software by businesses, governments, and other organizations.
3) The use of open source software in the development of software products and services;
4) Approaches to building a successful business around open source software.
Tutorial 2 : Desktop Grids - Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi
Desktop Grids can be volunteer Desktop Grids, collecting computer capacity from tens-of-thousands of PCs at home or local Desktop Grids consisting of otherwise unused machines inside a university or institute. The Desktop Grids can be an alternative to expensive dedicated high-performance computing cluster. The Desktop Grids are relatively easy to be managed and does not need much computing resources to setup a Desktop Grid system (even a commodity server or personal computer is adequate). The Desktop Grid middleware reliability’s, like BOINC, OurGrid, XtremWeb and Condor, is already proven by many large-scale scientific simulations or projects that use this middleware (e.g. SETI@home, CAS@home, etc.). Though the Desktop Grid system is easy to be deployed, writing/porting an application that can run on Desktop Grids can be a challenging task. These due to some restrictions that have to be followed and the nature of volunteer computing. With the latest software development research for Desktop Grid, the Desktop Grid application can be developed and deployed easily. Tools like GenWrapper will helps to application developer to develop or porting Desktop Grid applications. Workshop on Desktop Grid Computing will provide a platform for scientific users, Desktop Grid operations, system administrators and application developers to exchange experience about Desktop Grids and related technology. The tutorials are useful for those who want to get an insight in the technologies provided by Desktop Grid systems, applications, theoretical and practical knowledge about Desktop Grid computing.Learning Objectives:
To provide practical knowledge and hands-on experience on:
1. Installing client for Desktop Grid
2. Developing/Porting Desktop Grid Application
Target Audience:
• Scientists and Application Developers looking for ways to use more computing power.
• Anyone who considers setting up a local or volunteer desktop grid.
Tutorial 3 : Hands on Workshop Featuring Performance, Security & Wireless Testing - Fairul Rizal, Kiran Karnad and Saravana Nagenthram, MIMOS Bhd.
Topic 1 : Front and back end performance testing – A 100% open source approach:Outline: Overview of front end and back end performance testing, Current events in ICT with regards to performance, Jmeter, Google Chrome Developer Tools – Speed Tracer, Result Analysis Best Practices
Topic 2: Offensive Security with open source tools
Outline: Overview of offensive pen testing, Basics of hacking, security, penetration testing, application, network, process, 5-step process of open source security testing, Backtrack, Metasploit, OWASP, Wireless
Topic 3: Wireless Testing
Outline: Overview of wireless testing, Current events in industry with regards to wireless,Domains and industries which use Wifi,Types of wireless testing -Demo on each type, Connectify & Iperf – demo , Result Analysis
Learning Objectives:
To provide practical knowledge and hands-on experience on:
• Performance, Security and Wireless Testing
• Automation tools and methods
Target Audience:
• Educators teaching Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction and Telecommunication Field
• Students in various Computer Science and related subjects.
• Practitioners in software and reliability industries consisting of QA, Test Engineers &Software Developers
Paper Reviewer
List of paper reviewers can be obtained here
IEEE Malaysia Section
IEEE Malaysia Computer Chapter
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