Co-Chairs

Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.
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Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France
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Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France
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Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.
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Background and Goals
Advances in sensor technologies, wireless communications, and mobile devices have resulted into software applications, usually known as ubiquitous, that can be used anywhere and everywhere. These applications are sensible to the context in which they operate, which makes them adaptable and responsive to users’ profiles and personal requirements. Context-awareness is increasingly featured in many instances of application domains such as e-commerce, e-learning, e-healthcare, just to cite a few. Despite this recent flurry of interest in context-awareness, modelling, capturing and processing contextual information pose a new set of challenges, resulting in high application development overheads. Sensing, localizing, recognizing, profiling, provisioning, discovering and dealing with the uncertainty and privacy of, contextual information are typical processes associated with such application development overheads. Traditional software engineering techniques and tools have already shown their limitations, which calls for new techniques and tools. This workshop aims at addressing these challenges.

This first workshop on Recent Trends in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present results, applications, and experiences in software engineering approaches for context-aware applications. The organizing committee welcomes high quality contributions that describe original and unpublished works in the field of context-aware application engineering in terms of design, development, testing, and deployment.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Modelling of context and of context aware applications
• Model driven engineering of context aware applications
• Ontologies for context-aware applications
• Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
• Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware applications
• Intelligent context aware applications
• Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware applications
• Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
• Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
• Context aware business processes
• Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
• Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
• Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications

Workshop Program Committee

Moushir M. El-Bishouty, University of Tokushima, Japan
Mohamed Boukhebouze, University of Namur, Belgium
Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Michael Mrissa, Université de Lyon, France
Jogesh Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Rachid Hamadi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Georgia M. Kapitsaki, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Low Chor Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Michel Riveil, Polytech Nice, France
Chantal Taconet, Télécom Sud Paris, France
Gaëtan Rey, Université de Nice, France
Slim Trabelsi, SAP Labs, France