The International Conference on Open Source Software Computing (OSSCOM 2015)

Call for Proposals/ Papers, OSSCOM 2015, 1st International Conference on Open Source Software Computing

10 - 13 September 2015, German Jordanian University Campus, Madaba - Jordan. Partially funded by EC - Tempus and technically sponsored by IEEE, Website

Objectives

To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling OSS 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.

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.

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