OSSCOM 2016 is meant to be an international forum for experts, professionals, researchers, and students to promote, share, and discuss Open-Source Software (OSS) services, resources, applications, products, and tools. Researchers and professionals from all over the world are invited to submit proposals for tutorials and workshops as well as papers in areas related to open-source software.

Speakers and delegates will represent many different categories and stakeholders from the private and public organizations, universities, and enterprises. OSSCOM 2016 will focus on the perspective of open source software adoption as alternative solutions to proprietary software and will point out how specialized OSS enterprises can be developed from within universities to integrate creativity, entrepreneurship, and competitiveness and build sustainable OSS industry.

Register for the conference at: http://osscom2016.osscom.org/
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Professionals and Industry
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit proposals for half-day tutorials and practical workshops in the field of Open Source Software. Submitted proposals should be 1-2 pages covering topics, requirements, case studies, and expected outcomes.
 
Scientific Focus

Researchers are invited to submit technical papers in the following topics:
 
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). Open stack, Open-source software in scientific computing including clouds, grids and HPCs
    Embedded and Realtime Operating systems
    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

Track 5: Software Engineering

This track will bring together researchers, students and industry experts from diverse areas associated with software engineering who are utilizing, developing or even improving open source software systems during their research and experiments. Software Engineering influences all aspects of computer science research and touches every software researchers and practitioners.

There are diverse Free and open-source software that could be utilized in many fields under the umbrella of Software Engineering such as but not limited to:

    Software Process Models
    Software Process Improvement
    Software Architecture
    Component-Based Software Engineering
    Software Verification and Validation
    Model Checking
    Software Impact Analysis
    Design Patterns and Frameworks
    Model Driven Architecture
    Modeling with UML
    Reusable Software and Metrics
    Reverse Engineering, Re-engineering
    Adaptive Software
    Software Define Network
    Data Mining and Machine Learning
    Safety and Security in Critical Software