CALL FOR PAPERS
2010 IEEE Inter­na­tional Sys­tems Con­fer­ence
April 5–8, 2010
Hyatt Regency Mis­sion Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, CA

Con­fer­ence Theme:
The theme of the IEEE Inter­na­tional Sys­tems Con­fer­ence is Engi­neer­ing of Com­plex Sys­tems, to include Systems-of-systems, Sys­tems Engi­neer­ing, Sys­tems Inte­gra­tion, and Sys­tems Thinking.

Con­fer­ence Objec­tives:
This con­fer­ence seeks to cre­ate an inter­ac­tive forum for the advance­ment of the prac­tice of sys­tem design, devel­op­ment, and man­age­ment, across the mul­ti­ple dis­ci­plines and spe­cialty areas asso­ci­ated with the engi­neer­ing of sys­tems. The con­fer­ence will pro­vide a venue for sys­tems engi­neer­ing prac­ti­tion­ers, man­agers, researchers, and edu­ca­tors to exchange inno­v­a­tive con­cepts, ideas, appli­ca­tions, and lessons learned addressing:

• Appli­ca­tions– ori­ented top­ics on large-scale sys­tems and system-of-systems in top­ics noted below
• Sys­tems engi­neer­ing, edu­ca­tion, stan­dards, processes and method­olo­gies for the system-of-systems environment
• Research oppor­tu­ni­ties and results relat­ing to system-of-systems

Topic areas for con­sid­er­a­tion include:

• Sys­tem architecture
• Engi­neer­ing sys­tems of systems
• Risk man­age­ment of com­plex systems
• Sys­tems reliability
• Engi­neer­ing Processes for com­plex systems
• Ser­vice Ori­ented Architecture
• Com­pre­hen­sive Cyber Secu­rity approaches to Sys­tem Engineering
• Enter­prise Sys­tem Engineering
• Agile Devel­op­ment Meth­ods of Sys­tem of Systems
• Sys­tems reliability
• Engi­neer­ing Processes for the system-of-systems design environment
• Sys­tems engi­neer­ing qual­ity management
• Sys­tems mod­el­ing & simulation
• Sys­tems Ver­i­fi­ca­tion and Validation
• Sys­tems engi­neer­ing edu­ca­tion and training
• Program/Project man­age­ment for system-of-systems
• “Sys­tems think­ing” benefits
• Tech­nol­ogy trans­fer between acad­e­mia and industry
• Soci­etal and Polit­i­cal impacts of sys­tems and sys­tems design
• The impact of sys­tems engi­neer­ing on other engi­neer­ing fields
• Sys­tems con­sid­er­a­tions such as:

- Dis­as­ter response
– Energy man­age­ment & sus­tain­abil­ity, includ­ing renew­able energy
– Com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tems
– Med­ical sys­tems
– Gam­ing and enter­tain­ment sys­tems
– Trans­porta­tion Sys­tems
– Global Earth Obser­va­tion
– Sen­sors inte­gra­tion and Appli­ca­tion for a Net-centric envi­ron­ment
– Large-scale sys­tems inte­gra­tion in any appli­ca­tion area

Prospec­tive authors should sub­mit an extended abstract of 3 to 4 pages in length, includ­ing fig­ures, tables and ref­er­ences. The extended abstract should sum­ma­rize the scope of the paper and the pri­mary results and find­ings, empha­siz­ing new advances, the­o­ries and/or appli­ca­tions so that the pro­gram com­mit­tee will be able to under­stand the orig­i­nal­ity and the value of the work. Abstracts should be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cally to the EDAS Web­site at http://edas. info/N7661. For com­pre­hen­sive infor­ma­tion includ­ing sub­mis­sion instruc­tions, please ref­er­ence the con­fer­ence web site at http://sysconf10. ieeesys­tem­scounc il.org.

IMPORTANT MILESTONES:
Abstract Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: Octo­ber 1, 2009
Accep­tance Noti­fi­ca­tion and Author Instruc­tions: Decem­ber 1, 2009
Sub­mis­sion of Camera-Ready Papers: Feb­ru­ary 15, 2010

Regards,
Chris Dyer, 2010 IEEE Inter­na­tional Sys­tems Con­fer­ence Administrator