Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
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

Objectives
To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling Open Source Software key technologies, building cross-cutting sciences and driving disruptive innovations; to disseminate research on technology and applications of open source software computing; to expand the framework of effective participation of universities in developing OSS industry through incubators and business accelerators.

Event structure

• Keynotes
• Panel and roundtable discussions
• Presentation sessions
• Industry and technology discussions
• Consultation meetings, focus groups and roundtables
• Best practice showcases and practical demonstrations
• Exhibition, Posters and Demonstrations
• Specialised OSS workshops
• OSSCOM Consortium meeting
• EUMEDCONNECT/Africa Connect 2 meeting

Submission Deadline
15 August, 2015 (full papers, short papers, demonstrations, special sessions)

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 organisations 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; selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available through IEEE Explorer.

Language: English

Partners and Organisers

• Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• German Jordanian University, Jordan
• The Lebanese University, Lebanon
• Brunel University, United Kingdom
• Yarmouk University, Jordan
• Notre Dame University, Lebanon
• University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Tarent AG, Germany
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International, Jordan
• Information Management Ltd, Lebanon
• IEEE Jordan section

Important dates
15 August, 2015 – Submission Deadline (Papers, Posters and Presentations)
30 August, 2015 – Acceptance Notification
5 September, 2015 – Registration Deadline
10-13 September, 2015 – OSSCOM 2015 Conference

Registration Fees
OSSCOM/ IEEE members – 50 Euro
OSSCOM/ IEEE non-members – 100 Euro

For more information and paper submission, please contact:

[Paper submission]
Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, alagtash@gju.edu.jo
Prof. Rainer Herpers, rainer.herpers@h-brs.de
Dr Mowafaq Otoom, motoom@gmail.com

[Proposals, Presentations and Program]
Dr Mohammad Aldaoud, mohammad.aldaoud@gju.edu.jo
Dr Sahel Alouneh, sahel.alouneh@gju.edu.jo
Dr Ismail Hababeh, ismail.hababeh@gju.edu.jo
Dr Ala Khalifeh, ala.khalifeh@gju.edu.jo
Dr Bassam Elasir, bassam.alasir@gju.edu.jo

[Publicity]
Dr Yasser Rajjal, yasser.rajjal@gju.edu.jo
Mr Ramez Quneibi, rquneibi@tagorg.com
Dr Muhannad Quwaider, mqquwaider@just.edu.jo

[Logistics]
Ms. Ikram Al Naji, ikram.alnaji@gju.edu.jo

All information is available at osscom2015.osscom.org