Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

Abstract

The Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (C3S2E) was established in 2008. C3S2E 2009 is the second annual meeting in the C3S2E conference series and is held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, during May 19-21, 2009. The conference aims to address the need of the academic community in computer science and software engineering. It brings together academics, government and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in a broad range of areas in the field of computer science and software engineering such as algorithms and theory, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer architecture, computer graphics, computer security, computer vision, data mining, databases, image processing, information retrieval, machine learning, as well as software engineering. C3S2E 2009 also serves as a platform for theoreticians and practitioners to exchange their original research ideas on academic or application aspects of computing and engineering of software systems, present their new findings on theoretical or practical aspects of computer science and software engineering, share their experiences on integrating new technologies into products and applications, discuss their work on applying computing and software engineering to real-life situations, describe their development and operations of challenging computing related systems, and identify unsolved challenges. Although it is the second time C3S2E is held, this comprehensive conference has grown from a Canadian conference into an international conference. For C3S2E 2009, we have made the following positive changes to enhance the conference. First, we have recruited many international experts in various areas of computer science and software engineering to join our team of international program committee. As a result, our Program Committee consists of professionals from different parts of the world including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, UAE, UK, and USA. This committee has done an excellent job in finishing the single-blind review and on-line double-blind debate processes in record time. For example, on average, about 86% of reviews were submitted by the due date and about 3.5 reviews were received for each paper. Second, we have attracted many high-quality papers submitted by authors from various countries including Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, and USA. The paper selection process was thorough and competitive. On average, each paper was refereed by at least three reviewers, and less than 17% of submissions were accepted as full research papers. Third, in addition to keeping the traditional sessions for research papers and student posters, we have also set up a session for position papers. This allows authors to give their opinions and vision on exploring new concepts and research directions. This year, we have a rich program that spans over three days (May 19-21, 2009). It consists of two invited talks (by Alain Abran from École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) and Laks V.S. Lakshmanan from The University of British Columbia (UBC)), ten full and nine short research papers, five position papers, and ten student posters.