XI WSL - WORKSHOP DE SOFTWARE LIVRE 2010
21th, 22th, 23th and 24th of July / 2010
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Event integrated with FISL 11
http://softwarelivre.org/fisl11/wsl

Call for papers

Presentation
The Workshop on Free Software (WSL, "Workshop de Software Livre" in Portuguese) is an annual academic and scientific event integrated with the International Free Software Forum - fisl - and has since 2000 been hosted in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. At its 11th edition, the WSL remains aligned with the objectives of the fisl, offering an opportunity for teachers, researchers, students and other professionals to share their scientific work, developed in their research centers, companies or universities using or producing Free Software.


Important dates
• 31/05/2010: deadline for submission
• 18/06/2010: notification of acceptance
• 25/06/2010: deadline for submission of the final paper

Format and submission of articles:

1. All articles must be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish.

2. Articles must be six pages long at maximum, including the abstract, the figures and the bibliographic references.

3. The text formatting must be according to the model provided by SBC (Brazilian Computing Society, "Sociedade Brasileira de Computação"), available at: http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?subject=60&content=downloads

4. Submissions must be made in Postscript format (use Generic Postscript) or PDF (Portable Document Format).

5. Submissions must be made exclusively in digital format, through the URL
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1171


Topics of interest

Authors are invited to submit original articles about concluded and/or in-progress work related to research, or success cases involving Free Software.

The main topics of interest include (but are not restricted to) the use or development of Free Software in the following areas:
Database
Computer Graphics
Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
Software Engineering
Project Management
Robotics and computater vision
Informatics on education
Multimedia and digital television
Distributed/parallel computing
Computer networks
Component based systems
Basic software and operational systems
Best practices in research among universities and companies


Article evaluation

Articles will be reviewed by a team of reviewers working in the areas listed above, considering the technical merit and the relevance of the paper for the event. All accepted articles will be published in the conference's annals. At least one author of each selected article must register and come to the event to present the article.



WSL 2010 General coordination

Cristiano André da Costa (Unisinos)
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WSL 2010 Program coordination
Eduardo Todt (UFPR)
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WSL 2010 Program comitee

Adenauer Yamin - Universidade Católica de Pelotas e Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Alba Melo - Universidade de Brasilia

Alexandre Ribeiro - Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Alfredo Goldman - Instituto Militar de Engenharia Universidade deSão Paulo

André Detsch - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Andre Du Bois - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Andre Gradvohl - Universidade São Francisco

Andrea Charao - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Autran Macêdo - Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Celso Costa - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Claudio de Sá - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Cristiano Costa - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Daniel Weingaertner - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Eduardo Todt - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Fabiano Silva - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Fernando Osório - Universidade de São Paulo

Gaspare Bruno -  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/COPPE/PESC

Gerson Geraldo H. Cavalheiro - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Hisham Muhammad - GoboLinux.org

João Netto - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

José Maldonado - SSC/ICMC-Universidade de São Paulo São Carlos

Jose Gonçalves - Universidade Federal do Ceará

Jussara Musse - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Lau Cheuk Lung - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Leonardo Fagundes - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville - Universidade Federal do RioGrande do Sul

Lucas Ferrari - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Lucas Ferrari de Oliveira - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Luciano Porto Barreto - Universidade Federal da Bahia

Luis Carlos De Bona - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Marcos Castilho - Universidade Federal do Paraná

Marcos Sunye - Universidade Federal do Parana

Marilton Aguiar - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Mario Dantas - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Patricia Kayser Vargas Mangan - Centro Universitário La Salle

Paulyne Jucá -  Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Regina Araujo - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Rejane Frozza - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul

Renata Galante - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Rodrigo Araújo Real - Freedom Veículos Elétricos Ltda

Ronaldo Ramos - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará

Sílvio Cazella - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Simone da Costa - Universidade Federal de Pelotas


Organizing Committee

11th Internacional Free Software Forum
21th, 22th, 23th and 24th of July / 2010
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
http://softwarelivre.org/fisl11/wsl