EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. The St. Petersburg Development Center (established in 2007) brings innovative products to the market for EMC’s global offering. Key areas of development are data storage systems and content management.

EMC is sponsoring the conference for the third consecutive year, also providing support of program committee work.

Program Committee of CEE-SECR 2009: Banks has announced that papers submission is open for the conference CEE-SECR 2009: Banks. The conference will be held within the framework of the Fifth Eastern Europe Software Engineering Conference CEE-SECR 2009 in Moscow, October 27, 2009.

Reports are accepted on the following topics:

• Open Source software in the banks,
• Cloud Computing,
• Virtualization of server resources, platforms,
• Architecture of data warehousing,
• Technological aspects of mergers and acquisitions,
• Trainings and education of developers for the banking sector,
• Solutions for complex applications for credit institutions,
• IT-infrastructure in banks,
• Change management,
• Version control,
• Creating a scalable architecture,
• SOA,
• Developing of core banking systems,
• Software development processes,
• The transition from distributed to centralized systems,
• Information Security,
• And other topics related to software development in the banking and financial sector.

Speakers (authors of the accepted papers presenting at the conference) will get free passes to the event: one free pass per accepted paper.

Reports are accepted by 12 September 2009.

Please download our Call for Papers for more information.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has become technical co-sponsor for CEE-SECR 2009. Paul R. Croll, the Chair of IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering, has endorsed the conference and joined our Program Committee. CEE-SECR will provide discounts to IEEE-CS members. Conference proceedings will be available in IEEE Xplore.

IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. IEEE has:

• more than 375,000 members in more than 160 countries; more than 80,000 student members;
• 1,860 chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests;
• 1,789 student branches in 80 countries;
• 45 societies and councils — 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of technical interests;
• more than 2 million documents in the IEEE/IET Electronic Library;
• nearly 1,300 standards and projects under development;
• a total of 144 transactions, journals and magazines published annually;
• more than 900 conferences sponsored every year.

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology. The CS serves the information and career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and practitioners with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, conference publications, online courses and certification programs. Known worldwide for its computer-standards activities, the CS promotes an active exchange of ideas and technological innovation among its members.

The IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) encourages the application of engineering methods and principles to the development of computer software, and works to increase professional knowledge of techniques, tools, and empirical data to improve software quality. TCSE is involved in the myriad ways that software is designed, developed, managed, and maintained. We have two overriding aims: to contribute to our members’ professional expertise, and to help advance software engineering research and practice.

The Moscow Center of IEEE Computer Society had been established at 1995, and has being based on the Institute of System Programming of RAS (www.ispras.ru). The main purposes of the Moscow Center are as follows:

• promotion of the IEEE Computer Society among qualified, interested, and motivated Russian specialists;
• information support on the Internet of all actual and potential Russian members of the IEEE Computer Society;
• maintenance a library of periodical and other publications of the IEEE Computer Society and provision an access to it for all Russian members of the society.

As of August 8, authors from 10 countries have submitted 99 regular papers to be considered for inclusion into the final CEE-SECR 2009 program. This is rather good number: last year we finally got only 62 regular papers submitted. However, July and August are traditional vacation months in the most of CEE countries, so some potential authors have asked Program Committee to extend the submission deadline.

The new submission deadline is set on September 12. This is the last extension – submission deadline will not be extended anymore, so we encourage all potential speakers to plan accordingly. Program Committee will not accept any new submissions after September 12.

Author notification deadline was initially set on September 1. Now we are shifting it to September 25. However, Program Committee starts reviewing already submitted papers, and plans to accept some 20-30 very best of them by September 1.

Please, tell your friends and colleagues about the deadline extension. Speakers (presenting authors of the accepted papers) get free passes to the event. To read about submission process and requirements, visit www.cee-secr.org/submission

We are looking forward to see you on October 27-29 in Moscow at the CEE-SECR 2009.

Adobe products are used by millions of people around the world. More than 90% of designers use a desktop editor Adobe Photoshop in their daily work. Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign complement the tool set of pre-press professionals and designers. Free application Adobe Reader and Flash Player are installed at more than 90% of computers around the world. But the main achievements of Adobe company are the development of PostScript (All), page description language which is used in desktop publishing systems and development of the cross-platform document format PDF (Portable Document Format), which is an open standard ISO 32000.

Adobe has supported the conference the second time. Conference organizers and participants appreciate the valuable contribution of Adobe speakers and their intention to deliver the most useful and requested information, share experience and secrets of success.

Today Intel is the world’s largest manufacturer of microprocessors, producing a wide range of electronic devices and computer components, including semiconductors, microprocessors, chipsets, etc. The world leader in the field of computer engineering, computer innovations, development of software and hardware, Intel does not stop searching for new ways to make the next leap ahead in technology, education, culture, production and social sphere.

Officially launched in 2006, Intel Software Partner program is designed for independent software vendors to help them develop applications for Intel platforms and technologies. The program provides system integrators with access to a wide range of resources and tools supporting the main phases of business: from planning to development, marketing and sales.

Intel is one of six companies who sponsored the first conference on software engineering in Russia. This is the fourth time Intel supports CEE SECR and the third time, when the company becomes a Premium sponsor, which demonstrates the continuing interest of the company to support the development of Russian and Eastern European market of software development.

The CEE-SECR 2009 conference will be organized on October 27-29 in Moscow. Today we have four confirmed keynote speakers: Igor Agamirzian (Director General of Russian Venture Company), Lars Bak (the creator of V8 JavaScript engine), Grady Booch (the “father” of object-oriented design, one of the original UML creators), Yuri Gurevich (the creator of theory of abstract state machines).

Igor Agamirzian will talk about the role of Information Technologies in Innovation System of Russia. Lars Bak will discuss ways to push JavaScript Performance. Grady Booch will talk about best practices in software architecture. Yuri Gurevich will present Enterprise Security Assessment Sharing system (ESAS) conceived and being built at Microsoft.

We continue negotiations with more potential keynote speakers, so expect some exiting announcements soon.

On top of keynote and invited talks, the conference program will include over 40 regular talks that are selected by an international Program Committee using double-blind review process. You still have a chance to submit your paper – the submission deadline is August 7. Please, follow this link to learn more about submission process and requirements.

If you do not plan to speak, please hurry up and register early to take advantage of our early-bird discounts.

We are looking forward to seeing you this October in Moscow at CEE-SECR 2009 conference!

New companies became information sponsors of CEE-SECR 2009:

	Softline Academy		PC WEEK/Russian Edition
	BYTE		Cnews.Ru
	IT4business		PC Magazine
	GotDotNet.ru		MSDN
	Ineta		TechDays
	Neftegaz.ru		Information Technologies

31 companies are now information sponsors of CEE-SECR 2009. Even today the number is 1,5 times as large as the last year’s one was. That fact speaks about great opportunities to attract more participants this year.

The old partners as Cnews and “Open Systems” publishing house continue to support CEE-SECR 2009. They collaborate with us every year and this year is their 5-th.

18 companies became infosponsors of CEE-SECR for the first time. Among those companies there are MSDN, SQA DAYS, Euler Foundation and“Information Technologies” magazine.

We thank our infosponsors for high-quality coverage of the industry-scale event and invite new companies to partnership.

CEE-SECR 2009 announces the extension of Paper Submission Deadline to August 7, 2009.

Initial Paper Submission Deadline was set to June 30. Authors from 5 countries have submitted over 50 articles before this deadline. 39% of articles were submitted to the “Platforms and Technology” track, which indicates strong community interest on practical aspects of software engineering. The second popular track is “Software Process Management” (24% of submitted articles), which reflect the overall demand for more efficient management practices.

During the last weeks of June we received numerous requests to extend the submission deadline, so that more authors can get a chance to present at CEE-SECR 2009. The new deadline is set on August 7. We encourage practitioners and researchers from CEE countries to submit their experience reports and research papers. To read about submission rules, visit http://www.cee-secr.org/submission. Official Call for Paper is available here: /docs/cee-secr-2009-cfp-2-eng.pdf. Speakers (presenting authors of the accepted papers) get free passes to the event.

Last year the acceptance rate was about 60%, this year Program Committee set the target of 50% acceptance rate, which means even better quality of the final conference program. Please, tell your friends and colleagues about the deadline extension. We are looking forward to see you on October 27-29 in Moscow at the CEE-SECR 2009.