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Subject: CfP: Track on "Software Process and Product Improvement" @ Euromicro 2004 Conference Date: Sunday 18 January 2004 23:51 From: Stefan Biffl Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at To: Paul Gruenbacher pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at, Stefan Biffl Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at
Call for Papers
Track on "Software Process and Product Improvement" http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/SPPI04
30th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE Rennes, France August 31 to September 3, 2004
In today's competitive world the quality of software systems is a key to economic success and stability. The SPPI conference track concentrates on processes, methods, and tools improving software quality. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Software process assessment and improvement - Organizational and business views to process improvement - Quantitative models for dev. processes and products - Process modeling, composition, and enactment - Distributed software development and virtual organizations - Approaches for development and provisioning of web-based systems - Use and usefulness of quality standards - Agile approaches - Component-based software development - Improvement through large-scale reuse - Verification and validation - Reviews and inspections in software engineering - Quality aspects such as dependability and security - Cost/benefit optimization of product and process improvement
We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2004 conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. SPECIAL SESSIONS - "Reviews and Inspection in Software Engineering" organized by Stefan Biffl. - "Advances in agile approaches to Software Engineering" organized by Pekka Abrahamsson (invited). - "Web Service Engineering" organized by Schahram Dustdar.
Please contact the program chairs if you are interested in organizing a special session.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF or Word version of their paper to sppi2004@qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at. Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. In order to conduct a blind review by peers, no indication of authors of the submitted paper should appear in the rest of the paper, including bibliographical references (there, author names should be substituted by a dash).
IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2004 Camera-ready paper due: June 2, 2004
PROGRAM CHAIRS Stefan Biffl Vienna Univ. of Technology Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at Phone +43 1 58801 18810
Paul Grünbacher Johannes Kepler University Linz gruenbacher@acm.org Phone +43 70 2468 8867
PROGRAM COMMITTEE Abrahamsson P. (Finland) Demirors O. (Turkey) Denger C. (Germany) Dingsoyr T. (Norway) Dürr W. (Austria) Dustdar S. (Austria) Dorling A. (Sweden) Egyed A. (USA) Engels G. (Germany) Grosspietsch E. (Germany) Gruhn V. (Germany) Halling M. (Austria) Höst M. (Sweden) Kähkonen T. (Finland) Klöckner K. (Germany) Lanubile F. (Italy) Leung H. (Hongkong) Moreno A. (Spain) Münch J. (Germany) Oberweis A. (Germany) Oivo M. (Finland) Rout T. (Australia) Schatten A. (Austria) Schmid K. (Germany) Silitti A. (Italy) Simon J.M. (France) Succi G. (Italy) Stallinger F. (Austria) Steinmann C. (Austria) Tiako P.F. (USA) Vähänitty J. (Finland) Völcker C. (Switzerland) Wohlin C. (Sweden) Wood M. (Scotland)
UPDATED INFORMATION http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/SPPI04 http://www.euromicro.org
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