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Subject: CfP: SPPI track and Special Sessions at Euromicro conference Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:33:30 +0100 From: Paul Gruenbacher pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at To:

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28th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE

Track on "SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT"

Dortmund, Germany, September 4-6, 2002

http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/SPPI2002

CALL FOR PAPERS In today's competitive world the quality of software systems is a key to economic success and stability. This conference track concentrates on processes, methods, and tools improving the quality of software products.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- Software process assessment and improvement - Organisational and business views to process improvement - Quantitative models for development processes and products - Distributed software development and virtual organisations - Process and product improvement for e-business application engineering - Use and usefulness of quality standards for software products and processes - Approaches for modelling and enacting software processes - Lightweight and flexible approaches - Processes for component-based software development - Verification and validation of software products - Approaches improving dependability of software systems - Industry best practice experiences and case studies in above areas

The SPPI conference track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2002 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. The applicability of approaches to small software organisations or development teams is of special interest.

The SPPI track will also feature two special sessions:

- Special session on "Human Dimension of Software Process Improvement" http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/SPPI2002/hdspi.htm

- Special session on "Software Process Improvement in a Componentized World". This session will be organized in co-operation with project OOSPICE (IST-1999-29073). http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/SPPI2002/cbsespi.htm

IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 4, 2002 Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2002 Camera-ready paper due: June 14th, 2002

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