From: Paul Gruenbacher pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at Cc: Paul Gruenbacher pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at, "'Stefan Biffl (Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at)'" Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at Subject: CfP: Track on "Software Process and Product Improvement" @ Euromi cro Conference, Antalya, Sept 2003 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:32:07 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by isis.wu-wien.ac.at id OAA37308

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CALL FOR PAPERS -- 29th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE

Track on "Software Process and Product Improvement"

http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/SPPI2003

Antalya, Turkey September 3-5, 2003

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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
• Process modelling, composition, and enactment
• Distributed software development and virtual organisations
• Approaches for development and provisioning of web services
• Use and usefulness of quality standards
• Impact of agile approaches
• Processes for component-based software development
• Product 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 2003 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

• "Advancements in Agile Software Development" organized by Pekka

Abrahamsson.

• "Reviews and Inspection in Software Engineering" organized by Stefan

Biffl.

• "Software Engineering in Small and Very Small Enterprises" organized by

Christian Hofer.

• "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 sppi2003@sea.uni-linz.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).

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Stefan Biffl Vienna University of Technology E-Mail: Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at Phone +43 1 58801 18810

Paul Grünbacher Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria E-mail: gruenbacher@acm.org Phone +43 70 2468 8867

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abrahamsson P. (VTT Electronics, Finland) Akman I. (Atilim University Ankara, Turkey) Boehm B.W. (University of Southern California, USA) Chulani S. (IBM Research, USA) Demirors O. (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Dustdar S. (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Dorling A. (University College of Borås, Sweden) Egyed A. (Teknowledge, USA) Engels G. (University Paderborn, Germany) Fortiz R. (University of Granada, Spain) Grosspietsch E. (GMD, Germany) Gruhn V. (University Leipzig, Germany) Halling M. (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Höst M. (Lund University, Sweden) Ince F. (Maltepe University Istanbul, Turkey) Juristo N. (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Klöckner K. (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany) Lanubile F., (University of Bari, Italy) Leung H. (Polytechnic University Hongkong) Münch J. (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) Oberweis A. (University Frankfurt, Germany) Oivo M. (University of Oulu, Finland) Payzin E. (Payzin Danismanlik, Turkey) Rout T. (Griffith University, Australia) Schmid K. (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) Simon J.M. (PI-Network/QUALIUM, France) Succi G. (University Bozen, Italy) Stallinger F. (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Steinmann Ch. (HM&S, Austria) Tiako P.F. (Langston University,USA) Wohlin C. (Blekinge Institute, Sweden) Wood M. (University Strathclyde, Scotland) Völcker C. (SynSpace AG, Switzerland)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: March 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2003 Camera-ready paper due: June 16, 2003