-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Symposium on SBSE: Call for Fast Abstracts and Participation, registration details Datum: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:22:56 -0500 Von: Per Kristian Lehre p.k.lehre@cs.bham.ac.uk Antwort an: Per Kristian Lehre p.k.lehre@cs.bham.ac.uk An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

1st INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - SSBSE 2009 Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK 13 - 15 May 2009

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We invite you to participate in the 1st International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering - SSBSE 2009.

SSBSE 2009 is the inaugural meeting of an annual symposium dedicated to Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE), held in cooperation with the IEEE. The symposium's objective is to build on the recent flourishing of interest in SBSE by not only creating a welcoming forum for discussion and dissemination, but also by establishing a regular event that will strengthen the rapidly growing international community.

The venue for SSBSE 2009 is Cumberland Lodge, a beautiful and historic royal residence in the heart of Windsor Great Park with world-class conference facilities. The Lodge is close to London, and only a short taxi ride from Heathrow Airport, yet is surrounded by some of the finest parkland in the country.

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Registration for the symposium is now open. The registration fee of 300 pounds covers not only attendance at the symposium and printed proceedings, but also two nights of de-luxe accommodation and all meals: two breakfasts, three lunches and dinner and banquet. All this from an award-winning chef at Cumberland Lodge. Once you arrive at the conference venue, there will be nothing to pay at all. This unbeatable value for money is made possible by significant sponsorship for this event from the EPSRC and industrial sponsors Berner & Mattner, Berlin and Sogeti, London for which we are most grateful. We can also offer extremely attractive reduced rates for those who wish to attend but make their own arrangements for overnight accommodation. Contact Jian Ren (Jian.Ren@kcl.ac.uk), the registration chair for more details if this is of interest to you.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The symposium program includes three keynote speakers who are internationally renowned leaders in their research fields:

- Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain - Lionel C. Briand, Simula Research Lab & University of Oslo, Norway - David E. Goldberg, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERTS' PANEL

The Status and Future of SBSE in the Software Engineering Community

We are very pleased to announce a special panel discussion as part of the symposium program. Five world-leading experts on software engineering will discuss the current state of search based software engineering research, identify challenges to the research agenda, and assess the potential impact of SBSE on software engineering practice.

The panellists are:

- Norman Fenton, Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK - Paola Inverardi, Universita` dell'Aquila, Italy - Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia, USA - Ian Sommerville, University of St Andrews, UK

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 13 Keynote - Lionel C. Briand, Simula Research Lab and University of Oslo, Norway Session 1 - Testing and Defect Prediction

Thursday, May 14 Keynote - David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Session 2 - PhD Student Track Session 3 - Software Evolution Software Engineering Experts' Panel - The Status and Future of SBSE in the Software Engineering Community

Friday, May 15 Keynote - Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain Session 4 - Short Papers Session 5 - Testing Session 6 - Fast Abstracts

For the full details of the program, please see the symposium website at: www.ssbse.org.

CALL FOR FAST ABSTRACTS

We invite the submission of Fast Abstracts to the symposium that describe either:

- research in progress that has yet to be fully developed and validated; or, - opinions on important and controversial themes in search based software engineering.

Fast Abstracts should be submitted by 20 April 2009; authors will be notified of acceptance on 30 April 2009. Further details on formatting and submission are available from the SSBSE 2009 website: www.ssbse.org.

Please note that the selection of regular technical papers is now complete.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair - Mark Harman, King's College London, UK Program Co-chairs - Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy, and Simon Poulding, University of York, UK PhD Student Track Chair - Myra B. Cohen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Local Arrangements and Registration Chair - Jian Ren, King's College London, UK Publicity Chair - Per Kristian Lehre, University of Birmingham, UK Website - David White and Paul Emberson, University of York, UK

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