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Subject: CfP: Software Process and Product Improvement @ EUROMICRO 2002 (D ortmund, Germany) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:13:23 +0100 From: Paul Gruenbacher pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at To:

28th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE

SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT

Dortmund, Germany, September 4-6, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----

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

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.

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

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

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

PROGRAM CHAIR Paul Grünbacher Systems Engineering & Automation Altenbergerstr. 69 Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Tel: +43 732 2469 8867 Fax: +43 732 2469 8878 E-mail: pg@sea.uni-linz.ac.at

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Abrahamsson P. (Finland) Biffl St. (Germany) Belli F. (Germany) Chroust G. (Austria, Co-Chair) Chulani S. (USA) Demirors O. (Turkey, Co-Chair) Dorling A. (Sweden) Egyed A. (USA) Engels G. (Germany) Grosspietsch E. (Germany, Co-Chair) Gruhn V. (Germany) Haase V. (Austria) Johnson G. (USA) Klöckner K. (Germany, Co-chair) Leung H. (Hongkong) Oberweis A. (Germany) Oivo M. (Finland) Parets-Llorca J. (Spain) Rout T. (Australia) Seppänen V. (Finland, Co-Chair) Simila J. (Finland) Simon J.M. (France) Stallinger F. (Austria) Steinmann Ch. (Austria) Tiako P.F. (France) Tick J. (Hungary) Völcker C. (Switzerland)

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