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** APAQS 2001 First Call for Papers **
** Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software **
** 10-11 December 2001, HONG KONG **
** http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~apaqs **
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Submissions due: 11 May 2001
Email enquiries: [log in to unmask]
ORGANIZERS
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* Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Centre for Software Engineering, School of Information Technology,
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* C.V. Ramamoorthy, University of California at Berkeley, USA
* Ray Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA
OBJECTIVE
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The quality of software has an important bearing on the financial
and safety aspects in our daily lives. Unfortunately, software
systems often fail to deliver according to promises. It is well
known that there are still unresolved errors in many of the software
systems that we are using every day. The Asia-Pacific region is far
from being immune to these problems. The prime objective of the
conference is to provide a forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners to address this issue seriously.
BACKGROUND
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The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS 2000)
was held on 30-31 October 2000 in Hong Kong as a major international
forum for quality software in the Asia-Pacific region.
Sixty-six papers were submitted to APAQS 2000 from over twenty
countries from both within and outside the Asia-Pacific region.
Thirty-three quality papers were selected by an international
program committee for presentation. The proceedings was published
by IEEE Computer Society Press.
In addition, selected papers were subsequently expanded and, after
the usual rigorous review process, four papers will be published in
a Special Issue on Quality Software of the International Journal of
Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
Following the success of APAQS in year 2000, the conference will be
held again in Hong Kong in 10-11 December, 2001.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We are soliciting full-length research papers and experience reports
on various aspects of quality software. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
* Automated software testing
* Configuration management and version control
* Conformance testing
* Cost estimation
* Debugging
* Economics of software quality and testing
* Formal methods
* Metrics and measurement
* Model checking
* Performance and robustness testing
* Process assessment and certification
* Quality evaluation of software products and components
* Quality management and assurance
* Quality measurement and benchmarking
* Quality tools
* Reliability
* Review, inspection, and walkthrough
* Risk management
* Safety and security
* Software quality education
* Static and dynamic analysis
* Testability
* Testing of object-oriented systems and real-time systems
* Testing strategies, tools, processes, and standards
* Validation and verification
* Application areas such as e-commerce, component-based systems,
digital libraries, distributed systems, embedded systems,
enterprise applications, information systems, Internet,
mobile applications, multimedia, and Web-based systems
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 11 May 2001
Notice of acceptance: 16 July 2001
Camera-ready copies due: 30 August 2001
Conference dates: 10-11 December 2001
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Manuscripts should be submitted as FULL-LENGTH research papers or
experience reports in English of 3000-5000 words (within 10 pages
with single-line spacing). Submissions must not have been published
or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere.
All submissions will be rigorously reviewed on the basis of
originality, contribution, technical and presentation quality, and
relevance to the conference. Papers may be finally accepted as full
or short papers. The conference proceedings will be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press.
The cover page of the manuscript should include:
* the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords,
* the type of the submission (research paper or experience report),
* three most relevant topics, preferably chosen from the above list
of topics of interests,
* the affiliation, correspondence address, email address, phone and
fax numbers of each author, indicating the contact author if
different from the first author.
Electronic submission is preferred. Manuscripts should be prepared in
Word, postscript or pdf format, and emailed to [log in to unmask]
Please refer to the conference web site for formatting instructions.
Submission in hardcopy is also acceptable. The abstract should be
prepared in plain text and emailed to [log in to unmask], and SIX
copies of the full paper should be sent to the following:
Dr Y T Yu
APAQS 2001 Program Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong,
HONG KONG
Fax: +852-2788-8614
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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* Y.T. Yu
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Email: [log in to unmask]
* T.Y. Chen
School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Email: [log in to unmask]
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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* Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
* Paul Bailes, The University of Queensland, Australia
* Maarten Boasson, Hollandse Signaalapparaten BV, The Netherlands
* Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, UK
* Gregory Butler, Concordia University, Canada
* Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
* David Carrington, The University of Queensland, Australia
* F.T. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* K.P. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
* Huo Yan Chen, Jinan University, China
* Jason Jen-Yen Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
* S.-C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
* T.Y. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* William Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan
* Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
* Phyllis G. Frankl, Polytechnic University, USA
* Doug Grant, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
* Volker Gruhn, Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
* Lucas C.K. Hui, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* S.L. Hung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Stanislaw Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* John Jenkins, Middlesex University, UK
* K. Kishida, Software Research Associates, Japan
* H.F. Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Hareton Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
* Karl Leung, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong
* Mingshu Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Kecheng Liu, Staffordshire University, UK
* Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Danny Poo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
* Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK
* Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA
* T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Jeffrey Voas, Cigital Inc, USA
* Chris C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Chair: P.T. Ho, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vice-Chair: W. Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Secretary: K. Mak, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Treasurer: P.L. Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Members: F.T. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
H.-W. Jung, Korea University, Korea
G. Keeni, Tata Consultancy Services, India
K. Kishida, Software Research Associates, Japan
M.F. Lau, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Y.K. Leung, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong
B. Xu, Southeast University, China
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