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| QSIC 2003: Call for Papers |
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| Third International Conference on Quality Software |
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| Friendship Hotel, Beijing, September 25-26, 2003 |
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| http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~qsic03 |
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| New Submission Deadline: March 24 |
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Software is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day
life. However, software today -- unlike automobiles, bridges, or
office towers -- is produced without the benefit of established
standards. It is well known that there are still unresolved errors in
many of the software systems that we are using every day. The aim of
this conference is to provide a forum to bring together researchers
and practitioners working on improving the quality of software, to
present new results and exchange ideas in this challenging area.
We solicit research papers and experience reports on various aspects
of quality software. See a list of topics of interests and submission
guidelines below. Submissions must not have been published or be
concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions
will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution, technical
and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected
papers will appear as a special issue of Information and Software
Technology, an international journal published by Elsevier.
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Topics of submissions include, but 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
* Reliability
* Review, inspection, and walkthrough
* Risk management
* Safety and security
* Software quality education
* Specification-based testing
* Static and dynamic analysis
* Testability
* Testing of object-oriented systems
* Testing of concurrent and real-time systems
* Testing strategies, tools, processes, and standards
* Tool support for improving software quality
* 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
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Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should be typeset in English, and can be submitted as
either long papers (within 3000-5000 words, between 6 and 10 pages, in
fonts no smaller than 10pt with single-line spacing) or short papers
(less than 3000 words and no more than 5 pages). The cover page of the
manuscript should include:
* the type of submission (research paper or experience report),
* the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords,
* 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.
Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Web. Submission
instructions will be available at http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~qsic03. Papers must
be submitted as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript,
or in PDF format. In case this requirement is a difficulty please contact
the program co-chairs by sending a message to [log in to unmask]
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Important Dates
March 24, 2003: Submission deadline
May 16, 2003: Acceptance notification
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Organizer
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Co-Organizers
Software Engineering Group, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Centre for Software Engineering, Swinburne Univ of Technology, Australia
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Keynote speakers
David Harel Weizmann Institute of Science
Ivar Jacobson Rational Software Corp.
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Steering Committee
Chair
T.H. Tse The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Members
T.Y. Chen Swinburne University of Technology
Peter C. Poole Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
C.V. Ramamoorthy University of California at Berkeley
Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University
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Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Hans-Dieter Ehrich Technical University of Braunschweig
Huimin Lin Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Members
Doo-Hwan Bae Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Technology
David Basin University of Freiburg
Antonia Bertolino Italian National Research Council
Maarten Boasson University of Amsterdam
Marcos Borges University of Federal Rio de Janiro
Lionel Briand Carleton University
Ugo Buy University of Illinois at Chicago
David Card Software Productivity Consortium
David Carrington University of Queensland
Jason Chen National Centeral University
S.C. Cheung Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology
William Chu TungHai University
Jin Song Dong National University of Singapore
Khaled El-Emam Canadian National Research Council
Jose Fiadeiro University of Leicester
Volker Gruhn University of Leipzig
Jifeng He United Nations University
Stanislaw Jarzabek National University of Singapore
Lorraine Johnston Swinburne University of Technology
Mathai Joseph Tata Consultancy Services
Ho-Won Jung Korea University
K. Kishida Software Research Association
Bodgan Korel Illinois Institute of Technology
Francis Lau University of Hong Kong
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
Kecheng Liu University of Reading
Jian Lu Nanjing University
Tom Maibaum King's College of London
Aditya P. Mathur Purdue University
Hong Mei Peking University
Ugo Montanari Universita' di Pisa
Gregg Rothermel Oregon State University
Isidro Ramos Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Wilhelm Schafer University of Paderborn
Tetsuo Tamai University of Tokyo
Barrie Thompson University of Sunderland
Wei-Tek Tsai Arizona State University
Ji Wang National Lab for Parallel & Distributed Processing
Roel Wieringa University of Twente
Martin Woodward University of Liverpool
Y.T. Yu City University of Hong Kong
Kang Zhang University of Texas at Dallas
Bosheng Zhou Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
Kai-Yuan Cai Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jian Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Treasurer
Haiming Chen Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mmebers
Sudipto Ghosh Colorado State University
Frank Padberg Karlsruhe Universitat
Jean-Guy Schneider Swinburne University of Technology
Baowen Xu Southeast University
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Conference venue
The Friendship Hotel (http://www.BJfriendshiphotel.com) is located
in Zhong Guan Cun, the heart of IT in China, with easy access to the
city center and sightseeing spots by public transportations. The
hotel is claimed to be the largest garden-style hotel in Asia. Part of
it was provided by the Chinese government to HM Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia as Palace-on-exile in the late-60's and early 70's.
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Enquiries
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