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[PVS] Invitation to SOQUA 2007
Dear colleague,
we are organizing the Fourth International Workshop on SOFTWARE QUALITY
ASSURANCE (SOQUA 2007) aimed at discussing and evaluating latest
challenges, breakthroughs and experiences in the field of software
quality assurance.
We cordially invite you to submit a paper and attend SOQUA 2007 which
will be co-located with ESEC/FSE 2007 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on September
3-4, 2007.
Please find the Call for Papers attached to this email. Please fell free
to distribute this CfP among your colleagues and students.
With best regards,
Mauro Pezzè (SOQUA'07 General Chair)
Giovanni Denaro and Onn Shehory (SOQUA'07 Program Co-chairs)
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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
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***** Fourth International Workshop on *****
***** SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (SOQUA 2007) *****
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***** http://2007.soqua.org/ *****
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* co-located with ACM SIGSOFT ESEC/FSE 2007 *
* Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4, 2007 *
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THEME AND GOALS
The goal of software engineering is to achieve high-quality software
in a cost-effective, timely, and reproducible manner. Advances in
technology enable reductions in costs and schedule, but their effect
on software quality assurance remains often unclear.
The widespread availability of interconnectivity has changed the
nature of software systems and has deeply affected both complexity and
quality requirements, raising new design and quality issues that call
for new approaches to quality assurance. Many modern software systems
consist of large sets of heterogeneously developed
components. Object-oriented design, component-based software
engineering, components off-the-shelf (COTS), design patterns, and
open source software facilitate the development tasks, but assuring
the quality in scenarios that entail (combinations of) these concepts
is problematic.
The goal of SOQUA is to bring together researchers, engineers, and
practitioners to discuss and evaluate latest challenges, breakthroughs
and experiences in the field of software quality assurance, and to
identify open issues and future trends in this area.
SOQUA 2007 will put special focus on the role that self-adaptive and
self-healing solutions can play in quality assurance. Self-adaptive
and self-healing systems and technology promise to facilitate the
control in system scenarios where complexity and characteristics make
both human intervention and traditional
stop-debug-fix-redeploy-restart approaches impractical. Despite the
many international events that address self-adaptive and self-healing
research topics, the role of these new technologies in quality
assurance remains scarcely understood yet.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions related to software quality assurance, especially from
one of the following fields, are welcome from academia and industry:
- Software testing: deterministic, random, oracles, tools, automation,
processes, and standards
- Formal methods: program analysis, model checking, and verification
- Metrics for software quality assurance
- Reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs
- Software quality assurance and its relation to knowledge management
- Software quality assurance and agile processes
- Processes and their relation to software quality assurance
- Self-adaptive and self-healing solutions and their role in quality
assurance
- Experience reports from the field
Contributions can have the form of position papers, full technical
papers, and short papers. They must be unpublished and not under
consideration for publication elsewhere.
Papers and talks must be in English. Full technical papers must not
exceed 8 pages, while position and short papers must not exceed 4
pages in ACM format (including all text, references, appendices,
figures, and tables). Format papers according to the ACM proceedings
style and submit them in Adobe portable document format (PDF) with all
fonts embedded.
The proceedings with all accepted papers will be published in the ACM
Digital Library and will be available to all authors of accepted
papers prior to the workshop (in electronic form). Authors of accepted
papers will be required to sign an ACM copyright form.
Submissions should be made online via the submission site. This site
will open some weeks before the end of the submission deadline. It
will be referenced on the workshop homepage.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: June 2, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2007
Camera Ready Copy: July 1, 2007
Workshop: September 3-4, 2007
ORGANIZATION
GENERAL CHAIR
Mauro Pezze’ (University of Lugano, Switzerland, and
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,
contact: mauro.pezze@unisi.ch)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Giovanni Denaro (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,
contact: denaro@disco.unimib.it)
Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel)
contact: ONN@il.ibm.com)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Víctor Braberman, CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Tevfik Bultan, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
T.Y. Chen, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Fei-Ching (Diana) Kuo, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research Redmond (USA)
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester (UK)
Yves Ledru, LIG/University of Grenoble (France)
Tiziana Margaria, Universität Potsdam (Germany)
Johannes Mayer, Ulm University (Germany)
Nicola Mazzocca, Università di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology (Spain)
Andrea Polini, ISTI-CNR (Italy)
Paolo Prinetto, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Isidro Ramos Salavert, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University (USA)
Franz Schweiggert, Ulm University (Germany)
Shmuel Ur, IBM Haifa Research Labs (Israel)
Willem Visser, SEVEN Networks (USA)
Tomas Vojnar, Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
Bernard Wong, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
ZhiQuan (George) Zhou, University of Wollongong (Australia)
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR
Mauro Pezze’ (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Davide Tosi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany) (SC chair)
T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Neelam Gupta (The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
Yves Ledru (LIG/University of Grenoble, France)
Patrick J. Schroeder (Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA)
Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)