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To: SEWORLD@cs.colorado.edu From: <Andreas.Jedlitschka@iese.fraunhofer.de> Subject: (SEWORLD) CfPart - WSESE2007 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:10:37 -0600 (MDT) Workshop Series on Empirical Software Engineering 5th international Workshop "Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering" in conjunction with 8th International Conference on Product Focused Software Engineering (PROFES 2007) Riga, Latvia 2 July 2007 Submission Deadline: 05 June 2007 Motivation Many academics and practitioners believe that evaluation has a vital role to play in software engineering. As well as evaluating both application level and component level products, software engineers need to be concerned with the evaluation of development processes, engineering methods and supplier organizations. The state of the art of empirical software engineering was assessed in the 2006 Dagstuhl Seminar on Empirical Software Engineering [1]. Workshop participants agreed that the community has matured since 1992 but is still in a very early phase compared to other disciplines. Improvements were suggested, among others, with regard to complementary usage of quantitative and qualitative studies [2]. The aim of the workshop is to address the question of future directions for empirical software engineering. This includes improving empirical methodology, or information needed by industry. It is planned that participants submit short submission statements, and that selected participants are invited to submit an extended version of their paper for submission. The workshop itself is the fifth one in the workshop series on Empirical Software Engineering. The first one was held in conjunction with the PROFES 2002 in Rovaniemi, the second one was held in conjunction with the Empirical Software Engineering International Week 2003 in Rome, the third on was held in conjunction with PROFES 2005 in Oulu, the fourth one took place in Amsterdam in conjunction with PROFES 2006. Topics of Interest All papers should focus on empirical methods, and contribute to one or more of the following issues: * Innovative approaches for empirical software engineering methods. Example questions addressed: o What are your experiences from applying quantitative and qualitative methods (preferably a combination of different methods)? o How can contributions from other fields, such as medicine and psychology, help in Empirical Software Engineering? o What are your experiences with advanced methods that are not yet standard in Empirical Software Engineering? o Which approaches for analyzing / summarizing sets of empirical studies can be worthwhile for Empirical Software Engineering? * Information needed for decision making from empirical studies. Example questions addressed: o Have you tried to introduce a technology and wanted to base your decision on empirical findings? o Which types of empirical studies were helpful? o Which were not? For which reasons (e.g., wrong type of study, or unhelpfully reported)? o Under which conditions are studies helpful to practitioners? o How does empirical research have to adapt to industrial needs? * Weaknesses in current empirical methodology. Example questions addressed: o Where do we need to improve existing empirical practice, and how? * Conditions under which can we integrate/synthesize evidence. Example questions addressed: o Which kind of evidence can be integrated? o Which information is of interest? * Handling of context information. Example questions addressed: o How can we specify for which context areas an analysis is valid? o Can we define a "standard" set of metrics that are relevant to measure context in every situation? Organization The workshop will start with an opening session, where the key issues will be presented. The accepted papers will be categorized and summarized with regard to the key issues. In the following, working groups for identified issues will be formed. Accepted papers will be presented (10 minutes per paper) in the working groups to drive the discussion. In the final session, the results from the working groups will be presented and further steps will be discussed. Target Groups The workshop addresses practitioners and/or researchers who are interested in empirical software engineering, software process improvement, and quality management. Practitioners are being addressed specifically, since this workshop is also intended to find out what kind of information practitioners need, which kind of support they expect from research regarding the aggregation of information, and how they select software engineering technology. Submissions Papers length should not exceed eight pages. Position statements are welcome. Submissions have to be formatted in Springer LNCS style. Guidelines and templates are available at the Springer website (http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,3-164-2-72376-0 ,00.html). Only electronic submissions in PDF (.pdf) will be accepted. Please email your compressed file (only gzip or winzip compressed files will be accepted) to info@esernet.org. Please make only one submission per email message. The email subject should be "[WSESE2007] paper submission"; the message should include the name of your submitted file, the title of the paper, and its authors. Papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Important Dates 05 June 2006 Submission of Papers 11 June 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection 25 June 2007 Deadline for camera-ready copy 2 July 2007 Workshop Program Committee Reidar Conradi, NTNU Tore Dyba, SINTEF Tracy Hall, University of Hertfordshire Natalia Juristo, UPM Barbara Kitchenham, Keele Univ. Dietmar Pfahl, University of Calgary Per Runeson, Lund Univ. Helen Sharp, Open University Silke Steinbach-Nordmann, Fh IESE Mikael Svahnberg, BTH Guilherme Travassos, COPPE/UFR Sira Vegas. UPM Alf Inge Wang, NTNU Workshop Chairs Marcus Ciolkowski (University Kaiserslautern) Andreas Jedlitschka (Fraunhofer IESE) References 1. Basili, V.R., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., Selby, R.W. (Eds.): Empirical Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions, International Workshop Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, January 2007, Springer Verlag, LNCS 4336 (to appear) 2. Basili, V.R., Rombach, D., Schneider: Preface; in [1] pp. V-XI
To: SEWORLD@cs.colorado.edu From: <Marcus.Ciolkowski@iese.fraunhofer.de> Subject: (SEWORLD) CfPWSESE 2007 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:53:49 -0600 (MDT) [ 111 lines deleted; see updated version above -- dc ]
To: SEWORLD@cs.colorado.edu From: <Andreas.Jedlitschka@iese.fraunhofer.de> Subject: (SEWORLD) CFP: WSESE2007 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:06:28 -0700 (MST) [ 137 lines deleted; see updated version above -- dc ]
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