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Call for Papers -
CSMR2008 - 2nd International Workshop on System Quality and Maintainability (SQM'2008)

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Date: Thu,  3 Jan 2008 09:59:07 -0700 (MST)

Second International Workshop on


Software Quality and Maintainability


"bridging the gap between end user expectations,
business requirements, vendor performance, and
engineering contraints"


SQM 2008, satellite event of IEEE CSMR 2008

Athens, 01-04 April 2008

http://www.code4thought.org/SQM08





BACKGROUND


Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. Not only do
people rely on it

for their daily operations or business, but for their lives as well.
For this reason

correct and consistent behaviour of software systems is a fundamental
part of end

user expectations. Additionally, businesses require cost-effective
production,

maintenance, and operation of their systems. Thus, the demand for
software quality

is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator for the success or
failure of a

software product. In fact, high quality software is becoming not just
a competitive

advantage but a necessary factor for companies to be successful.


The main question that arises now is how quality is measured. What,
where

and when we assess and assure quality, are still open issues. Many
views have

been expressed about software quality attributes, including
maintainability,

evolvability, portability, robustness, reliability, usability, and
efficiency. These have

been formulated in standards such as ISO/IEC-9126 and CMM. However, the

debate about quality and maintainability between software producers,
vendors and

users is ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate
from multiple

angles the software systems that they use or develop.

So, is "Software quality in the eye of the beholder"?



This workshop aims at feeding into this debate by establishing

what the state of the practice and the way forward is.



SUBMISSION


We are pleased to invite paper submissions for a workshop in the

IEEE 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering

(CSMR 2008 - http://csmr2008.uwaterloo.ca/) on Software Quality and
Maintainability. We are looking for

research and empirical contributions in areas including, but not limited

to the following:


1. Software quality attributes

2. Software measurement

3. Software maintainability

4. Software evolution

5. Software quality assessment practice and automation

6. Software quality standards
7. Software measurement data analysis
8. Experience reports



We solicit short position papers or long papers with a maximum length
of 10 pages,

following the IEEE Computer Society formatting guidelines (see http://csmr2008.uwaterloo.ca/csmr08-cfp.htm)

by the 18th of February 2008.



See the website for further submission details.



All accepted workshop papers will be edited and bound together into an
informal

proceedings volume, which will only be distributed to the workshop
attendees. After

the workshop, all authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit
a final version

of the paper for formal publication (in ENTCS, LNCS, or a journal
special issue, to

be announced at a later date).





IMPORTANT DATES


Abstract submission: 15 February 2008

Paper submission: 18 February 2008

Notifications of acceptance: 1 March 2008

Camera ready submission: 15 March 2008



ORGANISATION


Workshop organisers

Workshop Chair: J. Visser (Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands)

Programme Chair: C. Makris (University of Patras, Greece)

Workshop Vice-Chair: Y. Kanellopoulos (University of Manchester, U.K.)

Publicity chair: N. Tsirakis (University of Patras, Greece)



Organising and Local Arrangements Committee

P. Antonelis, (University of Patras, Greece)

D. Antoniou, (University of Patras, Greece)

E. Sakkopoulos, (University of Patras & RA Computer Technology

Institute, Greece)

E. Theodoridis, (University of Patras, Greece)



Programme Committee members

Fernando Brito e Abreu, QUASAR Research Group, FCT/UNL, Portugal

Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Pontus Johnson, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece

Markus Pizka, itestra GmbH, Germany

Pedro Sampaio, University of Manchester, UK

Christos Tjortjis, University of Manchester, UK

Athanasios Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece

Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands

Apostolos Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece



CONTACT


For more information please contact:

J. Visser (Worskhop Chair) email: j.visser@sig.nl, or

C. Makris, (Programme Chair) email: makri@ceid.upatras.gr

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