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<P><FONT SIZE=2>==================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================<BR>
International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) 2011<BR>
May 21-22, 2011. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (co-located with ICSE 2011)<BR>
Theme: Processes for Tomorrow's Systems Engineering<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.icsp-conferences.org/icssp2011">http://www.icsp-conferences.org/icssp2011</A><BR>
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- IMPORTANT DATES<BR>
. Submission Deadline: January 10, 2010<BR>
. Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2011<BR>
. Camera-Ready Deadline: March 10, 2011<BR>
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- CONFERENCE FOCUS<BR>
Software and systems development takes place in a dynamic context of frequently changing technologies, and limited resources. Development teams worldwide are under ever-increasing pressure to deliver software, systems and services more quickly and with higher levels of quality. At the same time, global competition is forcing development organizations to cut costs by rationalizing processes, outsourcing part or all of their activities, reusing existing software in new or modified applications and evolving existing systems to meet new needs, whilst still minimizing the risk of projects failing to deliver. To address these difficulties, new or modified processes are emerging including lean and agile methods, plan-based product line development, and stronger integration with existing processes.<BR>
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In 2011, the new ICSSP conference series, as the successor to the past ICSP conference series, will continue to serve the software process community, but widening the ICSP scope from a focus on software process to a focus on the larger issues relating to systems research and practice. For ICSSP 2011, submissions addressing process support for developing software, systems and services in a systems engineering context are of particular interest.<BR>
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- TOPICS OF INTEREST<BR>
ICSSP 2011 invites papers describing completed research or advanced work-in-progress in all areas of software and systems process including:<BR>
. Agile/Lean processes in software and systems development<BR>
. Assessment and improvement of software and systems processes<BR>
. Cost estimation and project planning<BR>
. Empirical studies<BR>
. Global software and systems development<BR>
. Software and systems supply chain<BR>
. Life cycle development methods including product-line engineering and all others<BR>
. Modeling and simulation of software and systems processes<BR>
. Novel techniques for process representation and analysis of software and systems processes<BR>
. Process improvement<BR>
. Process tools and metrics for software and systems engineering<BR>
. Studies focused on specific portions of the development lifecycle including requirements engineering, design, testing, independent verification and validation and others<BR>
. Process issues in health care, transportation, and automation systems<BR>
. Specific challenges of software process design in systems development<BR>
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- STEERING COMMITTEE<BR>
. Barry Boehm, University of Southern California, USA<BR>
. Mingshu Li, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<BR>
. Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA<BR>
. David Raffo, Portland State University, USA<BR>
. Wilhelm Schäfer, University of Paderborn, Germany<BR>
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- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>
General Chair:<BR>
. David Raffo, Portland State University, USA<BR>
Program Co-chairs:<BR>
. Dietmar Pfahl, Lund University, Sweden<BR>
. Li Zhang, BeiHang University, China<BR>
Publicity Chair:<BR>
. He (Jason) Zhang, NICTA / University of New South Wales, Australia<BR>
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- PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>
. Muhammad Ali Babar, Denmark<BR>
. Beatrix Barafort, Luxembourg<BR>
. Thomas Birkhoelzer, Germany<BR>
. Danilo Caivano, Italy<BR>
. Sorana Cimpan, France<BR>
. Oscar Dieste, Spain<BR>
. Marlon Dumas, Estonia<BR>
. Anthony Finkelstein, UK<BR>
. Vahid Garousi, Canada<BR>
. Dennis Goldenson, USA<BR>
. Paul Grünbacher, Austria<BR>
. Graham Hellestrand, USA<BR>
. Martin Host, Sweden<BR>
. Daniel Houston, USA<BR>
. Katsuro Inoue, Japan<BR>
. Slinger Jansen, Netherlands<BR>
. Casper Lassenius, Finland<BR>
. Raymond Madachy, USA<BR>
. Robert Martin, USA<BR>
. James Miller, Canada<BR>
. Mark Mueller, Germany<BR>
. Juergen Muench, Germany<BR>
. Dewayne Perry, USA<BR>
. Michael Petit, Belgium<BR>
. Dietmar Pfahl, Sweden<BR>
. Daniel Port, USA<BR>
. David Raffo, USA<BR>
. Andreas Rausch, Germany<BR>
. Guenther Ruhe, Canada<BR>
. Juergen Sauer, Germany<BR>
. Walt Scacchi, USA<BR>
. Darja Smite, Sweden<BR>
. Barbara Staudt Lerner, USA<BR>
. Stan Sutton, United States<BR>
. Guilherme Travassos, Brazil<BR>
. Ricardo Valerdi, USA<BR>
. Qing Wang, China<BR>
. Ye Yang, China<BR>
. Yun Yang, Australia<BR>
. He Zhang, Australia<BR>
. Li Zhang, China<BR>
(To be completed)<BR>
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- PAPER TYPES<BR>
. Full research papers (maximum length 10 pages)<BR>
. Short papers (maximum length 5 pages). Topics suitable for short papers include experience reports and work in progress.<BR>
. Position papers (maximum length 3 pages). Position papers on the topics of 'Unique Contributions of the Process Research Community' and 'Future Directions for Research' are welcome.<BR>
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- SUBMISSIONS<BR>
Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. ACM plagiarism policies and procedures shall be followed for cases of double submission.<BR>
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All papers must conform to the ICSE 2011 Format and Submission Guidelines (<A HREF="http://2011.icse-conferences.org/content/submission-guidelines">http://2011.icse-conferences.org/content/submission-guidelines</A>) in PDF format, and must not exceed the page limits (full research papers: 10 pages; short papers: 5 pages; position papers: 3 pages), including all text, references, appendices and figures.<BR>
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Authors of a small set of best research papers will be invited for submitting enhanced versions of their papers to a special issue of an appropriate high quality process-oriented scientific journal.<BR>
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For further information regarding paper submission and formats, please refer to the ICSSP 2011 website at <A HREF="http://www.icsp-conferences.org/icssp2011/sub.html">http://www.icsp-conferences.org/icssp2011/sub.html</A>. The ICSSP website will be regularly updated and currently missing information about technical details of the paper submission process will be added as soon as possible.<BR>
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