CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline already passed Sixth European Software Engineering Conference ESEC 97 together with Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundation of Software Engineering FSE 97 September 22-25, 1997 University of Zurich, Switzerland

 
The Sixth European Software Engineering Conference will be held jointly with the annual ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. The combined conference will bring together professionals from academia, business and industry to share information, evaluate results and explore new ideas on software engineering models, languages, methods, tools, processes, and practices. The conference will be preceded by a wide range of tutorials on all aspects of software engineering.

Papers

Original papers are solicited from all areas of software engineering. Papers may report results of theoretical, empirical, or experimental work, as well as experience with technology transfer. Topics of particular interest are



Requirements Engineering	Software architectures
Testing and verification	Software components
Configuration management	Design patterns
Software process models	Metrics and evaluation
SE environments	Safety-critical systems



Submitted papers should be no longer than 6000 words and should include a title page with a short abstract, list of keywords, and the authors' addresses. Papers (6 copies) must be received by the Program Chair by January 19, 1997. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by other conferences or journals.

Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee for originality, significance, timeliness, soundness and quality of presentation. You should make clear what is novel about your work and should compare it with related work. Theoretical papers should show how their results relate to software engineering practice; practical papers should discuss lessons learned and the causes of success or failure.

Tutorials

Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials related to the topics of the con ference are invited. The proposal should detail the purpose and contents of the tutorial, the required audience background and the qualifications of the presenter. For further information consult the conference web pages.

Conference Location

The conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, easily reachable by air, by rail and by highway. Zurich is an international city with plenty of cultural and sightseeing opportunities. The climate in Zurich is usually mild and pleasant in September.

Important Dates

• Paper submissions due: January 19, 1997
• Tutorial submissions due: March 30, 1997
• Notification of acceptance: April 30, 1997
• Final versions of papers due: June 20, 1997

Organized by

The ESEC Steering Committee

Sponsored by

• ACM SIGSOFT
• CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies)
• Swiss Informatics Society

Chairs

EXECUTIVE CHAIR Helmut Schauer Department of Computer Science University of Zurich Winterthurer Strasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland Phone +41-1-635 43 40 Fax +41-1-635 68 09 schauer@ifi.unizh.ch	PROGRAM CHAIR Mehdi Jazayeri Distributed Systems Department Technical University of Vienna Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Phone +43 1 58801-4467 Fax +43 1 5058453 jazayeri@tuwien.ac.at
TUTORIALS CHAIR Dino Mandrioli Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politechnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 I-20133 Milano, Italy Phone +39-2-2399 3522 Fax +39-2-2399 3411 mandriol@elet.polimi.it	FINANCIAL CHAIR Walter Bischofberger TakeFive Software AG Eidmattstrasse 51 CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland Phone +41 1 389 80 40 Fax +41 1 389 80 41 bischofberger@takefive.ch
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Martin Glinz Department of Computer Science University of Zurich Winterthurer Strasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland Phone +41-1-635 45 70 Fax +41-1-635 68 09 glinz@ifi.unizh.ch

Program Committee Members

V. Ambriola (Italy)	P. Kroha (Germany)
A. Bertolino (Italy)	J. Kuusela (Finland)
W. Bischofberger (Switzerland)	A. van Lamsweerde (Belgium)
P. Botella (Spain)	A. Legait (France)
R. Conradi (Norway)	G. Leon (Spain)
J.-C. Derniame (France)	B. Magnusson (Sweden)
F. De Paoli (Italy)	H.-P. Mössenböck (Austria)
A. Di Maio (Belgium)	H. Müller (Canada)
A. Finkelstein (United Kingdom)	O. Nierstrasz (Switzerland)
A. Fuggetta (Italy)	H. Obbink (Netherlands)
D. Garlan (USA)	J. Palsberg (USA)
C. Ghezzi (Italy)	W. Schäfer (Germany)
M. Glinz (Switzerland)	Bill Scherlis (USA)
V. Gruhn (Germany)	M. Sitaraman (USA)
K. Inoue (Japan)	I. Sommerville (United Kingdom)
G. Kappel (Austria)	S. D. Swierstra (Netherlands)
R. Kemmerer (USA)	F. van der Linden (Netherlands)
R. Klösch (Austria)	S. Vignes (France)
J. Kramer (United Kingdom)	J. Welsh (Australia)

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