From: notkin@cs.washington.edu (David Notkin)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: ACM SIGSOFT '93: Foundations of Software Engineering (CFP)
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:00:15 GMT
Expires: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle


CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM SIGSOFT '93: Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT

Los Angeles, California USA
7-10 December 1993

The ACM SIGSOFT '93 Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering will focus on innovative research results that identify
and contribute to the foundations of software engineering.  The intent
is to help establish software engineering as a viable engineering
discipline.

We solicit papers in all technical areas of software engineering.  A
successful paper is expected to report on new principles, methods, or
results of experimentation in software engineering (which includes
topics related to the specification, design, implementation, and
evaluation of software systems).  Papers should emphasize how they
contribute to a foundation that allows us to effectively engineer
classes of complex software systems in disciplined, reasoned ways.
Unless a strong tie to software engineering is made, papers more
central to other aspects of computer science should be submitted to
conferences in those areas.

A paper should clearly state the contribution and its underlying
assumptions.  It should also assess the results, making appropriate
comparisons with and references to the literature.  Papers will be
judged on clarity, significance, relevance, correctness, and
originality.  The paper must contain ideas not previously presented in
or currently awaiting acceptance to another formal forum.

All papers will be reviewed by program committee members.  In some
cases, additional external advice may be solicited by the program
committee.  Papers of particular merit may be recommended to major
software engineering journals for expedited review.

Submissions are limited to 6000 words, including reasonable estimates
of the size of figures but excluding references.  Overly long
submissions will be returned without review.  Fourteen copies,
preferably double-sided, must be sent to the program chair by April 9,
1993.  Authors will be notified by July 5, 1993.  Camera-ready
versions of accepted papers are due, along with ACM copyright release
forms, by August 27, 1993.  Proceedings will be distributed at the
symposium and as a special issue of ACM Software Engineering Notes.

Tutorials will be held on December 7, 1993.

General Chair

Barry Boehm (boehm@usc.edu)
Computer Sciences Department
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA  90089  USA
(213) 740-8163

Program Chair

David Notkin (notkin@cs.washington.edu)
Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., FR-35 (Sieg 114)
University of Washington
Seattle WA  98195  USA
(206) 685-3798

Tutorial Chair

Dewayne E. Perry (dep@research.att.com)
AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill NJ  07974  USA
(908) 582-2529

Program Committee

Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts
John Gannon, University of Maryland
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University
Susan Gerhart, National Science Foundation
Ross Jeffery, University of New South Wales
Nancy Leveson, UC Irvine/University of Washington
David Notkin, University of Washington
Harold Ossher, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Tom Reps, University of Wisconsin
Bill Scherlis, DARPA SISTO
Tetsuo Tamai,University of Tsukuba
David Wile, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Michal Young, Purdue University
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David Notkin					notkin@cs.washington.edu
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, FR-35  1-206-685-3798
University of Washington			1-206-543-2969 (FAX)
Seattle, WA  98195