From: elliot@progress.COM (Elliot Chikofsky)
Subject: Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering
Keywords: software engineering
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:29:57 GMT



Call for Papers 
15th International Conference on Software Engineering
Baltimore, Maryland
May 17-21, 1993

*** Note:  Submission deadline is September 15, 1992. ***

ICSE is the Flagship Conference of the Software Engineering Community. The goal
of ICSE is to serve the entire community with a balanced program of reviewed
technical papers, panels, tutorials, tool demonstrations, posters, invited
lectures,  and workshops that bring together in one meeting the most current
research results, the best new ideas about how to apply them, and the most
comprehensive overviews of current technology and practice.

Lead sponsors of the International Conference on Software Engineering are the
Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) of the IEEE Computer Society 
and the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSoft) of the ACM.

ICSE 15 will be held in conjunction with a number of more specialized workshops
on topics ranging from software testing and analysis to configuration
management.  To foster increased participation by  ICSE attendees, special
workshop sessions will be introduced by mini-tutorials aimed at nonspecialists.

The ICSE 15 Program Committee solicits original technical papers, proposals for
panel discussions, and posters.  All contributions will be judged primarily on
soundness, originality,  and relevance to software engineering.  The program
committee anticipates that many submissions will describe ongoing work that will
appear in more polished and complete form in scientific and technical journals,
and will therefore place an emphasis on evaluating papers, posters, and panels
on the basis of potential interest to ICSE attendees.  

TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS may describe but are not limited to:
 - Results of original theoretical or experimental research
 - Case studies
 - Large-scale data gathering and analysis
 - Industrial experience
 - New ideas for education, curriculum and training
 - Topical discussions of management, policy, and economic, or cultural issues

PAPERS are limited to 6000 words with full page figures counted as 300 words and
should include a short abstract, list of keywords, and lead author's address.
Submitted papers should  have been neither published nor submitted for
publication elsewhere.   Research papers should clearly indicate the relevance
of the results to software engineering. Experimental papers should, in addition,
contain clear descriptions of experimental methods used in obtaining the
results.  Experience and case study papers should discuss the relevance/
applicability of the results to other environments and should not be used to
advertise or promote specific commercial products or services.  All papers
should explain what is new and significant about the work presented and how it
compares with related work.  Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.  The program committee will select outstanding papers to be
considered for publication in special issues of the IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methods.

POSTERS will be limited to at most two 20 by 30 inch panels and should include
enough material to allow attendees to determine the goals, methods and results
of the work described.  Poster sessions will be scheduled in public exhibition
and demonstration areas throughout the conference meeting days.  Posters will be
considered in any of the areas described above, but may be most suitable for
early phases of work-in-progress, student presentations, topics of highly
specialized interest, new or controversial ideas, and work that has not yet
attained a critical mass of results.  Posters will be reviewed primarily on the
basis of originality, relevance and potential interest to conference attendees.
Poster presenters should submit one page abstracts describing the content and
significance of the proposed poster.

PANEL PROPOSALS should include the title, a brief description of the panel
goals, and probable panelists.  The proposed panel chair should include a
one-page biographical sketch. Panels will be selected according to their
relevance to the goals of the conference and their potential interest to
conference attendees.

Deadlines for submission: Eight (8) copies of technical papers, abstracts for
posters, and panel proposals should be submitted to program co-chair Richard
DeMillo by September 15, 1992. Authors and panel chairs will be notified of
acceptance or rejection by December 15, 1992.
        
The TOOLS FAIR will allow exhibitors to demonstrate the latest technology in
software engineering to an influential audience of technology decision makers.
Technical presentations by the exhibitors will complement the demonstrations.
Universities, research organizations, and commercial vendors are encouraged to
submit proposals describing novel features of state-of-the-art tools and
environments. Proposals must be submitted to Michael Evangelist by February 1,
1993, on the official application available from the Tools Fair co-chairs.

TUTORIAL  PROPOSALS  should   address   important   software engineering  topics
in  a  comprehensive fashion. Proposals should include a detailed description of
the topic, a  table of  contents for a full- or half-day tutorial, a
characterization of the targeted audience, and  the relevant  experience  of
the  tutor. Criteria for selecting proposals are: quality, relevance to
attendees, and  contribution  to  the  overall  conference  program.  Submit
eight copies of tutorial proposals to the Tutorial Co-Chair,  Clement McGowan,
by September 15, 1992.

The LOCATION for ICSE15 is the Baltimore harbor, which has become a model of
urban downtown modernization and is a popular tourist attraction. It is within
easy walking distance of the National Aquarium; the USF Constellation, oldest
ship in the US Navy; the Maryland Science Center; the new Baltimore Orioles'
Park at Camden Yards, and the famous Harborplace shopping complex. Baltimore is
within an hour's drive to historic Annapolis on the Chesapeake Bay, Washington,
DC, and numerous Revolutionary and Civil War-era landmarks.



Organizing Committee

General Chair: 	
Victor R. Basili
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 
U.S.A.
(301) 405-2668, 
basili@cs.umd.edu

Program Co-chairs: 	
Richard DeMillo			
Department of Computer Science	
Purdue University		
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907	
U.S.A
(317) 494-7823			
rad@purdue.edu			

Takuya Katayama
Department of Computer Science 
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 Ookayama,Meguro
Tokyo 152, Japan
81-3-3728-7663
katayama@cs.titech.ac.jp

Tools Co-chairs:
Michael Evangelist			
Department of Computer Science
Florida International University
Miami, FL
U.S.A.
wme@fiu.edu

Karen Huff
GTE Laboratories
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, Massachusettes
U.S.A.
(617) 466-4235
khuff@gte.com

Tutorial Co-chairs:	
Clem McGowan			
MITRE Corp 
7525 Colshire Dr 
McLean VA 22102 
mcgowan@mitre.org

Dieter Rombach
Universitat Kaiserslautern 
AG Software Engineering
Fachereich Informatik
Postfach 3049
D-6750 Kaiserslautern
Germany
(0631) 205-2895
rombach@informatik.uni-kl.de

Treasurer
Bill Agresti
MITRE Corp
7525 Colshire Dr
McLean VA 22102
agresti@mitre.org

Local Arrangements
Marv Zelkowitz
Computer Systems Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
mvz@cs.umd.edu

Registration
John Marciniak
CTA Inc
6116 Executive Blvd.
Rockville, MD 20852
marcinik@smtplink.cta.com