From: sif@lachesis.bellcore.com (Stuart I Feldman)
Subject: 4th SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Keywords: SCM SCM4 ICSE
                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Organization: Morristown Research and Engineering
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 15:24:34 GMT

               4th International Workshop on
             Software Configuration Management

                       21-22 May 1993
                  Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The 4th SCM workshop will be held in May in association with
the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering.
There will be a session of longer papers on SCM toward the
end ICSE 15 (May 17-21, 1993), which will then be followed
by the SCM workshop.  Previous SCM workshops were held in
Grassau (Germany), Princeton (USA), and Trondheim (Norway).

Software configuration management (SCM) supports the
management and evolution of large software by assisting the
change process (possibly carried out by multiple teams) and
by controlling products ranging from code to documentation.
Among other tasks, SCM involves management of versions,
assembly of compatible configurations, team coordination,
and organizing, building and releasing software.
Configuration management is a fundamental mechanism for
supporting most automated software processes, is central to
all software environments, and requires significant system
support.  There are now major commercial SCM systems in
addition to the important ones from research groups.
Furthermore, configuration management is having an effect on
and is taking advantage of progress in databases, object
stores, operating systems, and human interfaces.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together SCM experts
and practitioners to discuss topics including:
 - novel and innovative approaches to SCM
 - complete SCM solutions
 - evaluations of and experiences with SCM systems
 - problems and progress in software databases
 - distributed computing, scalabliity, and usability issues
 - problems in applying SCM in industrial settings
 - SCM models and process modeling
 - SCM implementation issues (distributed, database,
   object-oriented, user interface technologies)

The workshop will be an interactive forum with presentations
of refereed papers, panel sessions, and discussion groups.
Papers should emphasize what is new or unusual about the
chosen approach, describe major results, their importance,
and their relationship to other work in the field. Papers
reporting on experiences with large scale application of SCM
tools will be especially welcome.

Attendance at the workshop will be limited.  Prospective
participants may submit full papers, position papers (2-3
pages), or proposals for panels and discussion sessions.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their
submissions.  Participants may also submit longer papers for
possible inclusion and presentation at the ICSE
configuration management session.  Full papers must be
original contributions, not accepted or submitted elsewhere.
The conference language is English.

Send 5 copies of your submission to:
   Stuart Feldman
   Bellcore
   445 South Street
   Morristown, NJ 07960-1910
   USA
   Phone: +1-201-829-4305
   Fax:   +1-201-829-5981
   E-mail: sif@bellcore.com

 Submission Deadline:       15 January 1993
 Acceptance Notification:   30 January 1993
 Camera ready paper due:    15 March 1993

Program Committee:
  Reidar Conradi, NTH, Norway
  Jacky Estublier, LGI, France
  Peter Feiler, SEI, USA
  Stuart Feldman, Bellcore, USA (chair)
  David Leblang, Atria, USA

Sponsored by (pending)
     ACM SIGSOFT