From: bertolino@iei.pi.cnr.it (Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione)
Subject: AQuIS'93 CFP
Followup-To: comp.software-eng
Organization: C.N.R. (Italy)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:33:06 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS


AQuIS93

Second International Conference on Achieving Quality In Software
 
Venice, Congress Center Le Zitelle (Giudecca)

October 18-20,1993

organised  by
Consorzio Universitario in Ingegneria della Qualita' - Qualital - Pisa
IEI - Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione del CNR - Pisa

in co-operation with 
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S. Anna -
Pisa
Consorzio Pisa Ricerche - Pisa
AICA

with the support of
Digital - Etnoteam - IBM-Semea - Intecs - Tecnomare

THE CONFERENCE
Recent advances in Software Engineering suggest that sound technical
solutions for achieving quality in software are available and all the
software developer need do is use these to achieve the quality needed.
However, the take-up of these quality techniques has been somewhat slow and
where it has happened, the techniques themselves have been rather slow in
producing their anticipated effects, if any effect at all is observed
(apart from an increase in development costs).  There must be reasons for
this.
AQuIS 93 intends to further the efforts of AQuIS 91 in emphasising the
source of this problem: technology transfer. 
Further, ascertaining the quality of software under development is still
less than easy, as is proposing truely pragmatic approaches to attaining
quality. 
What better a challenge than to make a contribution to this area and
compare solutions?

TOPICS
Submissions are invited in the following areas:

-	Technology transfer techniques aimed at reducing the resistance to
quality practice.
-	Quantitative evaluation of quality attributes.
-	Models of development processes and environments, embodying the quality
dimension.
- 	Software process improvement.
-	The management, inspection, testing, maintenance and reuse of quality
software processes and products.
-	Software development: formal methods, tools/environments.
-	Prediction techniques (quality, cost, resource requirements etc.)..
-	Risk management.
-	Total quality approaches.
-	Quality standards/legislation.
The emphasis of the conference is on documenting, based on proper
measurement, which techniques (for achieving, predicting, validating
quality) work and which do not work. Significant, real case study  reports
showing that quality is being achieved and why, as well as studies which
show that it is not and why, are particularly welcome.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Four copies (in English) of original work, limited to 12 pages (5000
words), must reach the Conference Secretariat before May 1, 1993.
Papers must include a short abstract and a list of keywords, the author's
address, phone number, e-mail address and telefax.

All papers received will be refereed by the International Program
Committee, and each paper will be rewieved by at least three independent
referees. Final accepted papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings.
Best papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of "The
Journal of Systems and Software", Elsevier Science Publishing Co., New York

IMPORTANT DATES

May 1st, 1993: paper submission deadline

July 15, 1993: acceptance notification

September 1st, 1993: camera-ready copy due

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair
Antonia Bertolino (IEI-CNR, Italy)

Program co-Chairs
Paolo Ancilotti (SSSUP S. Anna, Italy)
Mario Fusani (IEI-CNR- Pisa, Italy)

Program Committee 
Grazia Arato (CSELT - Italy)
Motoei Azuma (Waseda U - Japan)
Victor Basili (U of Maryland - USA)
Gilles Bernot (U dEvry  -  France)
Bruce Blum (Johns Hopkins U - USA)
Tommaso Bolognesi (CNUCE-CNR - Italy)
Giacomo Bucci (U of Florence, Italy)
David Card (CSC - USA),
Aniello Cimitile (U of Naples, Italy)
Ugo De Carlini (U of Naples, Italy)
Ken Dymond (SEI-CMU - USA)
Carlo Ferretti (Tecnomare, Italy)
Robert L. Glass (Computing Trends, USA),
Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Jose Luis Fiadeiro (INESC, Portugal)
Marco Giromini (Qualital, Italy)
Richard Hamlet (Portland State U- USA)
Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD, Germany)
James Hemsley (Brameur, UK)
Bill Hetzel (Soft. Quality Engineer. - USA)
Bev Littlewood (City U, UK)
Giovanni Lofrumento (SSGRR, Italy)
Carla Lolli (ENEA, Italy)
Marco Maiocchi (U of Milan, Italy)
Ali Mili (Campus Universitaire - Tunisia)
Edward Miller (Soft. Research Inc., USA)
Carlo Montangero (U of Pisa, Italy)
Stefano Nocentini (IBM SEMEA, Italy)
Paolo Panaroni (INTECS, Italy)
Vaclav Rajlick (Wayne State U - USA)
Stuart Robinson (RAL - U.K.)
Jeanine Souquieres(CRIN-CNRS & INRIA, France)
Thor Stalhane (SINTEF, Norway)
Lorenzo Strigini (IEI-CNR, Italy)

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Manuela Mennucci
IEI, Via S. Maria 46
56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39 50 593 433    +39 50 593 478
Fax: +39 50 554 342
e-mail: aquis@iei.pi.cnr.it