[pept:130] CfP Automated Software Engineering 2003

[Perry Alexander <palexand@xxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Robert Glueck)]

                           Call For Papers
                18th IEEE International Conference on
              Automated Software Engineering Conference
                          October 6-10, 2003
                       Montreal, QuÈbec, Canada

The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the
foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software
engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that
support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the
conference, as are models of software and software engineering
activities. Papers on applications of Artificial Intelligence
techniques to automating software engineering, empirical evaluation of
automated software engineering techniques and tools, and automation
applied to new directions in software engineering methods and
technologies are all welcome.

It is clear that software technology will play an increasingly
important role in society's future.  However, the bursting of the
Internet bubble has shown that this future will not be built upon buzz
words and promises. As future investments in software technology will
likely be more conservative, the economic incentives for automating
aspects of the software engineering lifecycle increase.  However, as a
community, we face many research challenges in scaling up and
extending ASE technology to support open, component-based systems
while providing the flexible balance of discipline and agility
required in today's development processes.

Topics Papers are invited addressing theoretic foundations, practical
techniques, software tools, applications and/or experience reports in
one or more of the following areas:

* Automated reasoning techniques
* Category & Graph-theoretic approaches to software engineering
* Component-based systems
* Computer-supported cooperative work
* Configuration management
* Domain modeling and meta-modeling
* Human computer interaction
* Knowledge acquisition
* Maintenance and evolution
* Modeling language semantics
* Ontologies and methodologies
* Open systems development
* Program understanding
* Re-engineering
* Reflection- and Metadata approaches
* Requirements engineering
* Reuse
* Specification languages
* Software architecture
* Software design and synthesis
* Software visualization
* Testing
* Tutoring, help, documentation systems
* Verification and validation

Papers must explicitly convey their potential relevance to automated
software engineering to be considered to be within the conference
scope. The ASE on-line Bibliography serves as a reference for
potential contributors:

   http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de/olbib/index.html

Publication
IEEE Computer Society Press will publish accepted papers in the
conference proceedings. In addition, authors of a selection of papers
from the conference will be invited to revise and re-submit extended
versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of the
Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE 2003 will also
include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions and a doctoral
symposium for which separate calls for participation will be issued.

Submission
Papers must not exceed 10 pages in the conference format. Papers
exceeding the length restriction will not be reviewed. Papers will be
reviewed by at least three program committee members. All papers,
especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly
identify their novel contributions. Abstracts and Papers should be
submitted electronically following the guidelines provided at
http://www.ase-conference.org

Important Dates
Abstract Submission:		May 6, 2003 at 18.00 GMT
Paper Submission:			May 13, 2003 at 18.00 GMT
Author Notification:		July 2, 2003
Camera-Ready Submission:	July 17, 2003


General Chair
Houari Sahraoui
UniversitÈ de MontrÈal, Canada
sahraouh@iro.umontreal.ca

Program Chairs
John Grundy,
University of Auckland, New Zealand
john-g@cs.auckland.ac.nz

John Penix
NASA Ames Research Center, USA
jpenix@email.arc.nasa.gov

Program committee
Alexander Egyed , USA
Andrea Zisman , UK
Andrew Ireland , UK
Bashar Nuseibeh , UK
Bernd Fischer , USA
Bernd Kraemer , Germany
Bernhard Aichernig , UK
Bob Hall , USA
Brad Martin, USA
Cecilia Mascolo , UK
Charles Pecheur , USA
Dan Berry, Canada
Dave Wile, USA
David Redmiles , USA
Debra Richardson , USA
Don Batory , USA
Doug Smith, USA
Elisabetta Di Nitto , Italy
Frank Shipman , USA
Gerald Gannod, USA
Issy Ben-Shaul , Israel
Jamie Andrews , Canada
Jeff van Baalen , USA
Julian Richardson , UK
Julio Cesar Leite , Brazil
Kung-Kiu Lau , UK
Kurt Stirewalt, USA
Mark Utting , New Zealand
Marsha Chechik , Canada
Martin Feather, USA
Mats Heimdahl , USA
Mehdi Harandi , USA
Michael Goedicke , Germany
Michael Lowry , USA
Motoshi Saeki , Japan
Neelam Gupta , USA
Paola Inverardi, Italy
Perry Alexander , USA
Pierre Flener, Sweden
S. Arun-Kumar , India
Scott Henninger , USA
Shing-Chi Cheung , Hong Kong
Shriram Krishnamurthi , USA
Steve Easterbrook , Canada
Steve Fickas, USA
Tim Menzies , USA
Virginie Wiels, France
WalcÈlio Melo , USA
Willem Visser , USA
Wolfgang Emmerich , UK
Yves Ledru, France