CFP for QSIC 2010: Deadline on 4 Jan 2010

QSIC 2O1O: 10th International Conference on Quality Software July 14-15, 2010 Zhangjiajie, China Conference website: http://www.nudt.edu.cn/qsic2010 Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsic10 Submission Deadline Extended to January 4, 2010. BACKGROUND Software is playing an ever-increasing role in our society. On the other hand, software systems often fail to deliver as promised. It is widely known that unresolved errors remain in many software systems that we are using every day. The QSIC series of conferences provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners working towards improving the quality of software. It focuses on innovative methodologies, techniques, tools, management and applications in this challenging area, and exchange ideas on them. The preceding conferences in the series were held over four continents, in Hong Kong; Dallas, USA; Braunschweig, Germany; Melbourne, Australia; Beijing, China; Portland, Oregon, USA; Oxford, UK; and Jeju, Korea. Since 2009, IEEE Reliability Society has been one of the sponsors of the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS QSIC 2010 will be held in Zhangjiajie, China, an UNESCO World Natural Heritage famous for its magnificent views. It will be a two-day event to be held on July 14-15, 2010. QSIC 2010 will include the main conference and co-located workshops. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the conference proceedings consisting of carefully reviewed manuscripts accepted by the program committee. The QSIC series of conference had received overwhelming and very positive response from academia and industry. For every year, the top few articles among the accepted articles were also published, in their extended form, in a special issue of an international, respectful and SCI-indexed archival journal. For QSIC 2010, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a special issue of Software: Practice and Experience. TOPICS OF INTERESTS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Software testing: automation, conformance, strategies, tools, standards, economics, performance and robustness, processes and standards Software quality: management and assurance, measurement and benchmarking, review, inspection and walkthrough, reliability, safety and security Methods and tools: design tools, testing tools, information systems engineering, quality tools Evaluation of software products and components: static and dynamic analysis, validation and verification Information and knowledge management: economics of software quality, knowledge engineering Formal methods: program analysis, model checking, model construction, formal process models Component software and reuse: requirements engineering, software architecture, middleware and application servers, reflective systems Emerging technology: pervasive computing, service oriented computing, grid software, cloud computing, intelligent systems Applications: component-based systems, digital libraries, distributed systems, e-commerce, embedded systems, enterprise applications, information systems, multimedia, Web-based systems, safety critical systems SUBMISSION All submissions must be in English and the author's original work that have not been published and/or submitted for consideration of publication anywhere else. The papers must be in IEEE Conference Proceedings format with no more than 10 pages for a long paper and no more than 6 pages for a short paper. Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded to the conference website before the deadline date. The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsic10 . Please refer to the conference website (http://www.nudt.edu.cn/qsic2010) for detailed guidelines. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Selected authors will be invited to submit their extended papers for possible publication in a special issue of Software:Practice and Experience. IMPORTANT DATES January 4, 2010 (extended): Deadline for paper submission March 20, 2010: Notification to authors May 5, 2010: Deadline for camera-ready versions July 14-15, 2010: QSIC 2010 conference StEERING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Chair: T.H. Tse The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Steering Committee Members: T.Y. Chen Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Hans-Dieter Ehrich Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Huimin Lin Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Peter C. Poole University of Melbourne, Australia C.V. Ramamoorthy University of California at Berkeley, USA Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Xicheng Lu National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Program Chairs: Ji Wang National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Wing Kwong Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Fei-Ching Kuo Swinburne University of Technology, Australia IEEE Reliability Society Liaison: W. Eric Wong University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity and Publication Chair: Xiaoying Bai Tsinghua University, China Organizing Chair: Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, China Local Organizer: National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China Fevzi Belli, Universitat Paderborn, Germany Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Christof Budnik, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Kai-Yuan Cai, Beihang University, China Joao Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Alessandra Cavarra, Oxford University, UK Xiaojun Chen, University of Windsor, Canada S.C. Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea William Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Sam Chung, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA Bojan Cukic, West Virginia university, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Gordon Fraser, Saarland University, Germany Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA Swapna S. Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA Arnaud Gotlieb, INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA Walter Gutjahr, University of Vienna, Austria Xudong He, Florida International University, USA Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Pankaj Jalote, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ross Jeffrey, The University of New South Wales and NICTA, Australia Moonzoo Kim, KAIST, Korea Sung Kim, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Victor Kuliamin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia David Kung, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada Richard Lai, La Trobe University, Australia Yu Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Jenny Li, Avaya Labs Research, USA Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Hong Mei, Peking University, China Atif Memon, University of Maryland, College Park, USA V. Krshna Nandivada, IBM Research Lab, India Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA Atsushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Amit M. Paradkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea Pak-Lok Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Alexander Pretschner, Fraunhofer IESE and TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia Bo Sun, Beijing Normal University, China Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jeff Tian, Southern Methodist University, USA Wei-Tek Tsai, AriZona State University, USA Hasan Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA Huaimin Wang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China Jun Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China W. Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria Ji Wu, Beihang University, China Min Xie, National University of Singapore, Singapore Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Mohammad Zulkernine, University, Canada CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS W1.The First International Workshop on Program Debugging in China Organized by Qianxiang Wang (Peking University), T.H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong), and Zhenyu Zhang (The University of Hong Kong) W2. International Workshop on Quality of Service-Based Systems Organized by Xiaoying Bai (Tsinghua University), and Chunyang Ye (University of Toronto) W3. Quality Software Practices: Towards Empirical Quality Software Organized by Sam Chung (University of Washington), Aneesh Krishna (Curtin University of Technology), and Sergio Davalos (University of Washington) W4. International Workshop on Embedded System Software Development and Quality Assurance Organized by William C. Chu (TungHai University), Chih-Hung Chang (Hsiuping Institute of Technology), and Pao-Ann Hsiung (National Chung Cheng University) ENQUIRIES Please send all enquiries to qsic@cs.hku.hk