QSIC 2006 Sixth International Conference on Quality Software

BACKGROUND

Software is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life. Unfortunately, software systems often fail to deliver according to promises. It is well known that there are still unresolved errors in many of the software systems that we are using every day.

The aim of the QSIC series of conferences is to provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners working on improving the quality of software, to present new results and exchange ideas in this challenging area. It originated as the Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS). The four preceding conferences were held in 2000 (Hong Kong), 2001 (Hong Kong), 2003 (Dallas, USA), 2004 (Braunschweig, Germany), and 2005 (Melbourne, Australia) respectively, and received overwhelming responses from academia as well as industry. Each conference publishes a proceedings with IEEE Computer Society Press and a post-conference special issue with a recognized internationally journal. More historical information can be found here.

QSIC 2006 will be held in Beijing, China. It will adhere to the style of previous conferences and will include several workshops. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a Special Issue on Quality Software of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

CALL FOR PAPERS

QSIC 2006 solicits research papers, experience reports, and workshop papers on various aspects of quality software. See the topics of interests, paper submission guidelines, and workshops. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by at least two reviewers and will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:

			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, 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 GUIDELINES

Manuscripts should be typeset in English, and can be submitted as either long papers (within 3000-5000 words, but not exceeding 8 pages, typeset in fonts no smaller than 10pt with single-line spacing) or short papers (less than 3000 words and no more than 5 pages). The first page of the manuscript should include:

the type of submission (research paper or experience report),

the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords,

three most relevant topics, preferably chosen from the above list of topics of interests,

the affiliation, correspondence address, email address, phone and fax numbers of each author, indicating the contact author if different from the first author.

Submissions need to be carried out electronically via the website at http://www.sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/cyberchair (**Closed**). Papers must be submitted as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript, or in PDF format. In case this requirement is a difficulty please contact the program chair by sending an email.

WORKSHOPS

	PRAD 2006	1st International Workshop on Peer Reviews in Agile Development
	ISEAT 2006	2nd International Workshop on Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology
	ETQSE 2006	2nd International Workshop on Education and Training for Quality Software Engineering

IMPORTANT DATES

Feb 10,	2006	Deadline for workshop proposal
Mar 1,	2006	Notification of workshop proposal
May 24	2006	Deadline for Submission of Papers
Jul 5,	2006	Notification of Authors
Aug 11, *	2006	Deadline for Camera-Ready Versions
Oct 27-28,	2006	Conference

Note *: Deadline time is 23:59, Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

ORGANIZER

Peking University, China

GENERAL CHAIR

Huimin Lin

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

STEERING COMMITTEE

Chair
	T.H. Tse	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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	Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia
	C.V. Ramamoorthy	University of California at Berkeley, USA
	Stephen S. Yau	Arizona State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chair
	Hong Mei	Peking University, China


Members
	Doo-Hwan Bae	Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
	Elisa Baniassad	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Maarten Boasson	University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Kai-Yuan Cai	Beijing Univesity of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
	Keith C.C. Chan	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	W.K. Chan	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
	Carl K. Chang	Iowa State University, USA
	Jason Chen	National Central University, Taiwan
	Jessica Chen	University of Windsor, Canada
	S.C. Cheung	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
	William C.-C. Chu	Tunghai University, Taiwan
	Takeshi Chusho	Meiji University, Japan
	Jin Song Dong	National University of Singapore, Singapore
	Yuxi Fu	Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
	Kokichi FUTATSUGI	Japan Advanced Institute of Sci.&Tech., Japan
	Arnaud Gotlieb	IRISA-INRIA, France
	Wolfgang Grieskamp	Microsoft Research, USA
	Xudong He	Florida International University, USA
	Zhi Jin	Chinese Academy of Science, China
	Ho-Won Jung	Korea University, Korea
	Kouichi Kishida	SRA-Key Tech Lab, Tokyo, Japan
	Bodgan Korel	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
	Richard Lai	La Trobe University, Australia
	Man Fai LAU	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
	Insup Lee	University of Pennsylvania, USA
	Shaoying Liu	Hosei University, Japan
	Jian Lu	Nanjing University, China
	Aditya Mathur	Purdue University, USA
	Johannes Mayer	University of Ulm, Germany
	Atif M Memon	University of Maryland, USA
	Takako Nakatani	University of Tsukuba, Japan
	Atsushi Ohnishi	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
	Amit Paradkar	IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
	Andy Podgurski	Case Western Reserve University, USA
	Pak-Lok Poon	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Isidro Ramos	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
	Per Runeson	Lund University, Sweden
	Motoshi Saeki	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
	Klaus-Dieter Schewe	Massey University, New Zealand
	Tony Shan	Wachovia Bank, USA
	Jun Shen	UniSA and UoW, Australia
	Paul Strooper	The University of Queensland, Australia
	Markus Stumptner	University of South Australia, Australia
	Kenji Taguchi	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
	J. Barrie Thompson	University of Sunderland, UK
	Wei-Tek Tsai	Arizona State University, USA
	June Verner	University of New South Wales, Australia
	Ji Wang	Changsha Institute of Technology, China
	Eric Wong	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	Martin Woodward	University of Liverpool, UK
	Min Xie	National University of Singapore, Singapore
	Tao Xie	North Carolina State University, USA
	Chunxiao Xing	Tsinghua University, China
	Baowen Xu	Southeast University, China
	Qiwen Xu	University of Macau, Macau
	Hongji Yang	de Montfort University, UK
	Yuen Tak Yu	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Jian Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	Wenyun Zhao	Fudan University, China
	Hong Zhu	Oxford Brookes University, UK

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Organizing Committee Chair
	Qianxiang Wang	Peking University, China
Publicity Chair
	Donggang Cao	Peking University, China
Members
	Feng Chen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
	Rosziati Ibrahim	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
	Xiaodong Liu	Napier University, UK
	Zhang Lu	Peking University, China
	Katsuhisa Maruyama	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
	Robert Merkel	Swinburne University of Technology
	Xianping Tao	Nanjing University, China
	Jun Wei	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	Yong Zhang	Tsinghua University, China

ENQUIRIES

Please direct all enquiries to qsic2006@sei.pku.edu.cn

			the type of submission (research paper or experience report),
			the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords,
			three most relevant topics, preferably chosen from the above list of topics of interests,
			the affiliation, correspondence address, email address, phone and fax numbers of each author, indicating the contact author if different from the first author.