**** UPDATE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED -- March 6th, 2014 ****


:: CONFERENCE ::
40th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

:: TECHNICAL TRACK ::
Software Process and Product Improvement (SPPI)



:: CALL FOR PAPERS ::

The size, complexity, and criticality of software-intensive systems require innovative and economic approaches to development and evolution. In today’s competitive world software quality is a key to success and stability of organizations. Software process and product improvement (SPPI) aims at significantly increasing both the quality of software-intensive systems and the productivity of software development.

The SPPI track will bring together researchers and practitioners to share SPPI innovations and experiences. The track is an integral part of the 40th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2014.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

+ Organizational and business views on process improvement
+ Value-based software engineering
+ Global software engineering
+ Quality assurance, inspections, testing
+ Software process improvement and process standards
+ Process modeling, composition, and enactment
+ Process simulation
+ Product management
+ Quantitative models for development processes and products
+ Dependability, safety, security, or usability
+ Open source software and software quality
+ Agile and lean development
+ Software reuse, product lines, and software ecosystems
+ Innovative approaches to software development
+ Software evolution
+ Empirical studies and experimental approaches

In particular, we encourage submissions demonstrating the benefits or limitations of SPPI approaches through case studies, experiments, and quantitative data.



:: SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ::

The paper submission system and further instructions are available at the submission page and CfP page. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and the IEEE Xplore Digital library.

+ Paper Submission Page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaa2014
+ Select "Software Process and Product Improvement (TRACK)"

Extended versions of selected (best) papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal of Information and Software Technology.



:: TRACK ORGANIZERS ::

+ Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
+ Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria



:: PROGRAM COMMITTEE ::

+ Ove Armbrust, Alpine Electronics Research, USA
+ Aybüke Aurum, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
+ Claudia P. Ayala, Tech. Univ. Catalunya, Spain
+ Miklos Biro, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
+ Matthias Book, Paluno, Germany
+ Jan Bosch, Chalmers Univ., Sweden
+ Ruth Breu, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria
+ Michel Chaudron, Chalmers Univ., Sweden
+ Maya Daneva, Univ. of Twente, the Netherlands
+ Torgeir Dingsoyr, SINTEF, Norway
+ Frank Elberzhager, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
+ Cigdem Gencel, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
+ Volker Gruhn, Univ. Leipzig, Germany
+ Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
+ Martin Höst, Lund Univ., Sweden
+ Frank Houdek, Daimler Research, Germany
+ LiGuo Huang, SMU, Dallas, TX, USA
+ Slinger Jansen, Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands
+ Michael Klaes, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
+ Tomi Männistö, Aalto Univ., Finland
+ Jürgen Münch, Helsinki Univ., Finland
+ Mahmood Niazi, Keele University UK/KFUPM Saudi Arabia
+ Barbara Paech, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
+ Oscar Pastor Lopez, Univ. Polytecnica de Valencia, Spain
+ Rudolf Ramler, SCCH Hagenberg, Austria
+ Andreas Rausch, TU Clausthal, Germany
+ Ita Richardson, Lero, Ireland
+ Barbara Russo, Free Univ. Bolzano, Italy
+ Clenio F. Salviano, Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer, Brazil
+ Klaus Schmid, Univ. Hildesheim, Germany
+ Christa Schwanninger, Siemens CT, Germany