**** UPDATE: the submission deadline has been extended to March 15, 2018 ****

**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****

:: CONFERENCE ::
44th 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 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2018.

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/simulation

+ Quantitative models for development processes and products
+ Essential system quality aspects, e.g., dependability, safety, security, or usability
+ Technical debt (we will have a special session on this topic)

+ Open source software and software quality
+ Agile and lean development

+ Software reuse, product lines, and software ecosystems
+ Software evolution
+ Continuous delivery/integration and DevOps, software process and product evolution with feedback from operation.
+ Empirical studies and experimental approaches
+ Process improvement for innovative/emerging application areas (e.g., systems of systems, cloud/fog-based computing, big data systems, cyber-physical systems, IoT, Industry 4.0)

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

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. The format is the IEEE two-column proceedings format (max 8 pages). Submission will be handled via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaa2018); please find general submission information for SEAA on the conference homepage (http://dsd-seaa2018.fit.cvut.cz/seaa/).

Please note that it is planned to select best papers among all tracks of SEAA and present them with an award. A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a requested Special Issue of the Journal of Systems and Software published by Elsevier http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software.


:: TRACK ORGANIZERS ::
Stefan Biffl, TU Vienna, Austria, http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~biffl
Dietmar Winkler, TU Vienna, Austria, http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~winkler
Rick Rabiser, JKU Linz, Austria, http://mevss.jku.at/rabiser


:: PROGRAM COMMITEE ::
Silvia Abrahao, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Wasif Afzal, Malardalen University, Sweden
Ove Armbrust, Alpine Electronics Research of America, USA
Claudia P. Ayala, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Miklos Biro, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Matthias Book, University of Iceland, Iceland
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Noel Carroll, Lero, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Michel Chaudron, Chalmers & Gothenborg University, Sweden
Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands
Frank Elberzhager, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Volker Gruhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Helena Holmström Olsson, Mälmö University, Sweden
Martin Höst, Lund University, Sweden
Frank Houdek, Daimler AG, Germany
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Marcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Michael Klaes, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Emilia Mendes, BTH, Sweden
Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Juergen Muench, University of Reutlingen, Germany
Barbara Paech, Heidelberg University, Germany
Oscar Pastor, Univ. Polytecnica de Valencia, Spain
Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Clenio F. Salviano, Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer, Brazil
Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens CT, Germany
Richard Torkar, Chalmers & Gothenborg University, Sweden