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From: ICSE18 admin account <icse18@chanel.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Subject: CFP: ISEW'96 and ICSE 18
Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern FB Informatik
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 13:14:44 GMT
Message-ID: <3rukg4$91d@irz1.informatik.uni-kl.de>


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION                                CALL FOR PAPERS

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|         |  International            18th International  |         |
| I S E W |  Software                         Conference  | I C S E |
|         |  Engineering                     on Software  |         |
|   9 6   |  Week '96                        Engineering  |   1 8   |
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22--30 March 1996                                   25--29 March 1996
Technische Universitaet Berlin         Technische Universitaet Berlin

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The International Software Engineering Week '96 (ISEW'96) in Berlin,
Germany, is designed to showcase the latest international trends and
developments in software engineering practice, research and education. 
The objectives are to provide a forum to present new software
engineering research results, to exchange experience reports regarding
the use of software engineering technologies in industry, to expose
practitioners to promising new technologies, to expose researchers to
the problems of industrial software development, and to encourage the
transfer of advanced software engineering technologies from research
into practice. 

ISEW'96 is the premier international software engineering meeting in
1996 combining the 18th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE 18) and numerous in-depth software engineering
workshops. This meeting is a must for each software engineering
practitioner, researcher, and educator in order to keep abreast of
international trends and developments.

ISEW'96 will feature the following:

 + Multiple tracks of reviewed research papers.

 + Multiple tracks of industrial experience reports.

 + Invited presentations by internationally renowned experts from
   academia and industry critically reviewing past developments in
   research and industrial practice. 

 + Panels on controversial software engineering issues.

 + Tutorials on issues of importance to practitioners, researchers and
   educators. 

 + Exhibitions of innovative software engineering tools.

 + Trips to CeBIT in Hannover, the world's largest computer trade fair. 

 + In-depth workshops addressing topics ranging from multimedia to
   configuration management and Cleanroom software engineering; each
   has its own organizing committee. 

The organizing committee invites all practitioners, researchers, and
educators of the international software engineering community to
participate in ISEW'96 by submitting research papers or experience
reports, by proposing panels, tutorials or exhibits (see the detailed
ICSE 18 call-for-papers on page 2) or by submitting position papers to
workshops (see the detailed calls-for-workshop-participation on page
3).  We hope that the location of Berlin in the center of Europe will
encourage increased participation from Eastern Europe.

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW: ISEW'96, 22--30 March 1996, Berlin, Germany.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
The organizing committee has applied for funds to defray travel and
other expenses, especially for attendees from Eastern Europe.  Please
contact H. D. Rombach (US residents should contact M. Zelkowitz) for
more information.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
 + Access the ISEW'96 WWW server (URL ``http://www.gmd.de/Events/ISEW96/'')
 + Send electronic mail (``isew96@informatik.uni-kl.de'')
 + Contact the general chair. 

SUPPORTED BY:  
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Technische
Universitaet Berlin, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, GMD-FIRST, FhG ISST,
and several European computer societies and companies. 

SPONSORED BY:
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE TCSE.

ISEW'96 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
      
  General Chair:

    H. Dieter Rombach 
    Fachbereich Informatik  
    Universitaet Kaiserslautern
    67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
    rombach@informatik.uni-kl.de
     
  Program Coordinators:

    Tom Maibaum
    Imperial College
    180 Queen's Gate 
    London SW7 2BZ, UK
    tsem@doc.ic.ac.uk

    Marv Zelkowitz
    Dept. of Computer Science 
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD 20742, USA
    mvz@cs.umd.edu

  Industrial Liaison:
     
    Ernst Denert
    sd&m, software design & management GmbH & Co. KG
    denert@sdm.de

  Exhibit Coordinators:

    Herman Fischer
    Mark V Systems Limited 
    fischer@markv.com

    Markku Oivo
    VTT Electronics 
    markku.oivo@vtt.fi
     
  Tutorial Coordinators:

    Mark Ardis
    AT&T 
    maa@research.att.com
     
    Wilhelm Schaefer
    Universitaet - GH - Paderborn
    wilhelm@uni-paderborn.de

  Workshop Coordinator:
     
    Claus Lewerentz
    Technische Universitaet Cottbus
    cl@informatik.tu-cottbus.de

  Local Arrangements:

    Stefan Jaehnichen
    Technische Universitaet Berlin
    jaehn@cs.tu-berlin.de

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|         |
| I C S E |   The 18th International Conference 
|         |   on Software Engineering
|   1 8   |
|         |   Technische Universitaet BERLIN
+---------+   25--29 March 1996

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The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is
the flagship conference of the international software engineering
community.  The goal of ICSE is to provide a forum to exchange new
basic and applied research results, lessons learned from controlled
experiments, and experiences from industrial case studies; to expose
open questions in practice, research, and education; and to foster
discussions between practitioners, researchers and educators.

The 18th ICSE will be the main event of the International Software
Engineering Week '96 and will offer a mix of reviewed technical papers
presented in parallel tracks as well as panels, exhibits, tutorials,
and invited lectures.  All contributions will be judged on their
clarity, significance, soundness, originality, and relevance to
software engineering. 

TECHNICAL PAPERS should describe results of original basic or applied
research; experiences gained from controlled experiments; experiences
gained from industrial case studies; ideas or experiences about
education, training, or technology transfer; or discussions of
management, policy, economic or international issues.  Papers are
limited to 6000 words with full page figures counted as 300 words and
should include a short abstract, list of keywords, and the lead
author's address.  Guidelines for submissions are available from the
ICSE 18 WWW server.  Industrial representatives who are interested in
presenting an experience report are encouraged to contact E. Denert
for additional guidance.  Please submit all technical papers to
M. Zelkowitz.

PANEL PROPOSALS should include the title, a brief description of the
goals of the panel, the probable panelists, and a one-page biographical 
sketch of the proposed chair.  Criteria for selection are relevance to
the goals of the conference and potential interest to conference
attendees.  Please submit panel proposals to M. Zelkowitz. 

EXHIBIT AND DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS should describe the technique,
tool, or environment to be presented, the problem that is addressed,
and the contribution towards solving the problem. Please submit
exhibit and demonstration proposals to H. Fischer or M. Oivo.

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS should include a detailed description of the topic,
a table of contents for a full- or half-day tutorial, a characterization 
of the target audience, and the tutor's relevant experience.  Please
submit tutorial proposals to M. Ardis or W. Schaefer.

DEADLINES:
The approp. person must receive 6 copies of your submission by 
1 August 1995.  Authors will be notified by 15 November 1995;
final versions are due by 15 December 1995.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
 + Access the ICSE 18 WWW server (URL ``http://www.gmd.de/Events/ICSE18/'')
 + Send electronic mail (``icse18@informatik.uni-kl.de'')
 + Contact the general chair.

SPONSORED BY: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE TCSE.

ICSE 18 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
     
  General Chair:

    H. Dieter Rombach 
    Fachbereich Informatik  
    Universitaet Kaiserslautern
    67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
    rombach@informatik.uni-kl.de
     
  Program Co-Chairs:

    Tom Maibaum
    Imperial College
    180 Queen's Gate 
    London SW7 2BZ, UK
    tsem@doc.ic.ac.uk

    Marv Zelkowitz
    Dept. of Computer Science 
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD 20742, USA
    mvz@cs.umd.edu

  Industrial Liaison:
     
    Ernst Denert
    sd&m, software design & management GmbH & Co. KG
    denert@sdm.de
     
  Exhibit Co-Chairs:
     
    Herman Fischer
    Mark V Systems Limited 
    fischer@markv.com

    Markku Oivo
    VTT Electronics 
    markku.oivo@vtt.fi

  Tutorial Co-Chairs:
     
    Mark Ardis
    AT&T 
    maa@research.att.com
     
    Wilhelm Schaefer
    Universitaet - GH - Paderborn
    wilhelm@uni-paderborn.de

  Workshop Coordinator:
     
    Claus Lewerentz
    Technische Universitaet Cottbus
    cl@informatik.tu-cottbus.de

  Local Arrangements:

    Stefan Jaehnichen
    Technische Universitaet Berlin
    jaehn@cs.tu-berlin.de

ICSE 18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    R. Adrion, U Mass.             US      
    W. Agresti, MITRE              US    
    L. Briand, CRIM                Canada    
    D. Carney, SEI                 US
    P. Cunha, U. Pernambuco        Brazil
    A. Davis, U Colorado           US         
    J.-C. Derniame, CRIN           France 
    G. Fagerhus,  Q-Labs           Sweden  
    S. Feldman, Bellcore           USA
    J. Fiadeiro, U Lisbon          Portugal   
    A. Finkelstein, City Univ.     UK     
    A. Fuggetta, Poly. Milan       Italy    
    S. Greenspan, GTE              US
    T. Gyimothy, U. Szeged         Hungary
    M. Harrold, Clemson            US
    C. Heitmeyer, NRL              US
    P. Jalote, In. Inst. Tech.     India
    M. Lemoine, CERT               France
    P. Loehr, FU Berlin            Germany 
    C. Marlin, Flinders U          Australia
    F. McGarry, CSC                US
    G. Merbeth, Softlab            Germany   
    M. Muehlhaeuser, U  Linz       Austria
    F. Paulisch, Siemens           Germany  
    I. Pottosin, Rus. Acad. Sci.   Russia
    M. Saeki, Tokyo Ins. Tech.     Japan
    V. Shen, HK Univ.              Hong Kong
    D. Smith, Kestrel Inst.        US    
    T. Tamai, U. Tokyo             Japan
    R. Taylor, UC Irvine           US      
    W. Tracz, Loral                US
    W. Turski, Warsaw Univ.        Poland
    L. Votta, AT&T                 US   

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|         |   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
| I S E W |
|         |   ISEW'96 Workshops   
|   9 6   |
|         |   Technische Universitaet BERLIN
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An important feature of the International Software Engineering Week
'96 are workshops and symposia that address selected areas of software
engineering in depth.  Each event has its own organizing committee.
Participation is in most cases limited and will be decided based on
position papers.  For more detailed information about each event,
please approach the contact person as listed below.


Workshop on Cleanroom Software Engineering.

    Cleanroom software development practices are being introduced in
    industry.  Cleanroom supports the certifiable development of
    high-quality software.  The objective is to exchange experiences
    and lessons learned among practitioners.  The submission deadline
    is 1 November 1995.  Contact: Anders Sixtensson, Q-Labs,
    asi@q-labs.se


Fourth IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension (4WPC).

    Significantly more effort is spent on maintaining existing rather
    than developing new software systems.  The majority of maintenance
    effort, in turn, is devoted to understanding the systems being
    maintained.  This workshop will explore the theoretical,
    methodological, and technical issues relating to program
    comprehension.  The submission deadline is 19 September 1995.
    Contact: Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University,
    rajlich@cs.wayne.edu


International Workshop on Multimedia Software Development.

    Developing multimedia software remains one of the most tedious
    software engineering tasks. The lack of appropriate tools,
    methods, and standards hinders the emergence of tailored
    multimedia applications and of multimedia-augmented applications
    of all kinds. This workshop is intended to stimulate the exchange
    of ideas, results, and experience.  The submission deadline is 1
    October 1995.  Contact: Max Muehlhaeuser, Univeristaet Linz,
    max@ali.uni-linz.ac.at


Sixth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM6).

    Software configuration management takes advantage of advances in
    databases, software process technology, software engineering
    environments, tool integration and interoperability, and operating
    systems.  This workshop intends to merge the work of researchers
    and practitioners, to discuss and establish concepts and
    techniques, and to gather experiences.  The deadline is 1 October
    1995.  Contact: Jacky Estublier, L.G.I., Jacky.Estublier@imag.fr


Workshop on Technology Transfer.

    Rapid technology transfer is a key to progress in industrial
    software development.  This workshop analyzes past
    technology-transfer projects -- both successes and failures -- in
    order to identify communication gaps between the parties involved,
    search for appropriate incentives, and compare the methods of
    choice for performing technology transfer.  The submission
    deadline is 1 October 1995.  Contact: Guenter Koch, ESI, koch@esi.es


Third International Workshop on Software Engineering Education (IWSEE3).

    The purpose of the IWSEE series is to exchange experiences and
    discuss new ideas for teaching the difficult subject of software
    engineering among educators, students, and practitioners.  This
    workshop focuses on experiences with traditional and innovative
    ways of teaching in different countries.  The submission deadline
    is 1 October 1995.  Contact: Jochen Ludewig, Universitaet
    Stuttgart, ludewig@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de


Eighth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design.

    The purpose of the IWSSD series is to explore major trends and key
    issues in the specification and design of software systems.  This
    workshop seeks to provide a forum in which proponents of and
    experimenters with different theories, methods, and techniques can
    interact in an informal yet focused setting.  The submission
    deadline is 1 August 1995.  Contact: Alexander Wolf, University of
    Colorado, alw@cs.colorado.edu  

    Location note: This workshop will be held in Paderborn, Germany,
    22--23 March 1996.  Paderborn is about 350 km southwest of Berlin. 


Workshop on Formal Methods: Theory, Tools, and Applications.

    Formal methods seek to provide firm mathematical foundations for
    software development processes.  The purpose of this workshop is
    to make a realistic assessment of the extent to which formal
    methods can improve the process of specifying, constructing,
    analyzing, and evolving complex software systems.  The submission
    deadline is 1 October 1995.  Contact: Douglas Smith, Kestrel
    Institute, smith@kestrel.edu


1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel and
Distributed Systems.

    Many software applications require the use of explicit parallel
    programming techniques to meet their specifications.  The aim is
    to provide a forum for exchange of information and publication of
    the latest technological and theoretical advances in software
    engineering for such systems.  The submission deadline is 1
    October 1995.  Contact: Ian Gorton, CSIRO Division of Information
    Technology, iango@syd.dit.csiro.au


Workshop on High Integrity Systems Engineering.

    Software is increasingly being used in safety-critical
    applications where failure could cause loss of human life or
    significant material damage.  The purpose is to provide a forum to
    discuss substantial case studies, identify new advances in related
    software engineering fields and assess contributing processes,
    methods, and tools.  The submission deadline is 1 October 1995.
    Contact: Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen,
    bernd.kraemer@fernuni-hagen.de


Symposium on Software Metrics.

    The theme is ``From measurement to empirical results.''  We are
    interested in papers that report the development and use of
    metrics to improve our empirical knowledge of methods, processes,
    tools and environments in software engineering.  This includes not
    only development of suitable metrics, but also design and
    execution of experiments that use such metrics.  The submission
    deadline is 1 October 1995.  Contact: Anneliese von Mayrhauser,
    Colorado State University, avm@cs.colostate.edu


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|         |   BERLIN
| I S E W |
|         |   ISEW'96 Host City   
|   9 6   |
|         |   Technische Universitaet BERLIN
+---------+   22--30 March 1996

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The International Software Engineering Week '96 will be held in
Berlin, Germany.  The city of Berlin is located at the very center of
Europe, on the rivers Spree and Havel, close to the border with Poland
(distance 100 km) and the Czech Republic (250 km).  Berlin has a
population of approximately 3.5 million and covers an area of 889
square kilometers.  The city has good road and rail connections, and
offers access by air via the three international airports Tegel,
Schonefeld, and Tempelhof.

Berlin was the capital of Germany from 1871 to 1945.  As a consequence
of the Cold War from 1949 to 1990, the city was divided into East and
West Berlin.  The Berlin Wall, which was hastily erected on 13 August
1961 and suddenly opened on 9 November 1989, almost hermetically
sealed off the two parts of the city from each other, and West Berlin
from its environs.  Since the fall of the wall and the reopening of
the borders with Eastern European countries, Berlin has become the
gateway to Eastern Europe.  As a consequence of German reunification
that was made official on 3 October 1990, Berlin is once again the
capital of united Germany.

Berlin is the largest German city and one of the liveliest, most
interesting and changing capitals in the world.  As Germany's largest
industrial area -- the internationally known companies Siemens, AEG
and Schering have their roots here -- the economic infrastructure of
Greater Berlin now is changing rapidly from industrial production
towards the service industry. Thus Berlin is already one of the
world's most important bases for small- and medium-sized software
houses. There are 65,000 people working in this sector in the Greater
Berlin area.

Along with the ``Big Move'' of the German Federal Parliament
(Bundestag) and the German Government from Bonn to Berlin by the year
2000, companies like Daimler Benz, ABB, and Sony will strengthen their
presence in Berlin.  In fact, Berlin's historical center, with the
Brandenburg Gate and the Potsdam Place, will become Europe's most
rapidly changing city center.

Berlin is a first-class cultural metropolis. Besides three outstanding
opera houses (Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Komische
Oper), Berlin boasts three world-class orchestras (Berliner
Philharmonisches Orchester, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and
the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester).  The 85 museums, located in Dahlem,
Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, on the ``Museum Island,'' and elsewhere
throughout the city, house treasures of world culture (the Pergamon
Altar and the bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, just to name two).
Also worthy of mention are the numerous theaters, commercial galleries
and exhibitions.  Berlin's alternative ``Off Szene'' thrives in the
cosmopolitan climate and includes numerous art galleries, theaters,
and cinemas as a counterweight to the official ``Temple of Advanced
Culture.''  And last but not least, Berlin is open around the clock:
the ``Kneipen'' (pubs) never close!

Berlin has three large universities, Freie Universitaet, Humboldt
Universitaet, and Technische Universitaet, that together have a total
of 118,000 students.  Seven other colleges are also located in
Berlin. All three universities and a number of the colleges have
computer science departments.  Research in software engineering is
also conducted at several other institutes. Two of these, the
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and System Technology (FhG ISST) and
the GMD Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology
(GMD FIRST) are closely affiliated with the universities and are
supporting ICSE 18.

The conference, tutorials, and workshops will be held on the campus of
the Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB), which is located centrally.
Teaching and research in the TUB computer science department focuses
on software and communication technology.

Berlin is an area of great scenic beauty, with its pine forests,
lakes, and places of historical interest. Particularly worthwhile are
visits to the big central park Tiergarten, Charlottenburg Castle with
its park and gardens, Glienicke Castle with pleasure ground and park
in the southwest of Berlin, the island Pfaueninsel, and the Park of
Sanssouci Castle in Potsdam (recognized by UNESCO as a monument to
world cultural heritage).

The organizing committee for ISEW'96 wishes you an enjoyable visit to
Berlin! 

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