Call For Papers -- ICSM'95
International Conference on Software Maintenance '95
Opio (Nice), France, October 16-20, 1995
Present in Europe for the second time in a total of twelve conferences,
ICSM'95 will provide an international forum for researchers, developers
and users of evolving software systems. Presentations and discussions will
cover applied and theoretical work currently conducted to support software
maintenance and its ramifications. Participants will include practitioners
and researchers from industry, academia and government.
Software systems as business assets
Software maintenance has long been regarded as a reactive practice, its
primary objective being to maintain existing computer-based applications
in service. Nevertheless, attitudes are changing as systems are
increasingly recognized as collections of vital core business know-how.
This, together with Information Technology's increasingly proactive role
in business tactics, puts software systems in a key position. Renovation,
encapsulation, merging, information extraction and/or incorporation of
system elements into re-worked business processes offer an unprecedented
software maintenance challenge.
Original papers are invited in topics including, but not limited to:
- IS transformation, business reengineering and software reengineering
- enterprise knowledge recapture from legacy systems, their users
and their maintainers
- application experience accumulation and reuse
- software renovation, revamping, restructuring
- system migration, conversion, downsizing, encapsulation
- outsourcing, facilities management
- system tuning and optimization, metrics
- tools and techniques for software maintenance
- formal and cognitive approaches to maintenance
- software maintenance "hot line" technology/aids
- building for change, preventive maintenance
- achieving and maintaining application quality
- reverse engineering, design recovery, program understanding
- design decision and non-functional requirements capture and
exploitation
- management of change, impact analysis
- the economics of maintenance
Conference location
Just inland from the Mediterranean coast and the city of Nice, the Club
Med at Opio provides complete conference facilities in an exceptional
environment. Opio is 30 min. from Nice International Airport, and 25 km
from the TGV station in Nice.
Submissions
Submit 5 copies of papers, experience reports, panel proposals or
tutorials in English to one of the Program Co-Chairs. Authors of accepted
papers are expected to present their work at ICSM '95.
Papers: 2000-5000 words, neither previously published nor under
consideration elsewhere. Include all authors' names, contact information
of lead author, short abstract of approx. 250 words, keywords, and type of
submission (Research / Experience).
Research Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
soundness, clarity and applicability. Methodological papers should show
how the results presented contribute to maintenance practice. Papers on
systems should concentrate on technical and architectural issues.
Experimental papers should describe the experimental methods and interpret
the results in terms of practice.
Experience Reports can include experience with software maintenance
technologies or processes (e.g., using a tool or a method, applying a
metric, following a process or management discipline). Emphasize outcomes
and lessons learned.
Panel proposals should include a title, the proposed chair and panelists,
a brief description of the panel session subject, and a supporting
rationale. Panelists should have agreed to participate before the
submission of the proposal.
Tutorials should address maintenance topics that are of particular
interest to practitioners. Proposals for full-day or half-day tutorials
should include a detailed outline of the material and assessment of its
maturity, a description of past tutorial experience, and credentials of the
instructor.
Important Dates
General Chair
Mari Georges
Cap Gemini Innovation, Paris, France
Voice: +33.1.49.10.5398
Fax: +33.1.49.10.0615
e-mail: Mari.Georges@cginn.cgs.fr
Program Co-Chairs
Keith Bennett
School of Engineering and Applied Science Centre for Software
Maintenance University of Durham
Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Voice: +44.91.374.2632
Fax: +44.91.374.2560
e-mail: Keith.Bennett@durham.ac.uk
Gianluigi Caldiera
Computer Science Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Voice: +1.301.405.2707
Fax: +1.301.405.6707
e-mail: gianl@cs.umd.edu
Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Software Engineering
Related event
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'95)
October 24-27, 1995 in Toulouse, France
Contact: Karama Kanoun, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Voice: +33.61 33 62 35 Fax: +33.61 33 64 11 e-mail: kanoun@laas.fr