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QSIC 2O1O: 10th International Conference on Quality Software
July 14-15, 2010
Zhangjiajie, China
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Official Conference Website: http://www.nudt.edu.cn/qsic2010
Secondary Conference Website: http://www.cs.hku.hk/~qsic

Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsic10

*** Submission Extended to Jan 4, 2010 ***


BACKGROUND
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Software is playing an ever-increasing role in our society. On the other hand,
software systems often fail to deliver as promised. It is widely known that
unresolved errors remain in many software systems that we are using every day.

The QSIC series of conferences provide a forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners working towards improving the quality of software. It focuses on
innovative methodologies, techniques, tools, management and applications in this
challenging area, and exchange ideas on them.

The preceding conferences in the series were held over four continents, in
Hong Kong; Dallas, USA; Braunschweig, Germany; Melbourne, Australia; Beijing,
China; Portland, Oregon, USA; Oxford, UK; and Jeju, Korea. Since 2009,
IEEE Reliability Society has been one of the sponsors of the conference.


CALL FOR PAPERS
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QSIC 2010 will be held in Zhangjiajie, China, an UNESCO World Natural Heritage
famous for its magnificent views. It will be a two-day event to be held on
July 14-15, 2010.

QSIC 2010 will include the main conference and co-located workshops. IEEE
Computer Society Press will publish the conference proceedings consisting of
carefully reviewed manuscripts accepted by the program committee. The QSIC
series of conference had received overwhelming and very positive response from
academia and industry.

For every year, the top few articles among the accepted articles were also
published, in their extended form, in a special issue of an international,
respectful and SCI-indexed archival journal. For QSIC 2010, authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a
special issue of Software: Practice and Experience.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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, cloud computing, 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
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All submissions must be in English and the author's original work that have not
been published and/or submitted for consideration of publication anywhere else.
The papers must be in IEEE Conference Proceedings format with no more than 10 pages
for a long paper and no more than 6 pages for a short paper. Submissions must be in
PDF format and uploaded to the conference website before the deadline date.

The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsic10 .


Please refer to the conference website (http://www.nudt.edu.cn/qsic2010)
for detailed guidelines.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected authors will be invited to submit their extended papers for possible
publication in a special issue of Software:Practice and Experience.

IMPORTANT DATES
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December 20, 2009: Deadline for paper submission
March 20, 2010: Notification to authors
May 5, 2010: Deadline for camera-ready versions
July 14-15, 2010: QSIC 2010 conference


StEERING COMMITTEE
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Steering Committee Chair:

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

Steering Committee 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, University of Melbourne, Australia

C.V. Ramamoorthy, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University, USA



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:

Xicheng Lu National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing,
China


Program Chairs:

Ji Wang National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing,
China

Wing Kwong Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Fei-Ching Kuo Swinburne University of Technology, Australia


IEEE Reliability Society Liaison:

W. Eric Wong University of Texas at Dallas, USA


Publicity and Publication Chair:

Xiaoying Bai Tsinghua University, China


Organizing Chair:

Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, China


Local Organizer:

National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea

Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China

Fevzi Belli, Universitat Paderborn, Germany

Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA

Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christof Budnik, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Kai-Yuan Cai, Beihang University, China

Joao Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Alessandra Cavarra, Oxford University, UK

Xiaojun Chen, University of Windsor, Canada

S.C. Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea

William Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Sam Chung, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA

Bojan Cukic, West Virginia university, USA

Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan

Gordon Fraser, Saarland University, Germany

Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA

Swapna S. Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA

Arnaud Gotlieb, INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA

Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA

Walter Gutjahr, University of Vienna, Austria

Xudong He, Florida International University, USA

Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK

Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Pankaj Jalote, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ross Jeffrey, The University of New South Wales and NICTA, Australia

Moonzoo Kim, KAIST, Korea

Sung Kim, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Victor Kuliamin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

David Kung, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada

Richard Lai, La Trobe University, Australia

Yu Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Jenny Li, Avaya Labs Research, USA

Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China

Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan

Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China

Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Hong Mei, Peking University, China

Atif Memon, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

V. Krshna Nandivada, IBM Research Lab, India

Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA

Atsushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Amit M. Paradkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea

Pak-Lok Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Alexander Pretschner, Fraunhofer IESE and TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia

Bo Sun, Beijing Normal University, China

Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Jeff Tian, Southern Methodist University, USA

Wei-Tek Tsai, AriZona State University, USA

Hasan Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada

Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA

Huaimin Wang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China

Jun Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

W. Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria

Ji Wu, Beihang University, China

Min Xie, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China

Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA

Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Mohammad Zulkernine, University, Canada

CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS
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W1.The First International Workshop on Program Debugging in China
Organized by Qianxiang Wang (Peking University),
T.H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong), and
Zhenyu Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)

W2. International Workshop on Quality of Service-Based Systems
Organized by Xiaoying Bai (Tsinghua University), and
Chunyang Ye (University of Toronto)

W3. Quality Software Practices: Towards Empirical Quality Software
Organized by Sam Chung (University of Washington),
Aneesh Krishna (Curtin University of Technology), and
Sergio Davalos (University of Washington)

W4. International Workshop on Embedded System Software Development and Quality Assurance
Organized by William C. Chu (TungHai University),
Chih-Hung Chang (Hsiuping Institute of Technology), and
Pao-Ann Hsiung (National Chung Cheng University)

ENQUIRIES
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Please send all enquiries to qsic@cs.hku.hk