- IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission Deadline: January 16, 2012
* Acceptance Notification: February 27, 2012
* Camera-Ready Deadline: March 12, 2012

- CONFERENCE FOCUS
Processes are ubiquitous in the modern Software and Systems Engineering world and regarded as one major means for achieving and ensuring the quality of final products. Processes from other domains face similar challenges such as simplicity, adaptability, coordination and standard conformance, yet share interesting similarities with and differences to software processes. The ICSSP conferences continue the successful ICSP conference series with widen scope by explicitly including processes of other domains, e.g., health care, business, and manufacturing. By sharing process development research and practices from such domains, ICSSP 2012 aims at investigating novel solutions to today's process challenges.

- TOPICS OF INTEREST
ICSSP 2012 invites papers describing completed research or advanced work-in-progress in all areas of software and systems process as well as processes in other domains with a clear relationship to software process challenges, including, but not limited to:
* Traditional ('Rich') processes and process models
* Agile ('Lean') processes and process models
* Model-based process improvement
* Continuous process improvement
* Process lifecycle approaches
* Design of large-scale processes, e.g., coordinating global development or multiple lifecycles
* Modeling, simulation, and analysis of processes
* Process tools and metrics
* Cost estimation and project planning
* Processes for developing adaptive systems, systems of systems, cloud and social networks
* Processes in non-software domains (including, but not limited to: health care, transportation, automation systems, manufacturing, business, aerospace, automotive systems) with a demonstrated relationship to software process challenges
* Empirical studies, encompassing processes for the complete software development lifecycle or selected parts of it

- STEERING COMMITTEE
* Barry Boehm, University of Southern California, USA
* Ross Jeffery, NICTA/University of New South Wales, Australia
* Mingshu Li, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
* David Raffo, Portland State University, USA
* Wilhelm Schäfer, University of Paderborn, Germany

- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
* Ross Jeffery, NICTA/University of New South Wales, Australia
* David Raffo, Portland State University, USA
Program Co-chairs:
* Ove Armbrust, Alpine Electronics of America, USA
* LiGuo Huang, Southern Methodist University, USA
Publicity Chair:
* He (Jason) Zhang, NICTA/University of New South Wales, Australia

- PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Muhammad Ali Babar, Denmark
* Stefan Biffl, Austria
* Thomas Birkhölzer, Germany
* DaniloCaivano, Italy
* SoranaCimpan, France
* Oscar Dieste, Spain
* Anthony Finkelstein, UK
* Vahid Garousi, Canada
* Dennis Goldenson, USA
* Volker Gruhn, Germany
* Paul Grünbacher, Austria
* Graham Hellestrand, USA
* Martin Host, Sweden
* Daniel Houston, USA
* Katsuro Inoue, Japan
* Slinger Jansen, Netherlands
* Paul Johannesson, Sweden
* Jo Ann Lane, USA
* Casper Lassenius, Finland
* Raymond Madachy, USA
* Robert Martin, USA
* James Miller, Canada
* Mark Müller, Germany
* Jürgen Münch, Germany
* Dewayne Perry, USA
* Michael Petit, Belgium
* Daniel Port, USA
* Andreas Rausch, Germany
* Stan Rifkin, USA
* Guenther Ruhe, Canada
* Barbara Russo, Italy
* Jürgen Sauer, Germany
* Walt Scacchi, USA
* Rick Selby, USA
* Darja Smite, Sweden
* Barbara Staudt Lerner, USA
* Stan Sutton, USA
* Guilherme Travassos, Brazil
* Qing Wang, China
* Ye Yang, China
* Yun Yang, Australia
* He Zhang, Australia
* Li Zhang, China

- PAPER TYPES
* Full research papers (maximum length 10 pages)
Topics suitable for full papers include completed and evaluated research on novel approaches to major software and systems process challenges and in-depth experience reports of major significance for the community.
* Short papers (maximum length 5 pages).
Topics for short papers include experience reports, work-in-progress research papers (in particular Ph.D. work), and position papers addressing open research questions and future research directions.

- SUBMISSIONS
Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. ACM plagiarism policies and procedures shall be followed for cases of double submission.

All papers must conform at time of submission to the ICSE 2012 Format and Submission Guidelines (http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/icse2012/how-to-submit/) in PDF format, and must not exceed the page limits (full research papers: 10 pages; short papers: 5 pages), including all text, references, appendices and figures.

The authors of a small set of best research papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Software Evolution and Process (previously known as Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice incorporating Software Process: Improvement and Practice).

Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair paper submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icssp2012). For further information regarding the conference and paper submission, please refer to the ICSSP 2012 website at http://www.icsp-conferences.org/icssp2012 that will be regularly updated.