Call for papers

QSIC 2O11 11th International Conference On Quality Software

July 13-14, 2011. Madrid, Spain



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. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers in any area of quality of software.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Software testing: automation, conformance, strategies, tools, 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, 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

All submissions must be in English and the author's original work that has 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 via the conference website before the deadline date. Please refer to the conference website for detailed guidelines.

Important Dates
January 7, 2011 (extended): Deadline for submission of papers
March 18, 2011: Notification to authors
April 29, 2011: Deadline for camera-ready versions
July 13-14, 2011: QSIC 2011 conference

General Chair Manuel Núñez, University Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Program Chairs Robert M. Hierons, Brunel University, UK
Mercedes G. Merayo, University Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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 W. Eric Wong, IEEE Reliability Society, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University (USA)

Website For more information see http://antares.sip.ucm.es/qsic2011/#

Enquiries qsic2011@fdi.ucm.es