ENASE 2011 (8-11 June 2011, Beijing - China)
6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
http://www.enase.org/

IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper Submission: January 24, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 25, 2011
Final Paper Submission and Registration: April 4, 2011

MISSION AND MOTIVATION

The mission of the ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software
Engineering) conferences is to be a prime international forum to discuss and
publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to
evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel
approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them
against software quality criteria, ENASE conferences advance knowledge and
research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends and propose
new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved
in large-scale software development and integration.

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

The conference will accept Regular papers and Position papers. Regular
papers should be original research work, present analysis of data and
discussion of research findings. We invite two types of regular papers:
Original contribution papers and Experience evaluation papers. Position
papers should relate to an ongoing research or experience. We invite two
types of position papers: Emerging research papers and Challenge papers.

All ENASE papers will be published in time for the conference in the
proceedings, produced by INSTICC under an ISBN reference, on paper and on
CD-ROM form (the CD-ROM will be shared with the co-located ICEIS 2011
conference). Proceedings wil be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography and EI.

After the conference, revised and extended versions of all full papers will
be published by Springer in a CCIS (Communications in Computer and
Information Science) Series book.

WORKSHOPS

ENASE 2011 invites workshop proposals. All accepted workshop papers will be
published in the ENASE Proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on
CD-ROM. Details of what is expected of workshop proposal submissions will be
available in the separate Call for Workshops on the ENASE website.

GOALS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

ENASE provides a yearly forum for researchers and practitioners to review and evaluate emerging as well as established SE methods, practices, architectures, technologies and tools. An important underpinning and assumption of ENASE is that in software engineering "novel" turns out frequently to be just new hype. An objective of ENASE is to reveal any such hype as soon as feasible. This means that ENASE does not exclude more traditional approaches to software development and integration. On the contrary, ENASE endeavors to compare novel with traditional, also to discover if novel is not just traditional in disguise. Consequently, ENASE accepts also papers concentrating on a critique of more traditional and entrenched SE approaches.

Against that background, ENASE undertakes to provide fast but careful scientific and empirical evaluation of new as well as more established approaches to software engineering. Of particular interest are experience reports and evaluations (qualitative and quantitative) of existing approaches as well as new ideas and proposals for improvements. The conference solicits experiments, case studies, surveys, meta-analyses, empirical studies, systematic reviews, conceptual explorations, innovative ideas, critical appraisals, etc. related to:

* Software and Systems Development Methodologies
* "3A" (Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented) Software Engineering
* Service-oriented Software Engineering and Management
* Component-based Software Engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
* Model-driven Engineering
* Meta Programming Systems and Meta-modeling
* Knowledge Management and Engineering
* Architectural Design and Meta Architectures
* Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering
* Process-centric Paradigms
* Service-oriented Architectures
* Service Science
* Application Integration Technologies
* Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
* e-Business Technologies
* Requirements Engineering Frameworks and Models
* Collaborative Requirements Management Systems
* Business and Software Modeling Languages
* Software Quality Management
* Software Change and Configuration Management
* Geographically Distributed Software Development Environments
* Cross-feeding between Data and Software Engineering
* Design Thinking as a Paradigm for Software Development
* Formal Methods
* Software Process Improvement