CONTEXT
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The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) is the flagship event on
Software Engineering in Brazil. Promoted annually by the Brazilian Computer
Society (SBC), the event typically has gathered nearly 500 people, including
researchers, students, and practitioners. In its 25th edition, the symposium will
be held near to the heart of São Paulo city, at the Universidade Presbiteriana
Mackenzie, from September 26 to September 30, 2011.

The symposium program includes technical research sessions, invited talks,
courses, panels, demonstration of software tools, a PhD and MSc thesis
workshop, and several other satellite events. In particular, the technical
research track is of very high quality, and very competitive in terms of its
paper acceptance rate (usually, lower than 20%). The best papers are
invited to submit to a special issue on well-known journals.

In this context, this CFP is seeking high-quality submissions for SBES 2011,
and invites authors to contribute with technical papers related (but not
limited) to:

Agent-oriented, aspect-oriented and component-based SE
CSCW and SE
Experimental SE
Industrial applications of SE
Methods, techniques, languages and tools for SE
Model-driven software development
Requirements engineering
SE for the World Wide Web
Software maintenance
Social aspects of SE
Software metrics and measurement
Software dependability
Software processes (including agile methods)
Software product lines
Software quality and quality models
Software reengineering
Software reuse
Software verification, validation and testing
Theoretical foundations of SE and formal methods


SBES, CBSoft and the Venue
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SBES is an event of the 2nd Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and
Practice – CBSoft 2011, http://www.each.usp.br/cbsoft2011/ – which will
also host three other well-established Brazilan symposia:
. 15th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP)
. 14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF)
. 5th Brazilian Symposium on Components, Software Architecture and
Software Reuse (SBCARS)

For the first time these symposia will be held in São Paulo - SP, a city of
prominence in research and development in both academic and industrial
fields and which offers great possibilities for cultural, artistic and gastronomic
tourism. CBSoft 2011 will be held at the main campus of the Universidade
Presbiteriana Mackenzie. The campus is located in the central region of Sao
Paulo, near - for example - the Avenida Paulista, the (Sé) cathedral and the
Republic Square.


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in
English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are made
available at the IEEE Digital Library. Papers submitted to SBES must not
have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or
journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The
acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register
for the symposium to present it.

Submitted papers will be reviewed at least by three referees, based on its
originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation.
They must be no longer than 10 pages, including all the figures and
references. All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF) and must follow the IEEE 2-column conference format available at:
http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf
Papers should be submitted electronically through the CBSoft conference
website.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: April 15, 2011
Author Notification: June 5, 2011
Camera-ready Version due: July 11, 2011


BEST PAPER AWARD
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Every year the SBES Steering Committee appoints a committee to award the best
papers of the symposium. These papers are indicated to a journal special edition
and are recognized during the event. Journals that have recently published the
SBES best papers include: The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS),
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), IET Software, and Information Systems (INS).



PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
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* Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio

STEERING COMMITTEE
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* Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio
* Manoel Mendonça, UFBA
* Márcio Delamaro, ICMC-USP
* Paulo Borba, UFPE
* Thais Batista, UFRN

ORGANIZING CHAIRS
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SBES
* Marcos Lordello Chaim EACH - USP
* Marco Aurelio Gerosa IME - USP
CBSoft
* Marcelo Fantinato, EACH - USP
* Luciano Silva, FCI - Mackenzie