26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (IEEE ISSRE 2015)
Washington DC, Nov. 2-5, 2015
http://issre.net
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1) CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
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ISSRE has grown over the years to become a leading conference in the areas of assessing, predicting, and improving reliability, safety, and security of software and software-controlled systems. The ISSRE 2015 organizing Committee invites your contribution and participation to the 26th Edition, to be held in Washington DC, from Nov 2 to 5, 2015.

Research papers are extensively reviewed by a expert program committee members and the selected papers are coveted. ISSRE 2015 is soliciting original, unpublished research papers in three categories: (1) full research papers (2) practical experience reports and (3) Wild & provocative (WAP) ideas papers.

While full research manuscripts explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with extensive experimental results, practical experience reports are expected to provide an in-depth exposition of practitioner experiences and empirical studies. WAP papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas related to areas relevant to ISSRE, aiming at inspiring discussion among conference attendees and getting people thinking about open research challenges.

Manuscript page lengths (all in double column, IEEE conference style format):

* Research papers: 10 pages + 2 pages (for references and appendices)

* Experience reports: 10 pages + 2 pages (for references and appendices)

* WAP papers: 6 pages.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Reliability, availability, and safety of software systems
* Verification and validation
* Software quality
* Software security
* Dependability, fault tolerance, survivability, and resilience of software systems
* Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering
* Services reliability engineering (cloud services, problem reporting services)
* Engineering reliable adaptive, self-aware and self-* systems

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Authors will have a chance to rebut the reviews within 800 words over the period of July 27th-29th.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission (mandatory): May 28, 2015
Research Paper Submission: Jun 7, 2015
Rebuttal Period: July 27th - 29th, 2015
Notification: August 7, 2015
Camera Ready: September 4, 2015

Please visit http://issre.net for instructions on the submission of research papers.

2) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
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Workshops at ISSRE provide forums for interaction and information sharing between researchers and industrial practitioners. We invite workshop proposals on topics related to any area of interest to the ISSRE community. Workshops can follow different formats, ranging from traditional peer reviewed papers to sessions that seek solutions to specific challenging problems.

Proposal: May 8, 2015
Notification: May 22, 2015
Paper Submission: August 14, 2015
Paper Notification: September 4, 2015
Camera Ready: September 15, 2015

All accepted peer reviewed papers will appear in the IEEE Xplore. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for potential publication in a special issue of a high-impact international journal (approval pending).

Note: The CFP for industry papers, student doctoral program, fast abstracts, etc. will be advertised later at the conference website.

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Organizers
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General Chairs:
Jeff Voas, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Irena Bojanova, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), USA

Program Chairs:
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Program Managers:
Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada

Workshop Chairs:
Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Steering Committee
Ram Chillarege, Chair, Chillarege Inc, USA
Bojan Cukic, Vice Chair, West Virginia University, USA
Domenico Cotroneo, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Karama Kanoun, LAAS, CNRS, France
Veena Mendiratta, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, UK
Brian Robinson, ABB, USA
Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA

Please visit the ISSRE 2015 website http://issre.net/organizing-committee for the complete listing of all the chairs and program committee members.