CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering (WASE'16)

Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/wase
E-mail: wase2016@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WASE 2016 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems
Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

The aim of the WASE workshop is to share knowledge about the role and the impact of the human factors in the software development process and to promote affective computing methods applications in the field of software engineering. Workshop welcomes submissions on social aspects of software development and design, as well as methods and tools development for affect recognition, interpretation and expression for software engineering.

TOPICS
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- Affective aspects of software engineering
- Affect-oriented project management methods
- Software developers motivation methods and techniques
- Risks arising from the human factors in software development
- Influence of emotional states on IT projects
- Human-human interaction in software development process
- Monitoring the emotions of the IT project stakeholders
- Architecture's patterns and models for affective systems
- Affect-awareness in intelligent systems
- Mechanisms for affect-aware control
- User affect interpretation and analysis
- Usability and user experience evaluations based on emotion analysis
- Affective patterns, stereotypes and interventions


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Wróbel, Michał, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Begel, Andrew, Visualization and Interaction in Business and Entertainment Group, Microsoft Research
- Destefanis, Giuseppe, Brunel University, London
- Feldt, Robert, Software Engineering Research Lab, Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Fucci, Davide, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland
- Graziotin, Daniel, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Gunes, Hatice, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jurado, Francisco, Computer Engineering Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Kołakowska, Agata, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications And Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology
- Kuhrmann, Marco, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute & Center for Energy Informatics, University of Southern Denmark
- Landowska, Agnieszka, Gdansk University of Technology
- Madeyski, Lech, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
- Méndez, Daniel, Institut für Informatik, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Miler, Jakub, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications And Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
- Müller, Sebastian, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
- Novielli, Nicole, Department of Informatics, University of Bari
- Parnin, Christopher, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
- Radliński, Łukasz, Faculty of Informatics, West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin
- Schuller, Björn, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Germany
- Susłow, Walery, Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
- Szwoch, Mariusz, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications And Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology
- Szwoch, Wioleta, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications And Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology
- Volpe, Gualtiero, InfoMus Lab, University of Genova, Italy


CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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