CALL FOR PAPERS

            Sixth European Software Engineering Conference

                             together with

 Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering


                              ESEC/FSE 97


           Zurich, Switzerland          September 22-25, 1997



   The Sixth European Software Engineering Conference will be held jointly
with the Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering. The combined conference will bring together professionals from
academia, business and industry to share information, evaluate results and
explore new ideas on software engineering models, languages, methods,
tools, processes, and practices. The conference will be preceded by a wide
range of tutorials on all aspects of software engineering.


Organized by
The ESEC Steering Committee

Sponsored by
- ACM SIGSOFT
- CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies)
- Swiss Informatics Society

Papers
   Original papers are solicited from all areas of software engineering.
Papers may report results of theoretical, empirical, or experimental work,
as well as experience with technology transfer. Topics of particular
interest are
*  Requirements Engineering     *  Software architectures
*  Testing and verification     *  Software components
*  Configuration management     *  Design patterns
*  Software process models      *  Metrics and evaluation
*  SE environments              *  Safety-critical systems

Submission of papers
   Submitted papers should be no longer than 6000 words and should include
a title page with a short abstract, list of keywords, and the authors'
addresses. Papers (6 copies) must be received by the Program Chair by
January 19, 1997. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by other
conferences or journals.
   Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee for originality,
significance, timeliness, soundness and quality of presentation. You should
make clear what is novel about your work and should compare it with related
work. Theoretical papers should show how their results relate to software
engineering practice; practical papers should discuss lessons learned and
the causes of success or failure.

Tutorials
   Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials related to the topics of
the conference are invited. The proposal should detail the purpose and
contents of the tutorial, the required audience background and the
qualifications of the presenter. For further information consult the
conference web pages.

Conference Location
   The conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, easily reachable by
air, by rail and by highway. Zurich is an international city with plenty of
cultural and sightseeing opportunities. The climate in Zurich is usually
mild and pleasant in September.

Important Dates
     Paper submissions due: January 19, 1997
     Tutorial submissions due: March 30, 1997
     Notification of acceptance: April 30, 1997
     Final versions of papers due: June 20, 1997


Chairs

Executive Chair: Helmut Schauer
                 Department of Computer Science
                 University of Zurich
                 Winterthurerstrasse 190
                 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
                 Phone +41-1-257 4340, Fax +41-1-363 00 35
                 E-mail: schauer@ifi.unizh.ch

Program Chair:   Mehdi Jazayeri
                 Distributed Systems Department
                 Technische Universitaet Wien
                 A-1040 Vienna, Austria
                 Phone +43-1-58801-4467, Fax +43-1-505 84 53
                 E-mail: jazayeri@tuwien.ac.at

Tutorials Chair: Dino Mandrioli
                 Politecnico di Milano
                 Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
                 I-20133 Milano, Italy
                 Phone +39-2-2399 3522, Fax +39-2-2399 3411
                 E-mail: mandriol@elet.polimi.it

Financial Chair: Walter Bischofberger
                 UBILAB
                 Union Bank of Switzerland
                 Bahnhofstrasse 45
                 CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland
                 Phone: +41-1-236 31 83, Fax: +41-1-236 46 71
                 E-mail: bischofberger@ubilab.ubs.ch

Local Arrangements Chair:
                 Martin Glinz
                 Department of Computer Science
                 University of Zurich
                 Winterthurerstrasse 190
                 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
                 Phone +41-1-257 45 70, Fax  +41-1-363 00 35
                 E-mail: glinz@ifi.unizh.ch


Program Committee Members

V. Ambriola (Italy)                 J. Kramer (United Kingdom)
A. Bertolino (Italy)                P. Kroha (Germany)
W. Bischofberger (Switzerland)      J. Kuusela (Finland)
P. Botella (Spain)                  A. van Lamsweerde (Belgium)
R. Conradi (Norway)                 A. Legait (France)
J.-C. Derniame (France)             G. Leon (Spain)
F. De Paoli (Italy)                 B. Magnusson (Sweden)
A. Di Maio (Belgium)                H.-P. Moessenboeck (Austria)
A. Finkelstein (United Kingdom)     H. Mueller (Canada)
A. Fuggetta (Italy)                 O. Nierstrasz (Switzerland)
D. Garlan (USA)                     H. Obbink (Netherlands)
C. Ghezzi (Italy)                   J. Palsberg (USA)
M. Glinz (Switzerland)              W. Schaefer (Germany)
V. Gruhn (Germany)                  I. Sommerville (United Kingdom)
K. Inoue (Japan)                    S. D. Swierstra (Netherlands)
G. Kappel (Austria)                 F. van der Linden (Netherlands)
R. Kemmerer (USA)                   S. Vignes (France)
R. Kloesch (Austria)                J. Welsh (Australia)


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