************************************************************** **** CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS **** *** *** ** S I G S O F T ' 9 8 ** * * * Sixth International Symposium on * * the Foundations of Software Engineering * * (FSE-6) * * * * Hotel Royal Plaza at Walt Disney World Village * * Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA * * November 1-5, 1998 * * * * * ** ** *** *** **** Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT **** ************************************************************** The FSE-6 symposium brings together researchers and professionals from academia and industry to discuss new research results and explore new ideas that address the challenges of software engineering. The FSE-6 symposium is part of ACM SIGSOFT '98, which also includes the Third International Software Architecture Workshop (ISAW-3) and a Tutorial Program. The most up to date information about all SIGSOFT '98 events is available at the conference Web site: TECHNICAL PAPERS Papers may report results of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work, as well as experience with technology transition. Topics for technical papers include, but are not limited to: Safety Software engineering tools Design and environments Testing Metrics and Design patterns empirical software engineering Software Component-oriented Software evolution process software engineering Software Languages for Reuse and architectures software engineering reengineering Requirements Reasoning about Analysis of engineering software artifacts software artifacts Original results that bear on these and related topics are solicited. Prospective authors should send an abstract by ASCII email to the program chair by APRIL 6, 1998. The message should include: (1) names of authors and their institutional affiliations; (2) paper title and abstract; (3) designated corresponding author, including postal mailing address, email address and telephone number; and (4) a statement certifying that the submission is original and is not being simultaneously submitted to another forum. Papers should be submitted to the program chair to arrive by APRIL 14, 1998. Submissions should include a hard copy of the emailed abstract and 7 stapled copies of the paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages in length (using 10pt fonts or larger) and should be printed double-sided, if possible. Accepted final papers must be in the ACM proceedings format. Authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. EVALUATION Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, and clarity. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are encouraged to consult with the program chair. Papers should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and what is important related work. Papers must describe work that has not previously been published in a major forum. TUTORIALS We solicit proposals for a variety of half-day tutorials. Potential topics include the same topics listed above for Technical Papers. Tutorial proposals, not to exceed 5 pages, are due to the tutorials chair by APRIL 30, 1998. Contact the tutorials chair for a proposal template and for information on details to be included in proposals. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due by email: April 6, 1998 (New Deadline!) Paper submissions due: April 14, 1998 (New Deadline!) Tutorial submissions due: April 30, 1998 Authors notified: June 25, 1998 Final papers due: August 13, 1998 GENERAL CHAIR Leon J. Osterweil Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 USA ljo@cs.umass.edu +1 413-545-2186 PROGRAM CHAIR William L. Scherlis School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA scherlis@cs.cmu.edu +1 412-268-8741 TUTORIALS CHAIR Martin Griss Hewlett Packard Laboratories USA +1 650-857-8715 (voice) +1 650-813-3668 (fax) griss@hpl.hp.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Laura K. Dillon, Michigan State University Jacky Estublier, Grenoble University, France Kokichi Futatsugi, JAIST Marie-Claude Gaudel, L.R.I, Universite de Paris-Sud and C.N.R.S. Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano Carl A. Gunter, University of Pennsylvania James Hook, Oregon Graduate Institute Daniel Jackson, MIT Daniel Le Metayer, IRISA/INRIA Oscar Nierstrasz, Universitaet Bern David Rosenblum, University of California, Irvine Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University Wilhelm Schaefer, University of Paderborn Richard N. Taylor, University of California at Irvine Axel van Lamsweerde, University of Louvain and SRI Steve Vestal, Honeywell Technology Center Daniel Weise, Microsoft Research Michal Young, University of Oregon Pamela Zave, AT&T Laboratories - Research PUBLICITY CHAIR David S. Rosenblum University of California, Irvine dsr@ics.uci.edu LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Will Tracz Lockheed Martin Federal Systems Will.Tracz@lmco.com TREASURER Greg Johnson Northrop Grumman johnson@nrtc.northrop.com