Software is playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day lives. Unfortunately, software systems often fail to deliver as promised. It is widely known that unresolved errors remain in many software systems that we are using every day.

QSIC 2007, to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, will provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners working towards improving the quality of software to present new results and exchange ideas in this challenging area. It will adhere to the style of previous QSIC conferences and will include co-located workshops. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the conference proceedings consisting of carefully reviewed manuscripts accepted by the program committee. Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a special journal issue.

QSIC originated as the Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS) and has evolved into an international conference since 2003. The six preceding conferences were held in Hong Kong (2000 and 2001), Dallas, USA (2003), Braunschweig, Germany (2004), Melbourne, Australia (2005), and Beijing, China (2006). They received overwhelming response from academia and industry. The top few amongst the accepted manuscripts were published for archival purposes in post-conference special issues of recognized international journals. More historical information regarding QSIC can be found here.

CALL FOR PAPERS     

QSIC 2007 solicits research papers, experience reports, and workshop papers on various aspects of quality software. See the topics of interests, paper submission guidelines, and workshops. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Each submission will be fully reviewed by independent reviewers and will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:

			Software testing: automation, conformance, strategies, tools, standards, economics, performance and robustness, processes and standards
			Software quality: management and assurance, measurement and benchmarking, review, inspection and walkthrough, reliability, safety and security
			Methods and tools: design tools, testing tools, information systems engineering, quality tools
			Evaluation of software products and components: static and dynamic analysis, validation and verification
			Information and knowledge management: economics of software quality, knowledge engineering
			Formal methods: program analysis, model checking, model construction, formal process models
			Component software and reuse: requirements engineering, software architecture, middleware and application servers, reflective systems
			Emerging technology: pervasive computing, service oriented computing, grid software, intelligent systems
			Applications: component-based systems, digital libraries, distributed systems, e-commerce, embedded systems, enterprise applications, information systems, multimedia, Web-based systems, safety critical systems

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

			Language: English
			Paper Length: long paper (maximum 10 pages) or short paper (maximum 6 pages)
			Font: no smaller than 10 pt
			Spacing: single line
			Format: pdf or postscript
			Submission: via paper submission page (closed)
			Contact Author: indicating the contact author if different from the first author
			The first page should include
			Type of submission: research paper or experience report Title of the paper Abstract: maximum 150 words Keywords: 3 to 6 Relevant Topics: maximum 3 Author Information: affiliation, post and email addresses, phone and fax numbers

WORKSHOPS

			First International Workshop on Software Test Evaluation

IMPORTANT DATES

CONFERENCE VENUE AND HOTEL RESERVATION

QSIC 2007 will be held at the University Place Hotel and Conference Center in Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

GENERAL CHAIR

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

STEERING COMMITTEE

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

ENQUIRIES

Please direct all enquiries to [email protected]