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Special session
System Quality and Maintainability: bridging the gap between end user expectations, vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' requirements on the ground.
Call for Papers
Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. Not only people rely on it for their daily operations or business, but for their lives as well. For this reason a correct and consistent behaviour of a software system is a fundamental part of users’ expectations. Therefore the demand for software quality is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator which can determine the success or failure of a software product. Moreover delivering high quality products is becoming not just a competitive advantage but a necessary factor for companies to be successful. The main question that arises now is how quality is measured. What, where and when we assess and assure quality, are still open issues. Many views have been expressed about software quality attributes, including maintainability, evolvability, portability, robustness, reliability, usability, and efficiency. These have formulated standards such as the ISO/IEC-9126 and CMM. However, the debate about quality and maintainability between software producers, vendors and users is ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate from multiple angles the software systems that they use or develop. So, is "Software quality is in the eye of the beholder"? This special session aims at feeding into this debate by establishing what the state of the practice and the way forward is.
Expected Topics include but are not limited to:
We are looking for research and empirical contributions in areas including, but not limited to the following:
Who is this for?
In this session, the key concept and aim is at giving the opportunity to researchers to present their original work on issues pertaining to system quality and maintainability and how to bridge the gap between end user expectations, vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' requirements on the ground.
There are no restrictions regarding the background of the participants. Thus, both researchers and practitioners are welcomed.
Paper Submission
Please submit short position papers or long papers; they should be in the standard IEEE double column format and have a minimum length of 2 and a maximum length of 10 pages, by 28 January 2007. Electronic submissions by email to
makri@ceid.upatras.gr.
If accepted, the authors may be required to make minor changes. All accepted workshop papers will be edited
and bound together into a common proceedings volume, which will only be distributed to the workshop attendees.
| Submissions due | January 28, 2007 |
| Notification of acceptance | February 10, 2007 |
| Final manuscript due | February 20, 2007 |
Location
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (see main
CSMR 2007 site)
Provisional Programme
14:00-14:25: Β· P. Johnson, R. Lagerstrom, P. Narman and M. Simonsson, System Quality Analysis with Extended Influence Diagrams
14:25-14:50: Β· H. J. van den Brink, R. C. van der Leek, Quality metrics for SQL
queries embedded in host languages
14:50-15:10 Β· T. Kuipers, Maintainability Index Revisited (short paper)
15:10-15:35: Β· P. Antonellis, D. Antoniou, E. Theodoridis, Y. Kanellopoulos, C. Makris, C. Tjortjis, N. Tsirakis,
A Data Mining Methodology for Evaluating Maintainability according to ISO/IEC-9126 Software
Engineering-Product Quality Standard
15:35-16:00: Break
16:00-16:20: Β· N. Boffoli, D. Caivano, Toward a Process Monitoring Automation: a
Proposal
16:20-17:00: Discussion
17:00-18:00: Common Panel
Workshop's Electronic Files
Slides
Photos
Special Session Organisers
Session Chair: C. Tjortjis, University of Manchester, UK
Programme Chair: C. Makris, University of Patras, Greece
Session Vice-Chair: Y. Kanellopoulos, University of Manchester, U.K.
Publicity Chair: N. Tsirakis, University of Patras, Greece
Program Committee
D. Caivano, University of Bari, Italy
P. Sampaio, University of Manchester, UK
A. Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece
V. Tzerpos, University of York, Canada
A. Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece
Organising and Local Arrangements Committee
E. Theodoridis, University of Patras, Greece
D. Antoniou, University of Patras, Greece
P. Antonelis, University of Patras, Greece
E. Sakkopoulos, University of Patras & RA Computer Technology Institute
More Information
Christos Makris, (Programme Chair)
University of Patras, Greece
email: makri@ceid.upatras.gr
and
Christos Tjortjis (Session Chair)
University of Manchester, UK
email: christos.tjortjis@manchester.ac.uk>
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