Dear Colleague

I would like to remind you that the ICSM full paper submission deadline is approaching. ICSM (IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance), 2002, and associated workshops: SCAM, WSE, and WESS will be held next October 2002 in Montreal, Canada. Outstanding Keynotes such as Jon Pincus, Microsoft, Industrial and experience papers, research papers, tutorials, tool expositions, dissertation forum, workshops, panels, and other exciting activities have been planned.

We hope that this "Call For Papers" will be useful for your work. Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. Our apologies if you received multiple copy of this.

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ICSM2002

Giuliano Antoniol, Program CoChair Ira D. Baxter, Program CoChair

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IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2002 Sponsored by IEEE ICSM-2002, Montreal, Canada, 3-6 October 2002 http://www.icsm2002.org icsm2002.info(a)unisannio.it

Call for Papers

Theme: Maintaining distributed heterogeneous systems

ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management. This year's theme elaborates on last year's theme of "systems and software evolution in the era of the internet". Standalone legacy applications of yesterday and novel applications using today's technologies are rapidly becoming integrated as part of enterprise-wide and industry-wide systems. The need for rapid integration has led to many distributed heterogeneous systems that are very challenging to maintain and evolve.

ICSM 2002 will address these new scenarios and the major challenges of maintenance and evolution. The focus of the conference will be on the new challenges that heterogeneous systems pose for software maintenance, and the new opportunities for researchers and practitioners. A main goal of ICSM is to promote interaction between researchers and practitioners. ICSM 2002 will bring together researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers.

Jon Pincus (Microsoft) will describe how Microsoft handles software enhancements. Other outstanding Keynote speakers are being arranged. Past conferences have had Parnas, Rombach, McCabe, and Jacobson.

ICSM-2002 will offer technical presentations and demonstrations from academia and industry. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results that could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and the industrial community. ICSM 2002 will be participatory, with working collaborative sessions and presentations of industry projects.

The Conference will be held in conjunction with:

WESS -- Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance. SCAM -- Source Code Analysis and Manipulation WSE -- Workshop on WEBsite Evolution

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects of maintenance and evolution:

- Methods and theories - Maintenance and/or productivity metrics - Organizational frameworks - Preventive maintenance - Design for maintenance - Tools and environments - Life cycle and process control - Models/methods for error prediction - User interface evolution - Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) - Third party maintenance - Freeware and open source applications - Program comprehension - Software and system visualisation - Knowledge based systems - Measurement of software - Formal methods - Legal aspects and standards - Software reusability - Internet and distributed systems - Empirical studies - Testing and regression testing - Remote, tele-work - Version and configuration management - Processes and strategies - Management and organisation - Co-operative applications - Source code analysis and manipulation - Processes and strategies - Impact of new software practices - Programming languages - Reengineering and reverse engineering - Multimedia systems

RESEARCH PAPERS: Research papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software maintenance and evolution. Case studies, empirical research, and experiments are particularly welcome. We also welcome papers that present leading edge and novel ideas in maintenance. Papers must not exceed 5000 words (10 pages IEEE style) in length, in English. To encourage strong submissions a prize will be awarded for the "Best Paper as Submitted". This Prize is offered by John Wiley & Sons, the publishers of the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution. The Program Committee will select the winner and a formal presentation of the Prize will be made in Montreal at ICSM 2002.

FAST TRACK PAPERS: Fast Track papers should describe on-going research activities, or summarize the experience in software maintenance and evolution. Papers must not exceed 4 pages, IEEE style, in length, in English. Accepted fast-track papers will be included in a dedicated section of the conference proceedings.

DISSERTATION FORUM: We welcome submissions of young researchers that have delivered their dissertation (Masters or Ph.D.) in the last three years. An award will be issued for the best submission. Four page summaries of accepted dissertations will be included in the conference proceedings and a special forum section will be organised at the conference.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS: Proposals for presentations of Industrial Applications are welcome. These can be state-of-the-art descriptions, experience reports and survey reports from real projects, industrial practices and models, or tool demonstrations. A dedicated sub-committee of the program committee will review Industrial Application proposals and a 1-page summary of accepted proposals will be included in the conference proceedings.

TUTORIALS: Tutorials should present software maintenance and evolution topics of interest to practitioners. Tutorials may be full day or half-day in length.

SUBMISSION STYLE: PDF and/or Postscript electronic submission only. Papers longer than 15 pages or 6000 words will be returned to the authors. Acceptance notification will occur July 1, 2002.

IMPORTANT DATES

Research Papers deadline: 18 March 2002 mailto:icsm2002.full(a)unisannio.it

Fast Track Papers deadline: 1 May 2002 mailto:icsm2002.short(a)unisannio.it

Dissertation Forum deadline: 1 May 2002 mailto:icsm2002.thesis(a)unisannio.it

Industrial Applications deadline: 1 May 2002 mailto:icsm2002.industry(a)unisannio.it

Tutorials deadline: 18 March 2002 mailto:icsm2002.tutorial(a)unisannio.it