Please consider participating in the
Software Experts Summit 2012: Mastering Uncertainty in the Software Industry: Risks, Rewards, and Reality
organized by the
IEEE Software magazine
June 26, 2012 at the British Computer Society in London
Deadline for early registration: register before May 15, 2012
http://www.computer.org/ses12
The level of uncertainty and complexity, as well as the rate of change, are growing in all aspects of business and the world around us. These forces are compelling the software community to quickly adapt its development approaches to enable success.
The Software Experts Summit 2012 will address many aspects of this theme. Speakers include:
Michael Feathers (Groupon) on Technical Debt, Process and Culture – the Hidden Linkages
Mike Andrews (Microsoft, Principal Security Strategist for Bing) on Systems, Tools, and Processes that Allow Bing to Scale
Christof Ebert (Vector Consulting Services) on Practical Decision-Making in Software Engineering and Its Business Relevance
Hakan Erdogmus (Kalemun Research) and John Favaro (Intecs SpA) on the Economic Perspective of Agile Software Development
Diomidis Spinellis (Athens University of Economics and Business, prior Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance on Theory meets reality: Managing IT Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance
Les Hatton (Oakwood Computing Association) on Software Defects, as well as
A Panel on the Impact of Software moderated by Michiel van Genuchten and Les Hatton with panelists from Microsoft, Shell International, and TomTom
The event is inexpensively priced (early registration is 100 GBP, normal registration is 120 GBP). Register BEFORE May 15, 2012 to get the early registration price.
If you are interested in trying out the digital edition of "IEEE Software" please visit the
IEEE Software site at Qmags. You can download a free sample digital copy of the Jan/Feb 2011 issue.
Please consider submitting to the
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. I serve as as a member of the editorial board.
The way in which software systems are conceived, built, and managed is changing profoundly. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) is the new peer-reviewed journal dealing with such changes, addressing the issues of software conception, development, management, evolution and improvement with a multidisciplinary view that encompasses technologies, processes, services, people, and organizations.
Borne from two parent journals (Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice and Software Process: Improvement and Practice) the new journal will continue and enrich the tradition of these journals, publishing high-quality and influential papers on the topics covered, and opening the door to new perspectives and insights.
Read the Editors’ introduction to JSEP
Please consider submitting to the
23rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2012) in Dallas, Texas, USA. I am on the program committee. Please submit your papers by May 18, 2012 (abstracts: May 11). The conference will be held in the week of November 27-30, 2012.
The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering is the premium conference in the area. Over the past 20+ years we have grown to be recognized as the voice of software reliability. ISSR 2012 is focused on innovative techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, and security of software products. ISSRE also emphasizes industrial relevance, rigorous empirical studies and experience reports.
Please consider submitting to
IEEE Software. I serve as associate editor for
Development Infrastructures and Tools.
IEEE Software's mission:
To build the community of leading software practitioners
This bimonthly magazine delivers reliable, useful, leading-edge software development information to keep engineers and managers abreast of rapid technology change. The authority on translating software theory into practice, the magazine positions itself between pure research and pure practice, transferring ideas, methods, and experiences among researchers and engineers. Peer-reviewed articles and columns by real-world experts illuminate all aspects of the industry, including process improvement, project management, development tools, software maintenance, Web applications and opportunities, testing, usability, and much more
Besides regular features articles, you can also submit articles to one of the upcoming special issues:
Bridging Software Communities through Social Networking, Due June 1.
The Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture, Due August 1.
Please consider submitting to the
First International Workshop on Software Mining (SoftMine 2012), co-located with KDD 2012 in Beijing, China. I am on the program committee of the workshop. Please submit your papers by May 14, 2012. The workshop will be held in the week of August 12-16, 2012.
The first International Workshop on Software Mining aims to bridge research in the data mining community and software engineering community by providing an open and interactive forum for researchers who are interested in software mining to discuss the methodologies and technical foundations of software mining, approaches and techniques for mining various types of software-related data, applications of data mining to facilitate specialized tasks in software engineering. The participants of diverse background in either data mining or software engineering can benefit from this workshop by sharing their expertise, exchanging ideas and discussing new research results.
Please consider submitting to the
28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) in Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. I am on the program committee. Please submit your papers by April 20, 2012 (abstracts: April 15). The conference will be held in the week of September 23-30, 2012.
ICSM is the premiere international venue in software maintenance and evolution, where participants from academia, government, and industry meet and share ideas and experiences for solving critical software maintenance problems. Besides technical papers, ICSM 2012 encourages the submission of contributions to the other tracks: Early Research Achievements (ERA), PhD Dissertations, Industry Track and Tool Demonstrations.
Please consider submitting to the
International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2012) in Xi'an, China. I am on the program committee. Please submit your papers by April 23, 2012. The conference will be held on August 27-28, 2012.
Designing and developing software systems that fulfil the requirements of different stakeholders is no simple matter. Quality assurance is required at each phase of the entire development process, starting from requirements elicitation, software architecture design, program design, and the eventual implementation of a system, since they are closely linked with each other. The quality of the artefacts from each development phase impacts on the rest of the system. The theme of QSIC 2012 is Engineering of Quality Systems. Under this theme, there are at least three major dimensions where research and investigations are ongoing. Firstly, quality assurance of artefacts such as software programs and software architecture design. Secondly, quality relationships between software development phases, for instance the quality of requirements and their impact on the quality of software architecture. Thirdly, codification and communication of knowledge and how they impact on software quality.
