- The conference hotel has free wireless Internet access available - hotel guests without a wireless card can borrow one from the hotel upon paying a refundable deposit (posted on August 29, 2005)
- The details of how to get to the conference hotel are available in the "Travel and Hotel" page (posted on August 24, 2005)
- The conference program (both QSIC and all Workshops) is now online (posted on August 19, 2005)
- Conference registration form is online. (posted on July 8, 2005)
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BACKGROUND
Software is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life.
Unfortunately, software systems often fail to deliver according to promises.
It is well known that there are still unresolved errors in many of the software
systems that we are using every day.
The aim of the QSIC series of conferences is to provide a forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners working on improving the quality of software,
to present new results and exchange ideas in this challenging area.
It originated as the Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS).
The four preceding conferences were held in 2000 (Hong Kong), 2001 (Hong Kong),
2003 (Dallas, USA), and 2004 (Braunschweig, Germany), respectively,
and received overwhelming responses from academia as well as industry.
Each conference publishes a proceedings with IEEE Computer Society Press
and a post-conference special issue with a recognized internationally journal.
More historical information can be found at
http://www.cs.hku.hk/~tse/qx05history.html.
QSIC 2005 will be held in Melbourne, Australia.
It will adhere to the style of previous conferences.
In addition, it will be expanded to include workshops.
CALL FOR
PAPERS
QSIC 2005 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. All submissions
will be fully reviewed by at least two 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.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their
articles to a Special Issue on Quality Software of
International
Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering .
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:
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Software testing: automation, conformance, strategies, tools, standards, economics, performance and robustness, processes and standards | |
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Software quality: management and assurance, measurement and benchmarking, review, inspection and walkthrough, reliability, safety and security | |
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Methods and tools: design tools, testing tools, information systems engineering, quality tools | |
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Evaluation of software products and components: static and dynamic analysis, validation and verification | |
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Information and knowledge management: economics of software quality, knowledge engineering | |
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Formal methods: program analysis, model checking, model construction, formal process models | |
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Adaptive software: architecture, quality of service, theoretical foundation | |
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Emerging technology: software for ubiqutous computing, service computing, mobile computing | |
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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
Manuscripts should be typeset in English, and can be submitted as either long papers (within 3000-5000 words, but not exceeding 8 pagess, typeset in fonts no smaller than 10pt with single-line spacing) or short papers (less than 3000 words and no more than 5 pages). The cover page of the manuscript should include:
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the type of submission (research paper or experience report), | |
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the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords, | |
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three most relevant topics, preferably chosen from the above list of topics of interests, | |
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the affiliation, correspondence address, email address, phone and fax numbers of each author, indicating the contact author if different from the first author. |
Submissions need to be carried out electronically via the web pages available here. Papers must be submitted as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript, or in PDF format. In case this requirement is a difficulty please contact the program co-chairs by sending an email.
IMPORTANT DATES
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| June 22, 2005 | Notification of Authors | |
| July 22, 2005 | Deadline for Camera-Ready Versions | |
| September 19-20, 2005 | Conference |
ORGANIZERS
| Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | ||
| The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
GENERAL CHAIR
| Dr Douglas G Mitchell | Former Chancellor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
STEERING COMMITTEE
| Chair | ||
| T.H. Tse |
The
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong thtse@cs.hku.hk |
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| Members | ||
| T.Y. Chen | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | |
| Hans-Dieter Ehrich | Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany | |
| Huimin Lin | Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Peter C. Poole | Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| C.V. Ramamoorthy | University of California at Berkeley, USA | |
| Stephen S. Yau | Arizona State University, USA | |
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Program Co-Chairs | ||
| Kai-Yuan Cai |
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China kycai@buaa.edu.cn |
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| Atsushi Ohnishi |
Ritsumeikan University, Japan ohnishi@cs.ritsumei.ac.jp |
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| Members | Doo-Hwan Bae | Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea | Antonia Bertolino | Italian National Research Council, Italy | Maarten Boasson | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Keith C.C. Chan | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | |
| W.K. Chan | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| Carl Chang | Iowa State University, USA | |
| Jason Chen | National Central University, Taiwan | |
| S.C. Cheung | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong | |
| William C.-C. Chu | Tunghai University, Taiwan | |
| Takeshi Chusho | Meiji University, Japan | |
| Bojan Cukic | West Virginia University, USA | |
| Jin Song Dong | National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
| Roger Duke | The University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Jose Fiadeiro | University of Leicester, UK | |
| Kokichi Futatsugi | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan | |
| Wolfgang Grieskamp | Microsoft Research, USA | |
| Volker Gruhn | Universitat Dortmund, Germany | |
| Jun Han | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | |
| Xudong He | Florida International University, USA | |
| Brian Henderson-Sellers | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia | |
| Ho-Won Jung | Korea University, Korea | |
| Karama Kanoun | LAAS-CNRS, France | |
| Ed Kazmierczak | The University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| Kouichi Kishida | Software Research Associates, Japan | |
| Bodgan Korel | Illinois Institute of Technology, USA | |
| Richard Lai | La Trobe University, Australia | |
| Insup Lee | University of Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Shaoying Liu | Hosei University, Japan | |
| Jian Lu | Nanjing University, China | |
| Michael Lyu | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| Aditya Mathur | Purdue University, USA | |
| Hong Mei | Peking University, China | |
| Takako Nakatani | SLagoon, Japan | |
| Jeff Offutt | George Mason University, USA | |
| Amit Paradkar | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA | |
| Ray Paul | Department of Defense, USA | |
| Pak-Lok Poon | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | |
| Isidro Ramos | Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain | |
| Per Runeson | Lund University, Sweden | |
| Motoshi Saeki | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | |
| Klaus-Dieter Schewe | Massey University, New Zealand | |
| Heinz Schmidt | Monash University, Australia | |
| Paul Strooper | The University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Markus Stumptner | University of South Australia, Australia | |
| Tetsuo Tamai | University of Tokyo, Japan | |
| Barrie Thompson | University of Sunderland, UK | |
| Jeffrey Tsai | University of Illinois at Chicago, USA | |
| Wei-Tek Tsai | Arizona State University, USA | |
| June Verner | University of New South Wales, Australia | |
| Ji Wang | Changsha Institute of Technology, China | |
| Eric Wong | University of Texas at Dallas, USA | |
| Martin Woodward | University of Liverpool, UK | |
| Min Xie | National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
| Baowen Xu | Southeast University, China | |
| Qiwen Xu | University of Macau, Macau | |
| Hongji Yang | De Montfort University, UK | |
| Y.T. Yu | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| Jian Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Hong Zhu | Oxford Brookes University, UK | |
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
| Organizing Committee Chair | Yun Yang |
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia yyang@it.swin.edu.au |
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| Publicity Chair | Edmonds M.F. Lau |
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia elau@it.swin.edu.au |
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| Doug Grant | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | ||
| John Grundy | Auckland University, New Zealand | ||
| Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring | Oldenburg University, Germany | ||
| Katsuhisa Maruyama | Ritsumeikan University, Japan | ||
| Jun Shen | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | ||
| Kang Zhang | University of Texas at Dallas, USA | ||
| Chen Zhao | Institute of Software, CAS, China | ||
| Zhi Quan (George) Zhou | University of Wollongong, Australia | ||
Please direct all enquiries to qsic2005@ict.swin.edu.au
RELATED CONFERENCES
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Knowledge Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, July 14-16, 2005
COMPSAC 2005 - The 29th Annual International Computer Software
and Applications Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 25-28, 2005
ISSRE 2005 - The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability
Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, November 8-11, 2005