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  Fifth International Workshop on

  Software Quality and Maintainability

  "Bridging the gap between end user expectations, 
  vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' 
  requirements on the ground."

  SQM 2011, satellite event of IEEE CSMR 2011
  Oldenburg, 1-4 March 2011
  http://sqm2011.sig.eu/


BACKGROUND

Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. Not only do
people rely on it for their daily operations or business, but for
their lives as well. For this reason, correct and consistent behavior
of software systems is a fundamental part of end user expectations.
Additionally, businesses require cost-effective production,
maintenance, and operation of their systems. Thus, the demand for good
quality software is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator
for the success or failure of a software product. In fact, high
quality software 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 been formulated in
standards such as ISO/IEC-9126 and CMMI. However, the debate about
quality and maintainability between software producers, vendors and
users is ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate the
software systems that they use or develop from multiple angles.

So, is "Software quality in the eye of the beholder"? This workshop
session aims at feeding into this debate by establishing what the
state of the practice and the way forward is.


SUBMISSION

We are pleased to invite paper submissions for a workshop in the IEEE
15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
(http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/csmr2011/) on Software Quality and
Maintainability. We are looking for research and empirical
contributions in areas including, but not limited to the following:

1. Software quality attributes
2. Software measurement
3. Software maintainability
4. Software evolution
5. Software quality assessment practice and automation
6. Software quality standards
7. Software quality certification
8. Software measurement data analysis
9. Experience reports

We solicit short position papers or long papers with a maximum length
of 10 pages, following the IEEE Computer Society formatting guidelines
(see http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) by the 5th
of January 2011.

See the website for further submission details (http://sqm2011.sig.eu/).

All accepted workshop papers will be edited and included on a digital
medium (USB stick) that will accompany the CSMR 2011 proceedings.
After the workshop, all authors of accepted papers will be invited to
submit a final version of the paper for formal publication.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission:            17 December, 2010
Paper submission:                5 January,  2011
Notification of acceptance:     21 January,  2011
Camera ready submission:         4 February, 2011
Workshop date:                   1 March,    2011


ORGANISATION

Workshop Chairs
Magiel Bruntink, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands
Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Publicity Chair: Miguel Alexandre Ferreira, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands

Programma committee
Arpad Beszedes                  University of Szeged, Hungary
Andrea De Lucia                 University of Salerno, Italy
Florian Deissenboeck            Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Massimiliano Di Penta           University of Sannio, Italy
Juergen Ebert                   University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Slinger Jansen                  Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Rainer Koschke                  University of Bremen, Germany
Robert Lagerstroem              the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Radu Marinescu                  Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Liam O'Brien                    National ICT Australia Limited, Australia
Ladan Tahvildari                University of Waterloo, Canada
Arie van Deursen                Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Jurgen Vinju                    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the Netherlands
Joost Visser                    Software Improvement Group, the Netherlands
Carl Worms                      Credit Suisse, Switzerland
Hongyu Zhang                    Tsinghua University, China


CONTACT
For more information please contact: sqm2011@sig.eu