Call for Papers
7th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000)
Dec. 5-8, Singapore (Papers due: June 1st, 2000)

APSEC is the leading international conference to bring together researchers and practitioners on software engineering and technology in Asia-Pacific and the world. APSEC 2000 also includes the SE:E&P (Software Engineering: Education & Practice.
 
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Topics Important Dates Submission of Papers Workshop Proposals

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: requirements engineering and specifications, formal methods, software architecture and framework, object-oriented technologies, analysis and design methodology, design patterns, component-based development, reuse, domain modeling and analysis, software development environments and tools, software process, software project management, testing and verification, software reliability and quality assurance, software maintenance, software metrics, reverse engineering, education, safety/security critical systems, concurrent and distributed systems, reactive and real-time systems, development of emerging applications, software engineering issues in electronic commerce.

The submissions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality, and relevance to software concepts and technologies. The accepted papers will be published by IEEE and presented at the conference. Best papers will be recommended for publication in international journals on software engineering.

Important Dates

Papers due: Jun. 1, 2000
Workshop proposals due: Jun. 1, 2000
Acceptance Notification: Aug. 1, 2000
Camera ready due: Sep. 15, 2000

Submission of Papers

Submissions must be written in English and made in accordance to IEEE Computer Society's proceedings standards. Electronic submission of papers in PostScript format is strongly encouraged. Guidelines to help with the process can be found at

http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.
Complete instructions on page formatting may be found at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

Our anonymous ftp site for submitting papers can be found at ftp://ftp.nus.edu.sg. Use the /pub/tmp/apsec2k/upload directory. Please name your file with the last name(surname) followed by the initials of the first author listed on the paper. Please append a number if you are submitting more than one paper. We also ask that you send an e-mail message to

apsec2k@comp.nus.edu.sg
This message should state the fact that you have posted a file on our ftp site and include the following information Alternatively, five (5) copies of complete papers may be sent to the Programme Co-chair:
Dr Dong Jin Song
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge
Singapore 119260

Authors are invited to submit papers according to the submission guidelines below.

- Technical/Experience papers can be either full paper or short paper. Maximum length of full papers and short papers are respectively 5000 words and 2500 words.

- Technical papers should include innovative and original research ideas, empirical studies in the use of software engineering methods/tools, development of novel software engineering methodologies/tools, and surveys of related software engineering approaches and techniques.

- Experience reports should include industrial experience in software development, well-supported opinion on some aspect of software engineering, and description of experiences with software engineering methods/tools, models and techniques.

Workshop Proposals

Workshop proposals should be sent to John McCallum by e-mail in plain text of up to four pages, which should include theme, goals of the workshop, their relevance to the conference, structure of workshop (expected number of participants, workshop activities, and pre-workshop activities), and brief description of organizers' background. All the workshop participants are required to register the APSEC 2000, and APSEC 2000 will provide the facilities and service.