Call for Papers (Special Session on Software Management, SM)

In this special session, we invite researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss new ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software management which will address challenges in:

Software project planning

Software activity planning

Software measurement/estimation

Size/effort/cost
Productivity analysis

Project monitoring and control
Project management and software quality
Configuration management
Risk management
Human resource management
Integration management
Communications management
Project evaluation
Contract management

Subcontract management
Customer-contractor relationship management

In particular, we encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by means of empirical studies.

Special Session Organizers

Onur Demirörs
Middle East Technical University
demirors@ii.metu.edu.tr

Çigdem Gencel
Middle East Technical University
cgencel@ii.metu.edu.tr

Session Program Committee

Abran, A. (École de technologie supérieure - Université du Québec, Canada)
Buglione, L. (École de technologie supérieure - Université du Québec, Canada)
Dekkers, C. (Quality Plus Technologies, USA)
Dorling A. (Impronova, Sweden)
Frailey, D. J. (Raytheon, USA)
Forselius P. (Software Technology Transfer Finland Oy, Finland)
Grünbacher, P. (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Santillo, L. (Independent Consultant, Italy)

Submission of papers for publication with IEEE/CS:

This session is an integral part of the 33nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2007. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and including an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, email address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the EUROMICRO conference proceedings by IEEE.

The following statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Camera-ready forms by June 9th 2007, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2007 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2007 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper."

Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper as a PDF file electronically at http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/sppi2007. Authors should specify "submission to special session on software management" in the "Comments to Chair" field.

Important Dates

Submission of papers: March 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2007
Camera-ready paper due: June 9, 2007

The EUROMICRO time schedule applies to this special session, for updated information please refer to http://em2007.uni-kl.de/dates.shtml.

Conference Venue

The 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) and the 10th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 2007 take place at:

Mövenpick Hotel
Willy-Brandt-Allee 1-5
23554 Lübeck
Germany