APAQS 2000 Call for Papers

APAQS

APAQS  2OOO

FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC
CONFERENCE ON
QUALITY SOFTWARE

NEW WORLD RENAISSANCE HOTEL
KOWLOON, HONG KONG
OCTOBER 3O-31, 2OOO

 
  CALL FOR PAPERS

We are soliciting full-length research papers and experience reports on various aspects of software testing or quality assurance. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

o Automated software testing
o Configuration management and version control
o Conformance testing
o Debugging
o Economics of software testing
o Formal methods
o Metrics and measurement
o Performance testing
o Process assessment and certification
o Quality management
o Quality measurement and benchmarking
o Reliability
o Review, inspection, and walkthroughs
o Robustness testing
o Safety and security
o Testability
o Testing tools
o Testing standards
o Testing of object-oriented software
o Testing of real-time systems
o Testing processes
o Testing strategies
o Application areas such as e-commerce, component-based systems, digital libraries, distributed systems, embedded systems, enterprise applications, information systems, Internet, mobile applications, multimedia, and Web-based systems

All the papers submitted to the conference will be refereed by three members of the program committee according to technical quality, originality, significance, clarity of presentation, and appropriateness for the conference.

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California.

Selected papers of the conference may be published in a Special Issue on Quality Software of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

 
  SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Manuscripts should be full-length papers in English, double-spaced, and must not exceed 20 pages. Both electronic and hard copy submissions will be accepted, although electronic submissions are preferred. Manuscripts must not have been submitted or published elsewhere.

 
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

An electronic copy of the manuscript should be emailed to the conference account apaqs@cs.hku.hk, to reach us by April 5, 2000.

Electronic submission must be in PDF or portable Postscript format with no encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use bitmapped versions of fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Some printer drivers have settings that directly address the portability issue, offering the options for "optimizing speed" or "optimizing portability". You should select the "optimize for portability" setting(s) wherever possible. Word processor or LaTeX source files will not be accepted.

 
HARD-COPY MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Six hard copies of the manuscript should be sent to one of the program co-chairs below, to reach him by April 5, 2000. In addition, an abstract in plain text, not more than 150 words in length, should be emailed to the conference account apaqs@cs.hku.hk, to reach us by the same deadline.

 

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