________________________________________________________________________ THE FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON QUALITY SOFTWARE (APAQS 2000) New World Renaissance Hotel Kowloon, Hong Kong October 30-31, 2000 http://www.csis.hku.hk/~apaqs ________________________________________________________________________ Revised Call for Papers ________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZERS - The Software Engineering Group, The University of Hong Kong - Software Technology Centre, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong SPONSORS - IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter - The British Computer Society Hong Kong Section - Software Dioxide from QAI ________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND The quality of software has an important bearing on the financial and safety aspects in our daily lives. 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 Asia-Pacific region is far from being immune to these problems. The prime objective of the conference is to provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from this region to address this issue seriously. ________________________________________________________________________ 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: - Automated software testing - Reliability - Configuration management and - Review, inspection, and version control walkthroughs - Conformance testing - Robustness testing - Debugging - Safety and security - Economics of software testing - Testability - Formal methods - Testing tools - Metrics and measurement - Testing standards - Performance testing - Testing of object-oriented - Process assessment and software certification - Testing of real-time systems - Quality management - Testing processes - Quality measurement and - Testing strategies benchmarking - 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 mailto:apaqs@csis.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 mailto:apaqs@csis.hku.hk, to reach us by the same deadline. - Dr. T.H. Tse Department of Computer Science and Information Systems The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong Email: mailto:thtse@hku.hk Fax: +852 / 2559 8447 Telephone: +852 / 2859 2183 - Professor T.Y. Chen School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn 3122 Australia Email: mailto:tychen@it.swin.edu.au ________________________________________________________________________ FURTHER INFORMATION More details of the conference are accessible at the Web site http://www.csis.hku.hk/~apaqs. Please feel free to contact us for any queries. We can be reached by email at mailto:apaqs@csis.hku.hk. ________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES - April 5, 2000 Deadline for submission - June 5, 2000 Notification of acceptance - July 20, 2000 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts - August 15, 2000 Deadline for early bird registration - August 30, 2000 Deadline for hotel booking - October 30-31, 2000 Conference ________________________________________________________________________ COMMITTEES GENERAL CHAIR - Mr. Danny Tang General Manager of Information Technology Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, Hong Kong KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Professor Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University, USA - Mr. K.H. Lau Director of Information Technology Services The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-Chairs - T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - T.Y. Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Members - Mikio Aoyama, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan - Paul Bailes, University of Queensland, Australia - Maarten Boasson, Hollandse Signaalapparaten BV, The Netherlands - Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, UK - Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China - K.P. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Huo Yan Chen, Jinan University, China - Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong - William Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan - Doug Grant, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Jifeng He, United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau - Lucas C.K. Hui, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - S.L. Hung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - John Jenkins, Middlesex University, UK - Kouichi Kishida, Software Research Associates, Japan - David Kung, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA - H.F. Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Hareton Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan - Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia - Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK - Wei-Tek Tsai, University of Minnesota, USA - Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Qiwen Xu, United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau - Chris C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Chair: F.T. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Vice-Chair: Karl R.P.H. Leung, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong - Secretary: M.F. Lau, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Treasurer: Wai Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong - Registration: Emily Chui, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong - Local Arrangements: P.K. Wong, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong ________________________________________________________________________