Track Organizers

Muhammad Ali Babar
(Lero, Ireland)

Stefan Biffl
(Vienna University of Technology)

Paul Grünbacher
(Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Klaus Schmid
(University of Hildesheim, Germany)

Program Committee

Aurum, A. (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Breu, R. (Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria)
Brügge, B. (Technische Universität München)
Chaudron, M. (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Daneva, M. (Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands)
Demirörs, O. (Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
Egyed, A. (J. Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria)
Franch, X. (Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Gruhn, V. (Univ. Leipzig, Germany)
Höst, M. (Lund University, Sweden)
Houdek, F. (Daimler Chrysler Research, Germany)
Kneuper, R. (Kneuper Consulting, Germany)
Münch, J. (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Niazi, M. (Keele University, UK)
Oivo, M. (VTT Electronics, Finland)
Paech, B. (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Pfahl, D. (Simula Research Lab Oslo, Norway)
Ramler, R. (SCCH Hagenberg, Austria)
Rausch, A. (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Richardson, I. (Lero, Ireland)
Ruhe, G. (U Calgary, Canada)
Russo, B. (Free University Bolzano, Italy)
Sulzbacher, K. (Siemens)
van Solingen, R. (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Track on SoftwareProcess and Product Improvements (SPPI)

The size, complexity, and criticality of software-intensive systems require innovative and economic approaches to software development and evolution. In today's competitive world software quality is a key to success and stability. Software process and product improvement aims at significantly increasing both the quality of systems and the productivity of software development. The SPPI conference track will bring together researchers and practitioners to share SPPI innovations and experiences.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Organizational and business views to process improvement
• Value-based software engineering
• Software process assessment and improvement
• Process modeling, composition, and enactment
• Quantitative models for development processes and products
• Global software engineering
• Agile development
• Software reuse and product lines
• Dependability, safety, security, usability
• Quality assurance, inspections, testing
• Software evolution
• Innovative approaches to software development
• Empirical studies and experimental approaches

In particular, we encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of SPPI approaches through case studies, experiments, and quantitative data.

This track is an integral part of the 35nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2009. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Submission of papers

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their paper using the conference submission system.

Papers must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE/CS proceedings format (8.5" x 11", two-column format) and include an abstract of up to 150 words. Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. If accepted, the paper must be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2009 Conference by an author. At least one author must pre-register for the conference before the due date of the camera-ready paper.

Special Sessions

There will be a special session on open-source software development lead by Tommi Mikkonen and a special session on software management lead by Onur Demirors. Both special sessions are strongly related to the SPPI track.

Important dates

Submission of papers: March 16th, 2009 DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 27th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2009
Camera-ready paper due: May 26, 2009
Conference: August 27-29, 2009

Conference Venue

Patras, Greece