FASE'09
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

York, UK, 22 - 29 March, 2009


 

 

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Description
Call for Papers
Submission
Important Dates
Invited Speaker
Committees
ETAPS 2009







 

Conference Description

FASE is a member conference of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), which is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS 2009 is the twelfth joint conference in this series. The conference is organized by the University of York.

 

Call for Papers

The information society is increasingly reliant on software at all levels. Hence, the ability to produce software of high quality at low cost is crucial to technological and social progress. An intrinsic characteristic of software that integrates with real-world processes is the need to evolve in order to adjust to new or changing requirements. Maintaining quality while embracing change is one of the main challenges of software engineering. Software engineers have at their disposal theories, languages, methods, and tools that derive from both the systematic research of the academic community and the experience of practitioners. It is one of the roles of software engineering as a scientific discipline to foster feedback between academia and industry by proposing new solutions and evaluating the effectiveness of those solutions in practical contexts.

FASE is concerned with the foundations on which Software Engineering is built. Submissions should focus on novel techniques and the way in which they contribute to making Software Engineering a more mature and sound discipline. Contributions that combine the development of conceptual and methodological advances with their formal foundations and tool support are particularly encouraged. We welcome contributions on all such fundamental approaches, including:

  • Software Engineering as an engineering discipline, including its interaction with and impact on society;
  • Requirements engineering: capture, consistency, and change management of software requirements;
  • Software architectures: description and analysis of the architecture of individual systems or classes of applications;
  • Specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems: adaptive, collaborative, embedded, distributed, mobile, pervasive, or service-oriented applications;
  • Software quality: validation and verification of software using theorem proving, model-checking, testing, analysis, metrics or visualisation techniques;
  • Model-driven development and model-transformation: design and semantics of semi-formal visual languages, consistency and transformation of models;
  • Software processes: support for iterative, agile, and open source development;
  • Software evolution: refactoring, reverse and re-engineering, configuration management and architectural change, or aspect-orientation.

 

Submission

ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types of contributions will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference.

Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere (neither conference nor journal). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. All papers, especially research papers, should clearly identify their novel contributions to the domain of fundamental approaches to software engineering. One author of each accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper.

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferably) or PS (using Type 1 fonts). The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Final papers will be in the format specified by Springer-Verlag at the URL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers should be submitted via the web site of the FASE Conference Service, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fase09. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately, without review.

Research papers

Research papers will be not more than 15 pages long (including figures and references). Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices, and papers must be understandable without them.

Tool demonstration papers

Tool demonstration papers should describe novel and state-of-the-art tools. Submissions should consist of two parts. The first part, no more than 4 pages, should describe the tool presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool. This part will be included in the proceedings. The second part, no more than 6 pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. This part will not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated.

Important Dates

  • 2 October 2008 (23:59 Samoa time GMT-11) Submission deadline for abstracts (strict)
  • 9 October 2008 (23:59 Samoa time GMT-11) Submission deadline for full papers (strict)
  • 12 December 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection
  • 5 January 2008 (23:59 Samoa time GMT-11) Camera-ready version due (strict)
  • 22 March - 29 March 2009 ETAPS 2009

    ETAPS deadlines are strict. Making the deadline for submission of abstracts a week early allows the programme committee to start work before full versions are available.

    Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the final deadline will be treated as withdrawn.

Invited Speaker

Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh (UK)

Committees

Programme Co-Chairs

Programme Committee

  • Michel Bidoit, INRIA Saclay (France)
  • Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
  • Jim Davies, University of Oxford (UK)
  • Jürgen Dingel, Queen's University (Canada)
  • Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
  • Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
  • José Fiadeiro, University of Leicester (UK)
  • Harald C. Gall, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
  • Dimitra Giannakopolou, RIACS/NASA Ames (USA)
  • Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester (UK)
  • Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota (USA)
  • Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila (Italy)
  • Alexander Knapp, University of Augsburg (Germany)
  • Angelika Mader, University of Twente (Netherlands)
  • TSE Maibaum, McMaster University (Canada)
  • Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam (Germany)
  • Fabio Massacci, University of Trento (Italy)
  • Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy (France)
  • Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo (Norway)
  • Richard Paige, University of York (UK)
  • Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
  • Koushik Sen, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
  • Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  • Gabriele Taentzer, University of Marburg (Germany)
  • Ladan Tahvildari, University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Sebastian Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Dániel Varró, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)

Steering Committee

  • Tiziana Margaria, Universität Potsdam (Germany)
  • Hartmut Ehrig, Technical University of Berlin(Germany)
  • Michel Wermelinger, Open University (UK)
  • Maura Cerioli, University of Genova (Italy)
  • Luciano Baresi, Politecnico de Milano (Italy)
  • Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester (UK)
  • Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska (USA)
  • Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon (Portugal)