19th IEEE International Conference AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ASE) ==================================== Linz, Austria, September 20-25, 2004 http://ase-conference.org/ The conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004) brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering. We invite contributions that address theoretical foundations, practical techniques, software tools, applications and/or experience reports in automated software engineering. ASE 2004 will include technical papers, invited talks, tutorials, workshops, panel discussions, and a doctoral symposium. General Chair ------------- Paul Grünbacher Johannes Kepler University Linz 4040 Linz, Austria gruenbacher@acm.org Program Chairs -------------- Virginie Wiels ONERA, France Virginie.Wiels@cert.fr Kurt Stirewalt Michigan State University, USA stire@cse.msu.edu sponsored by the Austrian Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGART, and ACM SIGSOFT Call for Papers --------------- Software engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. Automated software engineering is concerned with how to apply computation to automate or partially automate these tasks to achieve significant improvements in quality and productivity. We invite papers that address theoretical foundations, practical techniques, software tools, applications and/or experience reports in automated software engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Automated reasoning techniques - Category & Graph-theoretic approaches to software engineering - Component-based systems - Computer-supported cooperative work - Configuration management - Domain modeling and meta-modeling - Human computer interaction - Knowledge acquisition - Maintenance and evolution - Modeling language semantics - Ontologies and methodologies - Open systems development - Program understanding - Re-engineering - Reflection- and Metadata approaches - Requirements engineering - Reuse - Specification languages - Software architecture - Software design and synthesis - Software visualization - Testing - Tutoring, help, documentation systems - Verification and validation see http://ase-conference.org/papers.html Call for Workshops ------------------ Workshops are co-located with the conference. They should provide an opportunity for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results on topics related to software engineering research and applications. Workshops should not be seen as an alternative forum for presenting full research papers. The workshops co-located with the conference will be held either before or after the conference on 20th, 21st or 25th of September 2004. A workshop may last one or two days. Workshop Chairs George Spanoudakis City University, London, UK gespan@soi.city.ac.uk Stefan Tai IBM Research, USA stai@us.ibm.com see http://ase-conference.org/workshops.html Call for Tutorials ------------------ We invite half-day/full day tutorials addressing theoretical foundations, practical techniques, software tools, and applications in areas related to the ASE topics. A Tutorial program that gives attendees the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge and skills on evolving and emerging research topics in the area of automated software engineering will be an essential part of the ASE 2004. The Tutorials are scheduled for September 20 - 21, 2004 at the beginning of the ASE 2004 conference. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on a relevant theme, therefore no commercial or sales-oriented presentations will be accepted. Tutorial Chairs Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila, Italy inverard@di.univaq.it Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at see http://ase-conference.org/tutorials.html Call for Formal Tool Demonstrations ----------------------------------- The Formal Tool Demonstrations track is an important part of the conference with the goal to allow live presentation of new tool developments. Tools are central to automated software engineering. Hence, formal tool demonstrations will have a prominent role within the conference. We solicit proposals for formal tool demonstrations related to automated software engineering. Tools can range from alpha-versions to fully developed products that are being prepared for commercialisation. Commercial products and products that are currently being commercialised cannot be accepted. Formal demonstrations are intended to highlight scientific contributions, and consequently should not be sales pitches. For further clarification, please contact the Formal Tool Demonstrations Chairs. We want to specially encourage submitting tool demonstration proposals in addition to full scientific papers. Whereas the scientific paper is intended to give the background information and point out the scientific contribution of a new automated software engineering approach, the tool demonstration provides a good opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been transferred into a running tool prototype. Demo Chairs Herbert Prähofer Johannes Kepler University Linz hp@cast.uni-linz.ac.at Sebastian Uchitel Imperial College London, UK s.uchitel@doc.ic.ac.uk see http://ase-conference.org/demos.html Doctoral Symposium ------------------ The Doctoral Symposium seeks to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software engineering and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research with researchers in the ASE community in a constructive atmosphere. Specifically, the symposium aims to: - provide a setting whereby students receive feedback on their research and guidance on future directions from a broad group of advisors, - foster a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and - contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. The symposium is intended for students who have not yet completed their dissertation research and do not expect to write up their dissertation before the conference. If you are already writing your dissertation, or expect to be substantially done by the time of the symposium, we encourage you to submit your work as a full paper to the ASE conference.The Doctoral Symposium will be held on September 20th, two days before the main conference. Doctoral Symposium Chairs Andrea Zisman City University, London, UK A.Zisman@soi.city.ac.uk Tom Ellman Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York ellman@cs.vassar.edu see http://ase-conference.org/doctoral_symp.html Important Dates --------------- Submission of Technical Paper Abstracts: April 9, 2004 Submission of Technical Papers, Tutorials, Demos: April 14, 2004 Notification Technical Papers, Tutorials, Demos: June 4, 2004 Camera-ready papers: July 2, 2004 Doctoral symposium submission deadline: May 7, 2004 Doctoral symposium notification: June 4, 2004 ====================================== Publicity Chair --------------- Alexander Egyed Teknowledge Corp., USA aegyed@teknowledge.com http://sunset.usc.edu/~aegyed