The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are models of software and software engineering activities. ASE-99 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience relevant to automating software engineering activities. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to

• (Software) Architectures
• Automated software specification and analysis
• Automating software design and synthesis
• Category-theoretic approaches
• Computer-supported cooperative work, groupware
• Domain modeling
• Knowledge acquisition
• Maintenance and evolution
• Process and workflow management
• Program understanding
• Re-engineering
• Requirements engineering
• Reuse
• Testing
• Tutoring, Help, and Documentation Systems
• User interfaces and human-computer interaction
• Verification and validation

The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, formerly called the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of automated reasoning and knowledge representation to software engineering problems. In conjunction with the name change two years ago, the scope of the conference expanded to encourage international participation and to reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods, partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support, requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, or verification & validation.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition, several of the highest quality papers will be selected for a special issue of The Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE-99 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, and project demonstrations for which separate calls for participation will be issued. Following on the success of previous years, ASE-99 will again feature a doctoral consortium for selected thesis students whose work has not yet reached a publishable stage.

Submission Information

Papers should not exceed 6000 words in length, with full page figures counting as 300 words. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee according to: technical quality, originality, clarity, appropriateness to the conference focus, and adequacy of references to related work. Papers that exceed the length restriction will not be reviewed. All submissions, especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly identify their novel contributions. Please see our pointers page for advice on improving the chances of having your submission accepted. We have also made the recent nominees for the best paper award available to provide examples of high quality ASE papers.

Six (6) copies of the paper should be sent to Robert J. Hall at the address below. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted. A paper's title, authors, and abstract should be submitted by May 1, 1999 through electronic mail to ase99@research.att.com. Be sure to include the contact author's working email address, as all subsequent communications will take place via email. Submission deadline for papers is May 10, 1999.

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