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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EASE 2008

12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software
Engineering

Thursday 26th and Friday 27th June 2008
Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Italy.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Further details at: http://serlab.di.uniba.it/ease2008/

The international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software
Engineering (EASE) provides a forum for empirical researchers to
present their latest research, as well as to discuss issues related to
evaluation and empirical studies. The conference aims to provide a
workshop-like atmosphere in which researchers are given sufficient
time to allow a constructive discussion of their research results.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mario Piattini (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
"Evaluation and Assessment of UML models"

Biography:

MSc and PhD in Computer Science (Madrid Technical University), CISA
and CISM (ISACA). Before joining university, he held positions as
consultant and R&D manager at major Spanish companies. Full Professor
at the Information Systems and Technologies Department of the
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). At UCLM, Dr. Piattini
founded and leads the ALARCOS research group, working on software
quality using empirical software engineering techniques. He is the
director of the UCLM-Indra Joint Software Research Center. He has
published several books and papers on software quality.

Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, Netherlands)
"The Roles of Empirical Research in Software Engineering"

Biography:

Roel Wieringa is Chair of Information Systems at the the University of
Twente, the Netherlands. His research interests include value-based
requirements engineering, the alignment of information systems to
business goals and processes, software specification techniques and
research methodologoy for software engineering. He is currently
Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software for the area of
requirements engineering. He wrote two books, Requirements
Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding (Wiley, 1996) and Design
Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2003).

Conference proceedings will be published in CD format and online by
British Computer Society.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Muhammad Ali Babar, Lero, Ireland
Teresa Baldassarre, Bari University, Italy

Anita Bente, Simula, Norway

Pearl Brereton, Keele University, UK

David Budgen, University of Durham, UK

Danilo Caivano, Bari University, Italy

Stuart Charters, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Steve Counsell, Brunel University, UK

Ray Dawson, Loughborough University, UK

Tore Dybq, Simula and SINTEF, Norway

Marcela Genero - University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Tracy Hall, Brunel University, UK

Rachel Harrison, University of Reading, UK

Andreas Jedlitschka, IESE Fraunhofer, Germany

Magne Jorgensen, Simula, Norway

Barbara Kitchenham, Keele University, UK

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Rand Corporation, USA

Stephen Linkman , Keele University, UK
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Matthias Mueller, EnBW AG, Germany

Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, UK

Gordon Rugg, Keele Univesity, UK

Per Runeson, Lund University, Sweden

Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK
Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK
Dag Sjoberg, University of Oslo, Norway

Mikael Svahnberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Walter Tichy, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Mark Turner, Keele University, UK

June Verner, National ICT Australia Ltd, Australia
Giuseppe Visaggio University of Bari, Italy