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NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE *************************

The submission deadline of SQM 2009 has been extended until

        Abstract submission: February 8, 2009
      Paper submission: February 14, 2009

Call for Papers ***************************

   3rd International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability
(SQM 2009)
   Kaiserslautern, Germany, Tuesday, March 24, 2009

   http://www.swerl.tudelft.nl/sqm2009/

   "Bridging the gap between end user expectations, business
requirements, vendor performance, and engineering constraints"

   Co-located with the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance
and Reengineering (CSMR 2009)
   http://csmr2009.iese.fraunhofer.de/

BACKGROUND

Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. Not only do
people rely on it for their daily operations or business, but for their
lives as well. For this reason correct and consistent behaviour of
software systems is a fundamental part of end user expectations.
Additionally, businesses require cost-effective production, maintenance,
and operation of their systems. Thus, the demand for software quality is
increasing and is setting it as a differentiator for the success or
failure of a software product. In fact, high quality software is
becoming not just a competitive advantage but a necessary factor for
companies to be successful.
The main question that arises now is how quality is measured. What,
where and when we assess and assure quality, are still open issues. Many
views have been expressed about software quality attributes, including
maintainability, evolvability, portability, robustness, reliability,
usability, and efficiency. These have been formulated in standards such
as ISO/IEC-9126 and CMM. However, the debate about quality and
maintainability between software producers, vendors and users is
ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate from multiple
angles the software systems that they use or develop.
So, is "Software quality in the eye of the beholder"? This workshop
aims at feeding into this debate by establishing what the state of the
practice and the way forward is.

SUBMISSION

We are pleased to invite research and empirical contributions in areas
including, but not limited to the following:
1. Software quality attributes
2. Software measurement
3. Software maintainability
4. Software evolution
5. Software quality assessment practice and automation
6. Software quality standards
7. Software metrics & data analysis
8. Experience reports
9. Architectural aspects of quality

We solicit short position papers or long papers with a maximum length of
10 pages.
See the website for further submission details.

EasyChair submission page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?c=.120349;conf=sqm2009

IMPORTANT DATES - *** EXTENDED ***
Abstract submission: 8 February 2009
Paper submission: 14 February 2009

ORGANIZATION

• Christos Tjortjis (Program Chair) University of Ioannina and University of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Joost Visser (Workshop Chair) Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands
• Eric Bouwers (Publicity chair) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Programme Committee members
D. Caivano, Universita di Bari, Italy
F. Deissenboeck Technische Universität München, Germany
A. van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
P. Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Y. Kanellopoulos, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands
C. Makris, University of Patras, Greece
V. Tzerpos, University of University of York, Canada
A. Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece

Sponsors
 Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (www.sig.nl)