Call For Papers
CFP closed on October 24, 2003.

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Theme and Scope

The main theme of PROFES is professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product and service quality needs. SPI is facilitated by software process assessment, software measurement, process modeling, and technology transfer. It has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia.

The business of developing new applications like mobile and Internet services or enhancing the functionality of a variety of products by embedded software is maturing and meeting harsh business realities. The need for professional software development, quality, and cost/effectiveness is becoming evident and there is a need to spread SPI beyond its traditional areas.

Therefore we encourage papers and discussions in new application domains in addition to the more traditional SPI papers. These may include quality issues related to processes, methods, techniques, tools, enabling technologies and applications.

The purpose of the conference is to bring into the light the most recent findings and results of the area and to stimulate discussion between the researchers, experienced professionals and technology providers for SPI. The large number of participants coming from industry confirms that the conference provides a variety of up-to-date topics and tackles industry problems.

Topics

The main topics of the conference include:

• Software Process Improvement
• Process Assessment
• Process Modeling
• Process Establishment
• Measurement
• Software Quality
• Quality Standards
• Product-Line Engineering
• Software Architectures
• Methods and Tools
• Experimental Software Engineering
• Organizational Learning/Experience Factory
• People Issues
• Industrial Experiences and Case Studies
• Best practices
• Lessons Learned

We encourage papers in the domains of:

• Mobile and Wireless Applications and Services
• Telecom and Internet Applications
• Embedded Systems

Paper Submission

Submit papers or experience reports to Profes2004@is.aist-nara.ac.jp in Microsoft Word, PDF, or Postscript by October 10, 2003.

Accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of PROFES 2004 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series. Please note that only those papers will be considered for review, which do not exceed 15 pages and adhere to the layout instructions detailed in the layout guidelines. Please download the authoring guidelines and make sure that your paper fulfils all format requirements.

All LNCS volumes are published both in print and in electronic form. Authors of accepted papers will therefore be asked to submit to the volume editors a single-sided printout of the final version of their contribution as well as source files of all parts of the manuscript, as described in the authoring guidelines. Note that for a paper to be published in the proceedings the authors have to sign a copyright form .

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