FYI, see attachment. Deadline is in 14 days. -- Martin F. Krafft <mailto:martin.krafft@ul.ie> Ph.D. student http://phd.martin-krafft.net I study the diffusion of development tools in large open-source projects, specifically the factors which lead to the adoption of new methods by developers of the Debian project. Debian is one of the largest open-source projects, with several thousand volunteer contributors. I am one of the developers, and interested in improving the efficiency of our workflows. Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre University of Limerick, Ireland
CALL FOR PAPERS The IEEE Workshop on Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Software Systems (QACOS 08),in conjunction with COMPSAC 2008 http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2008/ Turku, Finland, July 29-30, 2008 Paper submission (deadline): 24 March 2008. The Open Source Software (OSS) movement, which originated from a pragmatic need to share code among individuals has grown to become a major force behind inter-organizational reuse of platforms, components and code. However, there are several research questions that remained unanswered. Some of these questions are: ? What are the challenges of quality assurance of open source components? ? How can the cost and impact of using low quality components be measured? ? What is known about the architectural approaches that support seamless integration of open source components? ? What is currently known about the strengths and limitations of quality assurance and quality assessment approaches being used for selecting open source components? ? How to improve architecture and quality information exchange between open source communities and OS component users? This workshop aims at bringing together both researchers and practitioners from open source software, software architecture, and software quality backgrounds to discuss the importance and challenges of quality assurance, quality assessment, and architectural concerns involved in selecting and using open source components in large scale software intensive systems. The overall goal of the workshop is to develop a common research agenda based on inputs from three communities to identify the research issues that should be addressed in the short to long term. This event will also provide a platform to present mature and ongoing research aimed at: ? Bridging the gap between practitioners (open sources and commercial) and researchers on the selection, use and/or integration of open source components into in-house software; ? Bridging the gap between open source, software quality and architecture-centric approaches. The workshop solicits submissions that encompass quality and architectural issues in developing and using open source software. Papers must represent original contributions. Papers must be submitted electronically via the QACOS2008 Submission Page. Please follow the instructions posted on the workshop web site. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Acceptance and final category depends on reviewer feedback. Contribution may include: ? Full research papers (max 6 pages) ? Short papers ? research-in-progress, industrial experience, problem description (max 4 pages) ? Position papers ? (max 2 pages) Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008) and will be indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and will automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant in the workshop to have the paper published in the COMPSAC 2007 Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (DEADLINES) --------------------------- Paper submission(deadline): March 24 Acceptance Notification: April 14 Final Camera-ready: April 30 Workshop organisers: ------- M. Ali Babar Lero, Univeristy of Limerick, Ireland malibaba@lero.ie Mari Matinlassi VTT, Finland Bjorn Lundell University of Skovde, Sweden PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Par Agerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden Faheem Ahmed, UAE University, UAE. Mikko Ahonen, Tampere University, Finland Stefan Biffl, TU Wien, Austria Jan Bosch, Intuit, USA Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stefano De Panfilis, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.a, Italy Brian Fitzgerald, Lero, Ireland Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Imed Hammouda, Technical Univeristy of Tampere, Finland Michel Jaring, VTT, Oulu, Finland Letizia Jaccheri, NTNU, Norway Patricia Lago, VU Amsterdam, The Netherland Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands Gregory Lopez, Thales, France Fabio Mancinelli, University of L?Aquila, Italy Henry Muccini, University of L?Aquila, Italy Eila Niemel?, VTT, Oulu, Finland Steffen Thiel, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland
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