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CFP: APAQS 2000 Second Call for Papers



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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:44:55 +0100 (MET)
From: tse@csis.hku.hk
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:49:25 +0800 (HKT)
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Subject: CFP: APAQS 2000 Second Call for Papers

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to inform you that selected papers of the APAQS
Conference will be published in a special issue of the International
Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this Second Call
for Papers.

_________________________________________________________

Dr. T.H. Tse
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
HONG KONG

Tel  +852 / 2859 2183    Email  mailto:tse@csis.hku.hk
Fax  +852 / 2559 8447    Web  http://www.csis.hku.hk/~tse
_________________________________________________________


________________________________________________________________________

         THE FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON QUALITY SOFTWARE
                              (APAQS 2000)

                         Second Call for Papers

                     http://www.csis.hku.hk/~apaqs

                               HONG KONG
                          OCTOBER 30-31, 2000
________________________________________________________________________

ORGANIZED BY

-  The Software Engineering Group, The University of Hong Kong
-  Software Technology Centre, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong
________________________________________________________________________

BACKGROUND

The quality of software has an important bearing on the financial and
safety aspects in our daily lives.  Unfortunately, software systems
often fail to deliver according to promises.  It is well known that
there are still unresolved errors in many of the software systems that
we are using every day.  The Asia-Pacific region is far from being
immune to these problems.  The prime objective of the conference is to
provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from
this region to address this issue seriously.
________________________________________________________________________

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are soliciting full-length research papers and experience reports on
various aspects of software testing or quality assurance.  Specific
topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

-  Automated software testing
-  Configuration management and version control
-  Conformance testing
-  Debugging
-  Economics of software testing
-  Formal methods
-  Metrics and measurement
-  Performance testing
-  Process assessment and certification
-  Quality management
-  Quality measurement and benchmarking
-  Reliability
-  Review, inspection, and walkthroughs
-  Robustness testing
-  Safety and security
-  Testability
-  Testing tools
-  Testing standards
-  Testing of object-oriented software
-  Testing of real-time systems
-  Testing processes
-  Testing strategies
-  Application areas such as e-commerce, component-based systems,
   digital libraries, distributed systems, embedded systems, enterprise
   applications, information systems, Internet, mobile applications,
   multimedia, and Web-based systems

All the papers submitted to the conference will be refereed by three
members of the program committee according to technical quality,
originality, significance, clarity of presentation, and appropriateness
for the conference.

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press, Los Alamitos, California.  Selected papers of the conference will
be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
________________________________________________________________________

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Manuscripts should be full-length papers in English, double-spaced, and
must not exceed 20 pages.  Both electronic and hard copy submissions
will be accepted, although electronic submissions are preferred.
Manuscripts must not have been submitted or published elsewhere.


ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

An electronic copy of the manuscript should be emailed to the conference
account mailto:apaqs@csis.hku.hk, to reach us by March 15, 2000.

Electronic submission must be in PDF or portable Postscript format with
no encoding, condensing, or encapsulation.  Please use TrueType 1 fonts
wherever possible.  Do not use bitmapped versions of fonts such as
Computer Modern if you can avoid it.  Some printer drivers have settings
that directly address the portability issue, offering the options for
"optimizing speed" or "optimizing portability".  You should select the
"optimize for portability" setting(s) wherever possible.  Word processor
or LaTeX source files will not be accepted.


HARD-COPY MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Six hard copies of the manuscript should be sent to one of the program
co-chairs below, to reach him by March 15, 2000.  In addition, an
abstract in plain text, not more than 150 words in length, should be
emailed to the conference account mailto:apaqs@csis.hku.hk, to reach us
by the same deadline.

-  Dr. T.H. Tse
   Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
   The University of Hong Kong
   Pokfulam Road
   Hong Kong

   Email: mailto:tse@csis.hku.hk
   Fax: +852 / 2559 8447
   Telephone: +852 / 2859 2183

-  Dr. T.Y. Chen
   Department of Computing and Mathematics
   Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
   Vocational Training Council
   30 Shing Tai Road
   Chai Wan
   Hong Kong

   Email: mailto:tychen@vtc.edu.hk
   Fax: +852 / 2505 4216
   Telephone: +852 / 2595 8152
________________________________________________________________________

FURTHER INFORMATION

More details of the conference are accessible at the Web site
http://www.csis.hku.hk/~apaqs.  Please feel free to contact us for any
queries.  We can be reached by email at mailto:apaqs@csis.hku.hk.
________________________________________________________________________

IMPORTANT DATES

-  March 15, 2000        Deadline for submission

-  May 15, 2000          Notification of acceptance

-  June 30, 2000         Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted
                         manuscripts

-  October 30-31, 2000   Conference
________________________________________________________________________

COMMITTEES

GENERAL CHAIR

-  Mr. Danny Tang
   Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
   Hong Kong


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

-  Professor Stephen Yau
   Arizona State University

-  Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting
   The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs

-  T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong

-  T.Y. Chen, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong, and The University
   of Melbourne, Australia

Members

-  Mikio Aoyama, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
-  Paul Bailes, University of Queensland, Australia
-  Maarten Boasson, Hollandse Signaalapparaten BV, The Netherlands
-  Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, London, UK
-  Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
   China
-  K.P. Chan, The University of Hong Kong
-  Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-  Huo Yan Chen, Jinan University, China
-  Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
-  William Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan
-  Doug Grant, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
-  Jifeng He, UNU/IIST, Macau
-  Lucas C.K. Hui, The University of Hong Kong
-  S.L. Hung, City University of Hong Kong
-  John Jenkins, Middlesex University, UK
-  Kouichi Kishida, Software Research Associates, Japan
-  David Kung, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
-  H.F. Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
-  Hareton Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
-  Shaoying Liu, Hiroshima City University, Japan
-  Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
-  Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
-  Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK
-  Wei-Tek Tsai, University of Minnesota, USA
-  Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
-  Qiwen Xu, UNU/IIST, Macau
-  Chris C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
-  Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

-  Chair:                  F.T. Chan, The University of Hong Kong

-  Vice-Chair:             Karl R.P.H. Leung, Vocational Training
                           Council, Hong Kong

-  Secretary, Publicity,   M.F. Lau, The Hong Kong Institute of
   and Publication:        Education

-  Treasurer:              Wai Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University

-  Registration:           Emily Chui, Vocational Training Council,
                           Hong Kong

-  Local Arrangement:      P.K. Wong, Vocational Training Council,
                           Hong Kong
________________________________________________________________________

The above line-up will be subject to final confirmation
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