ICSE 2009: ICSE09
slide show picture of Vancouver
31st International
Conference on
Software
Engineering®
31st International Conference on Software Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009.   Sign up for announcements!

RSS feed image RSS Feed

Information for
Potential Conference
Exhibitors

Call for "Software Engineering in Practice" Papers

The "Software Engineering in Practice" Track at ICSE 2009 will be a two-day track oriented towards reports of applying software engineering in practice and experience related to application.

We are inviting for this track experience reports from practitioners on new advances in software engineering methods, practices or tools.

If your team or company has developed new insights, both positive or negative, into new tools methods or practices in software engineering, for example in agile methods, service oriented architecture, concurrency, value-based approaches, and if you think that the lessons you have learned from experience are valuable for the software engineering community, please consider contributing to this track.

A contribution should consist of a brief explanation of the method, practice, or tool in question, a description of the context and particulars in which you have experience, the results you’ve achieved, and the lessons you and your organization have learned relative to this method, practice or tool, its applicability, its effectiveness, or insights on how to further improve it.

In particular, the content must be practical and relevant, and be presented in a well-documented and thorough manner.

We provide here an outline (thanks to Alistair Cockburn for the bulk of it) of aspects that are relevant for an experience report. Please use this as a guide in the writing of your paper.

  1. Context – provide sufficient background and setting so that the reader can understand whether the experience will/won't transfer to his/her situation.
  2. Goal/assignment – what was supposed to be built or accomplished.
  3. How things went at the beginning.
  4. What went wrong or was unsatisfactory.
  5. How the team changed to repair this.
  6. (What went wrong next with that idea.)
  7. (How the team changed to repair that.)
  8. What happened finally.
  9. How you, the author, feel about this now; what you consider was transferrable to your next situation, or would omit the next time.

We explicitly aim to acquire submissions from both the industrial practitioners that are able to convey their practical and relevant approaches in a well-structured and useful way, as well as academics whose work is relevant to the practitioner.

The track will be a mix of peer-reviewed presentations and invited speakers.

We are proud to announce that Steve McConnell will be the opening keynote of ICSE (and this track) on Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

Submission Deadline

Submission Deadline: Oct. 10, 2008

How to Submit

Papers must be submitted electronically through CyberChairPRO. The deadline for submitting papers is October 10, 2008. This deadline is hard and non-negotiable.

SEIP papers will follow the same formatting specifications as the Research track. Please see Specifications for Submitted Papers for details.

Acceptance

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author of the paper is expected to present the results at the ICSE 2009 conference. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference proceedings, which will also be available electronically. Notifications will be sent out November 30th at the latest.

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Frances Paulisch, Siemens, Germany

Programme Committee

Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University
Rob Austin, Harvard Business School
Jan Bosch, Intuit
Keith Braithwaite, Zuhlke
Frank Buschmann, Siemens
Peter Eeles, IBM
Hakan Erdogmus, National Research Council of Canada
Robert L. Glass, independent
Christine Grimm, SAP
Peter Hruschka, Atlantic Systems Guild
Ingolf Krueger, UC San Diego
Marek Leszak, Alcatel-Lucent
Mingshu Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tom Lonski, Jeppesen
Andrew Lyons, WindRiver Systems
Jas Madhur, Sierra Systems
Grigori Melnik, Microsoft
Linda Northrop, Software Engineering Institute
Henk Obbink, Philips
Ulf Olsson, Ericsson
Eltjo Poort, Logica
Dan Pritchett, eBay
Art Pyster, Stevens Institute
Bran Selic, Malina Software
Erik Simmons, Intel
Drasko Sotirovski, Raytheon
Thomas Stauner, BMW
Wolfgang Strigel, Independent
Markus Voelter, independent
David Weiss, Avaya
Eoin Woods, Barclays Global Investors