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                                Call for Papers
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                          30th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE
                    COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK
                   Rennes - France, August 31st - September 3rd, 2004
                       http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2004
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers:         March 7th , 2004
Notification of acceptance:   May 3th, 2004
Camera-ready paper due:       June 9th , 2004


Component-based software engineering (CBSE), is an emerging development paradigm
that promises to accelerate software development and to reduce costs by
assembling systems from prefabricated software components. Designing, developing
and maintaining components and  component-based applications for reuse is,
however, a very complex process, which places high requirements not only for the
component functional and non-functional properties, but also for the development
organization. CBSE covers many software engineering disciplines and different
techniques which still have not been fully defined, explained and exploited
either from theoretical or practical points of view. CBSE has been successful in
certain engineering domains, but it is still in the early stage of utilization
in many other domains, in particular those which have specific requirements
on different quality attributes.

The aim of the conference track is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from academia and industry to improve the theories, technologies,
and processes in component-based software development. We encourage submissions
of both theoretical nature and experience reports from academia and especially
from industry.

Suggested areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  - Component models and technologies
  - Dependability of component-based systems
  - Component specifications
  - Components for real-time and embedded systems
  - Component compositions
  - Components and Quality Attributes
  - Component-based software architecture
  - COTS components
  - Component-based requirements engineering
  - Middleware solutions for CBSE
  - Evaluation of components
  - Development environment and tools
  - Component design, implementation, testing
  - CBSE and Component development processes
  - Software component markets and businesses
  - Evolution of Component-based applications
  - CBSE organizational issues
  - Software product-line approach
  - Case studies and experience reports
  - CBSE and emerging disciplines (services, MDA, Agent-based programming,
    aspect-oriented programming )


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

The submissions should be made electronically, either in postscript or PDF
format. The accepted paper should follow two column IEEE conference format.
To get format description and templates follow
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2004/ecbse-mansubmit.htm
link.

Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt,
single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150
words. If accepted, the paper must be made available in  Camera-ready forms by
June 15th, 2003, and it must be personally  presented at the EUROMICRO 2004
Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) must
pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2004 before the due date of the
Camera-ready paper.

GENERAL INFORMATION
This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2004 conference. The conference
proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.


PROGRAMME CHAIR:
Ivica Crnkovic, ivica.crnkovic@mdh.se, Malardalen University, Sweden

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIR:
Magnus Larsson, magnus.larsson@mdh.se, ABB Corporate Research

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
(to be confirmed)
Antonia Bertolino (CNT, Italy)
Jan Bosch (U-Groningen, NL)
Arne-Jørgen Berre ( SINTEF, Norway)
Michel Chaudron (U-Eindhoven, NL)
Onur Demirörs, (METU, Turkey)
Jacky Estublier (Imag, France)
Even-André Karlson (Q-labs, SE)
Andre van der Hoek (U-CA, USA)
Gerald Kotonya (U-Lancaster, UK)
Stig Larsson (ABB, SE)
Kung-Kiu Lau (U-Manchester, UK)
Eila Niemelä (VTT, Finland)
Oscar Nierstrasz (U-Bern, Switzerland)
Rob van Ommering (Philips, NL)
Stefano De Panfilis (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)
Annita Persson Dahlqvist (Ericsson, SE)
Alexander Romanovsky, U-Newcastle,UK)
Muthu Ramachandran, (U-Leeds, UK)
Veikko Seppänen (U-Oulu, Finland)
Heinz Schmidt (Monash U, Australia)
Judith Stafford,(Tufts U, USA)
Fritz Stallinger (U-Linz, Austria)
Jeffrey Voas (Cigital, USA)
Kurt Wallnau (CMU-SEI, USA)
Mario Zagar (U-Zagreb, Croatia)
Christian Zeidler (ABB, Germany)


FURTHER INFORMATION

See EUROMICRO conference page
http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/euromicro2004/ and the CBSE track website at
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2004/