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                            Call for Papers
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                       31st Euromicro Conference on 
                  Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
                    COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK
               Porto, Portugal, August 30st -  September 3rd, 2005
                       http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2005
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers:         March 1st, 2005
Notification of acceptance:   May 3th, 2005
Camera-ready paper due:       June 9th, 2005


Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is a 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. Many of them 
have been developed and successfully implemented. CBSE has been 
successful in certain engineering domains, such as office applications 
and distributed  internet-based applications, 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 CBSE track, fifth in a row, has a goal to point out the overall 
challenges and problems of the component-based approach, but also show 
the new ideas, solutions and practices. The aim of the track is to bring
together researchers and practitioners 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
- Component specifications
- Component-based software architecture 
- Components and Quality Attributes
- Component compositions
- Dependability of component-based systems
- Components for real-time and embedded systems
- COTS components
- Components and Open Source
- Middleware solutions for CBSE
- Evaluation of components
- Development environment and tools
- Component-based requirements engineering
- Component design, implementation, testing
- Component markets and businesses
- Component development processes
- CBSE organizational issues
- Evolution of Component-based applications
- Case studies and experience reports
- Software product-line approach 
- CBSE and emerging disciplines (services, model-driven development, etc.)


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
The submissions should be made electronically, either in postscript or 
PDF format. To submit papers visit  
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2005/cyber/html/submit .

The accepted paper should follow two column IEEE conference format. To 
get format description and templates follow the link:
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ecbse/2005/ecbse-mansubmit.htm

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 personally  presented at 
the EUROMICRO 2005 Conference by the author or one of the  co-authors. 
The presenting author(s) must pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2005
before the due date of the Camera-ready paper.


VENUE
The conference will take place at Porto University.  The second-largest 
city in Portugal was nominated European City of Culture for 2001 and the
 historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded by the 
Romans at the mouth of the River Douro, modern Porto (Oporto) is an 
industrial city with a wonderful atmosphere and plenty to see.

GENERAL INFORMATION
This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2005 conference. The 
conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.
For more information visit http://www.idt.mdh.se/euromicro-2005/ 


ORGANISATION

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE  ***(to be confirmed)***

Ljerka Beus-Dukic (U-Westminster, UK)
Michel Chaudron (U-Eindhoven, NL)
Thierry Coupaye (France Telecom, France)
Onur Demirörs, (METU, Turkey)
Gerhard Ghroust (U-Linz, Austria)
Bengt Jonsson (UU, Sweden)
Even-André Karlson (Q-labs, SE)
Gerald Kotonya (U-Lancaster, UK)
Kung-Kiu Lau (U-Manchester, UK)
Eila Niemelä (VTT, Finland)
Chris Lüer (Ball State U, US)
Magnus Larsson (ABB, SE)
Annita Persson Dahlqvist (Ericsson, SE)
Oscar Nierstrasz (U-Bern, Switzerland)
Jos A.G. Nijhuis (U-Groningen, NL)
Otto Preiss (ABB, Switzerland)
Raffaela Mirandola (U-Rome, Italy)
Rob van Ommering (Philips, NL)
Alexander Romanovsky, (U-Newcastle,UK)
Heinz Schmidt (Monash U, Australia)
Judith Stafford,(Tufts U, USA)
Kurt Wallnau (CMU-SEI, USA)
Christian Zeidler (ABB, Germany)
Mario Zagar (U-Zagreb, Croatia)