APAQS 2OO1 SECOND ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON QUALITY SOFTWARE NEW WORLD RENAISSANCE HOTEL, HONG KONG 1O-11 DECEMBER 2OO1

Final Call for Papers

We solicit FULL-LENGTH research papers and experience reports on various aspects of quality software. See a list of topics of interests and submission guidelines below. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be rigorously reviewed on the basis of originality, contribution, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Papers may be finally accepted as full or short papers. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

In addition, selected papers may, subject to further peer reviews, be published in a special issue by the journal Information and Software Technology in the year 2002.

A Final Call for Papers sheet with extended submission deadline for APAQS 2001 is now available in the following formats:

pdf (A4 size) format

pdf (letter size) format

Word document format

text (ASCII) format

Topics of Interest

• Automated software testing
• Configuration management and version control
• Conformance testing
• Cost estimation
• Debugging
• Economics of software quality and testing
• Formal methods
• Metrics and measurement
• Model checking
• Performance and robustness testing
• Process assessment and certification
• Quality evaluation of software products and components
• Quality management and assurance
• Quality measurement and benchmarking
• Quality tools
• Reliability
• Review, inspection, and walkthrough
• Risk management
• Safety and security
• Software quality education
• Static and dynamic analysis
• Testability
• Testing of object-oriented systems and real-time systems
• Testing strategies, tools, processes, and standards
• Validation and verification
• 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

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should be typewritten in English (within 3000-5000 words, or 10 pages in single-line spacing). The cover page of the manuscript should include:

• the type of submission (research paper or experience report),
• the title of the paper with 150-word abstract and 3 to 6 keywords,
• three most relevant topics, preferably chosen from the above list of topics of interests,
• the affiliation, correspondence address, email address, phone and fax numbers of each author, indicating the contact author if different from the first author.

Electronic submission is preferred. Manuscripts should be prepared in Word, postscript or pdf format, and emailed to apaqs@cs.cityu.edu.hk.

Submission in hardcopy is also acceptable. The abstract should be prepared in plain text and emailed to apaqs@cs.cityu.edu.hk, and SIX copies of the full paper should be sent to:

Email Enquiries

For all enquiries, please send email to apaqs@cs.cityu.edu.hk

Last update: 17 June 2001