ENASE 2011: 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2011

June 8, 2011-June 11, 2011 in Beijing, China

Call for Papers

MISSION AND MOTIVATION

The mission of the ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering) conferences is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them against software quality criteria, ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration.

				<a name="goals"></a><div class="texttype2">GOALS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST</div> 

ENASE provides a yearly forum for researchers and practitioners to review and evaluate emerging as well as established SE methods, practices, architectures, technologies and tools. An important underpinning and assumption of ENASE is that in software engineering "novel" turns out frequently to be just new hype. An objective of ENASE is to reveal any such hype as soon as feasible. This means that ENASE does not exclude more traditional approaches to software development and integration. On the contrary, ENASE endeavors to compare novel with traditional, also to discover if novel is not just traditional in disguise. Consequently, ENASE accepts also papers concentrating on a critique of more traditional and entrenched SE approaches.

Against that background, ENASE undertakes to provide fast but careful scientific and empirical evaluation of new as well as more established approaches to software engineering. Of particular interest are experience reports and evaluations (qualitative and quantitative) of existing approaches as well as new ideas and proposals for improvements. The conference solicits experiments, case studies, surveys, meta-analyses, empirical studies, systematic reviews, conceptual explorations, innovative ideas, critical appraisals, etc. related to:

  • software and systems development methodologies
  • "3A" (agile, aspect-oriented and agent-oriented) software engineering
  • service-oriented software engineering and management
  • component-based software engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems
  • model-driven engineering
  • meta programming systems and meta-modeling
  • knowledge management and engineering
  • architectural design and meta architectures
  • business process management, engineering and reengineering
  • process-centric paradigms
  • service-oriented architectures
  • service science
  • application integration technologies
  • enterprise integration strategies and patterns
  • e-business technologies
  • requirements engineering frameworks and models
  • collaborative requirements management systems
  • business and software modeling languages
  • software quality management
  • software change and configuration management
  • geographically distributed software development environments
  • cross-feeding between data and software engineering
  • design thinking as a paradigm for software development
  • formal methods
  • software process improvement

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ENASE 2011 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER FORMATS, SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

The conference will accept regular papers and position papers.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided.



The Program Committee will review all papers and the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

Regular papers should be original research work, present analysis of data and discussion of research findings. Regular papers must not exceed 12 A4-size pages. As in previous ENASE conferences, the acceptance rate for regular papers will be at or below 30%. We invite two types of regular papers:

  • Original contribution papers describe new contributions to software engineering research. They define theories and/or build artifacts, describe the related research, and propose a solution validated via typical scientific methods, such as experiments, analyses, simulations, mathematical proofs or field/case studies.
  • Experience evaluation papers present existing experiences encountered in practice, define related challenges, and propose new scientifically-validated solutions to one or more of those challenges. Papers in this category seek to create innovations based on cutting-edge software technical capabilities.

Position papers should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers must not exceed 8 A4-size pages. Time allowed, position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Alternatively, they will be placed in the category of poster papers available for viewing and discussions. Some short papers may be submitted as demo papers and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should be describing non-for-profit software tools and in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite two types of position papers:

  • Emerging research papers present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define precisely the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem.
  • Challenge papers propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of software engineering. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems. Based on such understanding and experience, they need to define new exciting research directions and show why these directions are crucial to the society at large.

All ENASE regular and position papers will be published in time for the conference in the proceedings, produced by INSTICC under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM form (the CD-ROM will be shared with ICEIS). The proceedings will be indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. INSPEC and EI has indexed past (since 2008) ENASE proceedings and the proceedings of ENASE 2011 will be evaluated for indexation after their publication.

After the conference, a book containing most or all ENASE regular papers (modified and extended) will be edited and published as post-proceedings by Springer in the CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) series.

WORKSHOPS

ENASE 2011 invites workshop proposals. Workshops are intended to serve as intensive collaborative and highly-interactive meetings. ENASE provides an opportunity for organizing workshops on any of the themes listed in the "Topics of Interest" or any cross-section of these themes.

All accepted workshop papers will be published in the ENASE Proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM. Details of what is expected of workshop proposal submissions will be available in the separate Call for Workshops on the ENASE website.

				<a name="important_dates"></a><div class="texttype2">IMPORTANT DATES</div> 
				
                <p>Conference date: <strong>8-11 June, 2011</strong> 
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				Regular Paper Submission: <strong>January 24, 2011</strong><br/> 
				Authors Notification (regular papers): <strong>March 25, 2011</strong><br/> 
				Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: <strong>April 4, 2011</strong> 
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				<a name="secretariat"></a><div class="texttype2">SECRETARIAT</div> 
			    <p><strong>				ENASE Secretariat</strong><br /> 
				Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2&ordm; esq.<br/> 
                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2910-595 Set&uacute;bal - Portugal<br /> 
				Tel.: +351 265 520 185<br /> 
				Fax: +44 203 014 5433<br /> 
				e-mail: <a href="mailto: 'ENASE Secretariat' &lt;enase.secretariat@insticc.org&gt;" class="strong">enase.secretariat@insticc.org</a><br /> 
				Web: <a href="http://www.enase.org/" class="strong">http://www.enase.org/</a> 
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			   <a name="steering_committee"></a><div class="texttype2">STEERING COMMITTEE</div> 
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			   <td width="160px"><strong>Filipe, Joaquim</strong></td> 
			   <td>Polytechnic Institute of Set&uacute;bal / INSTICC, Portugal</td> 
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			   <td><strong>Gonzalez-Perez, Cesar</strong></td> 
			   <td>The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain</td> 
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			   <td><strong>Loucopoulos, Peri</strong></td> 
			   <td>Loughborough University, U.K.</td> 
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			   <td><strong>Maciaszek, Leszek A.</strong></td> 
			   <td>Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland</td> 
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			   <a name="conference_chair"></a><div class="texttype2">CONFERENCE CHAIR</div> 
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Filipe, Joaquim     Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maciaszek, Leszek A.     Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland
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Zhang, Kang     University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ali Babar, Muhammad University of Limerick, Ireland
Atkinson, Colin, University of Mannheim, Germany
Barbier, Franck, University of Pau, France
Berio, Giuseppe, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Beydoun, Ghassan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Bielikova, Maria, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Brisaboa, Nieves R., University of A Coruna, Spain
Burdescu, Dumitru, University of Craiova, Romania
Cellary, Wojciech, University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Chountas, Panagiotis, University of Westminster, U.K.
Cortazar, Rebeca, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Cossentino, Massimo, I.CA.R./C.N.R., Italy
Dustdar, Schahram, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Edwards, Jonathan, MIT, U.S.A.
Eisenecker, Ulrich, University of Leipzig, Germany
Espinoza, Angelina, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Evermann, Joerg, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Ferreira, Maria João, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal
Filipowska, Agata, University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Frank, Ulrich, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Garbajosa, Juan, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Garcia Rodrigues, Ignacio, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Getta, Janusz, University of Wollongong, Australia
Girba, Tudor, University of Bern, Switzerland
Ginige, Athula, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Gonzalez Perez, Cesar, LaPa - CSIC, Spain
Gross, Hans-Gerhard Delft, University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gryz, Jarek, York University, Toronto, Canada
Gustas, Remigijus, Karlstad University, Sweden
Hannay, Jo, University of Oslo, Norway
Henderson-Sellers, Brian, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Hexel, Rene, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Hug, Charlotte, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Humm, Bernhard, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
Huzar Zbigniew, University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Irwin, Warwick, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jablonski, Stefan, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Jansen, Slinger, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Kaczmarek, Monika, University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Kadir, Wan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Laramee, Robert, Swansea University, U.K.
Larrucea, Xabier, European Software Institute, Spain
Lepouras, George, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Liu, Kecheng, University of Reading, U.K.
Loucopoulos, Pericles, Loughborough University, U.K.
Low, Graham, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ludwig, Andre, University of Leipzig, Germany
Maciaszek, Leszek, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
Maciel, Cristiano, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Madeyski, Lech, University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer, University of Campinas, Brazil
Mellor, Stephen, U.K.
Mueller, Johannes, University of Leipzig, Germany
Mueller, Sascha, Ansbach University of Applied Science, Germany
Ngu, Anne Hee Hiong, Texas State University - San Marcos, U.S.A.
Niesler, Andrzej, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
Nurcan, Selmin, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
Olive, Antoni, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Osis, Janis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Owoc, Mieczyslaw, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
Paprzycki Marcin, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Parsons, David, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Parsons, Jeffrey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Pastor, Oscar, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Philippe, Dugerdil, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
Pokorny, Jaroslav, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Prakash, Naveen, Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology, India
Prechelt, Lutz, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Pulvermueller, Elke, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Ralyte, Jolita, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Regev, Gil, EPFL, Switzerland
Ruiz, Francisco, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Sacha, Chris, University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Saeki, Motoshi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Schuldt, Heiko, University of Basel, Switzerland
Seruga, Jan, Australian Catholic University Sydney, Australia
Serrano, Manuel, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Sinderen, Marten, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Speck, Andreas, University of Kiel, Germany
Teufel, Stephanie, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Thomas, Dave, Bedarra Research Labs, Ottawa, Canada
Unland, Rainer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Vanderdonckt, Jean, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Vallecillo, Antonio, University of Malaga, Spain
Vasilecas, Olegas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Wangler, Benkt, University of Skoevde, Sweden
Wojnicki, Igor, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Zhang, Kang, University of Texas, Dallas, U.S.A.