The Software Engineering Track

at The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008)

Fortaleza, Brazil

March 16-20, 2008

Background

This year’s Software Engineering Track has a special focus on “Emerging Techniques for Dependable Software Development”. The objective is to provide researchers and practitioners with an embedded forum for presenting and discussing their ideas and experiences with technologies, theories, and tools used for producing highly dependable software more effectively and efficiently. The Software Engineering Track is big enough to represent major topics in software engineering, but small enough to provide an in-depth representation of theory and practice in these areas. Academic researchers and industry participants can share their ideas and practices. In particular, the Software Engineering Track not only allows the software engineering academic community to understand the areas that are vital to the software industry, but also gives software engineering practitioners an opportunity to express their needs.

Topics of Interests

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Aspect-Oriented Software Development and Design
• Component-Based Development and Reuse
• Safety, Security, Privacy, and Risk Management
• Dependability and Reliability
• Fault Tolerance and Availability
• Metrics and Measurement
• Architecture, Framework, and Design Patterns
• Requirements Engineering
• Process, Standards, and Project Management
• Maintenance and Reverse Engineering
• Quality Assurance and Management
• Verification, Validation, Testing, and Analysis
• Formal Methods and Theories
• Empirical Studies, Benchmarking, and Industrial Best Practices 
• Applications and Tools
• Pervasive, Ubiquitous, Service-Oriented Computing
• Collaborative, Distributed, Embedded, Real-Time, High Performance, Highly Dependable, Intelligent, Multimedia Systems

Paper Submission & Selection

Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in the PDF format with no more than six pages using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the ACM-SAC submission site. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a double-blind process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Software Engineering Track. Upon paper acceptance, prospective authors must provide a revised, camera-ready version which takes into account the review comments. The first five pages of each paper are free of charge. An additional fee will be charged on the sixth page. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM’s Digital Library.

Journal Special Issue

For SAC 2007, the Software Engineering Track received 51 submissions with 16 accepted for presentation at the conference. Six of these have been selected for possible publication in a special issue of Software Quality Journal published by Springer. The guest editors of this special SQJ/SAC-SE issue are the SE track chairs (Professor Eric Wong and Professor Chris Sung) and Professor Sudipto Ghosh from the SQJ Editorial Board.

We plan to do the same in 2008 by inviting authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their papers to a special journal issue guest-edited by the track chairs.

Track Chairs

• W. Eric Wong
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Texas at Dallas
  ewong@utdallas.edu
• Chang-Oan Sung
  Department of Computer Science
  Indiana University Southeast
  cosung@ius.edu
• Sung Shin
  Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science
  South Dakota State University
  sung.shin@sdstate.edu

Program Committee

Hira Agrawal	Telcordia, USA
Doo-Hwan Bae	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Fevzi Belli	University of Paderborn, Germany
Alejandra Cechich	Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
Victor Chan	Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Byoungju Choi	Ewha Woman's University, Korea
Kendra Cooper	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Bojan Cukic	West Virginia University, USA
Marcio Delamaro	Centro Universitário Eurípides de Marília, Brazil
Jin Song Dong	University of Singapore, Singapore
Sudipto Ghosh	Colorado State University, USA
Andy Gravell	University of Southampton, UK
Bob Horgan	Telcordia, USA
Michael Jiang	Motorola, USA
Zhi Jin	Chinese Academy of Science, China
Mario Jino	The State University of Campinas, Brazil
Karama Kanoun	LAAS-CNRS, France
Haklin Kimm	East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
Derrick Kourie	University of Pretoria, South Africa
Herbert Kuchen	European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Munster, Germany
Diana Kuo	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Edmonds Lau	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jenny Li	Avaya Labs Research, USA
Xuandong Li	Nanjing Univeristy, China
Horst Lichter	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Yan Liu	Motorola, USA
Shaoying Liu	Hosei University, Japan
Yu-Seung Ma	ETRI, Korea
Jose Maldonado	University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Paulo Masiero	University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Katharina Mehner	Siemens AG, Germany
Simanta Mitra	Iowa State University, USA
Mohamed Mosbah	Universite de Bordeaux, France
Pornsiri Muenhaisri	Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Tien Nguyen	Iowa State University, USA
Thomas Noll	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Amit Paradkar	IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Sooyong Park	Sogang University, Korea
Markus Roggenbach	University of Wales at Swansea, UK
Valdivino Santiago	National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Sahra Sedigh	University of Missouri, USA
Sung Shin	South Dakota State University, USA
Carol Smidts	University of Maryland, USA
Eunjee Song	Baylor University, USA
Chang Oan Sung	Indiana University Southeast, USA
Kenji Taguchi	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Guilherme Travassos	University Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
David Umphress	Auburn University, USA
Pradeep Varma	IBM India Research Laboratory, India
Auri Vincenzi	Universidade Católica de Santos - UNISANTOS, Brazil
Ji Wang	Changsha Institute of Technology, China
Eric Wong	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Fei Xie	Portland State University, USA
Baowen Xu	Southeast University, China
Dianxiang Xu	North Dakota State University, USA
Jian Zhang	Chinese Academy of Science, China
Hong Zhu	Oxford Brookes University, UK
Mohammad Zulkernine	Queen's University, Canada

Important Dates

• September 16, 2007: paper submission (extended)
• October 19, 2007: acceptance/rejection notification (extended)
• October 30, 2007: camera-ready copy

General Inquiries

For further information, please send email to sacse2008@gmail.com.