Background
The objective of the Software Engineering Track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a platform 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 eight 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. A fee of 80 USD will be charged for each additional page with a maximum of eight pages total. 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. Three of these have been accepted for publication in a special issue of Software Quality Journal by Springer. The guest editors of this special SQJ/SAC-SE '07 issue are Professor Eric Wong, Professor Chris Sung and Professor Sudipto Ghosh.
For SAC 2008, we received 103 submissions with 30 accepted for presentation at the conference. A special issue of Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. is in preparation.
We plan to do the same in 2009 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.eduWeb Master
- Vidroha Debroy
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
vxd024000@utdallas.eduProgram Committee
Joao Paulo Almeida Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Fevzi Belli University of Paderborn, Germany Joao Cangussu University of Texas at Dallas, USA Byoungju Choi Ewha Woman's University, Korea Kendra Cooper University of Texas at Dallas, USA Marcio Delamaro Universidade de Sao paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil Junhua Ding East Carolina University, USA Ronald Finkbine Indiana University Southeast, USA Rob Hierons Brunel University, UK Jiman Hong Soongsil University, Korea Mario Jino The State University of Campinas, Brazil Jung Yeop Kim Utica College, USA Yeongkwun Kim Western Illinois University, USA Haklin Kimm East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA Derrick Kourie University of Pretoria, South Africa Herbert Kuchen Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany Diana Kuo Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Edmonds Lau Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Horst Lichter RWTH Aachen University, Germany Shaoying Liu Hosei University, Japan Yan Liu Motorola Labs, USA 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 MohammadReza Mousavi Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Pornsiri Muenchaisri Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Sooyong Park Sogang University, Korea Markus Roggenbach University of Wales at Swansea, UK Valdivino Santiago National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Wuwei Shen Western Michigan University, USA Sung Y. Shin South Dakota State University, USA Randy Smith University of Alabama, USA Eunjee Song Baylor University, USA Chang Oan Sung Indiana University Southeast, USA Kenji Taguchi National Institute of Informatics, Japan Guilherme Travassons Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil David Umphress Auburn University, USA Arjan van Gemund Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Pradeep Varma IBM India Research Laboratory, India Auri Vincenzi Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazila Linzhang Wang Nanjing University, China Eric Wong University of Texas at Dallas, USA Dianxiang Xu North Dakota State University, USA Important Dates
- August 23rd (Mightnight Hawaii Time), 2008: Paper submissions (extended deadline)
- October 11, 2008: Author notification
- October 25, 2008: Camera-Ready copy
General Inquiries
For further information, please send email to yxs055100@utdallas.edu