[TYPES/announce] CFP - ASE '08 Tool Demonstrations

[Ewen Denney]

Automated Software Engineering 2008: Call for Research Tool Demonstrations

[Tools based on typed-based formalisms that have applicability to some
area of software engineering are welcome.]

Software Engineering is concerned with the analysis, design,
implementation, testing, and maintenance of software systems. Automated
software engineering focuses on how to automate these tasks in order to
achieve improvements in quality and productivity. Tool support,
therefore, is central to this. The 23nd IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Software Engineering (L'Aquila, Italy, 15-19 September
2008) invites submissions for its tool demonstrations track.

The ASE tool demonstrations track provides an opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent
advances, experiences, and challenges in the field of automated software
engineering with the goal of allowing live presentation of new research
tools. Tools can range from research prototypes to in-house or
pre-commercialized products.

The demonstrations are intended to highlight underlying scientific
contributions.  Whereas a scientific paper is intended to give the
background information and point out the scientific contribution of a
new software engineering approach, the tool demonstration provides a
good opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been
transferred into a working tool.

Demonstrators will be expected to give a presentation that will be
scheduled into the conference program. There will also be a
demonstration area open to attendees at scheduled times during the
conference, during which demonstrators are expected to be available.
Accepted demonstrations will be allocated 2 pages in the main conference
proceedings. Presentation at the conference is a requirement for
publication.  Authors of regular research papers are also welcome to
submit an accompanying tool paper.


Submissions of proposals for formal tool demonstrations must:
- adhere to the conference proceedings format
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications/cps/cps_forms.html
- have a maximum of 2 pages that describe the technology or approach,
how it relates to other industrial or research efforts, including
references, and describe what the expected benefits are
- have an appendix (not included in the 2 page count) that provides a
brief description of how the presentation will be conducted (possibly
illustrated with a number of snapshots or other multimedia content),
information on tool availability and maturity in addition to a web-page
for the tool (if one exists).

Submission should be sent via email to the track organizers.

Important Dates:

- Paper submission: May 15, 2008
- Notification: June 9, 2008
- Camera-ready papers: July 3, 2008
- Conference: September 15-19, 2008

For further clarification, please contact the Tool Demonstration
co-chairs:

Ewen Denney
Ewen.W.Denney at nasa.gov
RIACS / NASA Ames (USA)

Patricia Lago
patricia at cs.vu.nl
VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)