Emphasizing this year:

Software Quality in Service-Oriented Architectures

September 27–29, Berlin, Germany

• Frank Leymann, IBM
• Hellmuth Broda, Sun Microsystems
• Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft
• Oskar von Dungern, Beta Systems

Important Dates:

Submission of papers and tutorials: April 3, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2006
Submission of final papers: July 3, 2006
Submission of tutorial and paper slides: September 1, 2006

Scope and Objectives

Since 1997, CONQUEST is the platform for software professionals bringing together the software engineering community to discuss software quality aspects, to see how quality engineering methods and techniques are used in both industrial and research environments, to see the latest tools, to share experiences on projects and representative case studies, and to hear about future directions.

CONQUEST 2006 will feature tutorials and presentations of invited speakers and from members of the quality and software engineering community. It provides a full picture of software quality in theory and practice:

• first-hand information on the practical use and further development of methods and techniques;
• user experience in introducing, implementing and operating software quality engineering;
• specific real-life case studies with detailed quality analysis and evaluation; and
• capabilities and availability of quality engineering tools.

This year special emphasis is given to service-oriented architectures (SOA) – how they help in engineering and assuring software quality, how they integrate with model-driven techniques and how development processes can be optimized to develop the systems efficiently and effectively based on service principles. Papers on software quality in SOA are appreciated in particular.

CONQUEST 2006 is co-organized by ASQF and the Technical University Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS. It is supported by the SIG on Testing, Analysis, and Verification of Software of the German Society for Informatics (GI TAV), the GI Joint Interest Group Modelling, and the Software Initiative Berlin-Brandenburg (SIBB).

Submission Details

Contributions may cover any quality related aspect of software engineering, but should be classified by choosing the topics below, which characterize the contribution best:

• Development processes and their models
• Requirements engineering
• Verification, validation and testing
• Metrics and measurements of system quality and of development processes
• Analytical models of software engineering
• Software architectures and platforms
• IT project management and management aspects of software engineering

Contributions related to industrial experiences are particularly welcomed. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Program Committee by April 3, 2006. A proposal should not be longer than 12 pages. It must include a title, the name(s) of the author(s), a contact address, and a subject classification according to the scheme above.

Proposals (in pdf format) should be sent to conquest2006-org@asqf.de

A template for proposals is available for download.

Ina Schieferdecker, Technische Universität Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS (Conference Chair)
Achim Schmidt, Beta Systems (Conference Co-Chair)

Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München
Luigi Buglione, Atos Origin
Günter Büren, Büren und Partner
Taz Daughtrey, James Madison University
Winfried Dulz, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen
Karol Frühauf, Infogem
Stephan Goericke, ASQF
Georg Heidenreich, Siemens
Bernd Hindel, Method Park
Hans-Georg Hopf, FH Nürnberg
Peter Hruschka, Atlantic Systems GmbH
Dieter Landes, Fachhochschule Coburg
Marek Leszak, Lucent Technologies
Peter Liggesmeyer, Fraunhofer IESE
Patricia McQuaid, California Polytechnic State University
Barbara Paech, Universität Heidelberg
Roland Petrasch, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
Klaus Pohl, Universität Essen
Bernhard Rumpe, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Chris Rupp, Sophist
Bernhard Schätz, Technische Universität München
Kurt Schneider, Universität Hannover
Andreas Spillner, Hochschule Bremen
Andy Schürr, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Finn Svendsen, Grundfos Denmark
Mario Winter, Fachhochschule Köln
Walter Wintersteiger, Management&Informatik
Peter Zimmerer, Siemens

Stephan Goericke, ASQF
Jan Redmann, ASQF
Hakan Coskun,
Technische Universität Berlin
Birgit Benner, FOKUS