QUATIC'2007 Call for Participation (Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14)

[QUATIC 2007]

               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                    QUATIC'2007 
        6th International Conference on the
Quality of Information and Communications Technology
                September 12 - 14, 2007
                     Lisbon, Portugal

Supported / Sponsored by:
	IEEE Computer Society, American Society for Quality, 
	CGD, Critical Software, EDP, Microsoft, Portugal Telecom,
	APCER, IPQ, itSMF and more ...

Abstract:
The International Conference on the Quality of Information and
Communications Technology (QUATIC) serves as a forum for 
disseminating advanced methods and tools for supporting quality
approaches to ICT engineering and management. Practitioners and
researchers are encouraged to exchange ideas and approaches on
how to adopt a quality culture in ICT process and product 
improvement and to provide practical studies in varying contexts.

Check the web site for all details about the scientific program,
social program, and registration instructions.

         http://quatic2007.dsi.uminho.pt/


INVITED LECTURES

* A Vision for International Standardization in Software and
Systems Engineering
François Coallier, ETS/Université du Québec network

* Sorting Out Software Quality: The Empirical Basis and 
Selected Results
Philip Miller, SEI/Carnegie Mellon University


TUTORIALS (free attendance)

* Managing Software Products Development Life Cycle with
Microsoft Solutions Framework 4.0 and VS 2005 Team System 
Carlos Morais, Hugo Ribeiro (Primavera BSS)

* How to Make Sure BPMS and other Enterprise Systems are Aligned
To The Company's Strategy
Jorge S. Coelho (SisConsult), Sandra Derom (W3SI)

* Model Based Testing
Ana Paiva (FE/UP)


AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS

* Software Engineering Doctoral Consortium (SEDES)

* The Teaching of Quality in Information and Communication
Technology Education Programs (TEQUA) 


INDUSTRIAL TRACK

* Several panels, sponsor sessions and demos


SCIENTIFIC TRACK

* Session: Software Product Quality
   - Tool Support for ISO 14598 Based Code Quality Assessment (Johannes Kepler University)
   - A Practical Model for Measuring Maintainability (Software Improvement Group)
   - Towards Paradigm-independent Software Assessment (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

* Session: Software Methodologies and Quality Assurance
   - Updating OO-Method Function Points (Technical University of Valencia)
   - Testing Aspect Oriented Programs (University of Sannio Benevento)
   - Modeling the Experimental Software Engineering Process (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

* Session: Software Process Improvement Approaches
   - Problems and Pitfalls in a CMMI level 3 to level 4 Migration Process (Eldorado Research Institute)
   - A Software Process Improvement Approach (INESC-ID, Universidade do Algarve)
   - MPS Model-Based Software Acquisition Process Improvement in Brazil (SOFTEX)

* Session: Middleware and Services Architecture
   - A Scalable Quality of Service Middleware System with Passive Monitoring (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
   - Quality Assurance in perfSONAR Release Management (Internet2,  Leibniz Supercomputing Center, DANTE, FCCN, University of Cyprus, GRNET)

* Session: Quality in the WEB
   - A Probabilistic Approach to Web Portal’s Data Quality Evaluation (University of Bio Bio, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University of Auckland)
   - Towards the Support of Contextual Information to a Measurement and Evaluation Framework (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa)

* Session: Software Process Improvement in Practice
   - A Nationwide Program for Software Process Improvement in Brazil (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
   - Lessons Learned and Results from Applying Data-Driven Cost Estimation to Industrial Data Sets (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering)
   - Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Small and Medium- Size Enterprises in Brazil (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)