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Call for Papers

QUATIC 2012 - 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
Lisbon, Portugal, 3, 4 and 5 September 2012

http://2012.quatic.org
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Goals and scope
The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) serves as a forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques 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.

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit a paper to this conference, and join us at the beautiful city of Lisbon in September.

The conference program is organized on a series of Thematic Tracks, each corresponding to a specific topic of interest:

· ICT Verification and Validation
· ICT Process Improvement and Assessment
· Quality in ICT Service Management
· Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering
· Quality in ICT Evolution
· Quality in Model Driven Engineering
· Quality in Agile Methods
· Quality in Web Engineering
· Quality in Mobile Engineering
· Quality in Cloud Computing
· Quality in Business Intelligence
To foster the dissemination of best practices in industry, to allow a lively discussion of hot topics and quality concerns in specific application domains, to have hands-on contact with new tools, to gather around informal discussion groups on subjects suggested by the conference participants and also to allow conference sponsors to share their knowledge, we will have a dedicated Industrial Track.

Proceedings publication

As in the previous edition, papers accepted at the Thematic Tracks will be published by IEEE Computer Society’s Conference Publishing Services (confirmation pending), and submitted for indexed in IEEE Digital Library, ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, ACM Portal, DBLP and DOI System. Authors of the best papers accepted in the Thematic Tracks will be invited to submit extended versions for presentation in the Main Track. During the closing session of QUATIC’2012, awards will be given to the best papers presented during the meeting. Authors of selected papers presented in the Main Track, will be invited to submit extended and improved versions to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Papers and other presentation materials accepted for the Industrial Track will be published online at the conference website as well as in the Electronic Proceedings of the QUATIC’2012 Industrial Track (with ISBN edited by ACS03).
Paper submission instructions

Please follow the specific instructions provided at
http://2012.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/
and
http://2012.quatic.org/tracks/industrial-track/.

Important dates
Thematic Tracks and Industrial Track
· Abstract submissions: March 30, 2012
· Paper submissions: April 5, 2012
· Authors’ notification: May 4, 2012
· Camera-ready: May 25, 2012
Main Track
· Invitation to main track: May 4, 2012
· Extended paper submission: May 18, 2012
· Authors’ notification: June 8, 2012
· Camera-ready: June 22, 2012

Thematic tracks program chairs
· Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (Quality in Web Engineering)
· Ralf Carbon, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany (Quality in Mobile Engineering)
· Karol Frühauf, INFOGEM AG, Switzerland (ICT Process Improvement and Assessment)
· Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom (Quality in Cloud Computing)
· Maria Lencastre, University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering)
· Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy (ICT Verification and Validation)
· Panagiotis Sfetsos, Alexander Technological Educational Institution, Greece (Quality in Agile Methods)
· Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands (Quality in ICT Evolution)
· Sandra Whittleston, The University of Northampton, United Kingdom (Quality in ICT Service Management)

Industrial track program chairs
· Isabel Ferreira, CS03 / SINFIC, Portugal
· Susana Fonte, CS03 / SINFIC, Portugal
· José Carlos Costa, CS03, Portugal

General program chairs
· João Pascoal Faria, University of Porto, Portugal
· Ana Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

Keynote speakers
· Paulo Amaral, Sinfic, Portugal
· Eileen Forrester, Software Engineering Institute, USA
· Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
· Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA