[fg-arc] Symposium "Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering" - Call for Participation

[Klaus Schmid]

Symposium "Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering"
7 June 2013, from 2pm to 5:30 pm, Kaiserslautern, Germany


The symposium on the "Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering" aims at summarizing some of the most important trends and future needs in software engineering from a number of different angles, such as:
- Empirical software engineering: Where are we? Where do we need to go?
- Technical foundations including modeling approaches, architectures:
     How can they be improved to provide better predictability of system characteristics?
- Implications for the discipline:
     How does this impact software engineering as a discipline?

The symposium combines invited talks and panel discussions by prominent and recognized leaders in the field:

   +   Victor R. Basili (University of Maryland)
   +   Barry B. Boehm (University of Southern California)
   +   Lionel Briand (University of Luxembourg)
   +   Manfred Broy (TU München)
   +   Leon J. Osterweil (University of Massachusetts)
   +   Andreas Rausch (TU Clausthal)
   +   Ralf Reussner (KIT Karlsruhe)
   +   Dieter Rombach (University of Kaiserslautern, IESE)
   +   Forrest Shull (CESE, Maryland)
   +   Mario Trapp (IESE, Kaiserslautern)

The proceedings of the symposium appear as Springer book (http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-37394-7) that includes additional contributions from renowned leaders, such as:

   +   Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano)
   +   Constance Heitmeyer (Naval Research Laboratory Washington)
   +   Michael Jackson (The Open University Milton Keynes)
   +   Ross Jeffery (NICTA,Eveleigh)
   +   Natalia Juristo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
   +   David Weiss (Iowa State University)
   +   Claes Wohlin (Blekinge Institute of Technology)
   +   Marvin Zelkowitz (University of Maryland)
   +   Andreas Zeller (Saarland University)

The symposium is held in honor of the 60th birthday of Dieter Rombach.

The symposium is open to the general public (free of charge) and takes place on the 7th of June, 2013 from 2pm to 5:30 pm at:

University of Kaiserslautern,
Building 42, Room 115 "Audimax"
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Lodging options:
  Hotel booking code: Festakt/Geburtstag Dieter Rombach
  Hotel Saks Phone: +49 631 361 250 (http://sakshotels.com/#/en/welcome-at-saks/)
  Hotel Zollamt Phone: +49 631 316 6600 (http://www.hotel-zollamt.de/hotel_eng.html)
  Art-Hotel Phone: +49 631 362 400 (http://www.art-hotel-kl.de/englisch/index.html)

Travel information: http://www.uni-kl.de/use/Anfahrt_TU_KL.pdf
Further Information: http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/symposium_se.html

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Program Chairs:
   Prof. Dr. Jürgen Münch (University of Helsinki)
   Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid (University of Hildesheim)

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid
University of Hildesheim             Tel.: +49 (0) 5121 / 883-761
Institute of Computer Science        Fax.: +49 (0) 5121 / 883-769
Marienburger Platz 22                schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de<mailto:schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de>
D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany      http://www.sse.uni-hildesheim.de
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