ESEC/FSE 2009 - The 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)

Call for Contributions
ESEC/FSE 2009 (The seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Held bi- annually, ESEC/FSE brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results and trends, as well as their practical application in all areas of software engineering.

ESEC/FSE 2009 will offer a strong technical program with an exciting list of events, including keynote talks by leaders in the field, challenge presentations, demonstrations, posters, workshops, and a doctoral symposium.

Contributions to the above events on any field of software engineering are invited, including, but not limited to:


Requirements engineering
Specification and verification
Software architecture and design
Analysis and testing
Development paradigms and software processes
Evolution and change management
Tools and environments
Empirical software engineering
Software quality and performance
Formal methods
Global software development
Component-based software engineering
Model-driven engineering
Web-based systems
Distributed systems and middleware
Service-oriented systems
Mobile systems
Pervasive computing systems
Embedded and real-time systems
Grid computing systems
Human-centered software engineering
Aspect orientation
Open standards and certification
Software economics and human resources
Dependability (safety, security, reliability)
Case studies and experience reports



The following types of contributions are sought:

Technical papers must present novel results of theoretical or empirical research, and clearly identify their contribution to the state of the art and/or their potential usefulness to industry. Experience papers that report ¡°lessons learned¡± of interest and benefit to the broader ESEC/FSE audience are also welcome. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be in consideration for publication elsewhere.

Presentations on challenges and visionary ideas in relevant software engineering topics will complement the Technical papers program.
Workshops will provide a forum for the rapid dissemination of ongoing research activities, offering the opportunity for exchanging views and advancing ideas in a less formal setting.

Workshops will be held before the main conference and can be one or two days in duration.

The Doctoral Symposium will provide Ph.D. students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research with senior researchers in the software engineering community.
Demonstrations and posters will cover innovative technologies, platforms, and tools supporting software engineering.

Demonstration and posters proposals should be submitted to the Demonstration/Poster Chairs.

All submissions must be in English. Paper submissions will be made electronically via the Web. Instructions about each type of contribution will be posted on the corresponding Web pages.