[fa.arpa-bboard] CALL FOR PAPERS - CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE -- 1985

arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (11/25/84)

From: William Daul - Augmentation Systems - McDnD  <WBD.TYM@OFFICE-2.ARPA>

Conference On Softway Maintenance -- 1985

   Wahsington, D.C., Nov. 11-13

The conference will be sponsored by the Association For Women in Computing, the 
Data Processing Management Association, the Institute for Electrical & 
Electronics Engineers, Inc., the National Bureau of Standards and the Special 
Interest Groups on Software Maintenance in cooperation with the Special Interest
Group on Software Engineering.

Papers are being solicited in the following areas:

   controlling software maintenance     
   software maintenance careers and education
   case studies -- successes and failures
   configuration management
   maintenance of distributed, embedded, hybrid and real-time systems
   debugging code
   developing maintainance documentation and environments
   end-user maintenance
   software maintenance error distribution
   software evolution
   software maintenance metrics
   software retirement/conversion
   technololgy transfer
   understanding the software maintainer

Submission deadline is Feb. 4, and 5 double-spaced copies are required.  Papers 
should range from 1,000 to 5,000 words in length.

The first page must include the title and a maximum 250-word abstract; all the 
authors' names, affiliations, mailing addresses and telephone numbers; and a 
statement of commitment that one of the authors will present the paper at the 
conference if it is accepted.

Submit papers and panel session proposals to: Roger Martin (CMS-85), National 
Bureau of Standards, Building 225, Room B266, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899