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<< QUATIC’2016 >>

International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

Lisbon, Portugal, September, 6-9, 2016

http://2016.quatic.org

Introduction

QUATIC is 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.

Now commemorating its 10^th edition, QUATIC is among the 20 top venues on ICT Quality topics, as recorded by Google Scholar. QUATIC papers’ scientific impact has been increasing year after year. The call is open and we invite you to submit. Please feel free to distribute this CFP among your team and colleagues. For additional information, namely on previous editions, please refer to QUATIC Conference Series page at http://www.quatic.org

Proceedings publication

Papers accepted at the Thematic Tracks will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and made available in the IEEE Xplore.  As in previous editions, they will become indexed by SCOPUS, ACM Digital Library, 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. In that case, the extended version will be published in the QUATIC proceedings instead of the regular version. During the closing session of QUATIC’2016, 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 ASQ’s Software Quality Professional journal. Some Thematic Tracks also have plans for a follow-up regarding the conception of special issues on indexed journals.

Topics

The conference considers the existence of several areas of interest that gather a set of related topics, organized around several perspectives of ICT Quality. Therefore, QUATIC conference program is organized on a series of Thematic Tracks, each corresponding to a specific topic of interest:

– Quality Aspects in Requirements Engineering

– Quality Aspects in Model Driven Engineering

– Quality Aspects in Agile Methods

– Quality Aspects in Process Improvement and Assessment

– Quality Aspects in Verification and Validation

– Quality Aspects in Software Engineering using Evidence-Based Approaches

– Quality Aspects in Big Data Systems

– Quality Aspects in Safety Critical Systems

– Quality Aspects in Service Management

The conference will also have a Business Day to foster the dissemination of best practices and allow a lively discussion of hot topics and quality concerns in specific application domains. During this day, conference sponsors will share their knowledge and promote hands-on contact with new tools.

Another co-located event, SEDES, will bring together Software Engineering PhD students to present and discuss their work.

Submission dates

Note: Several researchers have asked us for a postponement of the initial deadline. However, due to the 2nd round of the review process (extended papers for the Main Track) and the required schedule for producing the IEEE proceedings, it is not easy to prolong the submission process. Please check here for any update announcement.