13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference – Program Information : 13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference – Program Information
Pankaj Jalote
PC Chair, APSEC06
Background : Background This is the first APSEC in India
Previous ones: Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore,
Generally held in first half of Dec
Usually has about 50+ papers
Proceedings published by IEEE
Paper Submissions : Paper Submissions Had 275+ abstracts and 230 final paper submissions from 29 countries
A record of sorts
From:
India:100+
Japan: 18
Australia: 16
Pakistan: 11
China: 9
Thailand: 6
USA: 10
Algeria, Brazil, Canada, Oman, Peru, Many European countries, Many Asian Countries
Review Process : Review Process Each paper reviewed by at least 3 reviewers (except a few)
The PC consisted of about 70 members from across the world
Each PC member reviewed 8-10 papers
Over 670 reviews
Review period: About 6 weeks
Accepted Papers : Accepted Papers Accepted 59 papers from 18 countries (1 was withdrawn)
13 from industry
From:
India: 16
Japan: 10
Australia: 7
Korea: 3
Singapore: 3
USA: 3
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Program : Program Each day: Keynote session, Morning session, and two post lunch sessions (no post lunch on Fri)
Have 3 parallel sessions
Morning all 3 are research papers
Afternoon: 2 research sessions + one panel discussion / mini-tutorial
17 research tracks, 2 mini-tutorials, 2 panel discussions
Keynotes : Keynotes Dec 6: Kurt Wallnau, SEI, Beyond Vacuity in Component-Based Software
Dec 7: Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research, Automatic property checking for software: past, present and future
Keynote Panel: Near Term Challenges in Sw Engg., Gautam Shroff (TCS), Anand Vaishampayan (IBM), Subu Goparaju (Infosys), Erik Kaashoek (Philips)
Panel Discussions : Panel Discussions Dec 6: “Complexity Management in software projects”
Dec 7: “Innovations in Software Process”
Mini-Tutorials : Mini-Tutorials Dec 6: “Service Oriented Architecture”
Dec 7: “A practical perspective to Open source development processes” by Sai Satish Vedam, Navaneeth Krishnan, Sun Microsystems India Ltd.
Half Day Tutorial on Dec 8 : Half Day Tutorial on Dec 8 Fri, 8th, 2-6pm: A complimentary ½ day tutorial on Fri afternoon on “Enterprise Architecture: Requirements and non functional discipline” by Vivek Bhatnagar, Principal Architect Advisor - Microsoft India
Workshops : Workshops Three parallel post-conference workshops
Software Product Engineering Challenges
Pravin Bhagwat and Pawan Goel
Service and process Oriented Software Engineering
Srinivas,
Software Competency Building and Education
Dinesha, Ravi Mittal
Workshop Registration : Workshop Registration Registration form is in the kit
Kindly fill it and submit it ASAP
Fee is separate (Rs 1000 for apsec attendees)
If interested, fill the form today, pay on 9th morning (check, draft, credit card)
Banquet : Banquet On Dec 6 evening, starting 6:30 pm
Have a dance performance by Nrityagram followed by dinner
Sponsors : Sponsors Infosys
IBM
Philips
Microsoft
Satyam
TCS
Local Organization : Local Organization Aravind SrinivasTCS,
Babu RamanathanWipro
K. V. Dinesha, IIIT Bangalore
K. V. Shashi Kiran, QSIT
Pradeep Chennavajhula, QAI
Raghavan M., Aztech Software
Rajiv Narvekar, Infosys
Ravi Mittal, Flextronics
Sala Lakshmanan, Philips
Sangeeta Jayadevan, IBM
Venkat Aravind, Satyam
Vishweshara Hegde, Mindtree Consulting
Announcements : Announcements
Registration for Fri Afternoon : Registration for Fri Afternoon Fri afternoon, 3 activities: Visit to Infosys, Visit to MindTree, Tutorial on EA
All are complimentary
Must register for your choice on the registration desk by today lunch
Registration for Workshops : Registration for Workshops Workshops have a separate nominal charge (Rs 1000 for apsec attendees)
Registration is separate
Kindly fill the form and pay the fees (check, draft, credit card) as soon as possible (till Dec 9 morning)
Travel/Tour : Travel/Tour Agent of a reputed travel agency has been given a desk
Kindly contact him directly
Proceedings to Students : Proceedings to Students Students are not eligible for proceedings
If extra copies left, they will be given to students on Dec 8, afternoon (after the conference is over)
Program Changes : Program Changes Dec 6: Session 2A merged in 2B (as two authors in 2A could not come)