• Slides for the keynote addresses are available
• Technical program
• Professor Paola Inverardi will give a keynote speech on Software Architecture
• Professor Hans van Vliet will give a keynote speech on Knowledge Sharing
• Registration information
• Visa and travel information
• Three international workshops will be co-located with QSIC 2010
• Journal special issue at Software: Practice and Experience

QSIC 2010 will include the main conference and co-located workshops. IEEE Computer Society will publish the conference proceedings consisting of carefully reviewed manuscripts accepted by the program committee.

The QSIC series of conference had received overwhelming and very positive response from academia and industry. For every year, the top few articles among the accepted articles were also published, in their extended form, in a special issue of an international, respectful and SCI-indexed archival journal.

Please click here for a printable copy of call-for-papers

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a special issue of Software: Practice and Experience.

Submit original papers (not published or submitted elsewhere) including the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 8 keywords. The format of your submission must follow the IEEE conference proceedings format.

Guidelines

• Language: English

• Maximum Paper Length: 10 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers

• Paper Format: US letter size

• File Format: pdf

EasyChair paper submission page for QSIC 2010

QSIC 2010 will be held at Wulingyuan International Hotel (武陵源国际度假酒店 in Chinese), whose website is http://www.prczjj.com. You may find more information about the conference venue from its website.

• Registration form for international participants

• Registration form for participants from the mainland of China

 

Assessing Dependability for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Is There a Role for Software Architectures? Paola Inverardi Department of Computer Science University of L'Aquila Italy

• Presentation Slides

• Abstract

  A traditional research direction in SA and dependability is to deduce system dependability properties from the Knowledge of the system Software Architecture. This well reflect the fact that traditional systems are built by using the closed world assumption. In mobile and ubiquitous systems this line of reasoning becomes too restrictive to apply due to the inherent dynamicity and heterogeneity of the systems under consideration. Indeed these systems need to relax the closed world assumption and to consider an open world where the system/component/user context is not fixed. In other words the assumption that the system SA is known and fixed at an early stage of the system development does not apply anymore. On the contrary the ubiquitous scenario promotes the view that systems can be dynamically composed out of available components whose dependability can at most be assessed in terms of components assumptions on the system context. Moreover dependability cannot be anymore designed as an absolute context free property of the system rather it may change as long as it allows the satisfaction of the user's requirements and needs. In this setting SA can only be dynamically induced by taking into consideration the respective assumptions of the system components and the current user needs. The talk will illustrate this challenge and will discuss a set of possible future research directions.

• Biography

  Paola Inverardi is Professor in Computer Science at University of L'Aquila, where she leads the Software Engineering and Architecture Research Group. From November 2008, she is Dean of the Faculty of Science at University of L'Aquila. She is member of the Senate Board of University of L'Aquila. Paola Inverardi's main research area is in the application of formal methods to software development in order to improve software quality. Her research interest is on the correct development and management of large distributed software systems, focusing on configuration and dynamic re-configuration issues. In the last decade her research interests mainly concentrated in the field of software architectures. She has actively worked on the verification and analysis of software architecture properties, both behavioural and quantitative for component-based, distributed, and mobile systems. Recently, her research focuses on the problem of dynamically adapt software applications to contexts that can exhibit different degrees of resources availability. She has (co-)authored over one hundred publications in international journals and international conference and workshop proceedings (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db /indices/a-tree/i/Inverardi:Paola.html). Paola Inverardi is member (2001–) and chair (2003–) of the ESEC (European Software Engineering Conference) Steering Committee. She is member of the ICSE Steering Committee. She is member of the ACM Europe Council (http://europe.acm.org/). From July 2005 to July 2009, she has been member at large of the ACM SIFSOFT (ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) Executive Committee (http://www.sigsoft.org/ about/execComm.htm). She has been associate editor for ACM TOSEM. She has been co-chair of the ICSE 2009 conference. She is currently associate editor for IEE TSE.

 

Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Hans van Vliet Department of Information Management and Software Engineering Vrije Universiteit The Netherlands

• Presentation Slides

• Abstract

  In software development, a huge amount of knowledge needs to be shared between architects and developers, developers and testers, configuration managers and integration testers, and so on. Since all these people want to develop, test, architect software, and are reluctant to document it, a lot of this knowledge remains tacit. This is the more so in agile environments, where there is an inherent tension between top-down development guidance through specifications and other means, and a bottom-up development and delivery of new features. In multi-site development, such may easily lead to mutual misunderstandings, an increase in errors and problem reports, and wasting resources on rework. I will report on knowledge sharing challenges we encountered in industry, in particular in a large multi-site development organization that develops software for the printing industry.

• Biography

  Hans van Vliet is Professor in Software Engineering at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1986. He got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include software architecture, knowledge management in software development, global software development, and empirical software engineering. Before joining the VU University, he worked as a researcher at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI, Amsterdam). He spent a year as a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He co-authored over 140 refereed articles. He is the author of "Software Engineering: Principles and Practice", published by Wiley (3rd Edition, 2008). He is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.10 on software architecture, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software.

 

STEERING COMMITTEE

 

Chair T.H. Tse   Members T.Y. Chen Hans-Dieter Ehrich Huimin Lin Peter C. Poole C.V. Ramamoorthy W. Eric Wong Stephen S. Yau

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong     Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China University of Melbourne, Australia University of California at Berkeley, USA IEEE Reliability Society Arizona State University, USA

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair Xicheng Lu   Program Chairs Ji Wang Wing Kwong Chan Fei-Ching Kuo   IEEE Reliability Society Liaison W. Eric Wong   Publicity and Publication Chair Xiaoying Bai   Finance and Registration Chairs Yanjun Wen Bo Jiang   Organizing Chair Xiaoguang Mao   Local Organizer

National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China     National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Swinburne University of Technology, Australia     University of Texas at Dallas, USA     Tsinghua University, China     National University of Defense Technology, China The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong     National University of Defense Technology, China   National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea

Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China

Fevzi Belli, Universität Paderborn, Germany

Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA

Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christof Budnik, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Kai-Yuan Cai, Beihang University, China

Joao Cangussu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Alessandra Cavarra, Oxford University, UK

Xiaojun Chen, University of Windsor, Canada

S.C. Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea

William Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Sam Chung, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA

Bojan Cukic West Virginia university, USA

Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan

Gordon Fraser, Saarland University, Germany

Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA

Swapna S. Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA

Arnaud Gotlieb, INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA

Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, USA

Walter Gutjahr, University of Vienna, Austria

Xudong He, Florida International University, USA

Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK

Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Pankaj Jalote, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ross Jeffrey, The University of New South Wales and NICTA, Australia

Moonzoo Kim, KAIST, Korea

Sung Kim, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Victor Kuliamin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

David Kung, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada

Richard Lai, La Trobe University, Australia

Yu Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Jenny Li, Avaya Labs Research, USA

Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China

Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan

Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China

Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Hong Mei, Peking University, China

Atif Memon, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

V. Krshna Nandivada, IBM Research Lab, India.

Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA

Atsushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Amit M. Paradkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea

Pak-Lok Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Alexander Pretschner, Fraunhofer IESE and TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia

Bo Sun, Beijing Normal University, China

Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Jeff Tian, Southern Methodist University, USA

Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

Hasan Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada

Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA

Huaimin Wang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China

Jun Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

W. Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria

Ji Wu, Beihang University, China

Min Xie, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China

Y.T. Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA

Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada

 

WORKSHOPS

• The First International Workshop on Program Debugging (IWPD 2010)
  organized by Qianxiang Wang (Peking University), T.H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong),
  and Zhenyu Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

   

• International Workshop on Quality of Service-Based Systems (QSBS 2010)
  organized by Xiaoying Bai (Tsinghua University) and Chunyang Ye (University of Toronto)

 

• The First International Workshop on Embedded System Software Development and Quality Assurance (WESQA 2010)
  organized by William C. Chu (TungHai University), Chih-Hung Chang (Hsiuping Institute of Technology),
  and Pao-Ann Hsiung (National Chung Cheng University)

 

VISAS

• Tourist Visas

  Some QSIC 2010 participants may require visas to enter and stay at the People's Republic of China. The simplest way is to apply for a tourist visa, which should give the holders enough time to attend the conference and participate in pre/post conference activities. Invitation letters are not required for tourist visas. Please contact the Chinese Embassy or Consulate in your region for specific instructions. The time to process such an application may vary, depending on where the application is made. We advise QSIC 2010 participants to apply as soon as possible if such visas are needed.

   

  More information about tourist ("L") visas to China can be found here. Please complete the the application form Q1 and tick the "Tourism" box.

   

• Business Visas

  If a QSIC 2010 participant has any problem in obtaining a tourist visa to attend the conference, please contact Dr. Tun Li at tunlee@sina.com to request for an official invitation letter so as to apply for a business visa. Obtaining the letter can be time-consuming. In addition, please be reminded that the letter can only be issued to registered participants. Please email the following information when requesting an invitation letter:

   

  • Name
  • Company/affiliation
  • Full address (with city, state, country, and postal code)
  • Email address
  • Fax number
  • Paper ID and title (if applicable)

 

AIR TICKETS

 

For conference participants who take international flights to China, please refer to the websites of Air China or China Southern Airlines for up-to-date flight information. We advice participants to transit at Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou, China from your port of departure, and then change to a domestic flight whose the port of arrival is Zhangjiajie.

 

Some useful flights around the conference period are listed below.

 

From	To	Departure Date (Beijing Time)
		July 12		July 13		July 14
Beijing	Zhangjiajie	CA1359	18:35–20:55	CA1359	18:35–20:55	CA1359	18:35–20:55
						CZ3718	13:25–15:55
Shanghai	Zhangjiajie	FM9341	18:55–20:55	FM9341	18:55–20:55	FM9341	18:55–20:55
		MU5371	19:40–21:40	MU5371	19:40–21:40	MU5371	19:40–21:40
		MU5367	20:10–22:10	MU5367	20:10–22:10	MU5367	20:10–22:10
Guangzhou	Zhangjiajie	FM9390	13:40–14:55	FM9390	13:40–14:55	FM9390	13:40–14:55
		CZ3381	20:10–21:35	CZ3381	20:10–21:35	CZ3381	20:10–21:35
Changsha	Zhangjiajie	CZ3984	18:30–19:20	CZ3984	18:30–19:20	CZ3984	18:30–19:20

 

From	To	Departure Date (Beijing Time)
		July 15		July 16		July 17
Zhangjiajie	Beijing	CA1360	21:50–23:55	CA1360	21:50–23:55	CA1360	21:50–23:55
Zhangjiajie	Shanghai	FM9342	21:50–23:40	FM9342	21:50–23:40	FM9342	21:50–23:40
		MU5372	22:30–00:15	MU5372	22:30–00:15	MU5372	22:30–00:15
		MU5368	23:00–00:45	MU5368	23:00–00:45	MU5368	23:00–00:45
Zhangjiajie	Guangzhou	FM9389	15:40–17:15	FM9389	15:40–17:15	FM9389	15:40–17:15
		CZ3382	22:25–23:55	CZ3382	22:25–23:55	CZ3382	22:25–23:55
Zhangjiajie	Changsha	CZ3983	06:50–07:40	CZ3983	06:50–07:40	CZ3983	06:50–07:40

 

The website TravelSuperLink provides useful information about traveling between the United States and China, including discount airfare, travel agents, airfare calendar display, etc.

 

LOCAL TRANSPORT

• Taxis

  The cost of taking a taxi to travel from the Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport to Wulingyuan International Resort is about RMB 80–100, and the time is about 30–45 minutes.

   

  We can call a taxi for you. If you need such a service, please provide your name and arrival time at Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport to Dr. Tun Li at tunlee@sina.com in advance.

 

SIGHTSEEING

 

For information about sightseeing, please visit the website of Zhangjiajie International Tourism Web provided by the Zhangjiajie Municipal Information Center.

 

QSIC 2010 ENQUIRIES

 

Please direct all QSIC 2010 enquiries to qsic@cs.hku.hk