Tutorial Proposals

Dates

12 February 2001 for tutorial proposals.
1 June 2001 for acceptance notification.

Goal

The ICSM tutorial program provides conference participants with the opportunityto gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in the areas of software andsystems maintenance, evolution, and management..

Scope

We are soliciting proposals for half-day (3-hour) tutorials. A tutorialcan cover a wide range of topics, from practical techniques, guidelinessurveys, to theoretical issues. We encourage tutorials that reflect theconference themes and provide clear utility to practitioners. The topicsare not limited to past ICSM tutorial offerings.

Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on a relevant,therefore no commercial or sales-oriented presentations will be accepted.

Potential tutorialists should keep in mind that there may be quite avaried audience, including software practitioners, managers, teachers,researchers, and students. The tutorialists should be prepared to copewith this diversity unless they make clear that the tutorial is orientedto a particular subgroup. Also bear in mind that not everyone will haveEnglish as their first language. Thus, presenters should provide comprehensivenotes written in clear, standard English. Idioms, irony, slang and culture-specific references should be avoided as far as possible.

Review Process

Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated on its anticipated benefit forprospective participants and its fit within the tutorial program as a whole.Factors to be considered also include: relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal; suitability for presentation in a half -day tutorial format; effectiveness of teaching methods; and past experience and qualifications of the instructors.

How to Submit

The tutorial proposal should include a title, proposer’s contact information and biography, tutorial aims and objectives, purpose and scope, duration and timeline and a summary.

If applicable, give also information about:

availability of support material (e.g. on the web), target audience,required background, history of the tutorial, equipment needed, some examplesof slides.

The format of tutorial proposals (maximum ten pages) may be:

ASCII text (plain or HTML), or
Adobe Portable Document Format
Postscript format.

Submit proposals via e-mail to icsm2001@unisannio.itby 12 February 2001. (closed)

Acceptance Notification

Notification of acceptance date is set to 1 June 2001.

Each accepted tutorial will have one pages for a summary in the conference proceedings.

This summary must conform to the standard 2-columns IEEE proceedings publication format.

Proposed Conference email and WWW site:
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/ICSM2001
icsm2001@dsi.unifi.it

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