Software Configuration Management
Guest Editors:
René Krikhaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ivica Crnkovic Mälardalen University, Sweden
Call for contributions
The discipline of software configuration management (SCM) provides one of the best success stories in the field of software engineering. With the availability of over a hundred commercial SCM systems that together form a billion dollar marketplace, and the explicit recognition of SCM by such standards as the CMM and ISO-9000, the discipline has established itself as one of the essential cornerstones of software engineering.While SCM is a well-established discipline, innovative software engineering approaches constitute new challenges that require support in new and in integrated engineering areas in form of new or improved tools, techniques, and processes. Due to its maturity SCM fullfills often a kind of leading role in system engineering. SCM techniques, tools and process are more and more applied in the field of e.g. system and hardware documentation or ASIC and FPGA development.The editors especially invite people to write papers discussing the role of SCM in the evolution of systems. Software Configuration Management is playing a key role when managing system development for
- running parallel multiple projects
- creating multiple products (software product lines)
- multiple disciplines (product management and SCM)
- developing at multiple sites (distributed development)
- Utilisation of SCM and and principles in different development approaches (model-based development, component-based development, product-lines development)
- dynamically reconfigured systems
The authors of the best papers of the SCM-12 workshop, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 5-6 September 2005, will be invited to write a paper for this special issue.
| Deadline for submissions of Abstracts: | 1 November 2005 (PASSED) |
| Deadline for submissions of Full Papers: | 1 December 2005 (PASSED) |
| Author's notification: | 31 March 2006 (Authors are notified) |
| Special issue's publication: | Summer/Autumn 2006
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| Special issue's web site: | http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rkrikhaa/scp-scm |
Please announce your paper submission by sending title and abstract in text format to guest editors via email: René Krikhaar and Ivica Crnkovic Papers can be submitted in PDF or Postscript format to the guest editors.Authors who want to discuss potential submissions are encouraged to contact the guest editors or meet them at the SCM-12 workshop.For details about the policy of the Science of ComputerProgramming journal, and the requirements for prospective authors seea recent issue of the journal and check the journal's web site http://www.elsevier.com/locate/scico/.
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