Update: In response to popular demand, the submission deadline for CBSE7 has been extended until January 2, 2004.

Goals and Scope

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) is concerned with the development of software intensive systems from reusable parts (components), the development of such reusable parts, and with the maintenance and improvement of systems by means of component replacement and customization. Although it holds considerable promise, there are still many challenges facing both researchers and practitioners in establishing CBSE as an efficient and proven engineering discipline. CBSE has been the focus of six workshops, which have been held consecutively at the most recent six International Conferences on Software Engineering (ICSE). The premise of the last three CBSE workshops was that the long-term success of component-based development depends on the viability of an established science and technology foundation for achieving predictable quality in component-based systems. The intent of this symposium is to build on this premise, and to provide a forum for more in-depth and substantive treatment of topics pertaining to predictability. The symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines related to CBSE to help establish cross-discipline insights, to provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative approaches to CBSE, and to improve cooperation and mutual understanding.

Paper Submissions

CBSE7 invites two categories of submissions.

1. Long papers (12-16 pages, LNCS style) describe research and technical contributions to CBSE in depth. This includes both research papers and experience reports.
2. Short papers (6-8 pages, LNCS style) concisely describe ongoing work, new ideas, experiences, etc.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members (four for papers with an author on the program committee). Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).
Submissions must conform to the LNCS style.
For the formatting details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All CBSE7 papers should be submitted via the electronic submission system.

Suggested areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Generation and adaptation of component-based systems;
• Verification, testing and checking of component systems;
• Compositional reasoning techniques for component models;
• Measurement and prediction models for component assemblies;
• Patterns and frameworks for component-based systems;
• Extra-functional system properties of components and component-based systems;
• Static and execution-based measurement of system properties;
• Assurance and certification of components and component-based systems;
• Component specifications;
• Development environment and tools for building component-based systems;
• Components for real-time, secure, safety critical and/or embedded systems;
• Case studies and experience reports.

More detailed guidelines and evaluation criteria for successful submissions can be found at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pacc/CBSE7/add_guidelines.html.

Participation

CBSE7 is open to all researchers and industrial practitioners interested in CBSE and related areas.

Important Dates

Symposium Organization

General Chair
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA

Program chair
Ivica Crnkovic, ivica.crnkovic@mdh.se, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Organizing & Steering Committee
Heinz Schmidt, Heinz.Schmidt@infotech.monash.edu.edu, Monash University, Australia
Judith Stafford, jas@cs.tufts.edu, Tufts University, USA
Kurt Wallnau, kcw@sei.cmu.edu, Software Engineering Institute/Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Committee
Uwe Aßmann, Linköping University, Sweden
Jakob Axelsson, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden
Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, USA
Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jan Bosch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Michel Chaudron, University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Emmerich, University College London, UK
Jacky Estublier, LSR-IMAG, France
Andre van der Hoek, University of California, Irvine, USA
Kathi Fisler, WPI, USA
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA
Richard Hall, Imag/Lsr, France
Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dick Hamlet, Portland State University, USA
George Heineman, WPI, USA
Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
Jeff Magee, Imperial College University, UK
Nenad Medvidovic', University of Southern California, USA
Magnus Larsson, ABB, Sweden
Rob van Ommering, Philips, The Netherlands
Heinz Schmidt, Monash University, Australia
Judith Stafford, Tufts University
Dave Wile, Teknowledge, Corp., USA
Kurt Wallnau, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA