13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference Program Information

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13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Program Information

• Pankaj Jalote
• PC Chair, APSEC06

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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

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Paper Submissions

• Had 275 abstracts and 230 final paper
  submissions from 29 countries
• A record of sorts
• From
• India100
• Japan 18
• Australia 16
• Pakistan 11
• China 9
• Thailand 6
• USA 10
• Algeria, Brazil, Canada, Oman, Peru, Many
  European countries, Many Asian Countries

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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

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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  withdrawn)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

• 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

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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)

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Panel Discussions

• Dec 6 Complexity Management in software
  projects
• Dec 7 Innovations in Software Process

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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.

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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

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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

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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)

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Banquet

• On Dec 6 evening, starting 630 pm
• Have a dance performance by Nrityagram followed
  by dinner

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Sponsors

• Infosys
• IBM
• Philips
• Microsoft
• Satyam
• TCS

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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

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Announcements
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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

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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)

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Travel/Tour

• Agent of a reputed travel agency has been given a
  desk
• Kindly contact him directly

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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)

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Program Changes

• Dec 6 Session 2A merged in 2B (as two authors in
  2A could not come)