General Information

Industry and government systems are relying more and more on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software in order to keep development and maintenance costs low and keep pace with technological advances. The International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) is the first conference to focus solely on the challenges of creating and maintaining large systems that incorporate COTS products.

AWARD
To encourage paper submissions, the sponsors of the event will give an award for the best paper. The Program Committee will select the winner, and a formal presentation of the award will be made during the conference.

PRESENTATION
Please follow these guidelines when preparing your presentation.

PROCEEDINGS
In order to be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, final materials must

• be submitted by 15 October, 2001
• conform to the formatting instructions found in the formatting guidelines
• be accompanied by a signed copyright form