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     David Carney
     djc@sei.cmu.edu

     Jean-Christophe Mielnik
     jean-christophe.mielnik@thalesgroup.com

 
 
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Refereed Papers

The ICCBSS Program Committee solicits papers that describe research and innovative approaches to solving COTS-based software systems problems and papers that present case studies that show the current state of the practice in developing or maintaining COTS-based software systems. Papers will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, and quality of the written and graphic presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their papers at the conference. To further encourage paper submissions, a Best Paper Award will be formally presented during the conference.

The following information is provided to help you in paper submission and conference preparation.

 
1.  Papers preparation
 
Papers should not exceed ten (10) pages in length, must be written in English, and must be previously unpublished.
Submitted papers must be in either MS Word or pdf format. We recommend to follow the Springer-Verlag author's instructions and use the conference MS Word document template.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference submission tool by 13 August 2004.
 
2.  Papers acceptance
 
Papers will be evaluated by the Program Committee based on the criteria mentioned above.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by e-mail and will be provided with the reviewer comments by 17 September 2004.
 
3.  Final submission
 
Authors of accepted papers are requested to make modifications to the submitted papers according to the reviewer comments. Final papers must conform to the the Springer-Verlag author's instructions and must be edited using the conference MS Word document template. This document must be sent electronically via the ICCBSS conference submission tool no later than 29 October 2004.
A Copyright release form must be faxed to Dan Port at +1 (808) 956-9889 no later than 29 October 2004.
 
4. Presentation material submission
 
Your presentation should fit within a 40 minute time period, including questions.
Presentations slides should be designed using MS PowerPoint 98 and above and use standard fonts.
Make sure you follow your submitted abstract and keep your audience in mind when developing your presentation.
Your presentation should be educationally focused - sales pitches are not appropriate.
Presentations should not include proprietary materials that cannot be distributed to the general public.
Please reserve 10 minutes before your presentation is finished for an audience question and answer session.
Final presentations material must be submitted also via the ICCBSS conference submission tool by 17 December 2004 in order to be reproduced as handouts, included in the Conference CD as pdf and be preloaded for presentations at the Conference.
 
NOTE: It is our intent to post presentations and conference summaries on the ICCBSS website. Submission of final accepted papers and presentation slides will be considered as permission to the organizers to print and distribute them at the conference, enclose them in the Conference CD, and post the materials on the conference website.
 
 
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