ICCBSS 2005: Experience Presentations Submissions

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Experience Presentations

Accounts of experiences in defining, acquiring, managing, creating and maintaining systems that incorporate COTS software products are desired. These presentations should be designed to allow others to learn about the problems encountered and how theywere overcome to meet the needs of the organization. To encourage submission of experience presentations, papers will not be required and the presentations will not be eligible for the Best Paper Award. Submitted proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the importance of the contribution and quality of the written and graphic expression. Summaries of the accepted experience presentations will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published in the which will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. No commercial or sales oriented presentations will be accepted. The following information is provided to help you in preparing for the conference.

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

1. Proposal preparation

	Proposals for experience presentations consists of extended abstracts of maximum 2 pages in length, must be written in English, and must be previously unpublished.

	Submitted proposals must be in either MS Word or pdf format.

	Proposals for Experience Presentations must be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference submission tool by 13 August 2004.

2. Proposals acceptance

	Proposals 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 experience abstracts are requested to make modifications to the proposals submitted according to the reviewer comments and submit a final version of the experience report 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 experiences abstracts 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.