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The SPICE Conference Call For Papers is already available here: (-->PDF<--)
Deadline For Paper Submission - EXPIRED
22 January, 2010
(extended) 2nd February 2010
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Adaptive process improvement;
- Knowledge and skills for process assessment and improvement;
- Relating business goals and/or risks to process improvements;
- Measurement frameworks and ratings;
- Safety and dependability process model extensions;
- Relationships between process capability and organizational maturity;
- Assessment of organizations at higher Maturity Levels;
- Empirical studies on characteristics of high maturity organizations;
- Factors influencing the conduct and reliability of assessments;
- Methods, models and tools to support process assessment;
- Emerging Process Reference Models and Process Assessment Models;
- Case study and experience reports on process improvement and/or capability determination;
- Case study and experience reports in performing remote assessments;
- Benchmarking as a foundation for process improvement;
- Relationships and comparisons between different models and approaches to process assessment;
- Theoretical considerations on the basis of the technique of process assessment;
- Use of process assessment in domains outside software, systems engineering and service management;
- Issues in assessing virtual enterprises and teams;
- Assessment approaches applied to agile development;
- Conformity assessment approaches and schemes for process capability and organizational maturity;
The breadth of application of the standardised approach to process assessment remains a topic of considerable interest, from both a practical and theoretical perspective; accordingly, the SPICE 2010 Conference seeks contributions specifically relating to the following areas of application:
- Financial institutions and banks;
- Automotive systems and software;
- Aerospace systems and software;
- Medical device systems and software;
- IT service management;
- Test process improvement;
- Outsourcing organisations;
- Safety-related systems and software;
- Small and very small enterprises.
A special focus will also be given to the application and improvement of key development processes, such as Testing, Requirements Engineering and Project Management.
Paper submission email: by
22 January, 2010 
(extended) 2nd February 2010
- EXPIRED
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