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***                 CALL FOR PAPERS                  ***
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***        Thirteenth International Symposium        ***
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***         Software Reliability Engineering         ***
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***             Annapolis, Maryland, USA             ***
***               November 12-15, 2002               ***
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Theme: Reliability and Security of Business/Mission Critical Systems

Web page: http://www.issre2002.org


Important dates
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April 1, 2002		Full Papers are due
May 1, 2002		Tutorial/panel proposals, industry abstracts due
July 1, 2001		Acceptance notifications
August  1, 2002		Student papers and fast abstracts due
September 1, 2002	Final camera ready papers due 
November 12-15, 2002	Conference



The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE) is the leading symposium for the dissemination of
state-of-the-art software reliability research and its practice as
software reliability engineering.  The 13th ISSRE will be held in
Annapolis, Maryland. 

As we move past the first wave of the internet and e-commerce based
systems and applications, the concerns about the reliability and
security of these business/mission critical systems are beginning to
surface.  Being held in the Washington DC area in close proximity to
the US government agencies, it is only appropriate that we pick
reliability and security of business/mission critical systems as our
theme for ISSRE 2002.  We hope to bring a good mixture of theory and
practices to highlight the problems and potential solutions in this
vital area of the information technology.  Topics of interest include
(but are not limited to):
	- Network system reliability
	- Internet reliability engineering
	- Quality of network service
	- Electronic commerce
	- Practice of reliability modeling
	- Reliability measurement 
	- Software testing and verification
	- Software reliability models
	- Fault-tolerant and robust software
	- Software architecture reliability
	- Analysis and prevention of virus attacks
	- Secure software engineering
	- Security testing and certification
	- Reliability of distributed systems
	- Standards and regulation
	- Dependable web-services

Submission information:
We solicit theoretical and empirical regular papers, tutorial
proposals, panel proposals, industry practice presentations, fast
abstracts and student papers.  Limited number of student travel awards
are available.  Please visit http://www.issre2002.org for details.