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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"HelveticaNeue-Bold","sans-serif";color:red'>EASE is ranked as “A” in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) journal & conference rankings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dates: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Monday 14 May and Tuesday 15 May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt'>Venue: </span></b><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt'>Escuela Superior de Informática (Ciudad Real), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain </span><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>URL: </span></b><a href="http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/ease2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/ease2012</span></a><b><span style='color:#0017C3'> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Keynote Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor <b>Dieter Rombach</b>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>University of Kaiserslautern, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE), Germany. </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Keynote´s title: “Empirical Models: Towards a Science of Software Engineering”.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor <b>Helen Sharp</b>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The Open University, UK. </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Keynote´s title: “Ethnographic studies in Software Engineering”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>For over fifteen years the <i>International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering </i>has provided a forum where empirical researchers can present their latest research, and where issues related to all forms of empirical and evaluation studies in software engineering can be discussed. The EASE tradition is one of providing a workshop-like atmosphere, in which papers can be presented with time for constructive discussion of their results and processes. We plan to continue with this format for the conference in 2012.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>The theme of EASE 2012 will be <i>“Empirical Grand Challenges for Agile Development”; </i>however, we continue to welcome papers on any aspect of product and process evaluation and assessment, qualitative and quantitative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Topics encompass any relevant aspect of empirical studies of software engineering, and include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Experiments (laboratory and field)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Replications of empirical studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Case studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Surveys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Observational studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Field studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Action research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Methodological issues and practices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>• Systematic reviews, mapping studies and meta-analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>We seek two types of submissions: Full and short papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Full papers.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Full papers should be no longer than 10 pages in length.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Short papers.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Short Papers should be no more than 5 pages in length. Their goal is to promote current work, research, practices, experiences, and issues that are not at a mature stage yet to be submitted as full papers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>All papers will be included in the Proceedings, which will be published and indexed by the IET. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Formatting guidelines for papers can be found at</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: </span></b><a href="http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/ease2012/Interfaces/submission.aspx">http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/ease2012/Interfaces/Submission.aspx</a><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>All submissions will be handled using the EasyChair system, available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ease2012"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ease2012</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Key dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=337 valign=top style='width:252.9pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>20th January 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Full papers abstract submission</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>25th January 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Full Papers submission<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>29th February 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Notification of full papers outcome <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=336 valign=top style='width:252.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>1st March 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Short Papers submission</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>25th March 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Notification of short papers outcome<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>1st April 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>: Camera Ready full and short papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Further details about dates and submission arrangements will be provided on the EASE web site.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Journal Special Section<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special section of the Information and Software Technology Journal. More information about the journal can be found here: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><a href="https://web.mail.uclm.es/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525444/description%23description" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525444/description#description</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Venue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ciudad Real (which means ‘Royal City’ in Spanish) is a city located in the Southern Central part of Spain, in the region of Castilla-La Mancha, which is the “Don Quixote” region. It is perfectly located for transport connections, as it is only 1 hour away from the main cities of Spain: Madrid (1 hr by high speed train) and Barcelona (less than 1 hour by plane).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>It is a modern city, one of the very few in Spain where you can forget your problems and have time to enjoy yourself. Ciudad Real’s citizens love the outdoors, enjoying the weather and people. Their hospitality and open mindedness make visiting this city an experience that nobody should miss. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=345 valign=top style='width:258.6pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>General Chair </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mario Piattini (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Program Co-Chairs <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marcela Genero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Emilia Mendes (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=345 valign=top style='width:258.6pt;border:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Short-papers Chair </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:11.4pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Teresa Baldasarre (University of Bari, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Organizing Chair <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:11.4pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>José A. Cruz-Lemus (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Publicity Chair</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0017C3'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:11.4pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ismael Caballero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Program Committee </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>(to be completed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=343 valign=top style='width:257.4pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sarah Beecham, Lero, Ireland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Pearl Brereton, Keele University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>David Budgen, University of Durham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Danilo Caivano, University of Bari, Italy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cagatay Catal, TUBITAK (Research Council of Turkey), Turkey <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Stuart Charters, Lincoln University, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Peter Comer, Abellio Soutions, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Steve Counsell, Brunel University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Karl Cox, University of Brighton, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jose A. Cruz-Lemus, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tore Dybå, SINTEF and Univ. of Oslo, Norway <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Felix Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marcela Genero, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tracy Hall, Brunel University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Naveed Ikram, International Islamic University, Pakistan <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Andreas Jedlitschka, IESE Fraunhofer, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=281 valign=top style='width:210.8pt;border:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Barbara Kitchenham, Keele University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Stephen Linkman , Keele University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Emilia Mendes, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Matthias Müller, IDOS Software AG, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mahmood Niazi, Keele University UK/ KFUPM Saudi Arabia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mario Piattini , University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Per Runeson, Lund University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dag Sjøberg, University of Oslo, Norway <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marco Torchiano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Guilherme Horta Travassos, (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mark Turner, Keele University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>June Verner, Keele University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Giuseppe Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phillip Woodall, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>