<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">9th International Workshop on </span></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Automation of Software Test (AST’14) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Special </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Theme: Testing Mobile Applications)
</span></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">May. 31 ~ Jun. 7, 2014</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In Conjunction with the </span></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><a href="http://2014.icse-conferences.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">36th International Conference on Software Engineering</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (</span><a href="http://2013.icse-conferences.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:
rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ICSE’14</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hyderabad, India, May. 31 ~ Jun. 7, 2014</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In software development practice, testing accounts for as much as 50% of the total development effort. It is therefore imperative to reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of software testing by automating the testing process. In the past decades, a great amount of
research effort has been spent on automatic test case generation, automatic test oracles, etc. </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Test automation</span></a><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is also becoming an important part of software testing practice. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The workshop is the 8th edition of the successful AST workshops held at ICSE 2006-2013. It will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, visions for the future, and promising solutions
to the problems. The workshop will also provide a platform for researchers and developers </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of testing tools</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> to work together to identify the problems in the theory and practice of software test automation and to set an agenda and lay the </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153,
102, 0); line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">foundation</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> for future development.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><table style="width: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr style="height:
57.75pt;"><td style="border-width: 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 3.75pt; width: 100%; height: 57.75pt; background-color: transparent;" valign="top" width="100%"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">The workshop focuses on bridging the gap between the theory and practice of software </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/Topics.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">test automation</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino
Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><div style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1)<i> Methodology: </i>Software test automation in the context of various software development methodologies. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2)<i> Technology</i>: Automation of various test techniques and methods for testing related activities, as well as for testing various types of software applications. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino
Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3)</span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> Tools and environments: </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Issues</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> in the development, operation, </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/Topics.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">maintenance</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> and evolution of software testing tools and environments, and their integration and inter-operation with other types of
software development and maintenance tools and runtime support environments and platforms. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">4) <i>Experiments</i>, <i>empirical studies and experience reports</i>: Experiments, empirical studies of software test automation, as well as reports on real experiences in using automated testing techniques, methods and tools in industry. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">5) <i>Identification of problems</i> <i>and visions of the future:</i> The identification of problems that hamper wider adoption of automated test techniques, methods and tools and
the analysis and specification of the requirements on automated software testing. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The AST 2014 workshop focuses on a special topic on <b>Testing Mobile Applications</b>. Submissions on this topic are especially encouraged, but papers on other topics are also welcome. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This year the workshop has a special theme on <b>Testing Mobile Applications. </b> </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Research work on this topic will be particular welcome, but papers on other to</span><span style="color: black;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pics</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> are also welcome. </span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Three sessions on this special theme will be organized as follows. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><ul><li style="color: black; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>keynote session</b>
with an invited keynote speech by an active researcher in the area, followed by discussions. </span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>regular paper session</b> with presentations of </span><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/Special%20Theme.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">accepted</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> papers on the special theme to report the current state of art in research. We are seeking for regular paper for
presentation in the regular session. </span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two Charette sessions</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> aiming at an in-depth discussion on a this special topic will be organized in order to identify the difficulties and specific issues of the problem, to evaluate potential </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">solutions,</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and to share experiences.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> It will </span><span style="color: windowtext;"><a
href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/Special%20Theme.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">start</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> with a description and discussion of</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> the</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> problems and invite the participants to discuss how the problems are to be addressed in various different approaches. The participants will be organized into a number of groups. Each group works on a sub-problem of the topic. The results will be </span><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/Special%20Theme.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:
rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">reported</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> to the whole workshop. </span></li></ul><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Important date:</span></b></div><ul style="list-style-type: disc; direction: ltr;"><li style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/importantDates.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">Submission</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> deadline: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">14 Jan. 2014</span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/importantDates.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Notification</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> of acceptance: </span><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">17 Feb. 2014</span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Camera-Ready version: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">14 Mar. 2014</span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/importantDates.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Workshop</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> date: Two days during ICSE 2014 (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">May 31 ~ Jun 7, 2013)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Submissions:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height:
normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two types of submissions are invited: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Regular<span> papers</span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: present research in the area of software </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/HowToSubmit.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">test automation</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. They will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Industrial<span> case study papers:</span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> present practical applications of test automation. They will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, and interest to the workshop participants.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both types of papers are limited to 7 pages in ACM Conference Proceedings Format.<span> </span>Please see the ICSE 2014 Instructions for Authors for details about paper formatting at the following URL:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://2014.icse-conferences.org/format" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">http://2014.icse-conferences.org/format</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and should not be under review or submitted elsewhere while being under consideration.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All submissions must be in English and in </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/HowToSubmit.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">PDF</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> format through online </span><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/HowToSubmit.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">upload</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> to the workshop submission website at the following URL: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ast2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ast2014</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All submissions will be reviewed by three PC members. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PC Co-Chairs</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Jerry Gao, </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="IT">San Jose State <a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/organiser.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0);">University</span></a>, San Jose, California, USA. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">URL:<span> </span>http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/gaojerry/</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height:
normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Email</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><a href="mailto:gaojerry@hotmail.com"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gaojerry@hotmail.com</span></a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";
font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="IT">Dr. Saurabh Sinha, IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India.</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="IT">URL: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=in-saurabhsinha<span> </span></span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">Email</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><a href="mailto:saurabhsinha@in.ibm.com"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">saurabhsinha@in.ibm.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">;</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family:
"Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Lu Zhang</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, Peking University, Beijing, China.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Web: http://sei.pku.edu.cn/~zhanglu/</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2014/organiser.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">Email</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><a href="mailto:zhanglu@sei.pku.edu.cn"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">zhanglu@sei.pku.edu.cn</span></a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Steering Committee </span></div></li></ul><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><ol style="list-style-type: decimal; direction: ltr;"><li style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Hong Zhu (Chair), <span>Oxford</span> <span>Brookes University , UK; </span></span><a href="mailto:hzhu@brookes.ac.uk"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hzhu@brookes.ac.uk</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Antonia
Bertilino, ISTI-CNR, Italy</span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Fevzi Belli, <span>Paderborn University, Germany; </span></span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size:
12pt;">Dr. Christof J. Budnik, Siemens Corp. Research, USA </span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Shing-chi Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, <span>Hong Kong;</span> </span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Jenny Li, Avaya Labs Research, USA; </span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Steve Masticola, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;" lang="IT">Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research , USA </span></div></li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Eric Wong, <span>University</span> of Texas at Dallas , USA;</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PC committee members can be found at the website.</span></div></li></ol></span></div></body></html>