ESEC/FSE 2011: The joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT. 5-9 September 2011. Szeged, Hungary. Submission deadline: 11 March 2011.

We invite high quality submissions of technical / research papers describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Research papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to ESEC/FSE. Submissions of papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will be considered based on timeliness and potential impact.

Topics of interest for ESEC/FSE include, but are not limited to:

• Agile software development
• Case studies and experience reports
• Computer supported cooperative work
• Empirical software engineering
• End user software engineering
• Engineering for mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive systems
• Engineering of distributed/parallel software systems
• Engineering of embedded and real–time software
• Engineering secure software
• Human–computer interaction
• Internet and information systems development
• Patterns and frameworks
• Program comprehension and visualization
• Reverse engineering and maintenance
• Software architecture and design
• Software components and reuse
• Software configuration management and deployment
• Software dependability, safety and reliability
• Software economics and metrics
• Software policy and ethics
• Software processes and workflows
• Software requirements engineering
• Software testing and analysis
• Software tools and development environments
• Theory and formal methods