Welcome from the Program Committee Co-Chairs
2005
Welcome to ISSRE 2005! The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering is being held from November 8 to 11 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference has a long tradition of focusing on both the theory and the practice on Software Reliability Engineering. This year is no exception. The scope of this year’s conference includes techniques and practices to verify and validate software, estimate and predict its reliability, and to make it more tolerant/robust to faults. Because of the increasing importance and prevalence of mobile devices and applications in society today, the overall theme of this year’s conference is “Developing High Reliability for Ubiquitous Mobile Applications.” Engineering reliable software for this class of applications raises many interesting challenges and issues that do not exist in other kinds of applications. We have prepared a very strong technical program with 11 regular paper sessions, three fast abstract sessions, eight industry presentation sessions, two panels, and three keynote addresses. There were 98 regular paper submissions from more than 21 countries and areas. Each of them was carefully evaluated by at least three reviewers. These reviews were used for selecting papers to be presented at the conference. Thirty-two papers were accepted, covering a broad spectrum of topics in both mobile and non-mobile applications including software reliability, vulnerability, dependability, testing, requirements, safety analysis, defect prediction, and quality