CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Individual and Organizational Learning for Software Improvement
               (INOR ´01; http://www.ls.fi.upm.es/SEKE01/Workshops/)


                               in conjunction with the
13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering
                    (SEKE '01; http://www.ls.fi.upm.es/seke01/)
  
                         June 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  

Due to ever shorter software product life cycles, the competitiveness of 
software development organizations depends increasingly on the ability to 
improve their software development processes faster than their competitors. 
In turn, this requires an accelerated build-up of software know-how both on 
an individual as well as on an organizational level. On the individual 
level, company-specific training programs and techniques for 
on-the-job-training are important to enhance the skills of individuals. On 
the organizational level, the effective and efficient capturing and sharing 
of experience across the organization (either by means of a repository or 
by means of direct communication) are vital to the success of knowledge 
management programs in a software development company.
Yet, it is not well understood how individual and organizational learning 
can be combined to attain positive synergy. For example, 
on-the-job-training programs can be based on experience captured from past 
projects. Vice versa, solutions to "real-world" training exercises can 
yield improvement suggestions for software development processes of a 
software development organization.
In this workshop, approaches for individual and organizational learning 
shall be investigated with the aim to discuss potential benefits of 
combining them.
  
Paper Submission:
  
  Papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be

  published in the proceedings of the workshop.
  
  Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  
  - Skill profiling and skill management
  - Job-oriented education and training
  - Education and training on demand
  - Reuse-based education and training
  - Process-centered education and training
  - Technology-enabled individual and organizational learning
  - Simulation-based learning
  - Evaluation and certification of education and training programs
  - Build-up of software knowledge repositories
  - Maintenance of knowledge repositories
  
Submission Format:
  
  Papers can be up to 10 pages long. Submissions should be in a 12-point
font 
  not more than 30 lines per page on A4 or 8.5" x 11" paper with at least
2.5 
  cm (1 inch) margins. The first page of the submission must include a
title, 
  author's name, name and address of organization, email address, a list of 
  keywords and an abstract.
  Only electronic submissions in PDF (.pdf) or Postscript format (.ps) will 
  be accepted. Please email your compressed file (only gzip or winzip 
  compressed files will be accepted) to inor01@iese.fhg.de. Please make only

  one submission per email message. The email message should also include
the 
  name of your submitted file, its title, and its authors.
  
Dates:
  
  February 15, 2001       Submission deadline for workshop papers
  March 30, 2001          Notification of acceptance
  April 30, 2001          Deadline for camera-ready versions
  June 12, 2001           Workshop at SEKE ´01
  
Organizing Committee:
  
  Dr. Guenther Ruhe                            Carsten Tautz
  Fraunhofer Institute                         tec:inno - empolis
  for Experimental Software Engineering        Knowledge Management Division
  Sauerwiesen 6                                Sauerwiesen 2
  67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany                67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
  E-mail: ruhe@iese.fhg.de                     E-mail:
carsten.tautz@tecinno.com
  Phone:  +49 (0) 6301 707 120                 Phone:  +49 (0) 6301 606 430
  Fax:    +49 (0) 6301 707 203                 Fax:    +49 (0) 6301 606 409
  
Program Committee:
  
  Andreas Abecker, Germany
  Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany
  Reidar Conradi, Norway
  Raimund Feldmann, Germany
  Bogdan Franczyk, Germany
  Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Brazil
  Bernd Kraemer, Germany
  Nada Matta, France
  Daniel O'Leary, USA
  Dietmar Pfahl, Germany
  Giuseppe Satriani, Spain
  Kurt Schneider, Germany
  Steffen Staab, Germany
  Eric Tsui, Australia