Organisers, PC Chairs

EZ-PC: Program Committee Selection Made Easy

Selecting a technical program committee (PC) for a conference or a workshop can be an intimidating and time consuming process. PC selection needs to balance several potential considerations; e.g., industry vs. academic participation, inclusion of under-represented communities, ensuring coverage over topic areas, among others. This paper presents the design of an open-source tool called EZPC whi...

Using Calculation Fragments for Spreadsheet Testing and Debugging

This volume contains the papers presented at SEMS’15: Second Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets held on May 18, 2015 in Florence, Italy, as part of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). The workshop was organised by Felienne Hermans (TU Delft), Richard Paige (University of York) and Peter Sestoft (IT University of Copenhagen) as a result of thei...

Welcome message from the HotMesh 2012 chairs

HotMesh 2012 has received 18 submissions, on a similar scale as last year edition. The review process was organized and overviewed by PC chair Stefano Avallone. Each paper was assigned to three Program Committee members for a first round of reviews. The most promising papers were selected for further discussion in an online PC meeting, and were later reviewed and ranked by the Chairs. Finally, ...

DOA 2006 International Conference (Distributed Objects and Applications) PC Co-chairs' Message

Peacocks and Jellyfish: steps and strategies for successful conference chairing.

One of the more challenging aspects of the nurse educator’s role is the development of ‘‘presence’’. Whilst being seen as the key to career progression, a concrete definition of presence is yet to be satisfactorily articulated, making the quest for it somewhat difficult. One thing that most commentators agree upon, however, is the view that acting as the chair person at conferences can contribu...