ISEC

Welcome to the 1_st India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2008). This is the first of the series that is being started by the SIG on Software Engineering (SIGSE) of the Computer Society of India. The first ISEC is being held in Hyderabad, a major IT destination of India.

The preparation for this ISEC 2008 started about 1 year ago, when SIGSE was formed and it was decided to have an India-based Software Engineering conference which is International in participation and high on quality. We believe we are on the right path of achieving this objective. In its first edition itself, there were 97 submissions, with authors from 12 countries. Out of these we accepted 12 full papers and 14 posters. The accepted papers have authors from 5 countries.

In the ISEC 2008, we have two excellent keynote speakers - Mary Jean Harrold and Andreas Zeller, both extremely well known researchers. Besides these keynote, in ISEC 2008 we also have one ICSE session and one FSE session. In these sessions two papers from ICSE 2007 and two papers from FSE 2007 will be presented as invited talks. These papers won the "ACM-Sigsoft best paper award" respectively, for ICSE 2007 and FSE 2007. The presence of these sessions will help ensure that top work in the field of software engineering is presented in ISEC 2008

We have one day of workshops after the conference, and one day of tutorials before the conference. There was a huge response to "call for tutorials" as well, and we selected 4 half day tutorials, most of which are industry oriented.

Overall, we believe that we have a very interesting program for the attendees. We sincerely hope that you will find the program enjoyable and exciting.