Regular Papers
Papers should describe original research or report industrial experience not previously reported. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and no longer than 6250 words or 25 double-spaced pages. Each submission should include a cover page containing title, all authors' names, affiliations, and complete mail and electronic mail addresses, together with a an abstract not exceeding 250 words and keyword list of 4-5 keywords. Authors of accepted papers must sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of accepted papers will be limited to 12 pages in the IEEE proceedings format described at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. If the paper is accepted, one of the authors is expected to pre-register for the symposium and present the paper at ISSRE'2000. This is a pre-condition for the publication of the paper in the Proceedings.

Industry Day Proposals
Industry Day Proposals: Propose a Track, tell the audience about your organization's software reliability engineering practices. Which practices have you tried? Which have worked well, and which have not, and why? Submit proposals via email to one of the Industry Chairs.

Experience Reports
Experience Reports are intended to provide exposure to practical experiences with the application and conduct of software reliability engineering methods, models, and tools. The contributors should submit an abstract and a 5-10 page description of the experience or case study, and a one page summary of the project for a short presentation at the conference. The paper should be clearly identified as an experience report.

Panel Proposals
Panel Proposals should include the title, proposed chair, proposed panelists (include short vitae), two or three paragraphs describing the panel subject matter and the rationale for it. Panelists must have agreed to participate prior to the submission of the panel proposal.

Fast Abstracts
Fast abstracts are short presentations (e.g., 5 minutes) of work in progress, practical experience, or ideas for research programs. Their intent is to bring new ideas to attendees with minimal delay. Write a maximum of two pages, and submit it to the Fast Abstracts Chair.

Student Papers
Student papers are intended to introduce work being done by today’s students to software reliability practitioners and researchers. Student papers will be presented as poster presentations. Submit an abstract of one page maximum and slides to the Student Papers Chair. We anticipate sponsorship to help authors of accepted presentations meet travel expenses.

Tools Fair Participation
Participation in the Tools Fair is sought for those software vendors who have specific products that are relevant to the software reliability community and also for the software maintenance community. Vendors should provide a description of the software product to be demonstrated and the relevance of the product to the fields of software reliability engineering and/or software maintenance.

Media
lectronic submission is encouraged, but hardcopy submissions will also be accepted. Electronic submissions may be in PDF or portable PostScript only; word processor files will not be accepted. Please do not fax paper submissions. If the authors are not able to submit electronically, 6 paper copies may be submitted. All electronic submissions should be sent to: issre2k@cs.uidaho.edu

Hardcopy submissions should be sent to one of the following Program Co-Chairs:

John C. Munson
Cylant Technology
121 Sweet Avenue
Moscow, ID 83843
johnm@cylant.com

Prof. Fevzi Belli
University of Paderborn
Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
33095 Paderborn, Germany
belli@adt.uni-paderborn.de
http://etechnik.uni-paderborn.de/englisch/home.html

Prof. Mitsuru Ohba
Computer Science Department
Hiroshima City University
Hiroshima, Japan 731-31
ohba@cs.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
http://www.sel.cs.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/~ohba/index-e.html