Programme Committee Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa Jan Bosch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jacky Estublier, LSR-IMAG, France Kathi Fisler, WPI, USA Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Richard Hall, Imag/Lsr, France Dick Hamlet, Portland State University, USA George Heineman, WPI, USA Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA Otto Preiss, ABB/CRC, Switzerland Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA Dave Wile, Teknowledge, Corp., USA Christian Zeidler, ABB Research, Germany

The following table summarises the important dates and state of the workshop. Each Activity is listed with the dates its window Opens and Closes. If you are assigned the indicated Role for an open activity, please act ASAP. Simply click to the corresponding activity to access the relevant detailed information and perform the necessary steps (restricted access).

		Activity	Opens	Closes	Extented	Role
		Call	22 Dec 2002		-	chairs
		Paper Submission	6 Jan 2003	1 Feb 2003	15 Feb 2003	authors
		Review Preferences	18 Feb 2003	19 Feb 2003	-	reviewers
		Review Allocation	19 Feb 2003	19 Feb 2003	-	handling chair
		Review Submission	20 Feb 2003	7 Mar 2003	-	reviewers
		Ranking	8 Mar 2003	10 Mar 2003	-	PC chair
		Virtual PC meeting	8 Mar 2003	10 Mar 2003	11 Mar 2003	PC members
		Selection	10 Mar 2003	10 Mar 2003	11 Mar 2003	chairs
		Notification	10 Mar 2003	11 Mar 2003	-	PC chair
		Final submission	12 Mar 2003	1 Apr 2003	-	authors
		Proceedings	15 April	-	-	Program Chair
		Legend: todo, done, open, closed, ongoing

Tracking Process and Protocols

Submission: Submission of papers, reviews and votes is electronic via our web interface, which extracts and records relevant information and triggers automated workflow activities.

Review Preferences: There is a short window for reviewers to indicate paper allocation preferences. Typically that window opens when we are still accepting some papers with an extended deadline (granted only in special circumstances). We expect reviewers to indicate in the preferences any potential conflict of interest, e.g. papers whose authors they are associated with or that are in direct competition with their own work or their own submitted paper (if any).

Review Allocation: In the allocation of reviews, the Handling Chair makes every attempt to cater for reviewer profiles and preferences, in particular to cater for the expertise profile of reviewers and to exclude any potential conflict of interest. For quality control, all potential conflicts are recorded explicitly and brought to the attention of the Chairs. Beyond that, allocation is random.

Review Process: Reviews are submitted using our web interface. If Reviewers delegate some of their reviews, it is imperative that they form (and formulate) their own judgement, provide detailed comments and feel comfortable with the final evaluation submitted. It is not uncommon during the selection, that the Chairs request additional review information, for example, to resolve conflicting views received from different Reviewers.

Ranking: The Program Chair collates and summarises the review information including a list of submitted papers ranked by average overall scores. Papers are marked as tentatively accepted, undecided, or rejected. The information can be viewed and downloaded from our web site by PC members only and respecting conflicts. For instance, PC members who submitted papers will receive information on their papers only during the notification process and not including comments to the PC.

Selection: A Virtual Program Committee (PC) meeting permits Discussion followed by Resolution. During Discussion, PC members submit items, such as challenging, or commenting on, reviews, papers and ranking. The full Discussion is made available on our web site to include a summary of undecided issues and issues raised per paper. During the subsequent Resolution phase, PC members vote to accept or reject undecided papers and issues. Ultimately, the Chairs finalize and publish the selection based on the Resolution.

Notification: The Handling Chair notifies the author(s) of the selection outcome electronically.

Final Submission: Accepted papers are revised according to pre-specified format and electronically submitted.

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