2006 Congress on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (CoSTEP) is one of the major events planned for celebrating the 60th anniversary of IEEE Computer Society. CoSTEP will be the premiere professional forum where practitioners, researchers, technologists, managers, and decision makers gather to explore the most recent advances in software technology and engineering practice.

The first CoSTEP will be held from September 17-22, 2006, at Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, where four international conferences will be co-located: The 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006), The 4th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), and the 2006 IEEE Workshops on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2006). The planning of CoSTEP includes: keynotes, panels, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather breakouts, industrial practice papers, research papers, PhD thesis forum, posters, exhibits, among other events. All accepted papers from COMPSAC, ICWS, and SCC, will be published in the pre-conference proceedings. STEP will publish post-conference proceedings. All Computer Society conference proceedings are included in the IEEE digital library. Several special issue proposals for reputable journals have been planned.

For more detailed and updated information, please refer to: http://conferences.computer.org/CoSTEP/.