THE SPONSORS...

Quality Week/Europe '97 (QWE'97) is run by Software Research Institute (SR/Institute), a not-for-profit subsidiary of Software Research, Inc., in cooperation with the ACM and the National Software Council.

ABOUT THE ACM...

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has approved Quality Week '97 as an event presented in cooperation with the ACM. Similar status for QWE'97 has been requested. Click here for complete information on the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

ABOUT SOFTWARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE...

Software Research Institute, SR/Institute, a not-for-profit subsidiary of Software Research, Inc., was founded to promote the issues of software quality throughout the software development community.

In addition to the Quality Week Conference series SR/Institute sponsors continuing education seminars in the general area of software quality and software engineering, and Software Quality Forums at which software quality industry leaders provide state of the art technology transfer to industry executives about how to best apply current technology to immediate software quality needs.

ABOUT ESI...

ESI develops, assembles and disseminates:

• Business-oriented understanding of process improvement approaches
• Tried and proven methods for process improvement
• Empirical evidence from field experiments.

The results achieved by ESI since its creation come from internalising in the key drivers to achieve business improvements, such as time to market reduction, focusing on software producing or software dependent organizations. These key drivers are:

• Effectively managed process
• Product line or product family approach based on reuse oriented products
• Measurement programme, viewing improvements from a business perspective

ESI actively participates in the setting of world standards such as ISO 15504 SPICE, for which it holds the role of International trials co-ordinator. It also contributes to the extension and improvement of the related processes both from a conceptual and practical point of view, by co-operating with companies in pilot projects for real implementation in the field. The wide international experience of ESI allows the organization the permanent development and updating of a good software management practices repository, through selecting emerging technologies based on industry need and potential benefits, adapting these to industrial requirements, and proving these in a number of case studies.

ABOUT KVIV...

De Koninklijke Vlaamse Ingenieursvereniging (KVIV) was founded in 1928 and has 12,000 members: civil engineers, agricultural engineers, chemical engineers, bio-engineers, and polytechnical engineers from the Royal Military School.

KVIV is an open and flexible organization that gives ongoing training programs and publications for entrepreneurs, managers, docents, and government employees. Thanks to its internal structure, KVIV contacts diverse public groups as well as academic and industry circles.

ABOUT SAI...

SAI (Studiecentrum voor Automatische Informatieverwerking) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the knowledge of Information. As far as the theoretical as practical aspects of information knowledge, the organization takes a stand on social questions that has to do with automation of information as far as it applies. The activities of the organization are focused on people who are specialists in information. SAI organizes discussions, meeetings, seminars, workshops and a magazine called "Informatie".