Submission Content Guidelines

The SEWORLD mailing list is meant to facilitate timely dissemination of time-sensitive information. In this vein, contributors are encouraged to consider some content guidelines regarding submissions. These guidelines are meant both to help focus the list and to ease the duties of the moderator. They are in no way meant to discourage contribution.

• Submissions should include an appropriate and descriptive subject. For example, a subject of "Call for Papers" is less desirable than one that also includes the conference name.
• Submissions not relevant to the field of software engineering will be returned. Because such a wide variety of topics can be indirectly related to software engineering, this is a somewhat ambiguous requirement. However, if a submission has a clear focus in another well-established field (such as parallel processing or database systems), a brief explanation should be included as to how the submission relates to software engineering. (Such an explanation will be removed prior to posting.) Please consider that those interested in other fields will likely have subscribed to the relevant mailing lists.
• Submissions that advertise commercial or other for-profit ventures will be returned. The interpretation of "commercial or other for-profit ventures" is left to the discretion of the moderator.
• Submissions that solicit information from subscribers will be returned. The interpretation of "solicit information from subscribers" is left to the discretion of the moderator, but normally includes surveys and requests for discussion group participation.
• Submissions that advertise web sites (personal or otherwise) with no corresponding activity or event will be returned.
• Submissions that advertise tools, utilities, software systems, or other such products will be returned.
• Submissions that duplicate or modify previous postings (e.g., announcing a deadline extension, fixing typos or errors in the original posting) will be returned. Interested parties are expected to be aware of updates through means described in the original submission (such as a URL).
• Submissions should include contact information for further inquiries.
• Submissions should prominently note important dates and deadline information.
• Submissions that include an important acronym (such as the title of a conference) should also include the expansion of the acronym.
• Submissions detailing a journal call will be returned unless the call is for
  • a special issue
  • the first issue of a new journal
  In both cases, the call should include a submission deadline.
• Submissions that advertise research projects will be returned.

Other guidelines can be found in the section on the Moderation of Contributions.

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