Robert Clarisó and Antonio Vallecillo point me the fruitful imagination of Software Engineers when it comes to name new conferences/workshops (and then people say we are boring!)
Some catchy SE acronyms:
- SEAFOOD (Software Engineering for Offshore and Outsourced Development)
- SHARK (SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge)
- QUOVADIS (Quantitative Stochastic Models in the Verification and Design of Software Systems)
- PASTE (Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering )
- CHASE (Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering )
- PLEASE (Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering)
- PESOS — International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems
- KNOWING – KNOWledge engINeering in Global software development – workshop at ICGSE
- TAP – Test And Proofs
- ANT – International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010)
- EASe – Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2010)
- DisCoTec – International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques
- SIROCCO – International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
- PROFES – International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement
- DANCE – International workshop on Distributed Architecture modeling for Novel Component based Embedded systems
and don’t forget the MoDELS conference (NOT an acronym but definitely a very suggestive name – how cool is being able to say “Sorry I’m busy today, I’m reviewing MoDELS submissions”)
Do you know more examples???
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Sorry Jordi, but MoDELS was initially an acronym.
It was chosen at San Francisco, when we decided that the <> conference had “done its time” and that we needed to explore new horizons 😉
ACM and IEEE did not object to this change of name as long as they were kept in the(lucrative) loop.
The meaning of this acronym was:
“Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems”
The name was intended to emphasize the move from UML to DSLs.
Inspiration came from OOPSLA
(Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications)
To the best of my knowledge, the suggestion came from Steve Cook.
Personally I suggested before to use the name “Model Engineering Software and Systems”, which unfortunately was not accepted because this would have been a really catchy acronym: MESS 😉
Jean
MODELS is still an acronym.
The only change since its inception is that it went from “MoDELS”->”MODELS”, just because it was too awkward to write the small ‘o’
In my text, I wrote < UML > for the initial name of the conference.
I don’t understand why this editor changed that to “”
Jean
Editors are also a MESS 🙂
So the sequence of letters “<" then "” and then “>” , even between quotes, is not accepted by this editor?