The International Software and Systems Process Association (ISSPA) is a professional association for software engineers, systems engineers, and other professionals with a special interest in process as a distinguished field of research, development, application, and improvement.
ISSPA has often with with other groups in organizing, sponsoring, and conducting events. In recent years ISSPA has worked with ACM and IEEE, the International Conference on Software Engineering and the International Conference on Global Software Engineering, the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Science, the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, and (for ICSSP 2023) CSIRO’s Data61 unit, the data and digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency. ISSPA will welcome the opportunity to work with other organizations in future events.
The ISSPA’s mission is to advance software and other processes in science, technology, and practice. It recognizes the broad significance of process across science, engineering, business, government, and society.
The foundational principles that inform the ISSPA’s technical efforts are that:
Additionally, the ISSPA understands that many processes are multidimensional in their influences, concerns, and impacts. Hence, it recognizes that contributions to its mission may originate from many different disciplines.
The ISSPA’s principal activity has been to oversee and participate in the organization and conduct of an annual series of technical conferences: the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP). These conferences have been held regularly since 2011 in locations around the world. (A predecessor to ISSPA, the International Software Process Association, organized conferences and workshops prior to 2017.) The proceedings of these conferences have been published by major publishers of software engineering research, including ACM Press, IEEE Computer Society Press, and Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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As a professional association centered in computer science and engineering, the ISSPA has adopted the applicable policies of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) regarding conduct, integrity, inclusivity, and nondiscrimination.
ISSPA is a globally distributed virtual organization.
Postal mail for ISSPA can be addressed to:
International Software and Systems Process Association
9169 W State St #2064
Garden City, ID, 83714, USA
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