Paper Submission
General Chair: Kent Beck Three Rivers Institute, USA Program Chair: Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari, Italy Program Co-chair: Giancarlo Succi University of Alberta, Canada Program Committee: Ann Anderson, USA Giuliano Armano, Italy Massimo Arnoldi, CH Ken Auer, USA Giulio Barabino, Italy Luigi Benedicenti, Canada Karl Boutin, Canada Jens Coldewey, Germany Mark Collins-Cope, UK Ward Cunningham, USA Flavio De Paoli, Italy Richard Drake, UK Stephane Ducasse, CH Jutta Eckstein, Germany John Favaro, Italy Giorgio Ferraris, Italy Martin Fowler, USA Steven Fraser, USA Steve Freeman, UK Arrigo Frisiani, Italy Eric Gamma, CH Peter Gassmann, CH Chet Hendrickson, USA Jim Highsmith, USA Ron Jeffries, USA Joshua Kerievsky, USA George L. Kovacs, Hungary Manfred Lange, Germany Robert Martin, USA Pete McBreen, Canada Tim Mackinnon, UK Peter Merel, USA Mario Paludetto, France Joseph Pelrine, CH Linda Rising, USA Bernhard Rumpe, Germany John Sarkela,USA Peter Sommerlad, CH Dave Thomas, Canada Tullio Vernazza, Italy Christian Wege, Germany Don Wells, USA Frank Westphal, Germany Jason Yip, Canada Mansour Zand, USA	DATES January 15, 2001 for paper submission. March 1, 2001 for acceptance notification. April 1, 2001 for final manuscript submission.
	GOAL AND SCOPE Technical papers should offer significant contributions to the study and use of XP and Flexible Processes. Submissions may present research results that advance the state of the art, or experience-based accounts of best practices, comparative evaluations, design patterns, and other insights gathered from practical applications. Papers containing both research and experiential components are very much welcome. Papers must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must clearly explain the contribution of the work in terms of its theoretical and/or practical value and relationship to previous work. The language of papers is English. Accepted papers will be presented in oral sessions or through poster presentation. Both oral papers and posters will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Papers accepted as posters will be pinned up in the poster session area. During poster sessions, the authors will stand by their posters so that conference participants can find them and discuss posters they find interesting. Authors will have space for laptops if they also want to provide demonstrations. The poster sessions are held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties.
	HOW TO SUBMIT Submitted papers should follow the format guidelines specified in the document XP2001SubmissionFormat.pdf, which includes a link to MS Word and TeX templates. Each submission should include: Paper title and abstract A list of keywords The full paper of about four pages, or an extended abstract of about 2 pages Author's preference for an oral presentation or a poster Presenter's contact information Unless extenuating circumstances occur, papers should be submitted electronically as e-mail attachment in either one of the following formats: Adobe Portable Document Format Postscript HTML Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The final manuscript should be a full paper of four pages in PDF or Postscript format, and adhere to the above mentioned format guidelines. Longer papers will be charged a per-page supplement. The Program Committee will evaluate all papers using the same standards of originality, relevance, significance, generality, correctness, appropriate comparisons to related research, organization, and clarity. The Program Committee will also decide whether the paper will be presented orally or as a poster. Submit papers by e-mail to: michele@diee.unica.it
	Chair of Organizing Committee: Giuliano Armano Chair for Industrial Relations: Arrigo Frisiani Chair for Tutorials: Tullio Vernazza	Organizing Committee: Giulio Barabino Alessandro Giacchino Enrico Marongiu Eloisa Vargiu