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Message from the Chairs

A Career Spent Wading through Industry's Empirical Ooze (Invited Talk)
Bill Curtis
(CAST Software, USA)

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (Invited Talk)
Ipek Ozkaya
(SEI, USA)

Exploring Web Advertising to Attract Industry Professionals for Software Engineering Surveys
Matthias Galster and Dan Tofan
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Groningen, Netherlands)

Lessons Learned on Applying Design Science for Bridging the Collaboration Gap between Industry and Academia in Empirical Software Engineering
Pilar Rodríguez, Pasi Kuvaja, and Markku Oivo
(University of Oulu, Finland)

Practical Experiences in Designing and Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry-Academia Collaboration
Silverio Martínez-Fernández and Helena Martins Marques
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; everis, Spain)

Empirical Evaluation of Software Testing Techniques in an Open Source Fashion
Sheikh Umar Farooq and SMK Quadri
(University of Kashmir, India)

Topic Selection in Industry Experiments
Ayse Tosun Misirli, Hakan Erdogmus, Natalia Juristo, and Oscar Dieste
(University of Oulu, Finland; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

On the Relationship between Quality Assurance and Productivity in Software Companies
Carlos Henrique C. Duarte
(BNDES, Brazil)

An Exploratory Study on Improving Automotive Function Specifications
Andreas Vogelsang
(TU München, Germany)