Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 16 November, 2007.  Organized by the University of Southern California in collaboration with the Stevens In-stitute of Technology and managed by the Los Angeles Chapter of INCOSE, the Sixth Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2008) will be held in Los Angeles on April 4 and 5 of 2008. Research-focused abstracts of 600 words or fewer will be accepted on or before 16 November 2007.  The technical sponsors of CSER 2008 in-clude the IEEE Systems Council, INCOSE’s SEANET, MIT’s “Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative,” the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and Intelli-gent Systems Technology, Inc. (ISTI).