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Call for Papers - VISSOFT 2018: 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization

by Manuel Rubio Sánchez

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email ======================================================================= Call for Papers VISSOFT 2018 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization September 24-25, 2018 - Madrid, Spain http://vissoft18.etsii.urjc.es ======================================================================= Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. VISSOFT topics of interest include: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. * Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools with development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualizations * Industrial experience with using software visualization * Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. == Technical papers == A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is not limited in length. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.). The following section provides more info about it. Important Dates: Abstract submission date: May 1, 2018 Paper submission date: May 8, 2018 Author response period: June 1 - June 5, 2018 Notification: June 15, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == Artifacts == Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2018 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally announced during the conference. A paper with an accepted artifact will have five extra minutes of presentation which can be used to present the artifact. The authors will also be invited to demo the artifact during the interactive informal demo session organized for the tool demo track. Given the short time between the acceptance notification and the deadline to submit the artifact, we suggest the authors to start preparing it beforehand. Finally, for more information about the artifact evaluation process visit http://www.artifact-eval.org. Important Dates: Artifact submission: June 22, 2018 Artifact notification: July 11, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == NIER and Tool papers== We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 11, 2018 Notification: July 2, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == Organizing Committee == General Co-Chairs: J. Ángel Velázquez Iturbide, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain http://www.lite.etsii.urjc.es/members/angel-velazquez/ Jaime Urquiza Fuentes, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain https://jaime-urquiza.blogspot.com.es/ Program Co-Chairs: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ Mircea F. Lungu, University of Groningen, The Netherlands http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.f.lungu/ NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Katherine E. Isaacs, University of Arizona, USA http://cgi.cs.arizona.edu/~kisaacs/ Michael Burch, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.tue.nl/staff/m.burch Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Johan Fabry, Raincode Labs, Belgium https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw-9h4AAAAAJ&hl=en Roberto Minelli, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland http://robertominelli.com Most Influential Paper Award Chairs Wim De Pauw, Google Inc https://www.linkedin.com/in/wim-de-pauw-928397/ Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/ For updates, visit http://vissoft.info or follow * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ * Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT Best regards, Andreas Kerren and Mircea Lungu Program Co-Chairs -- Manuel Rubio Sánchez Profesor Contratado Doctor Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Arquitectura de Computadores, Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos y Estadística e Investigación Operativa Ampliación del Edificio de Rectorado, Despacho 2026 C/ Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain Tel: (+34) 91 488 82 86 Fax: (+34) 91 488 85 30 E-mail: manuel.rubio @ urjc.es WWW: www.lite.etsii.urjc.es/manuel.rubiosanchez/ Book: sites.google.com/view/recursiveprogrammingintro/ www.crcpress.com/Introduction-to-Recursive-Programming/Rubio-Sanchez/p/book… www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-rubio-2000 --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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CfP ASE 2018 : Int. Conf. on Automated Software Engineering joint call for papers, journal-first, tool demos, doctoral symposium, tutorials and workshops

by Christelle URTADO

(Apologies for cross postings) CALL FOR PAPERS ASE 2018 - 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering http://www.ase2018.com September 3 to 7, 2018 Montpellier, France ====================================================================== Conference, Journal-First, Tool Demos, Doctoral Symposium, Workshops, Tutorials ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES* Abstract submission: April 19, 2018 Paper submission: April 26, 2018 Author notification: July 3, 2018 Camera-ready: July 24, 2018 Journal-first submission: June 15, 2018 Journal-first notification: July 3, 2018 Tool demonstration submission: May 31, 2018 Tool demonstration notification: July 3, 2018 Tool demonstration camera-ready: July 24, 2018 Doctoral symposium submission: May 31, 2018 Doctoral symposium notification: July 3, 2018 Doctoral symposium camera-ready: July 24, 2018 Workshop proposal submission: February 26, 2018 Workshop notification of acceptance: March 5, 2018 Workshop camera-ready: March 19, 2018 Tutorial proposal submission: April 30, 2018 Tutorial proposal notification: May 14, 2018 Tutorial advertisement material for the ASE web site: May 28, 2018 Tutorial final notification: July 16, 2018 * Dates are to be understood as AoE (Anywhere on Earth) ====================================================================== GENERAL THEME The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference series is the premier research forum for automated software engineering. Each year, it brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss foundations, techniques, and tools for automating the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. === CONFERENCE PAPERS ================================================ http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#papers ASE 2018 invites high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: - Automated reasoning techniques - Component-based service-oriented systems - Cloud computing - Computer-supported cooperative work - Configuration management - Data mining for software engineering - Domain modeling and meta-modeling - Empirical software engineering - Human-computer interaction - Knowledge acquisition and management - Mobile app development - Maintenance and evolution - Model-driven development - Program synthesis & transformations, automated defect repair - Program comprehension - Reverse engineering and re-engineering - Recommender systems for software engineering - Requirements engineering - Specification languages - Software analysis - Software architecture and design - Software product line engineering - Software visualization - Software security and trust; data privacy - Testing, verification, and validation Three categories of submissions are solicited: - Technical Research Papers should describe innovative research in automating software development activities or automated support to users engaged in such activities. They should describe a novel contribution to the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly described with respect to the previous work. Papers should also clearly discuss how the results were validated. - Experience Papers should describe a significant experience in applying automated software engineering technology and should carefully identify and discuss important lessons learned, so that other researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of special interest are experience papers that report on industrial applications of automated software engineering. - New Ideas Papers should describe novel research directions in automating software development activities or automated support to users engaged in such activities. New ideas submissions are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation and may not be fully validated. SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE 2018 submission site: https://ase18.hotcrp.com All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). Papers submitted to ASE 2018 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere when being considered for ASE 2018. Technical Research Papers and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. Paper submissions may include an appendix after the references with additional material for reviewers; the appendix does not count toward the page limit and will not be part of the proceedings if the paper is accepted; as with supplementary web pages, reviewers can but are not required to refer to the appendix. New Ideas Papers must not exceed 6 pages (including figures, appendices AND references). ASE 2018 will again pursue a double-blind review process. For details see Instructions for Authors (http://www.ase2018.com/?p=author_instructions). All submissions must be in English. Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review. For ASE 2018, the program committee will discuss papers electronically. This will avoid the time, cost and ecological impact of transporting an increasingly large committee to one point on the globe, as justified here (http://www.ase2018.com/Online-OnlyPCMeeting.pdf). PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Christian Kastner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE See: http://www.ase2018.com/?p=program_committee === JOURNAL-FIRST PAPERS ============================================= http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#journalfirst ASE is inviting journal-first presentations for papers published recently in prestigious software engineering journals. This will both enrich the ASE program as well as offer the authors an opportunity to speak to the community. The journal-first manuscripts are published through the journals and will not be part of the ASE proceedings. The journal-first papers will be listed in the conference program and the proceeding will only contain the abstract and a pointer to the journal publication. At least one author of each presentation accepted for the journal-first program must register and attend the conference to present the paper. SCOPE We invite applications for journal papers published in: - Automated Software Engineering (Springer) - IEEE Transaction of Software Engineering (IEEE TSE) - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - Empirical Software Engineering Other journals may be considered on a case-by-case basis. A journal-first presentation submitted to ASE 2018 must adhere to the following criteria: - The accepted paper version was published (or accepted for publication) in a journal from the above list no earlier than January 1st 2017. - The paper is in the scope of the conference. - The paper reports completely new research results or presents novel contributions that significantly extend and were not previously reported in prior work; and - The paper does not extend prior work solely with additional proofs or algorithms (or other such details presented for completeness), additional empirical results, or minor enhancements or variants of the results presented in the prior work. - The paper has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences. SUBMISSION Authors of manuscripts that respect these criteria are invited to fill out this application form, including the paper title, authors, an extended abstract and a pointer to the original journal paper: https://goo.gl/forms/Xcr9FL0zFpH1cTIk2 Authors will be invited to present their paper at ASE 2018 after a check that the paper is in scope for the conference and it adheres to the criteria above. The papers will not be reviewed again for technical content. In case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, presentation proposals will be prioritized according to fit to the conference theme and structure of sessions. JOURNAL-FIRST CHAIR Bogdan Vasilescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA === TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS ============================================== http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#demonstrations The objective of the ASE 2018 Demonstrations Track is to excite the software engineering community about new advances in our field through compelling demonstrations that help advance research and practice. The track is a highly interactive venue where researchers and practitioners can demonstrate their tools and discuss them with attendees. Tool-based demonstrations describe novel aspects of early prototypes or mature tools. The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the following information to the audience: - the envisioned users; - the software engineering challenge it proposes to address; - the methodology it implies for its users; and - the results of validation studies already conducted for mature tools, - or the design of planned studies for early prototypes. Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to the traditional ASE research papers. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including details such as implementation and usage issues, data models and representations, APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper, stating clearly the contributions of the tool paper over the research paper. The chairs will ensure that tool papers and research papers are not reviewed by the same people, to avoid revealing the authorship of research papers. EVALUATION Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations selection committee. The evaluation criteria include: - the relevance of the proposed demonstration for the ASE audience; - the technical soundness of the demonstrated tool (for a tool demo); - the originality of its underlying ideas; - the quality of the optionally provided video, code, and datasets; - and the degree to which it considers the relevant literature. Tool demos that can demonstrate real-world applicability of the underlying ideas, e.g. by references to industrial case studies, will be particularly appreciated. SUBMISSION Submissions must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting and submission instructions. In particular, submissions of demonstrations papers must meet the following criteria: A demonstration submission must not exceed four pages (including all text, references, and figures). Authors are encouraged to submit a short video (between three and five minutes long) illustrating the demonstration. The video should be made available on YouTube at the time of submission. Videos should (i) provide an overview of the tool's capabilities; (ii) walk through (some of) the tool capabilities; (iii) where appropriate, provide clarifying voice-over and/or annotation highlights; and (iv) be engaging and exciting for the watcher! Authors are encouraged to make their code and datasets open source, and to provide a URL for the code and datasets with the submission. A submission must not have been previously published in a demonstration form and must not simultaneously be submitted to another symposium. Submissions for tool track will NOT follow double-blind review process. The paper submission must be in PDF. Papers must be submitted electronically through HotCRP (https://ase18tools.hotcrp.com) by May 31, 2018. At the end of the abstract, please append the URLs, if any, at which your demo video, code, and datasets can be found. Please note that for consistency, we require that ALL videos be uploaded to YouTube and made accessible during the time of reviewing. Authors of successful submissions will have the opportunity to revise the paper, the video (and its hosting location), the code, and the datasets by the camera-ready deadline. Submissions must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting guidelines. Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits will be rejected without review. For further information, please email the Tool Demonstrations co-chairs. TOOL DEMONSTRATION CO-CHAIRS Julia Lawall, Inria/LIP6, France Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA === DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM =============================================== http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#symposium The goal of the ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium is to provide a supportive yet questioning setting in which the Ph.D. students have an opportunity to present and discuss their research with other researchers in the ASE community. The symposium aims at providing students useful guidance and feedback on their research and to facilitate networking within the scientific community by interacting with established researchers and with their peers at a similar stage in their careers. The technical scope of the symposium is that of ASE. Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium after they have settled on a dissertation topic with some initial research results. The ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium is open to Ph.D. students at any stage of their research, whereby students at the initial stage (first or second year) will be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions, while students at a later stage (third or fourth year) will be able to present their preliminary results and get advice for improvement and for better exposition of their contributions and conclusions. EVALUATION The Doctoral Symposium Committee will select participants using the following criteria: - Quality of the research (plan) and its relevance to ASE; - Quality of the research abstract; - Diversity of background, research topics, and approaches. Students should not infer that a list of prior publications is in any way expected or required; we welcome submissions from students for whom this will be their first formal submission as well as those who have previously published. SUBMISSION To apply as a student participant in the ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium, one should prepare a submission package consisting of two parts, both of which must be submitted by the submission deadline (see instructions below). All submissions must come in PDF format. The formatting is the same as the ASE research track. Part 1: Research Abstract (max. 4 pages) The research abstract must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting and submission instructions and should cover all of the following: - The research problem with justification of its importance; - Discussion on previous work by submitter and others; - A sketch of the proposed approach or solution; - The expected contributions of the dissertation research; - Progress that has been made so far in solving the stated problem; - The methods that are or will be used to carry out the research; - A plan for evaluating the work and presenting credible evidence to the research community; - A list of publications (if any) of the submitter (appeared, accepted, submitted). Students at the initial stage of their research might have some difficulty in addressing some of these instructions, but should make the best attempt. The research abstract should include the title of the work, the submitter's name a one-paragraph summary in the style of an abstract for a regular paper, and a text body that covers the points above. A paper for a doctoral symposium typically describes the work of a single student and does not have any coauthors. During the submission process, the system will additionally ask for the name of the advisor(s), contact information, and a link to the submitter's academic web page. The deadline for submitting the research abstract is May 31, 2018; notifications are expected for July 3, 2018. Part 2: Letter of Recommendation In addition to the research abstract, a submitter must provide a letter for recommendation from their Ph.D. advisor. This letter should include the student's name and a candid assessment of the current status of the dissertation research and an expected date for dissertation submission. The recommendation letter should be in PDF, and sent to both doctoral suposium co-chairs (abdelhak.seriai(a)lirmm.fr and Virginie.Wiels(a)onera.fr) with the subject "ASE 2018 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM RECOMMENDATION". ACCEPTANCE All authors of accepted contributions will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. Authors must register for the ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium and present their work at the symposium. DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai (abdelhak.seriai(a)lirmm.fr), University of Montpellier, France Virginie Wiels (Virginie.Wiels(a)onera.fr), The French Aerospace Lab ONERA, France === WORKSHOPS ======================================================== http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#workshops ASE 2018 is soliciting proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. A workshop should provide an opportunity for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results on topics related to Automated Software Engineering. Workshops may also serve as platforms to nurture new scientific communities. Workshops should not be seen as an alternative forum for presenting full research papers. The workshops co-located with the conference will be organized before the main conference. The organizers will decide the exact day after the proposals have been reviewed and accepted. A workshop may last one or two days. Workshop registration will be waived for one keynote speaker per workshop. SUBMISSION Proposals for organizing workshops should be written in English, limited to 4 pages (in IEEE format, following the formatting guidelines for the main track), and submitted in PDF to both workshop co-chairs Houari Sahraoui (sahraouh(a)iro.umontreal.ca) and Chouki Tibermacine (chouki.tibermacine(a)lirmm.fr) by e-mail. Workshop proposals should include the following information: - Theme and goals of the workshop including its relevance to the field of Automated Software Engineering. - Targeted audience and the expected number of participants (minimum and maximum). - Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions, combination of formats). - The equipment, room capacity, and any other resource necessary for the organization of the workshop. - Publicity strategy, participant solicitation and selection process that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the workshop. - Brief description of the organizer's background, including relevant past experience on organizing workshops and contact information. - Initial version of the call for papers that the workshop organizers intend to use. - Workshop dates, duration and any other scheduling constraints. Note that the workshop co-chairs will consider the preference of workshop dates specified by the organizers, but the acceptance of a workshop proposal does not guarantee adherence to the requested date/time. The workshop co-chairs will assume that workshop proposers will be able to run a workshop on the dates that ASE 2018 has reserved for workshops. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ASE 2018 workshop co-chairs. Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop's potential for generating useful results, the timeliness and expected interest in the topic, the organizer's ability to lead a successful workshop and the potential for attracting a sufficient number of participants. Accepted workshops must adhere to the common deadlines that will be listed for submissions of papers, acceptance of papers and preparation of proceedings. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Houari Sahraoui, Universite de Montreal, Canada Chouki Tibermacine, Universite de Montpellier, France === TUTORIALS ======================================= http://www.ase2018.com/?p=calls#tutorials Tutorials address a wide range of mature topics from theoretical foundations to practical techniques and tools for automated software engineering. The general chair and organizers will decide the exact dates after all proposals have been reviewed and accepted. Tutorials are intended to provide scientific background on themes relevant to ASE's research audience. Instructors are invited to submit proposals for half-day and full-day tutorials and, upon selection, are required to provide tutorial notes on the topic of presentation in PDF. Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages (using any format, e.g., ACM or IEEE) and should be submitted in PDF over EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ase2018tutorials). SUBMISSION Proposal submissions should include the following information: - Name and affiliation of the proposer/organizer (including e-mail address); - Name and affiliation of each additional instructor; - Instructors' experience in the area, including other tutorials, courses, etc.; - Title, objective, abstract, and duration; - Outline with approximate timings; - Target audience, including the indication of level (novice, intermediate, expert); - Assumed background of attendees; - Brief biography of each instructor (for later inclusion in publicity materials); - History of the tutorial (if it has been already presented; provide location, approximate attendance, etc.); - Audio-visual and technical requirements; - Preferences for tutorial date, duration (half-day or full-day), and any other scheduling constraints, with justification for full day (if a full day is proposed). Proposals are due by April 30, 2018 and should be submitted over EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ase2018tutorials). Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the ASE 2018 tutorial co-chairs Yamine Ait Ameur and David Delahaye. Acceptance will be based on the timeliness and expected interest in the topic and the potential for attracting a sufficient number of participants. ADVERTISEMENT MATERIAL FOR THE ASE 2018 WEB SITE The authors of accepted proposals must provide text so their tutorials can be advertised on the ASE web site. This text should include tutorial description and author information (picture, website link, and biodata). We will include the text on the conference website. Text is due on May 28, 2018. TUTORIAL FINAL NOTIFICATION Tutorials with too few registered attendees may be canceled. Notification will be on July 16, 2018. All questions about submissions should be emailed to the tutorial co-chairs. TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Yamine Ait Ameur (yamine(a)enseeiht.fr), INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, France David Delahaye (David.Delahaye(a)lirmm.fr), University of Montpellier, France ====================================================================== * On USING DATA from GITHUB and SELF-ARCHIVING * ====================================================================== If your research includes data obtained from GitHub, the GitHub Terms of Service require that "publications resulting from that research are open access". For this reason, ASE encourages the green open access availability of your paper, if accepted for publication. Green Open Access (also known as "self-archiving") means that you, as an author, archive a version of the paper yourself at your personal home page, at an institutional repository of your employer, or at an e-print server such as arXiv. To learn more about open access, please read the Green Open Access FAQ by Arie van Deursen. IMPORTANT: open access requirements for papers using GitHub data must be fulfilled upon acceptance, NOT BEFORE. This is because making the paper available before (e.g., on your website) would compromise the anonymity of the double-blind submission. === ORGANIZATION ===================================================== General Chair Marianne Huchard, University of Montpellier, France Program Chairs Christian Kastner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK Program Committee (Research Track) Mathieu Acher, University of Rennes / IRISA Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK Sven Apel, University of Passau Andrea Arcuri, Westerdals, and Uni. Luxembourg Alberto Bacchelli, University of Zurich Hamid Bagheri, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Earl T. Barr, University College London Jonathan Bell, George Mason University Thorsten Berger, Chalmers / University of Gothenburg Antonia Bertolino, CNR-ISTI Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Christian Bird, Microsoft Research Eric Bodden, Paderborn University & Fraunhofer IEM Tevfik Bultan, University of California, Santa Barbara Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University Yan Cai, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jane Cleland-Huang, University of Notre Dame Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Sebastian Erdweg, TU Delft Robert Feldt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University Juan P. Galeotti, Universidad de Buenos Aires Marie-Pierre Gervais, University Paris Nanterre & LIP6 Milos Gligoric, The University of Texas at Austin Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen / paluno Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute Alex Groce, Northern Arizona University John Grundy, Deakin University Lars Grunske, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Paul Grünbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Jianmei Guo, Alibaba Group Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Concordia University Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University Robert J. Hall, AT&T Labs Research Dan Hao, Peking University Yue Jia, Facebook London & UCL Brittany Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin Rene Just, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Yasutaka Kamei, Kyushu University Aditya Kanade, Indian Institute of Science Nicholas A. Kraft, ABB Corporate Research Wei Le, Iowa State University Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University Yves Le Traon, University of Luxembourg Axel Legay, Inria Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological Unversity David Lo, Singapore Management University Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca Shane McIntosh, McGill University Na Meng, Virginia Tech Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mehdi Mirakhorli, Rochester Institute of Technology Audris Mockus, The University of Tennessee Laura Moreno, Colorado State University Sarah Nadi, University of Alberta Tien N. Nguyen, University of Texas at Dallas ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Klaus Ostermann, University of Tuebingen, Germany Chris Parnin, North Carolina State University Liliana Pasquale, University College Dublin & Lero Xin Peng, Fudan University John Penix, Google Inc., USA Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University Denys Poshyvanyk, College of William and Mary Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt Mukul Prasad, Fujitsu Laboratories of America Baishakhi Ray, University of Virginia Romain Robbes, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano José Miguel Rojas, University of Leicester Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services Anita Sarma, Oregon State University Federica Sarro, University College London Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley Elena Sherman, Boise State University Norbert Siegmund, Bauhaus-University Weimar Matt Staats, Kathryn Stolee, North Carolina State University Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universitat Marburg Lin Tan, University of Waterloo Aditya V. Thakur, University of California, Davis Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Bogdan Vasilescu, Carnegie Mellon University Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota Zhenchang Xing, Australian National University Yingfei Xiong, Peking University Shin Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Tingting Yu, University of Kentucky Lingming Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas Charles Zhang, HKUST & SourceBrella Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University Hongyu Zhang, The University of Newcastle Hao Zhong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY at Buffalo Andrea Zisman, The Open University Journal-First Chair Bogdan Vasilescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tool Demonstration Chairs Julia Lawall, Inria/LIP6, France Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Tool Demonstration Local Chair Christophe Dony, University of Montpellier, France Workshop Chairs Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada Chouki Tibermacine, University of Montpellier, France Doctoral Symposium Chairs Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, University of Montpellier, France Virginie Wiels, Onera, France Tutorial Chairs Yamine Ait Ameur, INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, France David Delahaye, University of Montpellier, France Publicity and Social Media Chairs Thomas Lambolais, IMT Mines Ales, France Christelle Urtado, IMT Mines Ales, France Jessie Carbonnel, University of Montpellier, France Alexandre Le Borgne, IMT Mines Ales, France Sponsorship Chair Anne-Lise Courbis, IMT Mines Ales, France Local Arrangements Chairs Elisabeth Greverie, University of Montpellier, France Marianne Huchard, University of Montpellier, France Christophe Dony, University of Montpellier, France Finance Chair / Treasurer Elisabeth Greverie, University of Montpellier, France Proceedings Chairs Clémentine Nebut, University of Montpellier, France Philippe Reitz, University of Montpellier, France Christelle Urtado, IMT Mines Ales, France Student Volunteer Chairs Hinde Bouziane, University of Montpellier, France Floréal Morandat, Enseirb-Matmeca, France Communication Virginie Fèche, University of Montpellier, France Photos Virginie Fèche, University of Montpellier, France Roland Ducournau, University of Montpellier, France Web Chairs Michel Meynard, University of Montpellier, France Sylvain Vauttier, IMT Mines Ales, France === SOCIAL MEDIA ===================================================== Twitter: @ASEConf2018 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aseconf/ --- Christelle Urtado, PhD, HDR, Associate professor in Software Engineering --- LGI2P / IMT Mines Alès Christelle.Urtado(a)mines-ales.fr Phone: 33 (0)4 34 24 62 89 http://www.lgi2p.mines-ales.fr/~urtado/ Office : bât. 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6 years, 9 months

Post-doctoral researcher on Hybrid Polystore Evolution at University of Namur (Belgium)

by Anthony Cleve

A post-doctoral researcher position is available at University of Namur (Belgium) Faculty of Computer Science - PReCISE research center - Namur Digital Institute. The position will be fixed-term for 2 years, with possibility of extension. Gross salary per year: about 40.000 EUR (depending on experience). This position is associated with a new European H2020 project titled "Polyglot and Hybrid Persistence Architectures for Big Data Analytics" (TYPHON), in collaboration with The Open Group, University of York, University of L’Aquila, Edge Hill University, CWI, Volkswagen, GMV, Institut fur angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen, Alpha Bank, Nea Odos and CLMS. The aim of TYPHON is to develop a methodology and an integrated technical offering for designing, developing, querying and evolving scalable architectures (polystores) for persistence, analytics and monitoring of large volumes of hybrid (relational, graph-based, document-based, natural language etc.) data. The main objective of the TYPHON work-package led by University of Namur is to design and develop tools for evolving and monitoring the use of assembled polystores. Based on the data usage patterns observed by a monitoring mechanism, dedicated algorithms will suggest reconfigurations for the polystore schema. Tools for data and query migration will then support the automated propagation of the schema reconfigurations. In the context of this research project, your responsibilities will be: Designing and developing software for data usage analysis, schema change, cross-platform data migration and query migration; using appropriate research techniques and methods; writing up of research results and dissemination through publications, deliverables, seminar and conference presentations and outreach activities, and contributing to the identification of possible new areas of research. You will have a PhD in a technological / engineering area relevant to software or data engineering. You will need to have strong presentation, writing and object-oriented design and development skills (preferably using Java/JVM-based languages) as well as experience with one or more of the following: high-performance relational/non-relational data persistence and querying technologies, dynamic program analysis techniques, and language engineering/meta-programming frameworks (e.g. EMF, Sirius, Xtext, Rascal, ANTLR). Essential personal attributes for this role include attention to detail and commitment to high quality, a collaborative ethos, positive attitude to colleagues, commitment to personal development, and ability to plan and prioritise own work to meet deadlines. Experience in collaborative research projects, especially in European projects, will be considered as an asset. Official applications should be submitted to anthony.cleve(a)unamur.be <mailto:anthony.cleve@unamur.be> and should include: - Earliest available starting date. The expected starting date is May 1, 2018 but is negotiable. - Curriculum vitae with a list of publications and previous positions held. - A digital copy of one to three (co-)authored publications demonstrating some of the expected expertise. - Contact details (including e-mail address and phone number) of two academic referees. Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2018 Submissions received after that date are welcome and will be considered as long as the position remains available. Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Anthony Cleve, email anthony.cleve(a)unamur.be <mailto:anthony.cleve@unamur.be> .

6 years, 10 months

Call for Post-Doctoral positions on Software Ecosystem Evolution in Belgium

by Tom MENS

The prestigious 4-year Belgian Excellence of Science research project SECO-ASSIST (https://secoassist.github.io) has 4 vacant positions for post-doctoral researchers with relevant expertise for the project. SECO-ASSIST (Automated Assistance for Developing Software in Ecosystems of the Future) is a joint project between software engineering labs in 4 universities in Belgium (UMONS, UAntwerpen, UNamur and VUB), financed by the FWO and FNRS funding agencies. Belgium is centrally located in Europe, and the labs are well-connected to other research teams worldwide. A postdoc period in our groups is an ideal stepping stone for an independent research career in academia or industry. Our teams host researchers of various nationalities, hence the working language will be English. SECO-ASSIST will focus on fundamental research on recommendation techniques for software ecosystems, lead by Tom Mens (UMONS) and partnered by Serge Demeyer (UAntwerpen), Anthony Cleve (UNamur) and Coen De Roover (VUB, Brussels). Each team has one post-doc and one pre-doc position available. This announcement invites interested applicants with exceptional research skills to join the respective teams, and play a key role in one of the following topics: • Enhance team interaction (UMONS): Explore new recommendation techniques to attract newcomers and retain contributors in software ecosystems, identifying “toxic” team members, predict future abandonment, and find adequate replacements. • Strengthen software tests (UAntwerpen). Use recommendation techniques to support test-related activities in software ecosystems, and encourage developers to focus tests on those parts of the ecosystem with the highest risk. • Improve database manipulation (UNamur): Improper use of database technologies is a considerable bottleneck in data-intensive software systems. Recommendation techniques should improve database manipulation by analysing good and bad database usage in comparable systems within the same ecosystem. • Optimise library usage (VUB): Embrace the software ecosystem itself as a source of already-proven solutions for recommendation techniques that support both providers and consumers of software libraries in decisions regarding library selection, library maintenance, and library migration. Interested applicants should reach out to the respective teams *before officially applying*. To do so, please contact either Tom Mens (tom.mens(a)umons.ac.be), Serge Demeyer (serge.demeyer(a)uantwerpen.be), Anthony Cleve (anthony.cleve(a)unamur.be) or Coen De Roover (coen.de.roover(a)vub.be). Official applications should be submitted by April, 1st 2018 to info-seco(a)soft.vub.ac.be and should include: • Earliest available starting date. The expected starting date is 1 September 2018 but is negotiable. • Curriculum vitae with a list of publications and previous positions held. We prefer terse CVs that focus on quality rather than quantity. • A one-page research vision in one of the above research domains. We encourage applicants to to seek for a good match and to reach out to us before applying. • A digital copy of the Ph.D. dissertation. • A digital copy of one to three (co-)authored publications demonstrating some of the expected expertise. • Contact details (including e-mail address and phone number) of two academic referees that we may contact.

6 years, 10 months

CFP: SATToSE 2018

by Tushar Sharma

SATToSE 2018 11th Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution http://sattose.org/2018 July 4 - 6, 2018 Athens, Greece Overview: 11th edition of SATToSE will take place in Athens (Greece) on 4–6 July 2018. Past editions of SATToSE saw presentations on software visualisation techniques, tools for co-evolving various software artefacts, their consistency management, runtime adaptability and context-awareness, as well as empirical results about software evolution. The goal of SATToSE is to gather both undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, improve their communication skills, attend and contribute technology showdown and hackathons. Call for Papers: Contributions are solicited on all aspects of software and model evolution, practices, and technologies. In particular, we encourage submissions about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: - Supporting tools, processes, and models for managing software evolution - Industrial needs, case studies and experiences - Software analytics and visualisation techniques to support software evolution - Empirical studies in evolution and maintenance - Program transformation, refactoring, renovation, and migration - Program and/or data reverse engineering - Evolution of data-intensive or process-intensive systems - Approaches of model-driven software evolution - Software evolution for emerging paradigms - Coupled evolution of meta-models, models, and transformations - Classification of evolution scenarios - Reliability and security aspects of software evolution - Negative research results in software evolution - Software ecosystem evolution - Formalisms, notations, theories, methods, and languages for expressing software evolution - Conformance checking, inconsistency management, synchronisation, differencing, comparison, versioning, impact analysis of evolving models Type of Submissions: We solicit extended abstracts of 2–5 pages in one of the following forms: - Work in Progress: Early ideas and achievements that you want to share with the community and get feedback on. - Publication Summary: Overview of research results already published or ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal. - Tutorial: Are you familiar with a general Software Engineering-related technique or tool? Delivering a tutorial is about demonstrating a general technique or tool - Artifact Presentation: Technical explanation of important features of an artifact (e.g., tool, library, data set, test suite, methodology) Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 6, 2018 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2018 Registration deadline: June 15, 2018 Seminar: July 4 - 6, 2018 Keynotes and Tutorial: - Keynote by Prof. Diomidis Spinellis - Keynote by Prof. Yannis Smaragdakis - Tutorial by Prof. Panos Louridas Organisation Committee: - General Chair: Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. - Program Chair: Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile. - Hackathon Chair: Michel Chaudron - Local Organization Chairs: Tushar Sharma and Vasiliki Efstathiou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. Program Committee: - Anya Helene Bagge - University of Bergen (Norway) - Clément Bera - INRIA Lille Nord Europe (France) - Cor-Paul Bezemer - Queen's University (Canada) - Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou - University of Macedonia (Greece) - Marianne Huchard - LIRMM / CNRS / University of Montpellier (France) - Maria Kechagia - Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) - Kim Mens - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) - Nevena Milojković Lazarević - University of Bern (Switzerland) - Gregorio Robles - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) - Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer - Universidad Mayor de San Simon and Universidad Católica Boliviana - San Pablo (Bolivia) - Alexander Serebrenik - Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) - Bonita Sharif - Youngstown State University (USA) - Santiago Vidal - UNICEN University - CONICET (Argentina) - Aiko Yamashita - OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway) -- *Tushar Sharma* (http://www.tusharma.in)

6 years, 10 months

SoHeal 2018 Deadline extended to February 12th

by Tom MENS

CFP SoHeal 2018: 1st International Workshop on Software Health @ ICSE 2018 *Deadline extended until February 12* due to several requests. You can submit a full paper or extended abstract. https://soheal.github.io/ https://twitter.com/iw_soheal https://soheal.github.io/assets/docs/SoHeal2018CFP.pdf INTRODUCTION Factors impacting software health can vary depending on the viewpoint of the involved stakeholders: process factors, technical factors concerning the source code and related software artefacts, social factors concerning the communities of software contributors and users, and business factors concerning commercial aspects of the software product. Because of this variety, there is no clear definition of what constitutes software health, since it encompasses many different development and evolution attributes, including success, longevity, growth, resilience, survival, diversity, sustainability, etc. As can be witnessed by recent initiatives such as the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project on community health analytics, the research community and the industry have realized the need for a socio-technical perspective concerning software health. Such a perspective is challenging, due to the volatile storage of information regarding social relations, conflicts and interactions. There is a need to find better methods, techniques and tools to monitor software health, as well as to predict and take corrective measures when health implications arise. Finally, a project's health should also consider the health of the ecosystem in which the project participates to obtain a holistic view of software health. Thus, a better understanding is needed of how the health metrics, indicators and their operationalization can be aggregated from project-level to ecosystem level. CALL FOR PAPERS SoHeal aims to enable and promote collaboration between academia and industry, unifying the views on software health of researchers and practitioners. The workshop's goals are to: (1) raise awareness of practitioners' problems with software health; (2) familiarize practitioners with the progress made by academia; and (3) connect the two communities to further advance the body of knowledge and state of the practice on software health. TOPICS of INTEREST (non-exclusive) - social, technical and business aspects of software health - software health at the individual, team or community level - software health at the software project or ecosystem level - open source vs. industrial experiences with software health - software health definition and modelling - software health measurement and assessment - qualitative or quantitative studies about software health - prediction or recommendation models to predict health issues or improve health - software health tools and dashboards (e.g. for analytics and visualization) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of contributions: full position papers of 6 to 8 pages (including figures, tables and references), or extended abstracts of 1 to 2 pages reporting on practitioner's or industrial experience. Submissions must follow the ACM formatting instructions and should be submitted using the EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soheal2018 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 12, 2018 Notification: March 5, 2018 Camera Ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: Sunday, May 27, 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden)

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