35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'19) https://icsme2019.github.io September 30 - October 4, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio, USA === CALL FOR PAPERS === TECHNICAL RESEARCH TRACK IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics: - Change and defect management - Code cloning and provenance - Concept and feature location - Continuous integration/deployment - Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution - Evolution of non-code artifacts - Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution - Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods - Maintenance and evolution processes - Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps - Mining software repositories - Productivity of software engineers - Release engineering - Reverse engineering and re-engineering - Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration - Service oriented and cloud computing - Software and system comprehension - Software migration and renovation - Software quality assurance - Software refactoring and restructuring - Software testing theory and practice - Source code analysis and manipulation ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). Submissions must not exceed 10 pages (including figures and appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. *Important Dates* - Abstract Submission: Friday, March 29, 2019 - Paper Submission: Friday, April 5, 2019 - Author Notification: Monday, June 10, 2019 SHORT PAPER TRACK The Short Papers Track provides an opportunity for sharing valuable early-stage work with the ICMSE community, eliciting feedback, and fostering discussions and collaborations among researchers interested in the broad area of Software Maintenance and Evolution. The scope of research topics of this track is the same as for the main conference. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-progress to discuss ongoing research, negative results, practical experience, challenges or issues related to software maintenance and evolution. The papers in this track do not require a strong empirical evaluation. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages including all text, appendices, figures, tables, and references. *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - Author Notification: Friday, July 12, 2019 LATE BREAKING IDEAS TRACK The Late-Breaking Ideas Track is a new addition to the ICSME program for 2019. The overarching goal of this track is to provide a highly interactive and collaborative venue for ICSME researchers of all backgrounds to conduct impactful, meaningful discussions about cutting edge or emerging work conducted related to software engineering, maintenance, and evolution. As such, this track accepts 2-page extended abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be briefly presented and thoroughly discussed in a highly interactive conference format. Thus, we anticipate this track facilitating discussion on novel, high impact ideas relevant to the ICSME community and directly fostering collaborations to advance fledgling research ideas. Submissions must not exceed 2 pages for all text, appendices, figures, and tables. One additional page for references ONLY is allowed. *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Friday, June 14, 2019 - Author Notification: Friday, July 12, 2019 TOOL DEMONSTRATION TRACK The ICSME 2019 Tool Demonstration Track is an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to present and discuss software maintenance and evolution tools. We welcome submissions for tools ranging from research prototypes to industry tools. We specifically encourage submissions that accompany papers in the Research Paper Track. The tool demonstration paper should focus on the tool's architecture, implementation, and intended usage. Submissions must not exceed 4 pages (including content and references). *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Monday, June 17, 2019 - Author Notification: Friday, July 12, 2019 INDUSTRY TRACK The industry track brings together participants from academia and industry in a venue that highlights practical and real-world studies of software maintenance and evolution. This track aims to foster mutually-beneficial links between those engaged in scientific research and practitioners working to improve software maintenance and evolution practices. Experiences from practitioners provide crucial input into future research directions and allow others to learn from successes and failures. Submissions may be extended abstracts (1 page), short papers (4 pages), or long papers (10 pages). *Full/Short Papers* - Abstract Submission: Friday, April 12, 2019 - Paper Submission: Friday, April 19, 2019 - Author Notification: Monday, June 10, 2019 *Extended Abstracts* - Paper Submission: Friday, June 14, 2019 - Author Notification: Friday, July 12, 2019 ARTIFACTS TRACK The goal of the Artifact Track of ICSME 2019 is to promote, celebrate, and catalog excellent examples of research artifacts in software engineering. These artifacts are reusable units of research that can be used to support other research endeavors. Submissions are limited to a single page. *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Monday, June 24, 2019 - Author Notification: Monday, July 8, 2019 JOURNAL FIRST TRACK This track is aimed at recent journal papers describing original and unpublished results that relate to software maintenance and evolution, and are not extensions of previous conference papers. Submissions consist of a short talk proposal consisting of the paper title, abstract, a short statement on how the work satisfies the journal first criteria, and the PDF of the accepted paper. *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Friday, June 14, 2019 - Author Notification: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The overall goal of the ICSME 2019 doctoral symposium is to help the next generation of ICSME researchers form connections and gain advice on their proposed areas of research. To support this goal the doctoral symposium will have three tracks: early predoctoral (pre-proposal), late predoctoral (post-proposal), and post-doctoral. Each track will work towards the goal as appropriate for its career preparation stage. The three tracks will meet together for the day to enable multi-level peer mentoring as more senior students and junior researchers reflect on their experiences during their PhD studies. *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: Monday, June 24, 2019 - Author Notification: Saturday, July 6, 2019 SUBMISSION All papers must be in PDF, conform to the ICSME'19 formatting guidelines, and submitted online via ICSME 2019 EasyChair. See the website (https://icsme2019.github.io) for more information. *General Chairs* Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University Brian Robinson, ABB Corporate Research *Program Chairs* Arpad Beszedes, University of Szeged Miryung Kim, University of California, Los Angeles *Short Paper Track Chairs* Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University Federica Sarro, University College London *Late Breaking Ideas Track Chairs* Kevin Moran, College of William & Mary Bonita Sharif, University of Nebraska - Lincoln *Tool Demos Track Chairs* Michael Collard, The University of Akron Shinpei Hayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology *Industry Track Chairs* Katja Kevic, Microsoft Nicholas Kraft, ABB Corporate Research *Artifacts Chairs* Roberto Minelli, Software Institute@Universita della Svizzera italiana Paige Rodeghero, Clemson University *Journal First Chairs* Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio *Doctoral Symposium Chairs* James Clause, University of Delaware Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology