*International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021) <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-research>* *18-20 May 2021*
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to the *29th International Conference on Program Comprehension* (ICPC 2021). The conference is co-located with ICSE 2021 and will be held virtually *18-20 May 2021*. The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue in software program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension. *ICPC 2021 Submissions* ICPC 2021 solicits six main categories of research contributions: research papers <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-research>, early research achievement (ERA) papers <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-era>, replications and negative results (RENE) papers <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-rene>, tool demos <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-tool-demonstration>, educational papers <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-education>, and journal first track papers <https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-j1c2>. Research papers describe original work in program comprehension; short papers reporting early results are included in the ERA track. Replications and negative results papers focus on the re-execution of existing research to strengthen previous findings and present sound empirical methods leading to negative results. Tool demonstrations report about new instruments making available and usable to practitioners program comprehension methods. Educational papers propose advances in how program comprehension is taught at any level, from children to university students. Finally, the journal first track invites the presentation of papers accepted *on or after November 1st, 2019,* at one of the partner journals, i.e., Software Quality Journal (SQJ) <https://www.springer.com/journal/11219>, Information and Software Technology (IST) <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology>, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20477481>, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software>, and Science of Computer Programming (SCP) <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming>. To learn more about how to submit, please visit the following link: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-how-to-submit-instructions . *Topics of interest* Include but are not limited to: - Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches; - Human aspects in program comprehension, including gender considerations in program comprehension, information processing strategies, the role of emotions in program comprehension, and more; - Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies; - Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension; - Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension; - Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing, and analyzing; - Novel text summarization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing, and analyzing; - Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications, spreadsheets, web-based systems, legacy systems, product lines, libraries, multi-threaded applications, and systems of systems; - Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing; - Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers to GitHub code review messages - all artifacts software developer encounters when creating or evolving software; - Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation; - Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry; - Tool support for program comprehension. Please note that ICPC 2021 attracts submissions from *the human-aspects and computer-supported cooperative work research communities*: if you are part of those communities, please consider submitting and recommend other researchers of the field to submit to ICPC 2021 to enlarge the community around the conference and the inter-connections among communities. *ICPC 2021 IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Awards and ICPC Honorable Mentions* The best papers of the Technical Research Track *will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of **the Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE) <https://emsejournal.github.io/>**.* The best papers of the conference will also be awarded an *IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award*. Also, for the first time, ICPC 2021 will introduce the *ICPC Honorable Mentions*, special awards that will be assigned, based on the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest. *Important Dates* Deadlines for the Technical Research Track are: Abstract submission: Friday, January 22, 2021; Paper submission: Friday, January 29, 2021; Notifications: Friday, March 5, 2021; Camera Ready: Monday, March 22, 2021. Deadlines for ALL OTHER tracks are: Abstract submission: Thursday, February 11, 2021; Paper submission: Wednesday, February 17, 2021; Notifications: Friday, March 5, 2021; Camera Ready: Monday, March 22, 2021. *Submission Link* Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpc2021 *ICPC 2021 Socials* Stay tuned to emerging news about ICPC 2021 through our social channels. Follow us! - Website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/icpc-2021 - Twitter: @icpcconf - Facebook: @ICPCConf - Youtube: ICPC Conf *Further Information* For further information and questions, feel free to contact the General Chair Prof. Alexander Serebrenik (a.serebre...@tue.nl) or the Program Co-Chairs Anita Sarma (anita.sa...@oregonstate.edu) and Fabio Palomba ( fpalo...@unisa.it). We look forward to seeing you at ICPC 2021! Sincerely, Mahnaz Behroozi Publicity Co-Chair ICPC 2021
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