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CALL FOR PAPERS =============== ESEC/FSE 2018 -- 12th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering November 4-9, Orlando, Florida, United States http://2018.fseconference.org Follow ESEC/FSE on twitter: @fseconf Follow ESEC/FSE on Facebook: http://facebook.com/fseconference Social Media Hashtag: #esecfse The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Formerly the FSE conference in alternating years and ESEC/FSE in other years, ESEC/FSE is now the new name of this annual conference series. The ESEC/FSE conference brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results and trends, as well as their practical application in all areas of software engineering. The conference is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). Topics of Interest ------------------ We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to software engineering. These include, but are not limited to: - Architecture and design - Autonomic computing and (self-)adaptive systems - Big data - Cloud computing - Components, services, and middleware - Computer-supported cooperative work - Configuration management and deployment - Crowdsourcing - Debugging - Dependability, safety, and reliability - Development tools and environments - Distributed, parallel, and concurrent software - Education - Embedded and real-time software - Empirical software engineering - End-user software engineering - Formal methods, including languages, methods, and tools - Green computing - Human and social factors in software engineering - Human-computer interaction - Knowledge-based software engineering - Mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive software - Model-driven software engineering - Patterns and frameworks - Processes and workflows - Program analysis - Program comprehension and visualization - Program synthesis - Refactoring - Requirements engineering - Reverse engineering - Safety-critical systems - Scientific computing - Search-based software engineering - Security and privacy - Software economics and metrics - Software evolution and maintenance - Software modularity - Software product lines - Software reuse - Software services - Testing - Traceability - Web-based software Call for Submissions -------------------- General Chair: Gary T. Leavens ### Research Papers Chairs: Corina Pasareanu, Alessandro Garcia http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-research-papers We invite high-quality submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research. Papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will also be considered. Submissions that facilitate reproducibility by using available data sets or making the described tools publicly available are especially encouraged. ESEC/FSE 2018 will employ a lightweight double-blind review process. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. ### Journal-First Chairs: Andrea Zisman, Ingrid Nunes https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Journal-First We invite authors of journal-first papers accepted in the partnering journals (IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, and Springer Empirical Software Engineering) to submit their work to be presented at ESEC/FSE 2018. The accepted paper version must have been submitted to a partnering journal no earlier than December 1st 2016. This will allow authors of journal- first papers to present their work to the community. ### New Ideas and Emerging Results Chairs: Claire Le Goues, Gail Kaiser http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-NIER ESEC/FSE-NIER 2018 seeks to challenge the status quo of our discipline by providing a venue for innovative, radical, thought-provoking new ideas, arguments, and research directions in software engineering. The NIER also incorporates the previous FSE-VaR (Visions and Reflections) track, seeking to spark conversation on the state of the field, especially in light of the 50-year anniversary of the 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering. ### Tool Demonstrations Chairs: Tien Nguyen, Ciera Jaspan http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Demonstration We invite innovative research demonstrations, intended to show early implementations of novel software engineering concepts, as well as mature prototypes. The research demonstrations are intended to highlight underlying scientific contributions. Whereas a regular research paper points out the scientific contribution of a new software engineering approach, a demonstration paper provides the opportunity to show how a scientific contribution has been transferred into a working tool or data set. Authors of regular research papers are thus encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper. ### Industry Chairs: John Penix, Satish Chandra http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Industry ESEC/FSE is widely known for its high-quality research papers in all areas of software engineering. Its industry track focuses on the same topics and values the same rigor as its research track, yet papers featured in the industrial track are distinct. What sets the industrial track apart is that it values impact and realism over novelty. We expect that findings from industrial track publications have the potential to impact practice in the 0-2 year range. ### Workshops Chair: Damian Dechev https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Workshops ESEC/FSE 2018 solicits proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops aim to provide opportunities for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results in various areas of software engineering research and applications. Workshops are not an alternative forum for presenting full research papers. If you would like to bring together a group of researchers on a relevant and exciting topic, please submit a workshop proposal to ESEC/FSE. Workshops will be held in the days before the research track (Nov. 4 and 5). Proposals for workshops after the main track can be considered but are subject to the availability of space. Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact the workshop chairs should any questions arise. ### Artifacts Chairs: Olga Baysal, Tim Menzies https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Artifacts Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to the ESEC/FSE Artifact Track. In the spirit of ACM’s "Result and Artifact Review and Badging" policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/po licies/artifact-review-badging), the artifacts track exists to review, promote, share and catalog the research artifacts produced by any of the papers accepted to the research track. Apart from repeatability and replicability, cataloging these artifacts also allows reuse by other teams in reproduction or other studies. ### Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Hridesh Rajan, Margaret-Anne Storey http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Doctorial-Symposium Doctoral students whose research is in Software Engineering will have a chance to get mentoring from more experienced researchers and academics. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their doctoral research with senior researchers in the software engineering community, in a constructive and friendly atmosphere. Attendance will be by invitation only based on a four-page research proposal to provide a quality mentoring experience for pursuing an impactful research program. ### Student Research Competition Chair: Gustavo Soares http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Student-Research-Competiti on The conference will host an ACM Student Research Competition (http://sr c.acm.org; SRC).This competition offers undergraduate and graduate students a unique forum to experience the research world, present their research results to conference attendees, and compete for prizes. The ACM SRC consists of three parts: (1) research abstract submission, (2) poster presentation, and (3) a research talk. The first-place winners of the competition will be invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Participate in this exciting competition: Submit your work to the ACM Student Research Competition! Submission Guidelines --------------------- At the time of submission, all papers must conform to the ESEC/FSE 2018 Format and Submission Guidelines (https://2018.fseconference.org/attend ing/Submission+Policies), and must not exceed the page limits that are listed in the appropriate call for papers. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions that do not comply with the above instructions will be desk rejected without review. Papers must be submitted electronically through the appropriate ESEC/FSE submission site (as noted in the appropriate call for papers). See conference website for more details about submissions for each track. Important Dates --------------- ### Research Papers - Submission date: **March 9, 2018** - Author response period: May 7-10, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2018 - Camera-ready date: July 31, 2018 - Conference: **November 4-9, 2018** ### Journal-First Papers - Submission date: May 30, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2018 ### New Ideas and Emerging Results - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018 - Camera ready date: September 10, 2018 ### Workshops - Submission date: February 19, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2018 ### Industry Papers - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018 - Camera ready date: September 10, 2018 ### Artifacts - Submission date: June 25, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2018 ### Doctoral Symposiums - Submission date: June 29, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2018 ### Student Research Competition - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018