============================================================================ ICSM 2013 CFP - ERA/Tool Demo/Doctoral Symposium/Industry Tracks ============================================================================ 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 22 - 28 September 2013 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://icsm2013.tue.nl/ Follow us on Twitter: @IEEEICSM ============================================================================ The deadline for the ERA/Tool Demo/Doctoral Symposium/Industry tracks is approaching! Please read below and refer to the web page for further information. ================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================ Abstract submission: June 17, 2013 Full papers submission: June 24, 2013 Notification: July 26, 2013 Camera-ready: August 9, 2013 ================================ ERA Track ================================ The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting great, promising ideas in early stages of research. These ideas do not require a strong empirical evaluation! The 2013 ERA track aims to provide constructive feedback to guide you from your initial idea and limited evaluation towards a solid ICSM 2014 paper with strong empirical underpinnings. The topics of interest for this track are the same as for the main research track, i.e., all the topics in the research and practice of software maintenance and evolution. Papers submitted to the ERA track must not have been accepted previously for publication or submitted for review to another conference, journal, or book. Submissions must be in English and conform to the IEEE proceedings style. They must be four-page long, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation (if available), quality and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Further details are available at: http://icsm2013.tue.nl/CFP/index.html ================================ Doctoral Symposium Track ================================ As with previous editions, ICSM 2013 will feature a double doctoral symposium: Pre-doctoral: The first part is dedicated to PhD students in the midst of their doctoral studies in the field of software maintenance, who intend to finish their PhD within the next two years (2014-2015). This symposium aims to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their ongoing work, to interact with other researchers in the field, and to get constructive feedback from senior researchers. Participants will discuss their goals, methods, and results at an early stage in their research. For the pre-doctoral symposium the submission should not exceed 4 pages. Details on the required content are available at: http://icsm2013.tue.nl/CFP/index.html Post-doctoral: The second part is dedicated to researchers who have delivered their PhD dissertations in the area of software maintenance and evolution within the last 2 years (2011-2012). This symposium aims to provide a forum for post-docs to present the highlights of their work to the ICSM community. Moreover, participants will be asked to reflect on the PhD process itself, and share some lessons learned with PhD students as well as PhD advisors. For the post-doctoral symposium the submission should not exceed 6 pages. Details on the required content are available at: http://icsm2013.tue.nl/CFP/index.html ================================ Industrial Track ================================ This track aims to foster mutually beneficial links between those engaged in scientific research and practitioners working to improve software maintenance practices. We are interested in results (both good and bad), obstacles, and lessons learned. Experiences from practitioners provide crucial input into future research directions and allow others to learn from successes and failures. For the industry track, we invite submissions of state-of-the-art practice and experience reports, survey reports from real-world projects and industrial experiences, and evidence-based identifications of unsolved research challenges associated to software maintenance. If you apply in an industrial context a method, model or tool, which you know was earlier presented at ICSM or other software engineering conference, we also warmly encourage you to submit to this track. Each submission should describe the problem addressed, the approach used, the current state of the project, an evaluation of the benefits or lessons learnt, and future developments. Submissions must be in English and conform to the IEEE proceedings style. They must be four-page long, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Further details are available at: http://icsm2013.tue.nl/CFP/index.html ================================ Tool Demo Track ================================ This track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, experiences, and challenges in the field of software maintenance with the goal of allowing live presentation of new research tools. Whether the tools are early research prototypes or polished tools prepared for commercialization (but not yet commercialized), the ICSM demo track provides the perfect opportunity to reach an international audience of researchers and practitioners, and solicit critical feedback. This year's demo track consists of demonstrators who get about 15 minutes in the conference program for presenting their tool. The presentation should focus on the main use cases of and essential concepts behind the tool, and should include an actual tool demo of at least 10 minutes. Accepted demos will be included in the ICSM proceedings. Demos also require a website and a 4-page proposal. Participation to the demos requires: 1) a 4-page proposal (format: IEEE format and template) describing the problem context, a typical usage scenario, existing tools and their shortcomings, the concepts behind the proposed tool, a graphical overview of the tool's architecture, a short discussion of the technologies used for implementation, a summary of experiments or other experiences with the tool, an outline of missing features and other future work, and the URL of the tool's website (see 2.); 2) a small website (referenced in the proposal) containing the URL of the screencast as well as the download link of the actual tool, together with clear installation instructions. The proposal should be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsmtool2013 The website do NOT need to be submitted via EasyChair, since their URL can be found via the proposal. If the tool is not available for download, the authors should clearly explain the rationale for this in the proposal. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the tool demo PC. Major reviewing criteria are: relevance to the ICSM audience quality of the proposal novelty of the tool adherence to the tool demo guidelines Accepted demos will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted demo must register and attend ICSM 2013 for the demo to be published in the proceedings. In addition, demonstrators will be expected to give a presentation that will be scheduled in the conference program. Demonstrators are expected to provide their own equipment. Please mention supplemental wishes (e.g., Internet access) in a seperate appendix in proposal, this appendix will NOT be included in proceedings. ================================ CHAIRS ================================ General Chair: Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Program Co-chairs: Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada ERA Program Co-chairs: Romain Robbes, University of Chile, Chile and Bram Adams, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Industry Track Chair: Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs: Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA and Tibor Gyimothy, University of Szeged, Hungary Tools Track Co-chairs: Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium