ICSM 2013 - CFP

          29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

              22 - 28 September 2013 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands

                          http://icsm2013.tue.nl/
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This is the CFP for the 29th IEEE International
Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM 2013.

ICSM is the premiere international venue in software maintenance and
evolution, where participants from academia, government, and industry
meet and share ideas and experiences for solving critical software
maintenance problems. ICSM 2013 will be held in Eindhoven, The
Netherlands. 


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       TOPICS
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Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

•  Software repository analysis and mining
•  Run-time evolution, dynamic reconfiguration and self adaptation
•  Reverse engineering, re- engineering and migration
•  Software refactoring, restructuring and renovation
•  Software and system comprehension
•  Code cloning, code provenance, concept location and related research
•  Change and defect management
•  Evolution of non-code artefacts (e.g., requirements, design models, documentation, software architectures, business process models)
•  Maintenance-related testing (e.g., regression testing)
•  Maintenance and evolution processes
•  Software quality improvement
•  Software evolution for emerging paradigms
•  Human aspects of software evolution


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      IMPORTANT DATES
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*Research Track*
Abstract submission: April 17, 2013
Full papers submission: April 24, 2013
Notification: June 14, 2013
Camera-ready: July 13, 2013

*ERA/Doctoral Symposium/Tools/Industry Track*
Abstract submission: June 17, 2013
Full papers submission: June 24, 2013
Notification: July 26, 2013
Camera-ready: August 9, 2013

*Conference Dates*
ICSM 2013: September 24-26, 2013
Co-located: September 22 - 28, 2013


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       TRACKS
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ICSM will have five tracks:

•   Research Track
•   ERA Track
•   Doctoral Symposium
•   Industry Track
•   Tool Demo Track


*Research Track*

Submissions for the research track should describe original and
significant work in the research or practice of software maintenance
and evolution. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC
members. Theoretical results, empirical research (such as case studies
and experiments) and experience reports are welcome. Papers must not
have been previously accepted for publication nor concurrently
submitted for review in another journal, book, conference or
workshop. 

Research papers must adhere to the IEEE CS Proceedings style
guidelines and are limited to 10 pages.  

Further details are available at:
http://icsm2013.tue.nl/CFP/index.html 


*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*

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 


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      CO-LOCATED EVENTS
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In addition to ICSM in 2013 we will be welcoming a number of co-located events:

•  13th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM),
•  15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE),
•  3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA),
•  8th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT)
•  1st International Workshop on Communicating Business Process Models: Quality, Understandability, and Maintainability (CBPM).
•  3rd Software Security and Protection Workshop (SSP)


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       PROGRAM CHAIRS
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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
Financial Chair: 
	Chanchal K. Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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
Publicity Co-chairs: 
	Natalia Dragan, Cleveland State University, USA and
	Veronika Bauer, Technische Universität München, Germany
Local Arrangement Co-chairs: 
	Martijn Klabbers and Sacha Claessens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Proceedings Chair: 
	Bogdan Vasilescu, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Web Chair: 
	Minhaz F. Zibran, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Social Media Chair: 
	Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 


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      PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Program Committee for Research Track

   Paul Anderson, Grammatech, USA
   Nicolas Anquetil, INRIA & USTL, France
   Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
   Ayse Basar Bener, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
   Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA
   Goetz Botterweck, University of Limerick, Ireland
   Andrea Capiluppi, Brunel University, UK
   Mariano Ceccato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
   Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece
   Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
   Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium
   Michael Collard, University of Akron, USA
   James Cordy, Queen's University, Canada
   Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
   Danny Dig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
   Laurence Duchien, INRIA Lille, France
   Jean-Rémy Falleri, U. Bordeaux 1, France
   Rudolf Ferenc, University of Szeged, Hungary
   Malcom Gethers, University of Maryland, USA
   Yossi Gil, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
   Michael Godfrey, Waterloo, Canada
   Mark Grechanik, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
   Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA
   Mark Harman, University College London, UK
   Pedro Rangel Henriques, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
   Felienne Hermans, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
   Abram Hindle, University of Alberta, Canada
   Zhang Hongyu, Tsinghua University, China
   Daqing Hou, Clarkson University, USA
   Marianne Huchard, Université Montpellier, France
   Huzefa Kagdi, Wichita State University, USA
   Foutse Khomh, Queen's University,, Canada
   Jens Knodel, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
   Dawn Lawrie, Loyola University Maryland, USA
   Leen Lambers, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, Germany
   Byungjeong Lee, University of Seoul, Korea
   Zheng Li, Bejing University of Chemical Technology, China
   David Lo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
   Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA
   Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, USA
   Cristina Marinescu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
   Hong Mei, Peking University, China
   Leon Moonen, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
   Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA
   Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland
   Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Italy
   Ekaterina Pek, University of Koblenz, Germany
   Martin Pinzger, Technical University of Delft / Klagenfurt University, Netherlands / Austria
   Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
   Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA
   Brian Robinson, ABB Corporate Research, USA
   Gregorio Robles, U. Juan Carlos, Spain
   Chanchal Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
   Giuseppe Scanniello, University of Basilicata, Italy
   Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland, USA
   Kobayashi Takashi, TITech, Japan
   Suresh Thummalapenta, IBM Research, India
   Marco Tulio Valente, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
   Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, VUB, Belgium
   Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga, Spain
   Michel Wermelinger, The Open University, UK
   Lu Zhang, Peking University, China
   Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Committee for Tool Demo Track

   Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium (co-chair)
   Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (co-chair)
   Mathieu Acher INRIA Rennes, France
   Amir Aryani, RMIT University, Australia
   Alberto Bacchelli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
   Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
   Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil
   Malcom Gethers, College of William and Mary, USA
   Sonia Haiduc, Wayne State University, USA
   Jan Harder, University of Bremen, Germany
   Adrian Johnstone, Royal University of London, UK
   Yasutaka Kamei, Kyushu University, Japan
   Foutse Khomh Queen's University, Canada
   Jens Knodel, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
   Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
   Juergen Rilling, Concordia University, Canada
   Wenhua Wang, Marin Software, USA
   Mircea Lungu, University of Bern, Switzerland

Program Committee for the Doctoral Symposium 

   Tibor Gyimothy, University of Szeged, Hungary (co-chair)
   Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA (co-chair)
   Denys Poshyvanyk, William and Mary College, USA
   Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
   Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
   Alexander Serebrenik,  Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands