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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
      20th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
                          June 11-13, 2012
                           Passau, Germany
                     http://icpc12.sosy-lab.org/
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The IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is
the principal venue for works in the area of program comprehension,
which encompasses both the human activity of comprehending software,
as well as the processes and technologies for supporting it. ICPC 2012
promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners
from academia, industry, and government to present and to discuss
state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program
comprehension.

ICPC 2012 solicits technical research papers (full and short), tool
demonstration papers, industrial experience papers, and student
research symposium papers. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:
- Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments
  and case studies
- Individual, team, collaborative, distributed, and adversarial
  program comprehension
- Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as webbased
  systems, open source, mashups, legacy systems, product lines, and
  systems of systems
- Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and
  specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, reengineering,
  migration, security, auditing, and testing
- Novel interfaces to support program comprehension, including
  searching, browsing and visualization
- Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques,
  and approaches
- 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

Submissions must not have been previously published or be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The best full research papers at ICPC 2012 will be invited to be
revised and extended for consideration in a journal special issue.
All accepted papers will get a presentation slot. Additionally, authors
of accepted short papers, tool demonstration papers, and student
papers will be expected to prepare a poster for a combined poster
session.

IMPORTANT DATES

Technical Papers                        Posters & Tool Demonstrations
Abstracts     Feb 10, 2012              Submissions   Feb 17, 2012
Full papers   Feb 17, 2012              Notification  Mar 23, 2012
Notification  Mar 23, 2012

Industrial Track                        Student Research Symposium
Submissions   Feb 17, 2012              Submissions   Feb 17, 2012
Notifications Mar 23, 2012              Notification  Mar 23, 2012

ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
  Dirk Beyer, University of Passau
Program Co Chairs:
  Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, NL
  Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada