The 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ASE 2012)

September 3-7, 2012, Essen, Germany.
http://ase2012.paluno.uni-due.de

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OVERVIEW

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering. ASE 2012 will include technical papers, experience papers, invited keynotes, tutorials, workshops, tool demonstrations, and a doctoral symposium.

The ASE 2012 conference will be held from September 3-7, 2012 in Essen, Germany.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission:    February 24th, 2012
Paper Submission:    March 2nd, 2012
Notification:       June 18th, 2012

Submission details for the main conference and all tracks will be available on the conference website

MAIN CONFERENCE PAPERS

Software engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. Automated software engineering focuses on how to automate or partially automate these tasks to achieve significant improvements in quality and productivity. ASE 2012 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience reports. In all cases, papers should carefully describe the relevance of their contributions to the automation of software engineering tasks. The ASE On-line Bibliography can serve as a reference for potential contributors: http://www.ase-conferences.org/olbib/index.html. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:

* Automated reasoning techniques
* Component-based systems
* Computer-supported cooperative work
* Configuration management
* Data mining and software engineering
* Domain modeling and meta-modeling
* Empirical software engineering
* Human-computer interaction
* Knowledge acquisition and management
* Maintenance and evolution
* Model-based software development
* Model-driven engineering and model transformation
* Modeling language semantics
* Open systems development
* Product line methods
* Program understanding
* Program synthesis
* Program transformation
* Re-engineering
* Requirements engineering
* Specification languages
* Software Analysis
* Software architecture and design
* Software visualization
* Testing, verification, and validation
* Tutoring, help, and documentation systems

All accepted papers will be published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ASE 2012 will accept two categories of paper to the main conference:

(i) Technical Papers should describe innovative research in automating software development activities or automated support to users engaged in such activities. They should describe a novel contribution to the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly described with respect to the previous work. Papers should also clearly discuss how the results were validated.

(ii) Experience Papers should describe a significant experience in applying automated software engineering technology and should carefully identify and discuss important lessons learned so that other researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of special interest are experience papers that report on industrial applications of automated software engineering.

Submissions under both categories should not exceed 10 pages in the two-column conference format (see note below). Papers will be administratively rejected and will not be reviewed if they exceed the 10-page limit or use condensed formatting. For guidelines and formatting files, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings templates.

Papers submitted to ASE 2012 must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines. Authors are strongly encouraged to explain the relationship between the submission and any other related works from the authors, including ones under review elsewhere, in the appropriate place in the submitted paper.

All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by PC members. Papers may be accepted either as full papers or as short papers. In this last case the camera-ready should be no longer than 4 pages. All accepted short papers will be presented in a poster session.

Submission details for the main conference and all tracks will be available on the conference website.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

General Chair:
Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, United States
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Demonstrations Co-Chairs:
Bernd Fischer, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames, United States

Workshop and Tutorials Chair:
Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gregory Gay (North America), University of Minnesota, United States
Hironori Washizaki (Asia/Pacific), Waseda University, Japan
Patrick Mäder (Europe), Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Finance and Local Arrangements:
Vanessa Stricker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jamie Andrews, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Bernd Fischer, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Jaco Geldenhuys, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Robert Hall, AT&T Labs Research, United States
Maritta Heisel, Universitaet Duisburg Essen, Germany
John Hosking, Australian National University, Australia
Kyo-Chul Kang, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Katsuhisa Maruyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, United States
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames/Carnegie Mellon, United States
John Penix, Google, United States
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Houari Sahraoui, Université de Montréal, Canada
Anita Sarma, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States
Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany
Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France
Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, United States
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany

EXPERT REVIEW PANEL

Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames, United States
Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom
Yves Ledru, Universite Grenoble-1, France
Anna Liu, NICTA, Australia
Michael Lowry, NASA Ames, United States
Hong Mei, Peking University, China


Join us at ASE 2012 in Essen, Germany
The 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering
http://ase2012.paluno.uni-due.de

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Patrick Mäder
SEA, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria