CALL FOR PAPERS

ICPC2011: 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
http://icpc2011.cs.usask.ca/
Twitter: @icpc2011
June 22-24, 2011

The Spring CSER Meeting will be co-located and held on June 25, 2011.

OVERVIEW

The Comprehension (ICPC) is the principal venue for works in the area of
program comprehension, which encompasses both the human activity of
comprehending software and the technologies for supporting the program
comprehension. ICPC 2011 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.

We are soliciting full research papers (10 pages), short research
papers (4 pages), posters and tool demonstrations (2 pages), industrial
submissions (4 pages) and proposals for working sessions. This year, we will
be holding a Student Research Symposium.

Selected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit revised,
extended versions to a special section of the journal,
Information and Software Technology.

TOPICS

* 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 web-based
systems, open source, mash-ups, 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

* Transfer of new technology into industrial practice

IMPORTANT DATES

Research Papers:
* Abstracts                         February 10, 2011 
* Full papers                       February 14, 2011 

Posters and Tool Demonstrations:    February 21, 2011
Working Sessions Proposals:         February 21, 2011
Student Research Symposium          February 21, 2011

Notification:                       March 7, 2011
Camera-ready copy:                  April 1, 2011

Industrial Track: May 31, 2011

Note:  All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Apia, Samoa Time) on the dates indicated.

Conference dates:                   June 22-24, 2011

SUBMISSION

Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere
and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the
duration of consideration. IEEE plagiarism policies and procedures shall be
followed for cases of double submission.

All papers must conform at time of submission to the IEEE Format and
Submission Guidelines and must not exceed the page limits (research papers:
10 pages; short papers, industrial track, working sessions, and student
research symposium: 4 pages; posters and tool demonstrations: 2 pages),
including all text, references, appendices and figures. All submissions
must be in English. Submissions must be in PDF format. 

Papers must be submitted electronically through EasyChair.

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpc20110

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be
asked to complete an IEEE Copyright form and will receive further
instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author
of each paper is expected to register and present the results at ICPC. All
accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic
proceedings.

ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
Thomas Dean, Queen’s University, Canada
 
Program Co-Chairs:
Susan Elliott Sim, University of California, Irvine, USA
Filippo Ricca, Università di Genova, Italy
 
Program Committee:
Marco Ambros, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Giulio Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Lerina Aversano, University of Sannio, Italy
Arpad Beszedes, University of Szeged, Hungary
Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany
Sue Black, University College London, United Kingdom
Jim Buckley, University of Limerick, Ireland  
Michael Collard, The University of Akron, USA
James Cordy, Queen's University, Canada  
Andrea DeLucia, Universitá di Salerno, Italy
Scott Fleming, Oregon State University, USA
Keith Gallagher, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Gerald Gannod, Miami University, USA
Scanniello Giuseppe, University of Basilicata, Italy
Nicolas Gold, King's College, United Kingdom
Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Concordia University, Canada   
Mark Harman, King's College, United Kingdom  
Abram Hindle, University of California, Davis, USA  
Reid Holmes, University of Waterloo, USA  
Daqing Hou, Clarkson University, USA   
Dean Jin, University of Manitoba, Canada  
Jan Jurjens, TU Dortmund & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Holger Kienle, University of Victoria, Canada  
Charles Knutson, Brigham Young University, USA  
Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany  
Nicholas Kraft, The University of Alabama, USA
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland  
Dawn Lawrie, Loyola College in Maryland, USA
Timothy Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, Canada  
Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA  
Spiros Mancoridis, Drexel University, USA   
Alessandro Marchetto, FBK-IRST, Italy   
Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, USA
Radu Marinescu, University of Timisoara, Romania
Naouel Moha, Université de Québec à Montréal, University, Canada  
Rocco Oliveto, Universitá di Salerno, Italy
Martin Pinzger, TU Delft, Netherlands
Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA
Pedro Rangel Henriques, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Kamran Sartipi, McMaster University, Canada  
Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ladan Tahvildari, University of Waterloo, USA
Paolo Tonella, FBK-IRST, Italy   
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Vassilios Tzerpos, York University, Canada  
Arie Van Deursen, TU Delft, Netherlands
Neil Walkinshaw, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Andreas Winter, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
Andy Zaidman, TU Delft, Netherlands
Ying Zou, Queen's University, Canada

Finance Chair
Chanchal K. Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Poster and Tool Demo Chairs
Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, Canada
Sukanya Ratanotayanon, Thammasat University, Thailand

Working Sessions Chairs
Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany
Michael Collard, Kent State University, USA

Industrial Track Chair
Jochen Quante, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Andy Begel, Microsoft Research, USA

Student Symposium Chairs
Denys Poshyvanyk, The College of William and Mary, USA
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio – Benevento, Italy

Web Chair
Minhaz Fahim Zibran, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

SPONSOR

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IEEE
University of Saskatchewan
Queen's University