The joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Held biannually, ESEC/FSE brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results and trends, as well as their practical application in all areas of software engineering.

We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to ESEC/FSE. Submissions of papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will also be considered based on importance, timeliness, and potential impact. Submissions that facilitate reproducibility by using available data sets or making the described tools publicly available are especially encouraged.

ESEC/FSE 2013 will offer a strong technical program with an exciting list of events. It will take place in the unique Saint Petersburg, Russia. The city was the Imperial capital of Russia and it is still a major European cultural center.

Topics of Interest

We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to software engineering. These include, but are not limited to:

Software architecture
Patterns, frameworks, and product lines
Components, services, and middleware
Configuration management and deployment
Parallel and concurrent software
Embedded and real-time software
Empirical studies and Metrics
End-user software engineering
Development environments and tools
Distributed, mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive software
Model-driven software engineering
Program comprehension and visualization
Requirements engineering
Reverse engineering, maintenance, and evolution
Software economics
Validation, verification, and testing
Web-based software and cloud computing
The following application areas are of particular interest:

Mobile applications
Cloud computing
Resource provisioning and optimization
Autonomic computing
Problem determination including logging
Analysis and diagnostics
Smart user interfaces
Service-oriented systems
Dependable computing
Autonomous robotics