ICSME is the newly evolved version of ICSM, the premier international venue in software maintenance and evolution, where participants from academia, government, and industry have met annually for the past 29 years to share ideas and experiences in solving challenging software maintenance and evolution problems. ICSME 2014 will be held Sep 28 - Oct 3, 2014 in the beautiful City of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Victoria—the capital of British Columbia located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off the Canadian Pacific coast.

Research Track

Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 29, 2014
Full papers submission: May 6, 2014
Notification: June 20, 2014
Camera-ready: August 14, 2011
Chairs

General Chair
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
Program Co-chairs

Leon Moonen, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
Topics

ICSME's topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Techniques and processes for software maintenance and evolution
Empirical studies in software maintenance and evolution
Tools for supporting software maintenance and evolution
Software quality assessment and improvement
Measurement and management of Technical Debt
Evolution of systems-of-systems and software ecosystems
Run-time evolution, dynamic reconfiguration and self adaptation
Human aspects of software evolution
Software and system reverse engineering and comprehension
Software repository analysis and mining
Software refactoring, restructuring, renovation, migration and reengineering
Concept, feature and concern identification and location
Code cloning and code provenance
Evolution of non-code artifacts
Evolution and reengineering of business models and processes
Change and defect management
Maintenance-related testing (e.g., regression testing)

UVic Engineering and Computer Science building — ECS
Original image from http://www.uvic.ca/

Paper Submission

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 most 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. For your paper please follow the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) formatting instructions available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. Submissions must be submitted online via the ICSME 2014 EasyChair conference management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsm2014.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6676473.

Authors of selected papers from the research track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of an international Software Engineering journal. Authors of selected papers are expected to comply with the standard guidelines for submitting an extended version of a paper, which includes amongst others the addition of approximately 30% new material.