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:

1) 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.

2) 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 (under Information for Authors):
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.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Feb. 24, 2012 (Fri.)
Paper Submission March 2, 2012 (Fri.)
Notification of acceptance June 18, 2012 (Mon)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Tim Mezies (West Virginia University)
Motoshi Saeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)