Call for Contributions
In 2012, the 28th edition of ICSM will be held in Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy.
ICSM is the premiere international venue in software maintenance and evolution,
where participants from academia, government, and industry meet and share ideas
and experiences for solving critical problems in software evolution.
Research papers should describe original and significant work in the research and
practice of software maintenance and evolution. Empirical studies such as case
studies, experiments and experience reports are welcome. Papers must not have
been previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in
another journal, book or conference/workshop. Research papers must be in IEEE
CS Proceedings style and are limited to 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published
in proceeding published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Reverse engineering and reengineering
Program and system comprehension
Static and dynamic analysis
Concept, feature and aspect location
Clone, similarity and code provenance
Software migration and renovation
Mining software repositories
Change and defect management
Maintenance and evolution processes
Maintenance and reengineering of business models
Run-time evolution and update
Empirical studies in software maintenance and evolution
Testing, only in relation to maintenance (i.e., regression testing)

Authors of selected papers from the research track will be invited to submit
extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software
Engineering (EMSE) journal edited by Springer.
Besides technical papers, ICSM 2012 encourages the submission of contributions to
the other tracks: Early Research Achievements (ERA), Doctoral Symposium,
Industry Track, Tool Demonstrations, Tutorials. Details will be announced soon.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Riva del Garda –
Trento in September, 2012!

Organizing Committee
General chair: Paolo Tonella (FBK, Trento, Italy)
Program chairs: Massimiliano Di Penta (University of Sannio, Italy)
Jonathan I. Maletic (Kent State University, USA)
ERA Track chairs: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
Jens Krinke (University College London, UK)
Doctoral Symposium chairs: Harald Gall (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Industry Track chairs: Tom Zimmermann (Microsoft Research, USA)
Tibor Gyimothy (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Tool demonstrations chairs: Chanchal Roy (University of Saskatchewan, CA)
Bram Adams (Queen’s University, Kingston, CA)
Finance chair: Michael Collard (University of Akron, USA)
Publications chair: Cu Nguyen Duy (FBK, Trento, Italy)
Publicity chairs: Andrew Sutton (Kent State University, USA)
Alberto Bacchelli (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Local arrangements: Mariano Ceccato, Angelo Susi (FBK, Trento, Italy)
Web chair: Alessandro Marchetto (FBK, Trento, Italy)

Co-located events:
SCAM 2012
WSE 2012
SSBSE 2012