Call for Papers
4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics – WETSoM 2013
ICSE 2013 – 18-26 May – San Francisco, U.S.A

The 4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, held within ICSE 2013 conference (http://2013.icse-conferences.org/), is aimed to gather together researchers and practitioners to discuss the progress of software metrics. The motivation for this workshop is the low impact that software metrics has on current software development. The goals of this workshop includes critically examining the evidence for the effectiveness of existing metrics and identifying new directions for metrics. Evidence for existing metrics includes how the metrics have been used in practice and studies showing their effectiveness. Identifying new directions includes use of new theories, such as complex network theory, on which to base metrics. The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

 New software metrics to assess quality and effort
 Complex network theory and its application to software structure and growth
 Micro-patterns and other code-style related metrics
 Metrics for agile products, processes and teams
 Dynamic tracking of software projects using metrics
 Metrics-based quality prediction
 Software architecture metrics, including service oriented architectures, and their application to software maintenance and evolution
 Quality of Service and Service Level Agreement metrics
 Metrics related to software for mobile terminals
 Metrics for Open Source software products and processes
 Metrics for measuring the security level of software applications.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
We are soliciting contributions in the form of regular papers (7 pages). All papers should be in the ACM SIG Proceedings format, as required for the ICSE (see www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must clearly explain their position, in reference to the issues raised in this Call. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and published in the ICSE companion proceedings.
Each submission must include an abstract and a list of keywords. All submissions should be submitted electronically in PDF format, following the instructions on the workshop web site: http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/wetsom2013.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Paper submission: February 17, 2013
Paper acceptance notification: February 28, 2013
Camera-ready version: March 7, 2013
Workshop date: May 21, 2013

ORGANIZERS

Steve Counsell, Brunel Univ., UK
Michele Marchesi, Univ. of Cagliari, Italy
Ewan Tempero, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Aaron Visaggio, Univ. of Sannio, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alain Abran, ETS, Univ. du Québec, Canada
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Univ. of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Stefan Blom, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
Luigi Buglione, Engineering.IT / ETS, Canada
Gerardo Canfora, Univ. of Sannio, Italy
Giovanni Cantone, DISP – Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Damien Challet, Fribourg Univ., Germany
Peter J. Clarke, Florida International Univ., USA
Giulio Concas, DIEE Univ.of Cagliari, Italy
Juan J. Cuadrado Gallego, Univ. of Alcalá, Spain
Massimiliano Di Penta, Univ. of Sannio, Italy
Kecia Ferreira, CEFET-MG, Brasil
Matt Gatrell, Brunel Univ., UK
Israel Herraiz, Technical Univ. of Madrid, Spain
Sègla Kpodjedo, SOCCER Lab -- DGIGL, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec
Adrian Kuhn, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Marcelo Maia, Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Brasil
Sandro Morasca, Univ. degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
James Power, National Univ. of Ireland, Ireland
Steve Riddle, Newcastle Univ., UK
Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Martin Shepperd, Brunel Univ., UK
Sagar Sunkle, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Marco Tulio Valente, Univ.Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Rajesh Vasa, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua Univ., China