- IWESEP 2013 is co-located with APSEC 2013 (December 2, Bangkok, Thailand).
- Accepted papers will be available in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.
- We solicit full papers (max 6 pages) only.
- Abstract submission: August 11, 2013
- Paper submission: August 16, 2013

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CALL FOR PAPERS - IWESEP 2013

The 5th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice
December 2, 2013 Bangkok, Thailand

Co-located with APSEC 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/iwesep2013/
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The objective of the 5th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP) is to foster the development of the area by providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can report on and discuss new research results and applications in the area of empirical software engineering. The workshop encourages the exchange of ideas within the international community so as to be able to understand, from an empirical viewpoint, the strengths and weaknesses of technology in use and new technologies, with the expectation of furthering the more generic field of software engineering.

The workshop focuses on the processes, design and structure of empirical studies as well as the results of specific studies. These studies may be on original or replicated studies, varying from controlled experiments to field studies, from quantitative to qualitative. We solicit full research papers (max 6 pages).

Accepted papers will be available in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Empirical studies of software process and product
- Comparison of cost estimation techniques
- Analysis of the effects of design methods and characteristics
- Evaluation of the readability of coding styles
- Development, derivation and/or comparison of organizational models of software development
- Evaluation of testing methodologies
- Reports on the benefits derived from using development environments
- Development of predictive models reliability from real data
- Infrastructure issues, such as measurement theory, experimental design, qualitative modeling and analysis approaches
- Experiences with research methods such as grounded theory, protocol studies or families of experiments
- Industrial experience in process improvement
- Quality measurement
- Process modeling and applications in industry
- Experience management
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Submission:

All submissions must go through Easychair.
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwesep2013
All papers must be formatted to IEEE Conference Publications Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (two-column format). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for APSEC 2013 and make a presentation about the paper.
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Important Dates:

Abstract submission: Aug 11, 2013
Paper submission: Aug 16, 2013
Notification: Sep 11, 2013
Camera-ready: Oct 12, 2013
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Organization:

General Chair
Masateru Tsunoda (Kinki University, Japan)

Program Chair
Emad Shihab (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Tutorial Chair
Hideaki Hata (NAIST, Japan)

Publicity Co-Chairs
Kyohei Fushida (NTT DATA Corporation, Japan)
Chris Lokan (UNSW@ADFA, Australia)
Shinpei Ogata (Shinshu University, Japan)

Publication Chair
Kenji Fujiwara (NAIST, Japan)

Web Chair
Keisuke Hotta (Osaka University, Japan)

Steering Committee
Akinori Ihara (NAIST, Japan)
Yasutaka Kamei (Kyushu University, Japan)
Shinsuke Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan)

Advisory Committee
Katsuro Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)
Shinji Kusumoto (Osaka University, Japan)
Kenichi Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)

Program Committee
Bram Adams (MCIS, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
Sosuke Amasaki (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)
Christian Bird (Microsoft Research, USA)
Kyohei Fushida (NTT DATA Corporation, Japan)
Sonia Haiduc (Wayne State University, USA)
Hideaki Hata (NAIST, Japan)
Yasuhiro Hayase (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shinpei Hayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Takashi Ishio (Osaka University, Japan)
Yasutaka Kamei (Kyushu University, Japan)
Yuichiro Kanzaki (Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan)
Chris Lokan (UNSW@ADFA, Australia)
Yuki Manabe (Kumamoto University, Japan)
Andrew Meneely (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Osamu Mizuno (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Meiyappan Nagappan (Queen's University, Canada)
Xiao Qu (ABB Corporate Research, USA)
Peter Rigby (Concordia University, Canada)
Koji Toda (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hidetake Uwano (Nara National College of Technology, Japan)
Thomas Zimmermann (Microsoft Research, USA)