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CIbSE 2016 – CALL FOR PAPERS
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XIX Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering - CIbSE 2016
http://cibse.espe.edu.ec/
27 - 29 April, 2016
Quito, Ecuador


SCOPE AND MOTIVATION
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CIbSE event is a reference in the field of Software Engineering, with the participation of a vibrant Latin American community that is dedicated to research in an area vital to the global economy. Conceived as a space dedicated to the dissemination of research results and activities of the iberoamerican community, encourages dialogue between scientists, educators, professionals, students and software industry.

Building over the experience with 18 successful previous editions, CIbSE 2016 is organized by the Armed Forces University "ESPE" to be held in Quito, Ecuador. The event will include research paper presentations, tutorials, doctoral symposium, workshops, and keynote speeches by renowned iberoamerican researchers.

Plan to contribute or check on your agenda CIbSE 2016. On April 27, 28 and 29 we will have a chance to discuss ideas, share experiences and challenges of practice.

The Conference, version 2016, was organized around different thematic lines, which is part of the effort made by the Latin American community of Software Engineering to consolidate and publicize the progress made by researchers and industry professionals. The invitation is to send contributions for the following tracks:

Software Engineering Technologies Track (SET) - This track encourages discussion on issues related to software production process and contemporary approaches to automation and quality improvement.

Experimental Software Engineering Track (ESELAW) - This track meets for researchers and practitioners to report, discuss and disseminate ideas and new results on Experimental Software Engineering; The workshop encourages the exchange of ideas, focusing on the process, design, structure and results of empirical studies in Software Engineering.

Requirements Engineering Track (WER) - This workshop brings together scientists and industry concerned in Requirements Engineering. In its 19th version has established itself as an event where not only involved the Latin American community but academics and professionals worldwide.

Industrial Line - Industrial Line provides a specific forum for high quality presentations focused on industrial practice and software engineering applications, foundations, methods, practices, processes and tools.

Doctoral Symposium - CIbSE 2016 will host a Doctoral Symposium for PhD students whose research area includes topics of Software Engineering

CIbSE accepts contributions in three major ibero-american languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese.


SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION
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We invite contributions in the form of papers, and doctoral work related to CIbSE's conference themes. Submissions are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese or English.

Long papers should not exceed 14 pages in Springer-Verlag's LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions should be sent via the EasyChair submission system considering a specific track. They will be peer reviewed according to their relevance, originality, technical quality, and adequacy to the conference topics.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts submission - November (04) 18, 2015
Paper submission - November 23, 2015
Notification - February 8, 2016
Camera-Ready - March 1, 2016


CONFERENCE TOPICS
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The main topics of interest are, but not restricted to:


*Software Engineering Technologies Track (SET):*
- Languages, methods, processes, and tool
- Software Processes: Modeling and Management
- Reverse engineering and software system modernization
- Software evolution and maintenance
- Model-driven engineeringModels@run.time
- Proof, verification, and validation
- Quality, measurement, and assessment of products and processes
- Automatic software generation
- Formal methods applied to software engineering
- Integration with human-computer interaction
- Software product families and variability
- Software reuse
- Ontology applied to software engineering
- Software engineering for Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems
- Software and service-oriented architectures
- Search-based software engineering
- Web engineering and Web services
- Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Systems


*Requirements Engineering Track (WER):*
- Requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation
- Requirements validation, and visualization
- Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
- Requirements management, traceability, prioritization, and negotiation
- Requirements in agile methods
- Requirements in Model-Driven Development
- Non-functional requirements
- Regulatory compliance
- Requirements engineering and software architecture
- Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
- Service-oriented requirements engineering
- Requirements for Web-based systems and mobile applications
- Requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems
- Requirements for the agent-oriented paradigm
- Requirements for product lines
- Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering
- Aligning requirements to business goals and processes
- Requirements engineering education and training


*Experimental Software Engineering Track (ESELAW):*
- Studies concerned with software processes and products
- Evaluation and comparison of techniques and models (cost estimation, analysis and design methods, testing)
- Reports on benefits derived from using specific software technologies
- Development of predictive models for software engineering
- Experiences with research methods: measurement theory, experimental design, qualitative modeling, analysis approaches, grounded theory, protocol studies, families of experiments
- Development, derivation and/or comparison of organizational models of software development of industrial experience in process improvement
- Quality measurement
- Mining software repositories
- Process modeling and applications in industry
- Experience management
- Systematic reviews and evidence-based software engineering
- Simulation-based studies in software engineering
- Education and training in experimental software engineering
- Industrial experience, case studies and action-research
- New ideas regarding measurement, evaluation, comparison and development of empirical software methods
- Infrastructures and novel techniques for conducting empirical studies


*Industrial Track*
All topics of interest of the Software Engineering Track (SET) are also relevant for the INDUSTRIAL TRACK, as long as publications concern practical experiences in any field of enterprise and business.


*Doctoral Symposium*
The goals of the CIbSE 2016 Doctoral Symposium are:
- To provide PhD students in the early stages of their research with an opportunity to survey the field and get a feeling for what their colleagues are working on.
- To provide PhD students at a more advanced stage with an opportunity to present their plans and early results.
- To provide all participant students with advice and suggestions from a panel of senior researchers.
- To facilitate interaction among all the participants.



GENERAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Juan Pablo Carvallo - Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador)
Gleison Santos - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK CO-CHAIRS (SET)
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Tayana Conte - Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)
Ignacio Panach - Universiad de Valencia (España)


REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING TRACK CO-CHAIRS (WER)
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Lidia Lopez - Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña (España)
Eduardo Kinder Almentero - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


EXPERIMENTAL SE TRACK CO-CHAIRS (ESELAW)
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Martin Solari - Universidad ORT (Uruguay)
Marcos Kalinowski - Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)


INDUSTRIAL TRACK CO-CHAIRS (Industrial)
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Carlos Cares - Universidad de la Frontera (Chile)
Sabrina Marczak - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)


DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
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Oscar Pastor - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
Juan Pablo Carvallo - Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador)
Gleison Santos - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Efraín R. Fonseca C. - Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE (Ecuador)


PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Jaime Nolivos - Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE (Ecuador)



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