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** CALL FOR PAPERS **
SBES 2016: 30th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
September 19 - 23, 2016 Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
http://cbsoft.org/cbsoft2016/
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The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), is the premier software engineering event in Latin America. SBES is held in conjunction with CBSoft - Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice.

The conference program includes technical research sessions, insightful ideas sessions, industry sessions, invited talks, courses, tutorials, panels, software engineering education forum, demonstration of software tools, a Ph.D and MSc thesis workshop, and several other satellite events. It typically gathers nearly 600 people, including academics, practitioners, and students.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

This CFP welcomes technical papers related (but not limited) to:

- Industrial applications of software engineering
- Social aspects of software engineering
- Software dependability
- CSCW and software engineering
- Model-driven software development
- Requirements engineering
- Experimental software engineering
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Aspect-oriented software engineering
- Component-based software engineering
- Software engineering for the World Wide Web
- Theoretical foundations of software engineering and formal methods - Software product lines
- Software maintenance
- Methods, techniques, languages, and tools for software engineering - Software metrics and measurements
- Software processes (including agile methods)
- Software quality and quality models
- Software reengineering
- Software reuse
- Software verification, validation, and testing


SUBMISSION TRACKS

This CFP invites researchers and practitioners to submit original and unpublished papers for the event technical research and insightful ideas tracks.

Technical Research: This is the traditional SBES track, which publishes solid results with a strong contribution to the software engineering community. Papers on this track are reviewed based on its originality, relevance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation, and must be no longer than 10 pages (ACM proceedings format), including all figures and references.

Insightful Ideas: This track focuses on timely and inspiring ideas, with promising future results. As papers on this track mainly rely on intuition, a convincing articulation of thoughts is highly encouraged. Papers on this track are reviewed based on its novelty, relevance, rationale soundness, and clarity of presentation, and must be no longer than 6 pages (ACM proceedings format), including all figures and references.


PAPER CATEGORIES

All authors of technical research papers are asked to inform after the paper abstract one or more of the following categories. This intends to guide the authors in preparing their submissions and to establish a consistent set of expectations in the review process.

Analytical: A paper in which the main contribution relies on new algorithms or mathematical theory. Examples include new bug prediction techniques, model transformations, algorithms for dynamic and static analysis, and reliability analysis. Such a contribution must be evaluated with a convincing analysis of the algorithmic details, whether through a proof, complexity analysis, or run-time analysis, among others and depending on the objectives.

Experimental (primary study): A paper in which the main contribution is the experimental study of a software engineering technology or phenomenon. This includes controlled experiments, quasi experiments, case studies, and surveys of professionals reporting qualitative or quantitative data and analysis results. Such a contribution will be judged on its study design, appropriateness and correctness of its analysis, and threats to validity. Replications are welcome.

Literature review (secondary study): A paper in which the main contribution is the synthesis of primary studies. Examples include systematic reviews and systematic mappings. Such a contribution should follow a sound methodology and provide a comprehensive coverage of the relevant literature. Moreover, it should answer relevant research questions with a deep synthesis of the results. Contributions that only provide metadata analysis (e.g., relevant authors, publications density by year, most influential papers, etc.) are not encouraged.

Technological: A paper in which the main contribution is of a technical nature. This includes novel tools, modeling languages, infrastructures, and other technologies. Such a contribution does not necessarily need to be evaluated with humans. However, clear arguments, backed up by evidence as appropriate, must show how and why the technology is beneficial, whether it is in automating or supporting some user task, refining our modeling capabilities, improving some key system property, etc.

Methodological: A paper in which the main contribution is a coherent system of broad principles and practices to interpret or solve a problem. This includes novel requirements elicitation methods, process models, design methods, development approaches, programming paradigms, and other methodologies. The authors should provide convincing arguments, with commensurate experiences, why a new method is needed and what the benefits of the proposed method are.
PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are submitted to the ACM Digital Library. Papers submitted to SBES must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it.

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must comply with the ACM 2-column conference format available at
http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html

Papers should be submitted electronically through JEMS system (http://submissoes.sbc.org.br). All technical research papers should inform after the abstract one or more of the aforementioned categories. Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be rejected without reviewing. All other papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The review process includes a rebuttal period where authors will have access to reviews and may argue and answer questions from referees before the final acceptance/rejection decision. The rebuttal is limited to a plain text up to 4,000 characters.


MENTORING PROGRAM

Authors that never published in SBES technical research track or at other international prestigious conferences in the field (on the program committee char discretion), and that intend to submit a paper to the technical research track, may request to participate in the mentoring program. The program will assign a member of the program committee to make a preliminary assessment of the work and give feedback before the submission deadline, increasing the chances of less experienced authors. Check the deadline to join the program in the Important Dates section, but we encourage the request to be made as soon as possible, since the number of papers in the program is limited and the assignment will be made in a first come first serve basis.

ATTENTION, to join this program none of the authors may have previous publication in any SBES edition or any international prestigious conferences. The request must be made exclusively by email (esa at dcc.ufba.br) with the subject "Participation in the SBES 2016 Mentoring". You should include in the email body the working title of the work, the full list of authors, and an abstract.


BEST PAPER AWARD

Every year the SBES Steering Committee appoints a committee to award the symposium's best papers. Awarded papers on both tracks are announced during the event. The best papers of the technical research track are invited to submit an extended version in English to the Research category of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD) special issue. Moreover, the best paper of the insightful ideas track is invited to submit an extended version in English to the Review category of JSERD special issue.


IMPORTANT DATES

Mentoring request deadline: February 15, 2016
Mentoring submission deadline: February 22, 2016
Paper registration (abstract submission) deadline: April 14, 2016
Paper upload deadline: April 21, 2016
Rebuttal period: June 6-13, 2016
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: July 11, 2016


ORGANIZATION

Program Chair

Eduardo Almeida, UFBA (Technical Research Track)
Jose Carlos Maldonado, ICMC/USP (Insightful Ideas Track)


Steering Committee

Jose Carlos Maldonado, ICMC/USP
Eduardo Almeida, UFBA
Thais Batista, UFRN
Leonardo Murta, UFF
Sergio Soares, UFPE and ISI-TICs


Program Committee

Adenilso Simão (ICMC/USP)
Alessandro Garcia (PUC-Rio)
Alexandre Correa (UNIRIO)
Antônio Francisco Prado (UFSCar)
Antônio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes (LNCC)
Arilo Dias Neto (UFAM)
Arndt von Staa (PUC-Rio)
Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi (UFG)
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim (UFSC)
Christina Chavez (UFBA)
Claudia Werner (COPPE/UFRJ)
Dalton Serey (UFCG)
Daniel Berry (University of Waterloo)
Eduardo Aranha (UFRN)
Eduardo Figueiredo (UFMG)
Edson A. Oliveira Jr (UEM)
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa (ICMC/USP)
Fabiano Ferrari (UFSCar)
Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva (UFPE)
Fernanda Alencar (UFPE)
Fernando Marques Figueira Filho (UFRN)
Flavio Oquendo (UBS, França)
Glauco Carneiro (UNIFACS)
Genaína Nunes Rodrigues (UNB)
Guilherme Travassos (COPPE/UFRJ)
Gustavo Rossi (UNLP)
Henry Muccini, Università dell’Aquila)
Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes (UEM)
Ingrid Oliveira de Nunes (UFRGS)
Ivan do Carmo Machado (UFBA)
Ivonei Freitas da Silva (Unioeste)
Jair Leite (UFRN)
José Maldonado (ICMC/USP)
Júlio Leite (PUC-Rio)
Kiev Gama (UFPE)
Klaus Schmid (University of Hildesheim)
Leopoldo Motta Teixeira (UFPE)
Leonardo Murta (UFF)
Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano)
Manoel Mendonça (UFBA)
Marcelo d'Amorim (UFPE)
Marcelo de Almeida Maia (UFU)
Márcio Barros (UNIRIO)
Marcio Delamaro (ICMC/USP)
Marcio Ribeiro (UFAL)
Marco Aurélio Gerosa (IME/USP)
Marco Túlio Valente (UFMG)
Marcos Kalinowski (UFF)
Miguel Goulão (UNL, Portugal)
Mike Papadakis (University of Luxembourg)
Muhammad Ali Babar (University of Adelaide)
Nabor Mendonca (UNIFOR)
Nélio Cacho (UFRN)
Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Otavio Lemos (UNIFESP)
Patrícia Machado (UFCG)
Patricia Lago (VU University)
Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen)
Raphael Pereira de Oliveira (IFS)
Rafael Prikladnicki (PUCRS)
Raul Wazlawick (UFSC)
Regina Braga (UFJF)
Ricardo Terra Nunes Bueno Villela (UFLA)
Rick Rabiser (Johannes Kepler University)
Roberta de Souza Coelho (UFRN)
Roberto Almeida Bittencourt (UEFS)
Rodrigo Bonifacio de Almeida (UNB)
Rodrigo Rocha Gomes e Souza (UFBA)
Rogerio de Lemos (University of Kent)
Rohit Gheyi (UFCG)
Rosana Braga (ICMC/USP)
Rosângela Penteado (UFSCar)
Rossana Andrade (UFC)
Sandra Fabbri (UFSCar)
Sérgio Soares (UFPE)
Silvia Abrahão (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Silvia Vergílio (UFPR)
Tayana Conte (UFAM)
Thais Vasconcelos Batista (UFRN)
Tiago Massoni (UFCG)
Toacy Oliveira (COPPE/UFRJ)
Uirá Kulesza (UFRN)
Valter Camargo (UFSCar)
Vera Werneck (UERJ)
Viviane Torres da Silva (UFF)
Vinicius Cardoso Garcia (UFPE)
Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University)
Yguarata Cerqueira Cavalcanti (Serpro)