The IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the principal venue for works in the area of program comprehension, which encompasses both the human activity of comprehending software, as well as the processes and technologies for supporting it. ICPC 2014 promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and to discuss state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program comprehension.

ICPC 2014 solicits full papers, ERA papers, tool-demonstration papers and industrial-experience papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments and case studies
Individual, team, collaborative, distributed, and adversarial program comprehension
Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as web-based systems, open source, mash-ups, legacy systems, product lines, and systems of systems
Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, reengineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing
Novel interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and visualization
Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches
Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation
Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry
Tool support for program comprehension


A special issue based on a selection of best papers from ICPC 2014 will be published in Wiley’s Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP). In addition, we are negotiating a special section to highlight current program comprehension results in a practitioner oriented publication.

Submissions must not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers can be either full papers limited to 10 proceeding pages or short papers limited to 4 pages for the other tracks (ERA, Tool Demonstrations, Industrial Track). All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library and get a presentation slot.