24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of
Software Engineering

(http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/)

November 13 - 19，2016 Seattle, WA, USA.

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What's new with FSE 2016:

* The Research track will include Author rebuttal.

* The conference will include a strong focus on practice: The Showcase
Track and the Industry Track will highlight and solicit
state-of-the-practice, best practices, as well as exemplary applied
research in software engineering

* The Demo track is now accepting data sets in addition to tool demos.

* The new Visions and Reflections track for radical new directions
that represent disruptive innovations in the making as well as
startling results and bold arguments on current research directions.

* We will focus on a unique conference experience: The new Mentorship
program will connect you more efficiently with other attendees. Other
initiatives to improve the conference experience will be announced
soon.

* The Artifacts stream will collect and catalog reusable artifacts.

We look forward to your submissions!

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The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum at which
researchers, practitioners, and educators present and discuss the most
recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software
engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original
and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and
experimental software engineering research. Contributions should
describe innovative and significant original research relevant to FSE.
In addition to research papers, we solicit Visions and Reflections
Papers, Showcase Papers, Demo Papers, and Industry Papers, as well as
Workshop Proposals. For students, FSE will host a Student Research
Competition and a Doctoral Symposium.

In 2016, FSE will be held in Seattle - a bustling seaport city in the
Pacific Northwest region of North America.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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Submission deadlines (Anywhere on Earth):
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Research papers: March 11, 2016
Workshop proposals: March 25, 2016
Visions and Reflections papers: June 15, 2016
Industry papers: June 15, 2016
Demo papers: June 15, 2016
Doctoral Symposium: June 15, 2016
Student Research Competition: June 15, 2016
Workshop papers: July 1, 2016


Note that the official publication date is the date the proceedings
are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to
two weeks prior to the first day of FSE 2016. The official publication
date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published
work.

For further information on the call for submissions, please see
(http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/calls/)


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Call for Research Track
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We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished
results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental
software engineering research. Contributions should describe
innovative and significant original research relevant to FSE.
Submissions of papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging
problems will also be considered. Submissions that facilitate
reproducibility by using available data sets or making the described
tools publicly available are especially encouraged.

Papers submitted for consideration should not have been already
published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for
review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. Specifically,
authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on
Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous
Submissions.


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Topics of interest
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We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics
related to software engineering. These include, but are not limited to:

- Architecture and design
- Aspect-orientation
- Autonomic computing and (self-)adaptive systems
- Big data
- Cloud computing
- Components, services, and middleware
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Configuration management and deployment
- Crowdsourcing
- Debugging
- Dependability, safety, and reliability
- Development tools and environments
- Distributed, parallel, and concurrent software
- Education
- Embedded and real-time software
- Empirical software engineering
- End-user software engineering
- Formal methods
- Green computing
- Human and social factors in software engineering
- Human-computer interaction
- Knowledge based software engineering
- Mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive software
- Model-driven software engineering
- Patterns and frameworks
- Policy and ethics
- Processes and workflows
- Program analysis
- Program comprehension and visualization
- Program synthesis
- Programming languages
- Refactoring
- Requirements engineering
- Reverse engineering
- Safety-critical systems
- Scientific computing
- Search-based software engineering
- Security and privacy
- Software economics and metrics
- Software evolution and maintenance
- Software product lines
- Software reuse
- Software services
- Specification and verification
- Testing
- Traceability
- Web-based software


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Organization Committee
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General Chair
Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Chairs
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis, USA

Visions and Reflections Chairs
Miryung Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Showcase Chairs
Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada

Demo Chairs
Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain
Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Industry Chairs
John Penix, Google, USA
Forrest Shull, Software Engineering Institute, USA

Workshop Chairs
Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Mehdi Mirakhorli, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, USA

Artifacts Chairs
Olga Baysal, Carleton University, Canada
Tim Menzies, North Carolina State University, USA

Student Research Competition Chair
Cindy Rubio González, University of California, Davis , USA
Gustavo Soares, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Mentorship Chairs
Reid Holmes, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kathryn T. Stolee, North Carolina State University, USA

Proceedings Chair
Thomas Fritz, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Publicity Chair
Mei Nagappan, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Social Media Chair
Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, Kansas State University, USA

Student Volunteer Chair
Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA

Finance Chair
Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, USA

Registration Chair
Kim Herzig, Microsoft, USA

Web Chairs
Mona Rahimi, DePaul University, USA
Martin Velez, University of California, Davis, USA

Conference Experience
Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA


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Program Committee
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Earl Barr, University College London, UK
Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK
Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA
Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Victor Braberman, Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA
Satish Chandra, Samsung Electronics, USA
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
James Clause, University of Delaware, USA
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy, Italy
Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA
Vladimir Filkov, University of California Davis, USA
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Alessandro Garcia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
(PUC-Rio), Brazil
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Mark Harman, University College London, UK
Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University, USA
Paola Inverardi, Università dell’Aquila, Italy
Lingxiao Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Patrick Maeder, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, USA
Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Shiva Nejati, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA
Aditya Nori, Microsoft Research, UK
Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Denys Poshyvanyk, College of William and Mary, USA
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK
Saurabh Sinha, IBM Research, India
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
Peri Tarr, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA
Andrea Zisman, The Open University, UK

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Supporters
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Platinum: Microsoft
Gold: Tata Consultancy Services
Silver: Accenture, Google, Infosys, Huawei Technologies