CALL FOR PAPERS

ASE 2016 - 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software
Engineering

http://www.ase2016.org/

September 3-7, Singapore

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* Conference * Tool Demos * Workshops * Tutorials * Doctoral Symposium
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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission April 22, 2016
Paper submission April 29, 2016
Author notification July 8, 2016
Camera ready July 31, 2016

Tool demonstration submission May 20, 2016
Workshop proposal submission March 18, 2016
Tutorial proposal submission May 13, 2016
Doctoral symposium submission June 10, 2016

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GENERAL THEME

The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference series is the
premier research forum for automated software engineering. Each year, it
brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
discuss foundations, techniques, and tools for automating the analysis,
design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems.

=== CONFERENCE PAPERS ================================================

http://ase2016.org/cfp.html

ASE 2016 invites high quality contributions describing significant,
original, and unpublished results. Solicited topics include, but are not
limited to:

Automated reasoning techniques
Component-based systems
Computer-supported cooperative work
Configuration management
Data mining for software engineering
Domain modeling and meta-modeling
Empirical software engineering
Human-computer interaction
Knowledge acquisition and management
Maintenance and evolution
Model-driven development
Model transformations
Program synthesis & transformations
Modeling language semantics
Open systems development
Program comprehension
Re-engineering
Requirements engineering
Specification languages
Software analysis
Software architecture and design
Software product line engineering
Software visualization
Testing, verification, and validation

Three categories of submissions are solicited:

- Technical Research Papers should describe innovative research in
automating software development activities or automated support to users
engaged in such activities. They should describe a novel contribution to
the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to
the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work of
the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly
described with respect to the previous work. Papers should also clearly
discuss how the results were validated.

- Experience Papers should describe a significant experience in applying
automated software engineering technology and should carefully identify and
discuss important lessons learned, so that other researchers and/or
practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of special interest are
experience papers that report on industrial applications of automated
software engineering.

- New Ideas Papers should describe novel research directions in automating
software development activities or automated support to users engaged in
such activities. New ideas submissions are intended to describe
well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation and
may not be fully validated.

Submission

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE 2016 submission
site, which will be announced in the near future. All submissions must come
in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Formatting
Guidelines (LaTeX users, use the style Option 2). Technical Research Papers
and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures and
appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. New Ideas
Papers must not exceed 6 pages (including figures, appendices AND
references). Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate
the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review. ASE '16
will pursue a double-blind review process. All submissions must be in
English.

Program Chairs:
Sven Apel, University of Passau, Germany
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, United States

=== TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS ==============================================

http://ase2016.org/demos.html

The objective of the ASE 2016 Demonstrations Track is to excite the
software engineering community about new advances in our field through
compelling demonstrations that help advance research and practice. The
track is a highly interactive venue where researchers and practitioners can
demonstrate their tools and discuss them with attendees.

Tool-based demonstrations describe novel aspects of early prototypes or
mature tools. The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the
following information to the audience: (1) the envisioned users; (2) the
software engineering challenge it proposes to address; (3) the methodology
it implies for its users; and (4) the results of validation studies already
conducted for mature tools, or the design of planned studies for early
prototypes.

Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a
critical supplement to the traditional ASE research papers. A demonstration
provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has
been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including
details such as implementation and usage issues, data models and
representations, APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research
papers are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration
paper.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the
demonstrations selection committee. The evaluation criteria include: (1)
the relevance of the proposed demonstration for the ASE audience; (2) the
technical soundness of the demonstrated tool (for a tool demo); (3) the
originality of its underlying ideas; (4) the quality of its presentation in
the associated video; and (5) the degree to which it considers the relevant
literature.

Submission

Submissions must conform to the ASE 2016 formatting and submission
instructions. In particular, submissions of demonstrations papers must meet
the following criteria: (1) A demonstration submission may not exceed six
pages (including all text, references and figures). (2) Each submission
MUST be accompanied by a short video (between three and five minutes long)
illustrating the demonstration. The video should be made available online
at the time of submission. Videos should (i) provide an overview of the
tool's capabilities; (ii) walk through (some of) the tool capabilities;
(iii) where appropriate, provide clarifying voice-over and/or annotation
highlights; and (iv) be engaging and exciting for the watcher! (3) A
submission may not have been previously published in a demonstration form.
(4) The paper submission must be in PDF.

Tool Demonstration Co-Chairs:
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA

=== WORKSHOPS ========================================================

http://www.ase2016.org/workshops.html

A workshop co-located with the ASE 2016 conference should provide an
opportunity for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing
preliminary results on topics related to Automated Software Engineering.
Workshops may also serve as platforms to nurture new scientific
communities. Workshops should not be seen as an alternative forum for
presenting full research papers. The workshops co-located with the
conference will be organized before the main conference (Saturday, Sunday).
The workshop co-chairs will decide the exact day after the proposals have
been reviewed and accepted. A workshop may last one, one and half, or two
days.

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Zhenchang Xing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

=== TUTORIALS ========================================================

http://ase2016.org/tutorials.html

Tutorials address a wide range of mature topics from theoretical
foundations to practical techniques and tools for automated software
engineering. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on a
relevant theme; therefore, no commercial or sales-oriented proposals will
be accepted. The tutorials will be organized either on the Saturday or
Sunday before the main conference. The general chair and organizers will
decide the exact dates after all proposals have been reviewed and accepted.

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA
Rui Abreu, Palo Alto Research Center, USA

=== DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ===============================================

http://ase2016.org/doctoralsymposium.html

The goal of the ASE 2016 Doctoral Symposium is to provide a supportive yet
questioning and stimulating setting in which the PhD students have an
opportunity to present and discuss their research with other researchers in
the ASE community. The symposium aims at providing students useful feedback
on their research, and to facilitate networking within the scientific
community by interacting with established researchers and with their peers
at a similar stage in their careers.

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs:
Tien N. Nguyen, Iowa State University, United States
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy

=== ORGANIZATION ====================================================

General Chair
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Program Chairs
Sven Apel, University of Passau, Germany
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Program Committee (Research Track):
Sven Apel, (PC Co-Chair), University of Passau, Germany
Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Thorsten Berger, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden
Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany
Eric Bodden, Universität Paderborn & Fraunhofer IEM, Germany
Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Marcelo d'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico Milano, Italy
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Marcelo Frias, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina
Michael Goedicke, Paluno, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lars Grunske, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Paul Grünbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sarfraz Khurshid, (PC Co-Chair), University of Texas at Austin, United
States
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Malte Lochau, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Tim Menzies, North Carolina State University, United States
Tien Nguyen, Iowa State University, United States
Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Ana Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal
Chris Parnin, North Carolina State University, United States
Corina Pasareanu, CMU, NASA Ames, United States
Martin Pinzger, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Mukul Prasad, Fujitsu Labs of America, United States
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Julia Rubin, MIT, United States
Neha Rungta, SGT, Inc. & NASA Ames, United States
Norbert Siegmund, University of Passau, Germany
Gabriele Taentzer, University of Marburg, Germany
Andrzej Wasowski, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, United States
Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States

Expert Review Panel (Research Track):
Nazareno Aguirre, University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina
Benoit Baudry, INRIA Rennes, France
Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Cristian Cadar, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States
Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University, Sweden
Sebastian Erdweg, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Milos Gligoric, University of Texas at Austin, United States
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jianmei Guo, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Robert Hall, AT/&T Labs Research, United States
James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Julia Lawall, INRIA, France
Wei Le, Iowa State University, United States
Axel Legay, INRIA, France
Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany
Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shiva Nejati, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Baishakhi Ray, University of Virginia, United States
Márcio Ribeiro, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Pakistan
Janet Siegmund, University of Passau, Germany
Stefan Sobernig, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Vladimir Stankovic, City University London, United Kingdom
Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany
Mana Taghdiri, Promatis GmbH, Germany
Damian Andrew Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Oksana Tkachuk, SGT, Inc. & NASA Ames, United States
Daniel Varro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Guowei Yang, Texas State University, United States
Andy Zaidman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Lu Zhang, Peking University, China

Program Committee (Tool Track):
Cyrille Valentin Artho, AIST, Japan
Yuanfang Cai, (Tool Co-Chair), Drexel University, United States
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
Chia Yuan Cho, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Davide Falessi, Cal Poly, United States
Colin S. Gordon, Drexel University, United States
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, United States
Ralf Huuck, NICTA, Australia
Clemente Izurieta, Montana State University, United States
Yang Liu, (Tool Co-Chair), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Juergen Muench, University of Helsinki, Finland
Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
Will Snipes, ABB, Inc., United States
Yingfei Xiong, Peking University, China
Charles Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Review Process Chairs:
Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, United States
Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Local/Finance Chair:
Lingxiao Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Proceedings Chair:
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Sponsorship Chair:
Siau-Cheng Khoo, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Publicity Chairs:
Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Xin Xia, Zhejiang University, China

Social Media Co-Chairs:
Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Lucia, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Local Advisory Committee:
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Steven Miller, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Webmasters:
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Ferdian Thung, Singapore Management University, Singapore

=== SOCIAL MEDIA =====================================================

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