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. ASE 2018 invites high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:

Automated reasoning techniques
Component-based service-oriented systems
Cloud computing
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
Mobile app development
Maintenance and evolution
Model-driven development
Program synthesis & transformations, automated defect repair
Program comprehension
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Recommender systems for software engineering
Requirements engineering
Specification languages
Software analysis
Software architecture and design
Software product line engineering
Software visualization
Software security and trust; data privacy
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 2018 submission site.

All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

Papers submitted to ASE 2018 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere when being considered for ASE 2018.

Technical Research Papers and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. Paper submissions may include an appendix after the references with additional material for reviewers; the appendix does not count toward the page limit and will not be part of the proceedings if the paper is accepted; as with supplementary web pages, reviewers can but are not required to refer to the appendix.

New Ideas Papers must not exceed 6 pages (including figures, appendices AND references).

ASE 2018 will again pursue a double-blind review process. For details see Instructions for Authors.

All submissions must be in English.

Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review.

For ASE 2018, the program committee will discuss papers electronically. This will avoid the time, cost and ecological impact of transporting an increasingly large committee to one point on the globe, as justified here.

# Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 19, 2018
Paper submission: April 26, 2018
Author notification: July 3, 2018
Camera-ready: July 24, 2018

# Program Co-Chairs

Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK

# Program Committee

See Program Committee - Research Track.