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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

I C S E 2 0 1 2

34th International Conference on Software Engineering

Sustainable Software for a Sustainable World

June 2-9, 2012
Zurich, Switzerland

http://www.icse2012.org

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WELCOME TO ICSE 2012

The world's demand for software has become so huge that it can only be satisfied by building sustainable software. Conversely, a sustainable world needs more software than ever. Providing this software entails major challenges and opportunities for software engineering research and practice. Let's rise to this challenge!

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and issues in the field of software engineering.

We welcome you to come to ICSE 2012 in Zurich, a venue in the heart of Europe which is both beautiful and easily reachable from everywhere in the world. Make ICSE 2012 a highlight of your year by experiencing an exciting conference and by exploring the thrill of landscape, culture, shopping, and life in Zurich.


CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

We invite high quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all topics of software engineering. Technical research paper submissions may range from novel technical results to scientific evaluations of existing problems or research results. Submissions describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will be considered based on timeliness and potential impact.

ICSE 2012 accepts submissions in the following categories:
- Technical research papers
- Software engineering in practice papers
- Software engineering education papers
- Formal research demonstrations
- New ideas and emerging results papers

We also invite
- proposals for workshops, tutorials and technical briefings,
- submissions to the doctoral symposium,
- submissions of posters and informal demonstrations.

For details, please visit our web site at http://www.icse2012.org.

IMPORTANT DATES (submission deadlines are firm)

Sep 29, 2011
- Technical research papers

Oct 27, 2011
- Software engineering in practice (SEIP) papers
- Software engineering education (SEE) papers
- Formal research demonstrations
- Workshop proposals
- Tutorial and technical briefing proposals

Dec 1, 2011 - New ideas and emerging results (NIER) papers
- Doctoral symposium submissions

Feb 17, 2012
- Workshop papers
- Posters
- Informal demonstrations


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be handled electronically at the ICSE 2012 web site. All submissions must conform to the submission instructions given on the conference web pages. Non-conforming submissions will be desk-rejected without review.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work.


PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE 2012 electronic conference proceedings and in the digital libraries of ACM and IEEE. Printed proceedings will be available on demand.


MENTORING

The ICSE mentoring program enables prospective submitters of technical research papers to gain advice on the structure and content of a proposed submission. This program is available to persons who have not yet published a technical research paper at ICSE. Mentoring can be requested from now until July 31, 2011 the very latest. If possible, please submit your request by July 15.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

GENERAL CHAIR
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano, Switzerland and
University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Giuliano Antoniol, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Victor Braberman, Univ. de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina
Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Robert DeLine, Microsoft Research, USA
Arie van Deursen, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
Laura K. Dillon, Michigan State University, USA
Jacky Estublier, Grenoble University, France
Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Holger Giese, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mark Harman, University College London, UK
Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's University, Canada
Andre van der Hoek, University of California Irvine, USA
James A. Jones, University of California, Irvine, USA
Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain
Sunghun Kim, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Technology, Hong Kong
Axel van Lamsweerde, University of Louvain, Belgium
Crista Lopes, University of California Irvine, USA
Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kenichi Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Sci. and Technology, Japan
Hong Mei, Peking University, China
Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, USA
Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech, USA
Harold Ossher, IBM Research, USA
Marco Pistoia, IBM Research, USA
Klaus Pohl, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
Adam Porter, University of Maryland, USA
David Rosenblum, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University, USA
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
Zhendong Su, University of California Davis, USA
Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Andrea Zisman, City University, UK

WORKSHOPS
Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ralf Reussner, KIT, Germany

TUTORIALS & TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS
Andreas Leitner, Google, Switzerland
Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland

FORMAL RESEARCH DEMONSTRATIONS
Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland

POSTERS, INFORMAL DEMONSTRATIONS
Martin Pinzger, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN PRACTICE
Wolfgang Emmerich, Zühlke Engineering, UK
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Jochen Ludewig, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada

NEW IDEAS AND EMERGING RESULTS
Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Alex Wolf, Imperial College, UK

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HORIZONS
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Paola Inverardi, Università dell'Aquila, Italy

NEW FACULTY SYMPOSIUM
Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada
Wilhelm Schäfer, University of Paderborn, Germany

MENTORING
Laurie Dillon, Michigan State University, USA
Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK
Peter Müller, ETHZ, Switzerland

ACM STUDENT CONTEST
Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA

MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPER AWARD
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK

PROGRAM COORDINATION
Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich, Switzerland

EXHIBITION
Frank Houdek, Daimler, Germany

PROCEEDINGS
Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany

PUBLICATIONS
Patrick Mäder, University of Linz, Austria

PUBLICITY
Samuel Fricker, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

SOCIAL MEDIA
Adrian Kuhn, University of Bern, Switzerland

TREASURER
Bruno Kaiser, AdNovum, Switzerland

WEBMASTERS
Kevin Gaunt, Mirko Stocker, HSR, Switzerland

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Evelyne Berger, Eya Ben Charrada, Cédric Jeanneret,
Dustin Wüest, University of Zurich, Switzerland