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* 21st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension *
* ICPC 2013 *
* http://www.ing.unisannio.it/icpc2013/ *
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* May 20 - 21, 2013 *
* San Francisco, California, USA *
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* *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *
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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 2013 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.

*** TRACKS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST ***
ICPC 2013 solicits full and short research papers, tool-demonstration papers,
industrial-experience papers, student research symposium papers, and posters.
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

*** PAPER PREPARATION AND FORMATTING ***
Submissions must not have been previously published or be currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere.
For the formatting and style guideline more information is available on
ICSE 2013 web site.

All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library and get a
presentation slot. Additionally, authors of accepted short papers, tool
demonstration papers, and student papers will be expected to prepare a poster
for a combined poster session.

*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***
General Chair:
Huzefa Kagdi, Wichita State University

Program Chairs:
Denys Poshivanyk, The College of William and Mary
Massimiliano di Penta, University of Sannio

Early Research Achievements (ERA) Chairs:
Mark Grechanik, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise

Industry Track Chairs:
Brian P Robinson, ABB Corporate Research
Christian Bird, Microsoft Research

Student Symposium Chairs:
Jim Cordy, Queen's University
Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University

Tool-Demonstration Chairs:
Emily Hill, Montclair State University
Malcom Gethers, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Finance Chair:
Michael Collard, University of Akron

Publicity Chairs:
Gabriele Bavota, University of Sannio
Sonia Haiduc, Wayne State University

Webmaster:
Sebastiano Panichella, University of Sannio

*** CONFERENCE SPONSORS ***
IEEE Computer Society
Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE)