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. In 2015, ASE will be celebrating its 30th year as a premier venue for novel work in software automation.

ASE 2015 invites high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results.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
Software testing, verification, and validation
Software visualization
Model-driven engineering
Open systems development
Product line methods
Program understanding
Program synthesis
Program transformation
Re-engineering
Requirements engineering
Specification languages
Software Analysis
Software architecture and design
Model-based software development
Model transformations
Modeling language semantics
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 2015 submission site, which will be announced in the near future.

All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. Authors should use the US letter style. LaTeX users should declare their document class as

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

The compsoc option is not to be used.

Technical Research Papers and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures and appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contains 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. All submissions must be in English.

Papers submitted to ASE 2015 must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by members of the Program Committee and members of the Expert Review Panel. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, relevance, importance of contribution, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work. Note that the Program Committee may re-assign a submission into a different category than the one it is submitted to if it decides that it is a better fit for that category.

Acceptance

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE, provided that at least one author of each accepted paper registers for the conference and presents the paper. Failure to do so may result in the paper being pulled out of the IEEE Digital Library.