[CogSci] CALL FOR PAPERS - ICPC 2021

G. Catolino G.Catolino at tilburguniversity.edu
Mon Jan 11 02:36:33 PST 2021


CALL FOR PAPERS - ICPC 2021
The 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
Madrid, Spain
18-20 May 2021
URL: https://conf.researchr.org/home/icpc-2021
Co-located with the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue for works in the area of program comprehension, and it promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program comprehension.

Research papers will be presented in a Technical Research Track, Education Track,  Early Research Achievements Track, Tools Demo Track, Journal First Track, and for the first time a Replications and Negative Results Track. The best Technical Research Track papers at ICPC 2021 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal by Springer.

TOPICS

Topics of interest for all tracks include, but are not limited to:


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Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;
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Human aspects in program comprehension, including gender considerations in program comprehension, information processing strategies, the role of emotions in program comprehension, and more;
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Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies;
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Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension;
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Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension;
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Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
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Novel text summarisation techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
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Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications, spreadsheets, web-based systems, legacy systems, product lines, libraries, multi-threaded applications, and systems of systems;
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Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;
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Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers to GitHub code review messages - all artifacts software developer encounters when creating or evolving software;
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Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation;
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Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry;
  *   Tool support for program comprehension.

TECHNICAL RESEARCH TRACK

This track provides a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss new results in program comprehension.

Submissions must not be longer than 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices. References only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.

* Title and abstract submission deadline: January 22, 2021
* Paper submission deadline:  January 29, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021
* Camera-ready version due: March 22, 2021

Technical Research Track papers accepted for presentation at ICPC 2021 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of the Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers of the conference will be also awarded with an IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award. In addition, ICPC 2021 will introduce for the first time the ICPC Honorable Mentions, special awards that will be assigned, on the basis of the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest.

More information at https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-research

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021


EDUCATION TRACK

The goal of this ICPC track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a unique forum to present their work in the field of programming education in various institutions including universities, colleges, company training centers, code clubs, boot camps etc.

Regular papers must not be longer than 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.

* Title and abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2021
* Paper submission deadline:  February  17, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021
* Camera-ready version due: March 22, 2021

More information at https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-education

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021

EARLY RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS TRACK

The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting promising ideas in early stages of research. Ideally, the ERA track seeks papers that challenge the status quo of program comprehension with new research directions and provocative ideas. The ERA track is the perfect place for a paper that aims at setting the agenda for a new line of research and a series of future papers! The track targets the same topics of interest as those of the technical research paper track. As opposed to regular research papers, submissions to the ERA track typically describe research in progress and do not require a solid evaluation.

ERA track submissions must not be longer than 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, and appendices where references may optionally continue on 1 additional page.

* Title and abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2021
* Paper submission deadline:  February  17, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021
* Camera-ready version due: March 22, 2021

More information at https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-era

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021

TOOL DEMO TRACK


We would like to invite you to submit a tool demonstration paper for the 2021 ICPC Tool Demo Track. This track provides a valuable opportunity for live presentations of prototypes and industry-strength tools.

Tool demonstration papers are expected to describe tools that implement a research approach. The tools are expected to be either mature prototypes or fully developed products ready for commercialization. We also encourage tool demonstration proposals complementing full technical papers. While a technical paper is intended to give the background information and point out the scientific contribution of a new program comprehension approach, the tool demonstration submission provides a unique opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been transferred into a working prototype. Potential authors of the research papers are highly encouraged to submit the corresponding tools in this track. Any of the conference topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations.

Tool demonstration submissions must not be longer than 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices, and references. The source code or the binaries of the tool must be publicly available (e.g., on Github, Zenodo, Figshare) or hosted on the tool’s website. Optionally, you can include in the abstract the URL of a 3-to-5 minute video screencast, either with annotations or voice-over, that provides a concise version of the tool demo scenario. The video should be posted on YouTube, or hosted on the tool’s website.

* Title and abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2021
* Paper submission deadline:  February  17, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021
* Camera-ready version due: March 22, 2021

More information at https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-tool-demonstration

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021

REPLICATIONS AND NEGATIVE RESULTS TRACK

The 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) will be hosting a REplications and NEgative results (RENE) track in 2021. The role of both replication and negative results studies is crucial in program comprehension and software engineering research. Replications can either strengthen the results of the original study by increasing external validity with additional data or provide new insights into the variables that may impact the results. Negative results contribute to scientific knowledge because by narrowing down the hypothesis space and by enabling critical insights and full understanding of existing approaches.

We seek replications and negative results papers for all types of program comprehension research areas (cognitive theories, visualization tools, comprehension of specific types of software systems, comprehension in the context of diverse software process models, etc.). Although authors of replication papers would choose any prior results in Program Comprehension research and replicate it, this year we encourage authors to replicate one of the papers in the list below. We compiled a list<https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-rene> of papers addressing ‘classic’ program comprehension research questions, whose results were related to specific environments (e.g., programming language, technologies, styles, etc.) and their validity might have changed over time. Replications might lead to discovering new insights and effectively compare such new findings with respect to those achieved in the past. We strongly believe that this could foster discussion on how program comprehension has evolved over time, other than providing a mechanism to re-investigate aspects of program comprehension that could have not been studied for a long while. The papers to be replicated have been recommended by ICPC community members and their authors kindly agree to provide support to prospective authors as well as replication material.

Submissions must not be longer than 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices. References only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.

* Title and abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2021
* Paper submission deadline:  February  17, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021
* Camera-ready version due: March 22, 2021

More information at  https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-rene

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021

JOURNAL FIRST TRACK

New to ICPC, this year we will also invite presentations of journal papers based on submissions from authors. We aim to accommodate as many journal-first presentations as will fit into the ICPC program. The J1C2 track is aimed at papers that (a) are theme-appropriate for ICPC, (b) have recently been accepted by one of the participating journals, and (c) concern work that has not previously been presented at a conference (i.e., the journal paper must not be an extension of a previous conference/workshop paper).

The participating journals are: Software Quality Journal (SQJ)<https://www.springer.com/journal/11219>, Information and Software Technology (IST)<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology>, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP)<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20477481>, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software>, and Science of Computer Programming (SCP)<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming>.

Interested authors should submit a short talk proposal (as one PDF file) consisting of the (1) paper title, (2) abstract, (3) a short statement on how the work satisfies the journal first criteria, and (4) the PDF of the accepted paper.Please list all authors of the original journal paper as authors in EasyChair.

* Journal submission deadline:  February  17, 2021
* Acceptance/rejection notification:  March 05, 2021

More information at https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-j1c2

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
For all tracks, purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed. Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>, (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Program Chairs
Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno, Italy
Anita Sarma, Oregon State University, USA

Education Track Chairs
Felienne Hermans
Leiden University
Michelle Ichinco
IBM Research


ERA Track Chairs
Venera Arnaoudova, Washington State University, USA
Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Mahidol University, Thailand

Tool Demo Track Chairs
Eunjong Choi,Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Dario Di Nucci, Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, The Netherlands


RENE Track
Nicole Novielli, University of Bari, Italy
Nikolaos Tsantalis, Concordia University, Canada

MIP Award Co-Chairs
Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy
Andy Zaidman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Journal First  Track Chairs
Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University, UK
David Lo, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Proceedings Chair
Iftekhar Ahmed, UC Irvine, USA

Publicity Chairs
Gemma Catolino, Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, The Netherlands
Emanuele Iannone, University of Salerno, Italy
Gustavo Pinto, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Bin Lin, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Mario Linares Vasquez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Social Events Chairs
Gemma Catolino, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Gema Rodriguez, University of Waterloo, Canada

Web Chair
Fabiano Pecorelli, University of Salerno, Italy

Visualization Chair
Fabio Petrillo, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada

Financial Chair
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain


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