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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development
practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization,
computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications,
case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub,
mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Integration of software visualization tools with development environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye tracking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Industrial experience with using software visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging
Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION TYPES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Technical papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables,
and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if
the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Authors of conditionally accepted papers must revise the paper based on the reviewers' comments and submit a response letter explaining how the comments are taken into account in the revised paper version. In a second
reviewing cycle, the reviewers decide if the paper has been revised accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) or modify their paper to make it acceptable for the NIER/TOOLS track which will have their own call for papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">NIER/TD Track:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: NIER (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation
is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tool Demonstrations (TD) describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize
an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2019">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2019</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Technical Papers NIER/TD Track<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paper Submission: April 26, 2019 June 3, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1st Notification: May 26, 2019
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Revised Paper: June 9, 2019
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final Notification: June 16, 2019 June 24, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Camera-Ready: July 8, 2019
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Conference Date: September 30 - October 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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