<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font size="4"><b><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-research" target="_blank"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021)</a></b><br></font></span><b>18-20 May 2021</b><br><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b><br></b></div></span><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px">It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to the <b>29th International Conference on Program Comprehension</b> (ICPC 2021). The conference is co-located with ICSE 2021 and will be held virtually <b>18-20 May 2021</b>.</div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue in software program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><b><u><br></u></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><b><u>ICPC 2021 Submissions</u></b></div></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> ICPC 2021 solicits six main categories of research contributions: <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-research" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">research papers</a>, <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-era" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">early research achievement (ERA) papers</a>, <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-rene" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">replications and negative results (RENE) papers</a>, <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-tool-demonstration" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(207,226,243)">tool demos</a>, <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-education" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(217,210,233)">educational papers</a>, and <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-j1c2" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">journal first track papers</a>. Research papers describe original work in program comprehension; short papers reporting early results are included in the ERA track. Replications and negative results papers focus on the re-execution of existing research to strengthen previous findings and present sound empirical methods leading to negative results. Tool demonstrations report about new instruments making available and usable to practitioners program comprehension methods. Educational papers propose advances in how program comprehension is taught at any level, from children to university students.</span> Finally, the journal </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue">first track invites the presentation of papers accepted <b>on or after November 1st, 2019,</b> at one of the partner journals, i.e., </font><font color="#000000" face="HelveticaNeue"><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/11219" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Software Quality Journal (SQJ)</a>, <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Information and Software Technology (IST)</a>, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20477481" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP)</a>, <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)</a>, and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Science of Computer Programming (SCP)</a>.</font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">To learn more about how to submit, please visit the following link: </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue"><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-how-to-submit-instructions" target="_blank">https://conf.researchr.org/track/icpc-2021/icpc-2021-how-to-submit-instructions</a>.</font></div></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></div></span><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><u>Topics of interest</u></b><br> Include but are not limited to:</div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Human aspects in program comprehension, including gender considerations in program comprehension, information processing strategies, the role of emotions in program comprehension, and more;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing, and analyzing;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Novel text summarization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing, and analyzing;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>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;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>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;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></span>Tool support for program comprehension.</li></ul></span><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Please note that ICPC 2021 attracts submissions from <b>the human-aspects and computer-supported cooperative work research communities</b>: if you are part of those communities, please consider submitting and recommend other researchers of the field to submit to ICPC 2021 to enlarge the community around the conference and the inter-connections among communities. </div></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u>ICPC 2021 IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Awards and ICPC Honorable Mentions</u></b></div></span><div style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"> The best papers of the Technical Research Track </font><b><font color="#000000">will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of </font></b><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">the <a href="https://emsejournal.github.io/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE)</a></b><b>.</b> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The best papers of the conference will also be awarded an </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">.</font><font color="#333333"><span style="font-size:14px"> </span></font></span><font color="#000000">Also, for the first time, ICPC 2021 will introduce the </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">ICPC Honorable Mentions</b><font color="#000000">, special awards that will be assigned, based on the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b><u>Important Dates</u></b></div></span><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px">Deadlines for the Technical Research Track are:</div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Abstract submission: Friday, January 22, 2021;<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Paper submission: Friday, January 29, 2021;<br>Notifications: Friday, March 5, 2021;<br>Camera Ready: Monday, March 22, 2021.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">Deadlines for ALL OTHER tracks are:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Abstract submission: Thursday, February 11, 2021;<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Paper submission: Wednesday, February 17, 2021;<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Notifications: Friday, March 5, 2021;<br>Camera Ready: Monday, March 22, 2021.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Submission Link</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpc2021" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpc2021</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">ICPC 2021 Socials</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">Stay tuned to emerging news about ICPC 2021 through our social channels. Follow us!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"> - Website:        <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/icpc-2021" target="_blank">https://conf.researchr.org/home/icpc-2021</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"> - Twitter:          @icpcconf<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"> - Facebook:     @ICPCConf<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"> - Youtube:        ICPC Conf<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">Further Information</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black">For further information and questions, feel free to contact the General Chair Prof. Alexander Serebrenik (<a href="mailto:a.serebrenik@tue.nl" target="_blank">a.serebrenik@tue.nl</a>) </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">or <span style="color:black">the Program Co-Chairs Anita Sarma (<a href="mailto:Anita.Sarma@oregonstate.edu" target="_blank">Anita.Sarma@oregonstate.edu</a>) and Fabio Palomba (<a href="mailto:fpalomba@unisa.it" target="_blank">fpalomba@unisa.it</a>).<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><div style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></span></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">We look forward to seeing you at ICPC 2021!</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Sincerely,<br>Mahnaz Behroozi</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Publicity Co-Chair ICPC 2021</div></span><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/a128288a49cb7c02b450514e6c995421f77530ac.png?u=831533"></div>