ESEC/FSE 2018

Submission timeline

• 9 Mar 2018 Full paper
• 11 Jun 2018 Notification

• 4 Nov 2018 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

10 ACM SIG (+ 2 pages references)

Proceedings

ACM — ACM Digital Library

Lightweight double-blind review process. Also tutorials, doctoral symposium, tool demos and others. Author response period: May 7 — May 10, 2018.

Call for papers

• As first published ESEC-FSE-2018.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at 2018.fseconference.org.

CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

ESEC/FSE 2018 -- 12th Joint Meeting of
the European Software
Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT
Symposium on the Foundations
of Software Engineering

November 4-9,
Orlando, Florida, United States
http://2018.fseconference.org

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The ACM Joint
European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium
on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
is an
internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners,
and
educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations,
trends,
experiences, and challenges in the field of software
engineering.
Formerly the FSE conference in alternating years and
ESEC/FSE in other
years, ESEC/FSE is now the new name of this annual
conference series.
The ESEC/FSE conference brings together experts from
academia and
industry to exchange the latest research results and
trends, as well as
their practical application in all areas of software
engineering. The
conference is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest
Group on Software
Engineering (SIGSOFT).

Topics of Interest
------------------

We are
interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all
topics
related to software engineering. These include, but are not
limited to:

-
  Architecture and design
-   Autonomic computing and (self-)adaptive
systems
-   Big data
-   Cloud computing
-   Components, services, and
middleware
-   Computer-supported cooperative work
-   Configuration
management and deployment
-   Crowdsourcing
-   Debugging
-  
Dependability, safety, and reliability
-   Development tools and
environments
-   Distributed, parallel, and concurrent software
-  
Education
-   Embedded and real-time software
-   Empirical software
engineering
-   End-user software engineering
-   Formal methods,
including languages, methods, and tools
-   Green computing
-   Human and
social factors in software engineering
-   Human-computer interaction
-  
Knowledge-based software engineering
-   Mobile, ubiquitous, and
pervasive software
-   Model-driven software engineering
-   Patterns and
frameworks
-   Processes and workflows
-   Program analysis
-   Program
comprehension and visualization
-   Program synthesis
-   Refactoring
-  
Requirements engineering
-   Reverse engineering
-   Safety-critical
systems
-   Scientific computing
-   Search-based software engineering
-  
Security and privacy
-   Software economics and metrics
-   Software
evolution and maintenance
-   Software modularity
-   Software product
lines
-   Software reuse
-   Software services
-   Testing
-   Traceability

-   Web-based software

Call for Submissions
--------------------

General
Chair: Gary T. Leavens

### Research Papers

Chairs: Corina Pasareanu,
Alessandro Garcia
http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-research-
papers

We invite high-quality submissions describing original and
unpublished
results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and
experimental
software engineering research. Contributions should
describe innovative
and significant original research. Papers describing
groundbreaking
approaches to emerging problems will also be considered.
Submissions
that facilitate reproducibility by using available data sets
or making
the described tools publicly available are especially
encouraged.

ESEC/FSE 2018 will employ a lightweight double-blind review
process.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of
the
Program Committee.

### Journal-First

Chairs: Andrea Zisman, Ingrid
Nunes
https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Journal-First

We
invite authors of journal-first papers accepted in the partnering
journa
ls (IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, and Springer Empirical Software
Engineering) to
submit their work to be presented at ESEC/FSE 2018. The
accepted paper
version must have been submitted to a partnering journal
no earlier than
December 1st 2016. This will allow authors of journal-
first papers to
present their work to the community.

### New Ideas and Emerging Results

C
hairs: Claire Le Goues, Gail Kaiser
http://2018.fseconference.org/track/
fse-2018-NIER

ESEC/FSE-NIER 2018 seeks to challenge the status quo of
our discipline
by providing a venue for innovative, radical, thought-
provoking new
ideas, arguments, and research directions in software
engineering. The
NIER also incorporates the previous FSE-VaR (Visions
and Reflections)
track, seeking to spark conversation on the state of
the field,
especially in light of the 50-year anniversary of the 1968
NATO
conference on Software Engineering.

### Tool Demonstrations

Chairs:
Tien Nguyen, Ciera Jaspan
http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-D
emonstration

We invite innovative research demonstrations, intended to
show early
implementations of novel software engineering concepts, as
well as
mature prototypes. The research demonstrations are intended to
hi
ghlight underlying scientific contributions. Whereas a regular
research
paper points out the scientific contribution of a new software
engineeri
ng approach, a demonstration paper provides the opportunity to
show how
a scientific contribution has been transferred into a working
tool or
data set. Authors of regular research papers are thus
encouraged to
submit an accompanying demonstration paper.

### Industry

Chairs: John
Penix, Satish Chandra
http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Indus
try

ESEC/FSE is widely known for its high-quality research papers in all

areas of software engineering. Its industry track focuses on the same
to
pics and values the same rigor as its research track, yet papers
feature
d in the industrial track are distinct. What sets the industrial
track
apart is that it values impact and realism over novelty. We
expect that
findings from industrial track publications have the
potential to impact
practice in the 0-2 year range.

### Workshops

Chair: Damian Dechev
https:/
/2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Workshops

ESEC/FSE 2018 solicits
proposals for workshops to be held in
conjunction with the main
conference. Workshops aim to provide
opportunities for exchanging views,
advancing ideas, and discussing
preliminary results in various areas of
software engineering research
and applications. Workshops are not an
alternative forum for presenting
full research papers. If you would like
to bring together a group of
researchers on a relevant and exciting
topic, please submit a workshop
proposal to ESEC/FSE. Workshops will be
held in the days before the
research track (Nov. 4 and 5). Proposals for
workshops after the main
track can be considered but are subject to the
availability of space.
Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to
contact the workshop
chairs should any questions arise.

### Artifacts

Chai
rs: Olga Baysal, Tim Menzies
https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-20
18-Artifacts

Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit
an artifact
to the ESEC/FSE Artifact Track. In the spirit of ACM’s
"Result and
Artifact Review and Badging" policy (http://www.acm.org/publ
ications/policies/artifact-review-badging), the artifacts track exists
to review, promote, share and catalog the research artifacts produced
by any of the papers accepted to the research track. Apart from
repeatability and replicability, cataloging these artifacts also allows
reuse by other teams in reproduction or other studies.

### Doctoral
Symposium

Chairs: Hridesh Rajan, Margaret-Anne Storey
http://2018.fseconf
erence.org/track/fse-2018-Doctorial-Symposium

Doctoral students whose
research is in Software Engineering will have a
chance to get mentoring
from more experienced researchers and
academics. Participants will have
the opportunity to present and
discuss their doctoral research with
senior researchers in the software
engineering community, in a
constructive and friendly atmosphere.
Attendance will be by invitation
only based on a four-page research
proposal to provide a quality
mentoring experience for pursuing an
impactful research program.

###
Student Research Competition

Chair: Gustavo Soares
http://2018.fseconfere
nce.org/track/fse-2018-Student-Research-Competition

The conference will
host an ACM Student Research Competition (http://src.acm.org; SRC).This
competition offers undergraduate and graduate students a unique forum
to experience the research world, present th research results to
conference attendees, and compete for prizes.

The ACM SRC consists of
three parts: (1) research abstract submission,
(2) poster presentation,
and (3) a research talk. The first-place
winners of the competition will
be invited to participate in the ACM
Student Research Competition Grand
Finals.

Participate in this exciting competition: Submit your work to
the ACM
Student Research Competition!

Submission Guidelines
--------------
-------

At the time of submission, all papers must conform to the
ESEC/FSE 2018
Format and Submission Guidelines (https://2018.fseconferen
ce.org/attending/Submission+Policies), and must not exceed the page
limits that are listed in the appropriate call for papers. All
submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions that do
not comply with the above instructions will be desk rejected without
review. Papers must be submitted electronically through the appropriate
ESEC/FSE submission site (as noted in the appropriate call for papers).
See conference website for more details about submissions for each
track.

Important Dates
---------------

### Research Papers

-   Submission
date: **March 9, 2018**
-   Author response period: May 7-10, 2018
-  
Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2018
-   Camera-ready date: July
31, 2018
-   Conference: **November 4-9, 2018**

### Journal-First Papers

-
  Submission date: May 30, 2018
-   Notification of acceptance: June 30,
2018

### New Ideas and Emerging Results

-   Submission date: June 15,
2018
-   Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018
-   Camera ready date:
September 10, 2018

### Workshops

-   Submission date: February 19, 2018
- 
 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2018

### Industry Papers

-  
Submission date: June 15, 2018
-   Notification of acceptance: July 25,
2018
-   Camera ready date: September 10, 2018

### Artifacts

-  
Submission date: June 25, 2018
-   Notification of acceptance: July 31,
2018

### Doctoral Symposiums

-   Submission date: June 29, 2018
-  
Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2018

### Student Research
Competition

-   Submission date: June 15, 2018
-   Notification of
acceptance: July 25, 2018