FSE 2024

Submission timeline

• 21 Sep 2023 Abstract registration
• 23 Sep 2023 Full paper
• 23 Jan 2024 Notification

• 15 Jul 2024 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

18 pages ACM (+ 4 pages references)

Proceedings

ACM — ACM Digital Library

Open science policy. Double-blind. Also tutorials, doctoral symposium, tool demos and others. Author response period: 11-13 December 2023.

Call for papers

• As first published FSE-2024.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2024.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
July 15-19, 2024
Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2024

Registration deadline: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Submission deadline: Thursday, September 28, 2023

We invite high-quality submissions, from both industry and academia,
describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical,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 are also welcome, as well as replication papers. Submissions
that facilitate reproducibility by using available datasets or making
the described tools and datasets publicly available are especially
encouraged. For a list of specific topics of interest, please see the
end of this call.

NEW THIS YEAR #1: Papers accepted by the technical track of FSE 2024
will be published in the inaugural journal issue of the Proceedings of
the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE). Approval has been granted by
ACM in late July.

NEW THIS YEAR #2: The steering committee has decided that the
conference name will be changed to ACM International Conference on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). In this transition year, we
may still use the old and new names interchangeably on the conference
webpage.

NEW THIS YEAR #3: Based on the coordination among FSE, ICSE, and ASE
steering committees, the FSE conference and submission dates have been
moved a few months early. The intention is for this schedule to remain
stable in the years ahead and the conference and submission deadlines
of the three large general software engineering conferences to be
spread out throughout the year. This change however means that the
submission deadline of FSE 2024 (late September 2023) will be before
the days ESEC/FSE 2023 will be held (December 2023).

NEW THIS YEAR #4: Submissions must follow the "ACM Policy on
Authorship" (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship)
released April 20, 2023, which contains policy regarding the use of
Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT. Please also
check the ACM FAQ
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions)
which describes in what situations generative AI tools can be used
(with or without acknowledgement).

# TRACKS
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This CFP refers to the Research Track of FSE. For the remaining
tracks, please check the specific calls on the website:

- Industry: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-industry
- Ideas, visions, and reflections:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-ideas--visions-and-reflections
- Journal First:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-journal-first
- Student Research Competition:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-student-research-competition
- Demonstrations:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-demonstrations
- Artifacts: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-artifacts

# HOW TO SUBMIT
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At the time of submission, each paper should have no more than 18
pages for all text and figures, plus 4 pages for references, using the
following templates: Latex
(https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip)
or Word (Mac) (https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/templates/ACM_Small_v5_MAC-1614009250.docx)
or Word (Windows)
(https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/templates/ACM_Small_v5_Windows-1614009250.docx).
Authors using LaTeX should use the sample-acmsmall-conf.tex file
(found in the samples folder of the acmart package) with the acmsmall
option. We also strongly encourage the use of the review and screen
options as well. Papers may be submitted using numeric citations, but
final versions of accepted papers must use the author-year format for
citations. It is a single-column page layout. Submissions that do not
comply with the above instructions will be desk rejected without
review. Papers must be submitted electronically through the FSE 2024
submission site:

https://fse2024.hotcrp.com

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee. The review process is that the initial output can
be accept, reject or major revision. When the initial output of the
three reviews is major revision, authors will have an opportunity to
address the reviewers' requests during a 6 week major revision period.
Such requests may include additional experiments or new analyses of
existing results; major rewriting of algorithms and explanations;
clarifications, better scoping, and improved motivations. The revised
submission must be accompanied by a response letter, where the authors
explain how they addressed each concern expressed by the reviewers.
The same reviewers who requested major revisions will then assess
whether the revised submission satisfies their requests adequately.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance
of contribution, soundness, evaluation (if relevant), quality of
presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Some papers
may have more than three reviews, as PC chairs may solicit additional
reviews based on factors such as reviewer expertise and strong
disagreement between reviewers. The program committee as a whole will
make final decisions about which submissions to accept for
presentation at the conference.

In addition to declaring the topics which are relevant for their
submissions, authors will be asked to declare the research methods
employed in their submissions. This will enable us to ensure reviewer
expertise both for research methods and topics. For full definitions
of the research methods, see the SIGSOFT Empirical Standards
(https://acmsigsoft.github.io/EmpiricalStandards/docs/).

# DOUBLE-ANONYMOUS REVIEW PROCESS
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In order to ensure the fairness of the reviewing process, the FSE 2024
Research Papers Track will employ a double-anonymous review process,
where external reviewers do not know the identity of authors, and
authors do not know the identity of external reviewers. The papers
submitted must not reveal the authors' identities in any way:

- Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body
of their submission.
- Authors should ensure that any citation to related work by
themselves is written in third person, that is, "the prior work of
XYZ" as opposed to "our prior work".
- Authors should not include URLs to author-revealing sites (tools,
datasets). Authors are still encouraged to follow open science
principles and submit replication packages, see more details on the
open science policy below.
- Authors should anonymize author-revealing company names but instead
provide general characteristics of the organizations involved needed
to understand the context of the paper.
- Authors should ensure that paper acknowledgements do not reveal the
origin of their work.
- While authors have the right to upload preprints on ArXiV or similar
sites, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted
to FSE 2024.
- During review, authors should not publicly use the submission title.

The double-anonymous process used this year is "heavy", i.e., the
paper anonymity will be maintained during all reviewing and discussion
periods. In case of major revision, authors must therefore maintain
anonymity in their response letter and must provide no additional
information that could be author-revealing.

To facilitate double-anonymous reviewing, we recommend the authors to
postpone publishing their submitted work on arXiv or similar sites
until after the notification. If the authors have uploaded to arXiv or
similar, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was
submitted to FSE 2024.

Authors with further questions on double-anonymous reviewing are
encouraged to contact the program chairs by email. Papers that do not
comply with the double-anonymous review process will be desk-rejected.

# SUBMISSION POLICIES
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The authors must follow the "ACM Policy on Authorship"
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship)
released April 20, 2023 and its accompanying FAQ
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions)
including the following points:

- "Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be
listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI
tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be
fully disclosed in the Work. For example, the authors could include
the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of the Work:
ChatGPT was utilized to generate sections of this Work, including
text, tables, graphs, code, data, citations, etc.). If you are
uncertain about the need to disclose the use of a particular tool, err
on the side of caution, and include a disclosure in the
acknowledgements section of the Work."

- "If you are using generative AI software tools to edit and improve
the quality of your existing text in much the same way you would use a
typing assistant like Grammarly to improve spelling, grammar,
punctuation, clarity, engagement or to use a basic word processing
system to correct spelling or grammar, it is not necessary to disclose
such usage of these tools in your Work."

Please read the full policy and FAQ.

Papers submitted for consideration to FSE should not have been already
published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for
review elsewhere during the reviewing period. Specifically, authors
are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) and the
ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions
(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/simultaneous-submissions).

To prevent double submissions, the chairs might compare the
submissions with related conferences that have overlapping review
periods. The double submission restriction applies only to refereed
journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums (e.g. arXiv.org).
To check for plagiarism issues, the chairs might use external
plagiarism detection software.

All publications are subject to the ACM Author Representations policy
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/roles-and-responsibilities).

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby
acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM
Publications Policies (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/toc),
including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human
Participants and Subjects
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects).

Alleged violations to any of the above policies will be reported to
ACM for further investigation and may result in a full retraction of
your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per the ACM
Publications Policies.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you
can complete the publishing process if your paper is accepted. ACM has
been involved in ORCID from the start and they have recently made a
commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all published authors. ACM is
committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution
and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization;
your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

The authors of accepted papers are invited and strongly encouraged to
attend the conference to present their work. Attendance at the event
is not mandatory for publication. Authors also have the option of not
presenting their work at the conference, in which case they do not
need to register.

# IMPORTANT DATES
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All dates are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12h)

- Paper registration: Thursday, September 21, 2023 (to register a
paper, paper title, abstract, author list, and some additional
metadata are required; title and abstract must contain sufficient
information for effective bidding; registrations containing empty or
generic title and abstract may be dropped)
- Full paper submission: Thursday, September 28, 2023
- Author response: December 11-13, 2023 (3-day period)
- Initial notification: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 (long discussion
period due to year-end holidays)
- Revised manuscript submissions (major revisions only): Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Final notification for major revisions: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Camera ready: Wednesday, May 14, 2024

# OPEN SCIENCE POLICY
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The research track of FSE has introduced an open science policy.
Openness in science is key to fostering scientific progress via
transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. The steering
principle is that all research results should be accessible to the
public, if possible, and that empirical studies should be
reproducible. In particular, we actively support the adoption of open
data and open source principles and encourage all contributing authors
to disclose (anonymized and curated) data to increase reproducibility
and replicability.

Upon submission to the research track, authors are asked to make a
replication package available to the program committee (via upload of
supplemental material or a link to a private or public repository) or
to comment on why this is not possible or desirable. Furthermore,
authors are asked to indicate whether they intend to make their data
publicly available upon acceptance. We ask authors to provide a
supporting statement on the availability of a replication package (or
lack thereof) in their submitted papers in a section named Data
Availability after the Conclusion section. Be careful that such
statements continue to maintain author anonymity. For more details,
see the FSE open science policy
(https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2024/fse-2024-open-science-policy).

Authors of accepted papers will be given an opportunity (and
encouragement) to submit their data and tools to the separate FSE'24
artifact evaluation committee.

# TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for software engineering
- Autonomic computing
- Debugging and fault localization
- Dependability, safety, and reliability
- Distributed and collaborative software engineering
- Embedded software, safety-critical systems, and cyber-physical systems
- Empirical software engineering
- Human and social aspects of software engineering
- Human-computer interaction
- Mining software repositories
- Mobile development
- Model checking
- Model-driven engineering
- Parallel, distributed, and concurrent systems
- Performance engineering
- Program analysis
- Program comprehension
- Program repair
- Program synthesis
- Programming languages
- Recommendation systems
- Requirements engineering
- Search-based software engineering
- Services, components, and cloud
- Software architectures
- Software engineering education
- Software engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Software evolution
- Software processes
- Software security
- Software testing
- Software traceability
- Symbolic execution
- Tools and environments

# ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- Marcelo d'Amorim (General Chair), North Carolina State University
- Leopoldo Teixeira (Conference and Local Organization Chair), Federal
University of Pernambuco
- David Lo (Program Co-Chair), Singapore Management University
- Lin Tan (Program Co-Chair), Purdue University
- Breno Miranda (Finance Chair), Federal University of Pernambuco
- Chris Brown (Web Co-Chair), Virginia Tech
- John-Paul Ore (Web Co-Chair), North Carolina State University
- Dalal Alrajeh (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair), Imperial College London
- Maria Teresa Baldassarre (Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair), University of Bari
- Antonia Bertolino (Journal First Co-Chair), National Research Council, Italy
- Jan Bosch (Industry Co-Chair), Chalmers University of Technology
- Joanna C. S. Santos (Tutorials Co-Chair), University of Notre Dame
- Satish Chandra (Industry Mentoring Co-Chair), Meta Platforms
- Marsha Chechik (New Ideas and Visions Co-Chair), University of Toronto
- Jürgen Cito (Tutorials Co-Chair), TU Wien
- Tayana Conte (Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair), Universidade
Federal do Amazonas
- Cristina David (Workshops Co-Chair), University of Bristol
- Alessandra Gorla (Demonstration Co-Chair), IMDEA Software Institute
- Jin L.C. Guo (Demonstration Co-Chair), McGill University
- Dan Hao (New Faculty Mentoring Co-Chair), Peking University
- Rashina Hoda (Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair), Monash University
- Sandeep Kuttal (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair), North Carolina State University
- Wing Lam (Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair), George Mason University
- Qingwei Lin (New Ideas and Visions Co-Chair), Microsoft
- Yang Liu (Student Research Competition Co-Chair), Nanyang
Technological University
- Tim Menzies (Journal First Co-Chair), North Carolina State University
- Leonardo Murta (Social Media Co-Chair), Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Liliana Pasquale (Student Volunteer Co-Chair), University College
Dublin & Lero
- Márcio Ribeiro (Sponsorship Co-Chair), Federal University of Alagoas
- Julia Rubin (Student Volunteer Co-Chair), University of British Columbia
- Bonita Sharif (Demonstration Co-Chair), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Andrea Stocco (Social Media Co-Chair), Technical University of
Munich & fortiss
- Kathryn Stolee (New Faculty Mentoring Co-Chair), North Carolina
State University
- Christoph Treude (Sponsorship Co-Chair), University of Melbourne
- Eran Yahav (Industry Mentoring Co-Chair), Technion
- Tianyi Zhang (Student Research Competition Co-Chair), Purdue University
- Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam (Industry Co-Chair), Microsoft