CfP: Mining Software Repositories - MSR 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS MSR 2010: Mining Software Repositories http://msrconf.org/ twitter: @msrconf 7th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories 2-3 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (co-located with ICSE 2010) OVERVIEW Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are recognizing the benefits of mining this information to support the maintenance of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in which mining these repositories can help to understand software development and software evolution, to support predictions about software development, and to exploit this knowledge concretely in planning future development. The goal of this two-day working conference is to advance the science and practice of software engineering via the analysis of data stored in software repositories. We solicit short papers (4 pages) and research papers (10 pages). Short papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed. Accepted short papers will present their ideas in poster form during a poster session at the conference, and in a short lightning talk. Full research papers are expected to describe new research results, and have a higher degree of technical rigor than short papers. Accepted full papers will present their ideas in a research talk at the conference. A selection of the best research papers will be invited for consideration in a special issue of the Springer journal Empirical Software Engineering. TOPICS Papers may address issues along the general themes, including but not limited to the following: * Analysis of software ecosystems and mining of repositories across multiple projects * Models for social and development processes that occur in large software projects * Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of software repositories * Models of software project evolution based on historical repository data * Characterization, classification, and prediction of software defects based on analysis of software repositories * Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences * Search-based software engineering, including search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components and code fragments for reuse, and software search engines * Analysis of change patterns and trends to assist in future development * Visualization techniques and models of mined data * Techniques and tools for capturing new forms of data for storage in software repositories, such as effort data, fine-grained changes, and refactoring * Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining * Characterization of bias in mining and guidelines to ensure quality results * Meta-models, exchange formats, and infrastructure tools to facilitate the sharing of extracted data and to encourage reuse and repeatability * Case studies on extracting data from large long-lived and/or industrial projects * Methods of integrating mined data from various historical sources MSR CHALLENGE In the MSR Challenge, we invite researchers to demonstrate the usefulness of their mining tools on the repositories of many open-source projects (to be announced). Researchers will discover interesting facts and report them as 4-page (max) submissions. Accepted reports will be included in the proceedings as challenge papers. There will also be a prediction challenge. The winners of the MSR Challenge and prediction challenge will receive an award. See the MSR homepage for more information about requirements and rules. IMPORTANT DATES Research/short papers: January 11, 2010 (abstracts) January 14, 2010 (papers) Challenge papers: to be announced Author notification: February 19, 2010 Conference: May 2-3, 2010 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Audris Mockus - Avaya, USA Program Co-chairs: Jim Whitehead - UC Santa Cruz, USA Thomas Zimmermann - Microsoft Research, USA Challenge Chair: Abram Hindle - University of Waterloo, Canada Program Committee: Giuliano Antoniol - …cole Polytechnique de MontrÈal, Canada Andrew Begel - Microsoft Corp., USA Christian Bird - UC Davis, USA Li-Te Cheng - IBM Research, USA Stephan Diehl - U of Trier, Germany Massimiliano Di Penta - U of Sannio, Italy Harald Gall - U of Zurich, Switzerland Tudor Girba - U of Bern, Switzerland Mike Godfrey - U of Waterloo, Canada Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona - U Rey Juan Carlos Ahmed Hassan - Queen's U, Canada Reid Holmes - U of Washington, USA Katsuro Inoue - U of Osaka, Japan Huzefa Kagdi - Missouri U of Science and Technology, USA Miryung Kim - U of Texas Austin, USA Sung Kim - Hong Kong U of Science and Technology, China Michele Lanza - U of Lugano, Switzerland Andrian Marcus - Wayne State U, USA Ken-ichi Matsumoto - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Tim Menzies - West Virginia U, USA Nachiappan Nagappan - Microsoft Corp., USA Martin Pinzger - Delft Technical U, Netherlands Rahul Premraj - Vrije U Amsterdam, Netherlands Lori Pollock - U of Delaware, USA Bill Pugh - U of Maryland, USA Martin Robillard - McGill U, Canada Gregorio Robles - U Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Anita Sarma - U of Nebraska, USA Tao Xie - North Caroline State U, USA Westley Weimer - U of Virginia, USA Laurie Williams - North Carolina State U, USA Andy Zaidman - Delft Technical U, Netherlands Andreas Zeller - Saarland U, Germany Web Chair: Adrian Schrˆter - University of Victoria, Canada To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.