CFP: ACM SIGSOFT 2010/18th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-18)

Call for Papers: ACM SIGSOFT 2010 / FSE-18 ACM SIGSOFT 2010 / 18th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-18) Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA 9-11 November 2010 http://fse18.cse.wustl.edu/ Important Dates Research paper submission: 5 March 2010 Author notification: 16 May 2010 Camera ready deadline: 27 June 2010 Research paper program: 9-11 November 2010 The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software engineering. The theme of FSE-18 is "Digital engine driving social creativity." Our economy, and indeed our society at large, is virtually entirely driven by software. Creativity plays a role both in software production, and in how the software that is produced is ultimately put to use. FSE-18 invites high-quality submissions describing original research results, including theoretical, empirical, experimental, and tool-based work. Experience papers that report lessons learned of interest and benefit to the broader FSE audience are also welcome. As a conference focusing on foundations, we encourage papers describing perspectives on the current state of the art in the field, its research trajectory, and core assumptions that may or may not hold in the future. A healthy research community carefully integrates self-assessment as part of its discourse, and experience shows that periodic shifts in foundations are an essential part of progress. We solicit submissions relating to all aspects of software engineering, especially on topics of emerging interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis and Testing * Architecture and Design * Case Studies and Experience Reports * Collaboration and Coordination * Components, Services, and Middleware * Configuration Management and Deployment * Dependability (Safety, Security, Reliability) * Distributed, Web-based, and Internet-Scale Software Engineering * Economics * Empirical Studies * Feature Interaction and Crosscutting Concerns * Generative Programming and Model-Driven Development * Maintenance and Evolution * Metrics * Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems * Process and Workflow * Quality and Performance * Requirements Engineering * Reverse Engineering and Re-engineering * Software Reuse and Product Lines * Specification and Verification * Tools and Environments * Visualization FSE is a very selective conference, but it is still a conference. It welcomes innovative ideas that are well presented, timely, and have high likely impact, even if the findings are preliminary or not yet fully evaluated. Naturally, all submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to certain software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the validation methodology used. How to Submit Research papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to FSE-18, as described above. Submissions to FSE-18 must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication in any other conference, journal, book, or workshop. Authors must comply with ACM policy and procedures with respect to plagiarism: http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy Research papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the conference web site and must follow ACM's proceedings format strictly, including font sizes, line spacing, and margins: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Submissions must be in English and are limited to 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions that do not comply with the foregoing instructions will be desk rejected without review. Papers must be submitted electronically through CyberChairPro. The deadline for research paper submission is 5 March 2010. This deadline is hard and non-negotiable. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate framing within, and where appropriate comparison to, related work. The Program Committee as a whole will make final decisions about which submissions to accept for presentation at the conference. Acceptance Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an ACM Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author of the paper is expected to present the results at the FSE-18 conference. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference proceedings through the ACM Digital Library. Organization General Chair Gruia-Catalin Roman Washington University in St. Louis (USA) Program Chair André van der Hoek University of California, Irvine (USA) Workshop Chair Kevin Sullivan University of Virginia (USA) Program Committee Betty H.C. Cheng, Michigan State University (USA) Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) Sebastian Elbaum, University of Nebraska – Lincoln (USA) Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) James A. Jones, University of California, Irvine (USA) Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin (USA) Axel van Lamsweerde, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Michele Lanza, University of Lugano (Switzerland) Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California (USA) Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila (Italy) Kumiyo Nakakoji, SRA-KTL Inc. and University of Tokyo (Japan) Alessandro, Orso Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano (Switzerland) and University of Milano Bicocca (Italy) Ita Richardson Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Ireland) Martin Robillard, McGill University (Canada) David S. Rosenblum, University College London (United Kingdom) Wilhelm Schäfer, Universität Paderborn (Germany) Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria (Canada) Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis (USA) Peri Tarr, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (USA) Sebastian Uchitel, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Imperial College London (United Kingdom) Claudia Maria Lima Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University (USA) Michal Young, University of Oregon (USA)