CfP: RSSE 2010: Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering

CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering RSSE 2010 (http://rsse.org/rsse2010 twitter: @rsse) Cape Town, South Africa, May 4 2010 Co-located with ICSE 2010 IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: 21 January 2010 * Paper notifications: 17 February 2010 * Camera-ready copy: 03 March 2010 CALL for PAPERS Recommendation systems for software engineering are tools that help developers and managers to better cope with the huge amount of information faced in today's software projects. They provide developers with information to guide them in a number of activities (e.g., software navigation, debugging, refactoring), or to alert them of potential issues (e.g., conflicting changes, failure-inducing changes, duplicated functionality). Similarly, managers get only to see the information that is relevant to make a certain decision (e.g., bug distribution when allocating resources). Recommendation systems can draw from a wide variety of input data, and benefit from different types of analyses. Although many recommendation systems have demonstrable usefulness and usability in software engineering, a number of questions remain to be discussed and investigated: What recommendations do developers and managers actually need? How can we evaluate recommendations? Are there fundamentally different kinds of recommenders? How can we integrate recommendations from different sources? How can we protect the privacy of developers? How can new recommendation systems leverage lessons from existing ones? In this workshop, we will study advances in recommendation systems, with a special focus on evaluation, integration, and usability. Specific areas of interests include, but are not limited to: - Building trust in recommendations - Infrastructure of recommendation systems - Application of techniques from AI and IR - Mining software artifacts for recommendations - Recommendation systems for code reuse - Recommendation systems for teams and managers - Software navigation, debugging, refactoring, collaboration - Evaluation of recommendation systems - Benchmarks for recommendation systems - Usability of recommendation systems - Ethical issues such as privacy and behavioural shaping Our goals are (1) to bring together a diverse segment of the community, in terms of career stage, geography, and background; (2) to solidify a body of knowledge about RSSEs; and (3) to identify ways in which RSSE research can be applied to, and benefit from, other existing research efforts. FORMAT and GUIDELINES We invite two kinds of submissions: Long position papers (up to 5 pages) that describe ongoing work, preliminary results, or formal demonstrations of tools. They will be reviewed for topicality, novelty, and potential to spark useful discussions in the workshop-a subset of these will be selected for presentation during the workshop, the remaining accepted long position papers will be part of a poster session. Short position papers (2 pages) that describe new ideas, recent experiences, or preliminary tool support. They will be reviewed for topicality and potential to grow into substantive research contributions. Accepted short position papers will be invited to a poster/informal demonstration session. Papers must follow the ACM conference format and must not exceed the page limits mentioned above, including figures and references. All submissions must be in English. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the submission site hosted by EasyChair. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsse2010 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Workshop Organizers: - Reid Holmes, University of Washington, USA - Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada - Robert J. Walker, University of Calgary, Canada - Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA Program Committee: - Giuliano Antoniol, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada - Li-Te Cheng, IBM Research, USA - Harald Gall, Universität Zürich, Switzerland - Michael Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada - Miryung Kim, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Sung Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China - Walid Maalej, Technische Universität München, Germany - Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, USA - Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA - Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan - Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Cape Town in May! Reid Holmes, Martin Robillard, Rob Walker, and Thomas Zimmermann