[ecoop-info] [SANER 2018] - Call for Workshop Papers Submission

[Michele Tufano]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SANER is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering
information from existing software and systems. The event explores
innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be
recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems
artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system
renewal and program understanding.

SANER 2018 will be held from March 20-23, 2018 in Campobasso, Italy.
Co-located with SANER 2018 are the following five workshops:

1. The 12th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWST) -
https://iwsc2018.github.io
2. The 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for
Software Quality Evaluation (MaLTeSQuE), which will also have a special
issue on the Wiley's Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) -
https://maltesque.github.io
3. The 2nd Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests
(VST) - http://vst2018.scch.at
4. The 1st International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Interaction
Histories (MAINT) - https://maint2018.github.io
5. The 1st International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software
Engineering (IWBOSE) - http://www.agilegroup.eu/iwbose2018/

The call for papers of the workshops are attached.

============ 12th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWST)
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Home page: https://iwsc2018.github.io

Software clones are often a result of copying and pasting as an act of
ad-hoc reuse by programmers, and can occur at many levels, from simple
statement sequences to blocks, methods, classes, source files, subsystems,
models, architectures and entire designs, and in all software artifacts
(code, models, requirements or architecture documentation, etc.). Software
clone research is of high relevance for software engineering research and
practice today.

A partial list of the topics is as follows (this list is by no means
exhaustive, and it is a goal of the workshop to further extend it):

- Use cases for clones and clone management in the software lifecycle
- Experiences with clones and clone management in practice
- Types and nature of clones in software systems
- Causes and effects of clones
- Techniques and algorithms for clone detection, search, analysis, and
management
- Clone and clone pattern visualization
- Tools and systems for detecting software clones
- Applications of clone detection and analysis
- System architecture and clones
- Effect of clones to system complexity and quality
- Clone analysis in families of similar systems
- Measures of code similarity
- Economic and trade-off models for clone removal
- Evaluation and benchmarking of detection methods
- Licensing and plagiarism issues
- Clone-aware software design and development
- Refactoring through clone analysis
- Higher-level clones in models and designs
- Clone evolution and variation
- Role of clones in software system evolution


Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 5th, 2018
- Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 12nd, 2018
- Notification: Feb 9th, 2018
- Camera ready: Feb 22nd, 2018
- Workshop: Mar 20th, 2018

Organizers:
Ying Zou - Queen's University, Canada
Matthew Stephan - Miami University, USA

============ 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for
Software Quality Evaluation (MaLTeSQuE) ============
Home page: https://maltesque.github.io

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to present and discuss new ideas, trends and results
concerning the application of ML methods to software quality evaluation. We
expect that the workshop will help in: (i) the validation of existing ML
methods for software quality evaluation as well as their application to
novel contexts, (ii) the comparison of efficiency and effectiveness of ML
methods, both among other automated approaches and the human judgement, and
(iii) the adaptation of ML approaches already used in other areas of
science in the context of software quality.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Application of machine-learning in software quality evaluation,
- Analysis of multi-source data,
- Knowledge acquisition from software repositories,
- Adoption and validation of machine learning models and algorithms in
software quality,
- Decision support and analysis in software quality,
- Prediction models to support software quality evaluation

Authors of selected papers accepted at MaLTeSQuE 2018 will be invited to
submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue
of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), edited by Wiley.

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 12nd, 2018
- Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 19th, 2018
- Notification: Feb 9th, 2018
- Camera ready: Feb 22nd, 2018
- Workshop: Mar 20th, 2018

Organizers:
Francesca Arcelli Fontana - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Bartosz Walter - Posnan University of Technology, Poland
Apostolos Ampatzoglou - University of Macedonia, Greece
Fabio Palomba - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

============ 2nd Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software
Tests (VST) ============
Home page: http://vst2018.scch.at

Software projects accumulate large sets of test cases, encoding valuable
expert knowledge about the software under test to the extent of many person
years. Over time the reliability of the tests decreases, and they become
difficult to understand and maintain. Extra effort is required for
repairing broken tests and for adapting test suites and models to evolving
software systems. The International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and
Evolution of Software Tests (VST) is an unique event bringing together
academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners for exchanging
experiences, solutions and new ideas in applying methods, techniques and
tools from software analysis, evolution and reengineering to advance the
state of the art in test development and maintenance.

The workshop invites high quality submissions related, but are not limited,
to:

- Test minimization and simplification
- Fault localization and automated repair
- Change analysis for software tests
- Test visualization and validation
- Documentation analysis
- Bug report analysis
- Test evolution
- Test case generation
- Model-based testing
- Combinations of the topics above

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 5th, 2018
- Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 12nd, 2018
- Notification: Feb 9th, 2018
- Camera ready: Feb 22nd, 2018
- Workshop: Mar 20th, 2018

Organizers:
Cyrille Artho - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rudolf Ramier - Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

============ 1st International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Interaction
Histories (MAINT) ============
Home page: https://maint2018.github.io

The interaction of developers with the IDE is composed of a large sequence
of events that capture how developers peruse the IDEs functionalities to
support the programming task at hand, including activities like reading,
writing, and debugging source code. These interaction histories can be seen
at different levels of abstraction: They can be high-level events related
to the domain of code entities, like a refactoring or adding a method to a
class, very basic events like typing the keyboard or moving the mouse to
reach for a specific UI in the IDE, or even biometric data captured by
wearable devices. The MAINT workshop aims to provide an environment to
present, discuss, and exchange research ideas that involve interaction
histories from diverse aspects, including how to record them, how to
efficiently persist them for further analyses, how to leverage them to
support quantitative analyses on developers’ behavior, how to support
offline and real-time analytics to provide feedback on what developers' do
during a programming sessions, etc.

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 5th, 2018
- Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 12nd, 2018
- Notification: Feb 9th, 2018
- Camera ready: Feb 22nd, 2018
- Workshop: Mar 20th, 2018

Organizers:
Shinpei Hayashi - Tokyo Tech, Japan
Andrea Mocci - Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

============ 1st International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software
Engineering (IWBOSE) ============
Home page: http://www.agilegroup.eu/iwbose2018/

The First International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software
Engineering is held as a Workshop at SANER 2018, and aims at gathering
together researchers from the academia and from the industry to focus on
the new challenges posed by the new software technology supporting the
various blockchains infrastructure. The Workshop’s goal is to gather
together practitioners and researchers to discuss on progresses on the
research and on the practical usage of blockchain technologies and smart
contracts, focusing on the application and definition of software
engineering principles and practices specific for such software technology,
and for the technologies relying on it. Motivations for this workshop are
the ever-increasing interest both in the research community and in the
industry on Blockchain and smart contracts principles and applications,
being the management of cryptocurrencies the most popular topic. These
novelties call for specific tools, paradigms, principles, approaches and
research to deal with it and for a specific Blockchain Oriented Software
Engineering (BOSE).

Workshop topics include, not exhaustively, the following:
- Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering
- Blockchain software analysis and reengineering
- Formal specification of Blockchain behavior
- Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
- Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community
management
- Smart Contracts reengineering
- Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
- Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
- Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
- Smart Contracts Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
- Software Engineering for Blockchain
- Applications in Economy and Finance, Internet of Things, Notarization,
Supply chain management
- Web 3.0 – e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy, social networks, etc.

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 5th, 2018
- Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 12nd, 2018
- Notification: Feb 9th, 2018
- Camera ready: Feb 22nd, 2018
- Workshop: Mar 20th, 2018

Organizers:
Roberto Tonelli - University of Cagliari, Italy
Gianni Fenu - University of Cagliari, Italy
Andrea Bracciali - University of Stirling, UK
Stephane Ducasse - INRIA, France


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Michele Tufano

Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Department
The College of William and Mary
McGlothlin-Street Hall 101
Williamsburg, VA, 23185
Website: http://www.cs.wm.edu/~mtufano/