[ecoop-info] CFP: 22nd Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2019)

[Carla Taciana Lima Lourenco Silva]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2019)

La Habana, Cuba, April 22 - 23, 2019
Varadero, Cuba, April 24 - 26, 2019

http://www.cibsecuba2019.com

CIbSE is the leading research forum on Software Engineering (SE) in
Ibero-America. The primary objective of this conference is to promote
high-quality scientific research in Ibero-American countries and, thus,
support the researchers in this community in publishing and discussing
their work. Also, the conference fosters collaboration and
cross-fertilization among academics, students, and practitioners from
industry.

CIbSE 2019 will be held in Havana as well as Varadero, Cuba. The event will
include various tracks, an industrial session, keynotes from influential
researchers of the Software Engineering community, and social events.

The conference will be held in conjunction with two satellite events: the
Doctoral Symposium and the second version of the Ibero-American School on
Software Engineering (EIbAIS). The Doctoral Symposium is organized to
discuss work in progress of Ph.D. topics related to the general area of
Software Engineering. The school will be led by renowned lecturers,
offering an attractive program, combining lectures and tutorials based on
the current trends in Software Engineering.

We invite you to submit papers to one or more of our main tracks:
○ SET - Software Engineering Track
○ RET - Requirements Engineering Track
○ ESELAW - Experimental Software Engineering Track

Papers can be submitted in any of the available categories (Technical
Papers and Emerging Ideas) and the official CIbSE languages: English,
Spanish, and Portuguese. Below, you will find the details of each track and
the general organization committee.

For more information, please visit the CIbSE 2019 website (
http://www.cibsecuba2019.com/), or contact us directly via e-mail (
info.cibse at gmail.com) or our social media channels on Twitter and Facebook.


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TRACKS AND PAPER CATEGORIES
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We invite authors to submit high-quality research papers describing
significant, original, and not previously published results in any of the
following tracks and categories:

Tracks
● SET - Software Engineering Track
● RET - Requirements Engineering Track
● ESELAW - Experimental Software Engineering Track

Categories

1. Technical Papers (not exceeding 14 pages): Technical papers should
describe innovative research in the topics of the main tracks. Papers in
this submission category should describe a novel contribution to the topics
and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the
relevant literature.

2. Evaluation criteria: Technical papers are evaluated by originality,
soundness, relevance, the importance of contribution, the strength of
validation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related
work. In case a submission builds upon the previous work of the author(s),
the novelty of the new contribution must be described clearly concerning
the previous work. Technical papers need to discuss openly how the results
were validated.

3. Emerging Ideas Papers (not exceeding eight pages): Emerging ideas papers
describe new, non-conventional approaches on the topics of the Foundations
tracks, that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe
clear research ideas that are at an early stage of the investigation.


Evaluation criteria: Emerging ideas papers will be assessed primarily on
their level of originality and potential for impact on the field regarding
promoting innovative thinking. Hence, inadequacies in the state-of-the-art
and the pertinence, correctness, and impact of the idea must be described
precisely. While the idea that is described does not need to be fully
validated, a presentation of preliminary results that provide initial
insights into the feasibility and/or impact of the idea is expected.
Provided acceptance, authors are asked to prepare a poster for presentation
at the Poster Session. The Poster Session is separated from the Technical
Papers’ Sessions and shall allow authors to get immediate, personal
feedback from conference attendees during the session in which they present
their work. Posters also provide an opportunity to see new work in the
field in a more relaxed setting to foster discussions and exchange of ideas.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: November, 30th, 2018
Paper submission: December 07th, 2018
Notification to authors: February 1st, 2019
Camera-Ready: February 28th, 2019

SUBMISSIONS
All papers must be submitted through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2019, using PDF format only.
Submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS style.

At least one author of accepted papers must register by the camera-ready
deadline. One registration corresponds to only one paper.   At least one of
each paper's authors must be registered for the conference and present it
in person or the paper will be excluded from the proceedings made available
online by Curran Associates (http://www.proceedings.com/), and later
indexed by Scopus. If an author has more than one accepted paper, it is
possible to pay the 50% of the registration in the second and following
co-authored papers.

EVALUATION PROCESS
Any paper which is not in the scope of the conference or does not follow
the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review. All other
submissions are going to be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
Program Committee.

The organizers will publish all accepted papers in the conference
proceedings that will be indexed in Scopus and DBLP.

The best paper of each track will receive an award certificate. Publishing
the best papers in a special issue of an international journal is currently
in preparation.

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Software Engineering Track (SET)
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SET is a forum where researchers and practitioners from the Ibero-American
community may report and discuss new research results in all the areas of
Software Engineering, except for topics in requirements engineering and
empirical software engineering, which are discussed in the corresponding
specialized tracks.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Software processes and methodologies
● Model-driven software engineering
● Automatic software generation
● Reverse engineering and software system modernization
● Software maintenance and evolution
● Quality, measurement, and quality assurance of products and processes
● Software testing
● Software architectures
● Search-based software engineering
● Web engineering and web services
● Software product families and variability
● Software reuse
● Software language engineering
● Formal methods applied to software engineering
● Integration with human-computer interaction
● Ontologies applied to software engineering
● Software engineering for Contemporary Software Systems (self-adaptive and
autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Everything,
Internet of Things, Industry 4.0)
● Software engineering education and training.
● Continuous Software Engineering

SET PROGRAM CHAIRS
Andreia Malucelli, UFPR, Brasil
Estefanía Serral, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Requirements Engineering Track (RET)
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The goal of this track is to explore and discuss different advances and
contributions relevant to Requirements Engineering and its relation with
different domains of applications, through integrated and robust solutions
to be proposed by researchers and professionals. This track was previously
run as the Workshop on Requirements Engineering.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation
● Requirements validation and visualization
● Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
● Requirements management, traceability, prioritization, and negotiation
● Requirements engineering in agile methodologies
● Requirements engineering in the context of model-driven development
● Non-functional requirements
● Regulatory compliance
● Requirements engineering and software architecture
● Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
● Service-oriented requirements engineering
● Requirements engineering for Web-based systems and mobile applications
● Requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems
● Requirements engineering for the agent-oriented paradigm
● Requirements engineering for product lines
● Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering
● Aligning requirements to business goals and business processes
● Requirements engineering education and training.

RET PROGRAM CHAIRS
Giovanni Giachetti (Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP, Chile)
João Araújo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

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Experimental Software Engineering Track (ESELAW)
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This track is the evolution of the Workshop on Experimental Software
Engineering. ESELAW provides a stimulating forum at which researchers and
practitioners can present and discuss recent research results on a wide
range of topics related to Experimental Software Engineering. Also, the
track encourages the exchange of ideas to understand the strengths and
weaknesses of software engineering technologies and methods from a robust
empirical viewpoint, including different kinds of empirical studies.
Research on empirical methods and the design and analysis of empirical
studies are also welcome.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Empirical studies concerned with software processes and products
● The empirical evaluation and comparison of techniques and models (cost
estimation, analysis and design methods, testing, among others)
● Development of predictive models for software engineering based on
experimentation
● Mining software repositories and data analytics
● Secondary studies (mapping studies, quasi/systematic literature reviews,
and rapid reviews)
● Reporting Studies and Scientific Software Engineering Knowledge (evidence
briefings, minding maps, among others)
● Simulation-based studies in software engineering
● Education and training in experimental software engineering
● Industrial experience, case studies, action-research studies, grounded
theory, among others
● New ideas regarding the measurement, evaluation, comparison, and
development of empirical software engineering methods
● Infrastructures and new techniques with which to conduct empirical studies
● Replication of empirical studies
● Continuous Experimentation

ESELAW PROGRAM CHAIRS
Miguel Goulão , Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Claudia P. Ayala, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain

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DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
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CIbSE 2019 organizes a Doctoral Symposium Track (DS), aimed at
disseminating research-in-progress conducted by novice researchers. A board
of experts will discuss with the researchers to suggest new perspectives
and improvements to the Ph.D. thesis.
The submitted research can address any of the CIbSE 2019 research topics.
We recommend although it is not compulsory, that the research is at an
intermediate stage (~ 2nd year) so that experts’ suggestions could be
included in the Ph.D. work.
The suggested paper structure is as follows:
● Introduction to the field of research and identification of the main
challenges therein;
● Explicit formulation of the research questions and objectives justifying
why they were chosen;
● Outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain as well as the
state of existing  solutions;
● Sketch of the research methodology that is being applied;
● Introduction of the proposed solution and the results achieved so far;
● The statement in what aspects the suggested solution is different or
better as compared to existing approaches;
● An indication of the outstanding issues and description of the next steps
that are planned;
● Provision of a list of references.

Doctoral Symposium papers shall be authored by the doctoral candidate
exclusively (thus, the name of the supervisor should not be included). All
papers must be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair, using the link
available in the CIbSE 2019 webpage. Submissions must be written in
English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Moreover, the paper should not exceed
eight pages, and it should be formatted according to the LNCS style. The
authors of accepted DS papers must register by the camera-ready deadline.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: February 4th, 2019
Notification: February 25th, 2019
Camera-Ready: March 11th, 2019

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marcela Genero, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, España
Vítor E. Silva Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil

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IBERO-AMERICAN SCHOOL ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (EIbAIS)
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The Ibero-American School on Software Engineering (EIbAIS) represents the
CIbSE initiative to disseminate software engineering knowledge in
Ibero-America. It started as a natural evolution of the CIbSE tutorials and
short courses, by including prospective topics in the field and
non-exclusively regarding the main CIbSE tracks: technologies,
experimentation, and requirements.

EIbAIS aims to promote a forum for discussions regarding software
engineering and its related technologies and theoretical foundations,
allowing the participation of practitioners, undergraduate and graduate
students and researchers in the activities.

As in any CIbSE related activity, all lecturers are presented by volunteers
engaged with contributing to CIbSE community and the spreading of Software
Engineering knowledge in Ibero-America. However, depending on the number of
registrations in EIbAIS and the CIbSE budget, some supporting for traveling
and conference registration should be allocated for them.

In its second issue, EIbAIS is going to be organized into two basic
categories of plenary sessions for two days: state-of-the-practice and
state-of-the-art modules.

The modules regarding the state-of-the-practice offer discussions on topics
of general interest and usually representing local demand. These modules
support the amendment of knowledge and practical issues to the
participants, presenting evidence-based software engineering results to the
audience. Examples of state-of-practice topics include CASE tools, software
testing of conventional systems, scenario-based specifications, surveys,
controlled experiments, and so on.

The modules regarding the state-of-the-art offer discussion on topics of
prospective interest and usually representing the software engineering
community perspectives. These modules intend to provide information on
ongoing and next to coming software engineering technologies candidates
that could represent breakthroughs concepts in the field. Examples of
state-of-the-art topics include requirements specification for Ubiquitous
systems, software testing of context awareness systems, software
engineering for the Internet of Everything, simulation-based experiments in
software engineering, synthesis of evidence, and so on.

All the participants that take part in the plenary sessions will get a
certificate of participation, indicating the modules, lecturers, and
contents.

The main topics for both types of modules of 2nd EIbAIS are going to be
announced soon!

IBERO-AMERICAN SCHOOL ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CHAIRS
Guilherme Horta Travassos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Paraguay

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GENERAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Miguel Katrib Mora (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)

GENERAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Beatriz Marín (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
Isabel Sofia Brito (Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal)

PROCEEDINGS AND STUDENT VOLUNTEERS CHAIR
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Alberto Fernández Oliva (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
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Carla Silva (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Daniel Méndez (TUM | Technical University of Munich, Germany)

INDUSTRY EXHIBITION CHAIRS
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Grisel Reyes (Grupo Empresarial de la Informática y las Comunicaciones
GEIC, Cuba)

WEB CHAIR
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Yanet Bellon Landa (Solways Cuba)