<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> The 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> (ASE 2011)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> November 6-10, 2011, Lawrence, Kansas, USA,</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div>********************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>OVERVIEW</div><div><br></div><div>
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software</div><div>Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share</div><div>ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of</div><div>
automated software engineering. ASE 2011 will include technical</div><div>papers, experience papers, invited keynotes, tutorials, workshops,</div><div>tool demonstrations, and a doctoral symposium.</div><div><br></div><div>
ASE 2011 will be held in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S., home to The University</div><div>of Kansas. Recently rated by USA Today as one of the top five college</div><div>towns in the United States, Lawrence is a vibrant community, steeped</div>
<div>in history, with active arts and music scenes. Lawrence is easy</div><div>50-minute drive from the Kansas City International Airport (MCI) and</div><div>30 minutes from downtown Kansas City. For more information visit</div>
<div><a href="http://www.visitlawrence.com/">www.visitlawrence.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div>Abstract Submission: April 25th, 2011</div><div>Paper Submission: May 9, 2011</div><div>Notification: July 18, 2011</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop Proposal Submission: April 15 </div><div>Tutorial Proposal Submission: June 15, 2011</div><div>Tool Demonstration Paper Submission: June 15, 2011</div><div>Doctoral Symposium Submission: June 15, 2011</div>
<div><br></div><div>Submission details for the main conference and all tracks will be</div><div>available on the conference website</div><div><br></div><div>MAIN CONFERENCE PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>Software engineering is concerned with the analysis, design,</div>
<div>implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software</div><div>systems. Automated software engineering focuses on how to automate or</div><div>partially automate these tasks to achieve significant improvements in</div>
<div>quality and productivity. ASE 2011 encourages contributions describing</div><div>basic research, novel applications, and experience reports. In all</div><div>cases, papers should carefully describe the relevance of their</div>
<div>contributions to the automation of software engineering</div><div>tasks. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>* Automated reasoning techniques</div><div>* Component-based systems</div>
<div>* Computer-supported cooperative work</div><div>* Configuration management</div><div>* Domain modelling and meta-modelling</div><div>* Empirical software engineering</div><div>* Human-computer interaction</div><div>* Knowledge acquisition and management</div>
<div>* Maintenance and evolution</div><div>* Model-based software development</div><div>* Model-driven engineering and model transformation</div><div>* Modelling language semantics</div><div>* Open systems development</div>
<div>* Product line architectures</div><div>* Program understanding</div><div>* Program synthesis</div><div>* Program transformation</div><div>* Re-engineering</div><div>* Requirements engineering</div><div>* Specification languages</div>
<div>* Software architecture and design</div><div>* Software visualization</div><div>* Testing, verification, and validation</div><div>* Tutoring, help, and documentation systems</div><div>* Software analysis</div><div><br>
</div><div>The IEEE Computer Society will publish accepted papers in the</div><div>conference proceedings. In addition authors of selected papers will be</div><div>invited to revise and re-submit extended versions of their conference</div>
<div>papers for consideration for a special issue of the Journal of</div><div>Automated Software Engineering, published by Springer.</div><div><br></div><div>ASE 2011 accepts two categories of Main Conference Paper submissions:</div>
<div><br></div><div>(i) Technical Papers, describing innovative research in automating</div><div>software development activities or automated support to users engaged</div><div>in such activities. They should describe a novel contribution to the</div>
<div>field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to</div><div>the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work</div><div>of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly</div>
<div>described with respect to the previous work. Papers should also</div><div>clearly discuss how the results were validated.</div><div><br></div><div>(ii) Experience Papers, describing a significant experience in</div><div>
applying automated software engineering technology and </div><div>carefully identifying and discussing important lessons learned so that other</div><div>researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of</div>
<div>special interest are experience papers that report on industrial</div><div>applications of automated software engineering.</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions under both categories should not exceed 10 pages in the</div>
<div>IEEE two-column conference format (see note below). Papers will be</div><div>administratively rejected and will not be reviewed if they exceed the</div><div>10-page limit or use condensed formatting. For guidelines and</div>
<div>formatting files see (under Information for Authors):</div><div><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/">http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Papers submitted to ASE 2011 must not have been previously published</div>
<div>and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Authors are</div><div>strongly encouraged to explain the relationship between the submission</div><div>and any other related works from the authors, including ones under</div>
<div>review elsewhere, in the appropriate place in the submitted paper.</div><div><br></div><div>All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed</div><div>by PC members. Papers may be accepted either as full papers or as</div>
<div>short papers. In this last case the camera-ready should be no longer</div><div>than 4 pages. All accepted short papers will be presented in a poster</div><div>session.</div><div><br></div><div>TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS</div>
<div><br></div><div>The ASE 2011 tool demonstrations track provides an opportunity for</div><div>researchers and practitioners to provide live presentations of new</div><div>automated software engineering research tools. Tools can range from</div>
<div>research prototypes to in-house or pre-commercialized products. Tool</div><div>demonstrations are intended to highlight underlying scientific</div><div>contributions. Whereas regular research papers provide background</div>
<div>information and detail the scientific contribution of a new software</div><div>engineering approach, tool demonstrations show how a scientific</div><div>approach has been transferred into a working tool. Authors of regular</div>
<div>research papers are thus encouraged to submit an accompanying tool</div><div>demonstration paper.</div><div><br></div><div>DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM </div><div><br></div><div>The ASE 2011 Doctoral Symposium allows PhD students working on</div>
<div>foundations, techniques, tools and applications of Automated Software</div><div>Engineering (ASE) an opportunity to present and to discuss their</div><div>research with other researchers in the ASE community in a constructive</div>
<div>atmosphere. Students will receive feedback on their research and</div><div>guidance on future directions from a broad group of advisors and from</div><div>other Doctoral Symposium students. Students will also have the</div>
<div>opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and</div><div>performing research as a young ASE professional. Note that students'</div><div>presentations cannot be attended by their advisors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The symposium is intended for PhD students at all stages of</div><div>research. However, they should not have completed their dissertation</div><div>research nor written up their dissertation before the conference. If</div>
<div>you are already writing your dissertation, or expect to be</div><div>substantially done by the time of the symposium, we encourage you to</div><div>submit your work as a full paper to the ASE conference.</div><div><br>
</div><div>TUTORIALS </div><div><br></div><div>The ASE 2011 tutorials track provides an opportunity for researchers</div><div>and practitioners to explore new and emerging areas of Software</div><div>Engineering. We invite proposals for half-day/full-day tutorials</div>
<div>addressing theoretical foundations, practical techniques, software</div><div>tools, and applications in areas related to the ASE conference themes</div><div>and topics. The tutorials are scheduled for November 6 and 7, 2011 at</div>
<div>the beginning of the ASE conference. Tutorials are intended to provide</div><div>independent instruction on a relevant theme; therefore, no commercial</div><div>or sales-oriented proposals will be accepted.</div><div>
<br></div><div>WORKSHOPS</div><div><br></div><div>ASE 2011 invites submissions of workshop proposals. Workshops are</div><div>co-located with the conference and should provide an opportunity for</div><div>exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results</div>
<div>on topics related to software engineering research and</div><div>applications. Workshops should not be seen as an alternative forum for</div><div>presenting full research papers. The workshops will be held before the</div>
<div>conference on November 4 - 5 or after the conference on November 11 -</div><div>12. A workshop may last one or two days.</div><div><br></div><div>Submission details for the main conference and all tracks will be</div>
<div>available on the conference website.</div><div><br></div><div>CONFERENCE ORGANISATION</div><div><br></div><div>General Chair:</div><div>Perry Alexander, ITTC - The University of Kansas, USA, <a href="mailto:alex@ittc.ku.edu">alex@ittc.ku.edu</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Program Committee Co-Chairs: </div><div>Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA, <a href="mailto:corina.s.pasareanu@nasa.gov">corina.s.pasareanu@nasa.gov</a></div><div>John Hosking, University of Auckland, NZ, <a href="mailto:john@cs.auckland.ac.nz">john@cs.auckland.ac.nz</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Demonstrations Chair:</div><div>Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK, <a href="mailto:reiko@mcs.le.ac.uk">reiko@mcs.le.ac.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div>Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs:</div><div>Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA, <a href="mailto:tim@menzies.us">tim@menzies.us</a></div>
<div>Motoshi Saeki , Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, <a href="mailto:saeki@se.cs.titech.ac.jp">saeki@se.cs.titech.ac.jp</a></div><div><br></div><div>Tutorials Co-Chairs:</div><div>Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA, <a href="mailto:yfcai@cs.drexel.edu">yfcai@cs.drexel.edu</a></div>
<div>Arvin Agah, The University of Kansas, USA, <a href="mailto:agah@ku.edu">agah@ku.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Co-chairs:</div><div>Robby, Kansas State University, USA, <a href="mailto:robby@ksu.edu">robby@ksu.edu</a></div>
<div>William Deng, Google Inc., USA, <a href="mailto:wdeng@google.com">wdeng@google.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Proceedings Chair:</div><div>Neha Rungta, NASA Ames, USA, <a href="mailto:neha.s.rungta@nasa.gov">neha.s.rungta@nasa.gov</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Publicity Chair:</div><div>Ajitha Rajan, University of Oxford, UK, <a href="mailto:ajitha.rajan@gmail.com">ajitha.rajan@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Finance and Local Arrangements:</div><div>
Kevin Curry, The University of Kansas, USA, <a href="mailto:kgcurry@ku.edu">kgcurry@ku.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div><br></div><div>Jamie Andrews, University of Western Ontario, Canada</div>
<div>Nikolaj Bjoerner, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div>Tevfik Bultan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA</div><div>Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA</div><div>Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA</div>
<div>Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div>Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA</div><div>Vittorio Cortellessa, Universitš dell'Aquila, Italy</div><div>Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden</div>
<div>Marcelo d'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil</div><div>Giovanni Denaro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</div><div>Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames, USA</div><div>Bernd Fischer, University of Southampton, UK</div>
<div>Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</div><div>Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria</div><div>Lars Grunske,University of Kaiserslautern</div><div>Arie Gurfinkel, SEI / Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div>
<div>Robert Hall, AT&T Labs Research, USA</div><div>Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center, USA</div><div>Anna Liu, NICTA, Australia</div><div>David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore</div>
<div>Michael Lowry, NASA Ames, USA</div><div>Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA</div><div>Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</div><div>Hong Mei, Peking University, China</div><div>Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA</div>
<div>Charles Pecheur, Universit_ catholique de Louvain, Belgium</div><div>John Penix, Google, USA</div><div>David Redmiles, University of California, Irvine, USA</div><div>Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</div>
<div>Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan</div><div>Beverly Sanders, University of Florida, USA</div><div>Anita Sarma, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA</div><div>Alex Telea, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</div>
<div>Nikolai Tillman, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div>Richard Torkar, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden</div><div>Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa</div><div>Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA</div>
<div>Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA</div><div>Albert Zuendorf, University of Kassel, Germany</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Join us at ASE 2011 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA</div>
<div>The 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="http://www.ase-conference.org">http://www.ase-conference.org</a></div>
<div>----</div><div><br></div><div>Ajitha Rajan, <a href="mailto:ajitha.rajan@comlab.ox.ac.uk">ajitha.rajan@comlab.ox.ac.uk</a>,</div><div>Oxford University Computing Laboratory</div><div>Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD</div>