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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link=blue vlink=purple style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute widely]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>========================== First Call for Papers ==========================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:126.0pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>PROMISE'13<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>The 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:84.0pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Oct 9, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-left:105.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://promisedata.org/2013/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://promisedata.org/2013/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-left:105.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>(Co-located with ESEM 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Abstracts due: April 05, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Submissions due: April 12, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Author notification: June 10, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready copy due: June 28, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>KEYNOTE SPEAKER:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Tom Zimmermann, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>PROMISE conference is an annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, expertise and experiences in construction and/or application of prediction models in software engineering. Such models could be targeted at: planning, design, implementation, testing, maintenance, quality assurance, evaluation, process improvement, management, decision making, and risk assessment in software and systems development. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>PROMISE is distinguished from similar forums with its public data repository and focus on methodological details, providing a unique interdisciplinary venue for software engineering and machine learning communities, and seeking for verifiable and repeatable prediction models that are useful in practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>SPECIAL THEME: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>The special theme of PROMISE’13 is predictions across projects, contexts and organizations, where the predictions employ approaches (e.g. transfer learning, instance selection, data filtering) with an impact that is useful in practice, in order to solve the problem of learning under concept drift (across time and space). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>TOPICS OF INTEREST:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* (Application oriented): Predicting for cost, effort, quality, defects, business value; quantification and prediction of other intermediate or final properties of interest in software development regarding people, process or product aspects; using predictive models in policy and decision making; using predictive models in different settings, e.g. lean/agile, waterfall, distributed, community-based software development.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* (Theory oriented): Interdisciplinary and novel approaches to predictive modeling that contribute to the theoretical body of knowledge in software engineering; verifying/refuting/challenging previous theory and results; the effectiveness of human experts vs. automated models in predictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* (Data and model oriented): Data quality, sharing, and privacy; ethical issues related to data collection; metrics; contributions to the repository; model construction, evaluation, sharing and reusability; tools and frameworks to support researchers and practitioners to collect data and construct models to share/repeat experiments and results. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>KINDS OF PAPERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>We invite all kinds of empirical studies on the topics of interest (e.g. case studies, meta-analysis, replications, experiments, simulations, surveys etc.), as well as industrial experience reports detailing the application of prediction technologies and their effectiveness in industrial settings. Both positive and negative results are welcome, though negative results should still be based on rigorous research and provide details on lessons learned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Following the tradition, PROMISE'13 will give the highest priority to empirical studies based on publicly available datasets. It is therefore encouraged, but it is not mandatory, that conference attendees contribute the data used in their analysis to the on-line PROMISE data repository. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>We solicit both full and short papers. Short papers are intended to disseminate new ideas, on-going work and preliminary results for early feedback, and do not necessarily require complete results as in full papers. The deadline for short papers is the same as full papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>SUBMISSIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* Submissions must be original work, not published or under review elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* Submissions must conform to the ACM SIG proceedings templates from <a href="http://goo.gl/wE1k">http://goo.gl/wE1k</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* Submissions must not exceed 10 (4) pages for full (short) papers including references.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* Papers should be submitted via Easychair (please choose either “full” or “short” papers): <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=promise2013">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=promise2013</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>* Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>SPECIAL ISSUE:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>The venue for the special issue is TBA. Previous PROMISE special issues have appeared in IEEE Software, Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Information and Software Technology Journal, and Automated Software Engineering Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>ORGANIZATION:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart (General Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Burak Turhan, University of Oulu (PC Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ye Yang, Chinese Academy of Science (Publicity Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ayse Bener, Ryerson University (Local Org. Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Programme Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ayse Bener, Ryerson University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Christian Bird, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>David Bowes, University of Hertfordshire<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Daniela Da Cruz, University of Minho<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Massimiliano Di Penta, RCOST - University of Sannio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Harald Gall, University of Zurich<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Tracy Hall, Brunel University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Mark Harman, University College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Rachel Harrison, University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Jacky Keung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Sunghun Kim, The Univ. of Hong Kong Science and Tech.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ekrem Kocaguneli, West Virginia University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Lech Madeyski, Wroclaw University of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Kenichi Matsumoto, Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Tim Menzies, West Virginia University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Leandro Minku, The University of Birmingham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Thomas Ostrand, AT&T Labs - Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Daryl Posnett, UC Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Daniel Rodriguez, The University of Alcalá<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Guenther Ruhe, University of Calgary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Federica Sarro, University College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Carolyn Seaman, UMBC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Martin Shepperd, Brunel University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Qinbao Song, Xi'an Jiaotong University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ayse Tosun Misirli, University of Oulu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Burak Turhan, University of Oulu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Ye Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Yuming Zhou, Nanjing University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>