<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Important news: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Paper submission deadline of Transfer '13 extended to <span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(227, 36, 0); ">August 25th, 2013!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">============================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Call for Papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">(Transfer'13) The International Workshop on Transfer Learning in Software Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Silicon Valley, California</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://promisedata.org/transfer/13/">http://promisedata.org/transfer/13/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">November 12th, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">In association with the 28th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://ase2013.org/">http://ase2013.org/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">============================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">About the Workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Why is generality so hard to find in software engineering? Do such general principles exist </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">(and we just have not found them yet)? Or are we doomed to a perpetual revision of all </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">our coding and management practices for each new project? On this issue, we can identify </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">two feuding schools of thought. Globalists and localists use different strategies for learning </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">best practices. Globalists learn lessons once from all data then reuse those lessons at multiple </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">sites, whereas localists learn best practices many times from local data and use them only at </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">a single site (which implies that project managers must devote their scant resources to a </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">"local lessons team" that pursues best local practices).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">This workshop will focus on the following issue:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Whose strategy is best for finding project-specific best practices: the globalists or the localists? </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Or perhaps it is best to combine both approaches. It is certainly important to learn best practices </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">from past projects. However, it is just as important to know how to transfer and adapt that </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">experience to current projects. No project is exactly like previous projects -- hence, the trick is </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">to find which parts of the past are most relevant and can be transferred into the current project.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Topics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Topics of interest are theoretical foundations and practical approaches related, but not limited, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">to the integration of the transfer learning and software engineering. While our focus is on </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">automatic methods, we are also interested in hybrid human/computer methods.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Submission</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">We invite submissions in either of the following forms:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-- Research papers presenting novel approaches with new research results (maximum 8 pages including references).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-- Position papers describing new ideas not yet fully developed or preliminary tool support </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; "> (maximum 4 pages including references).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Submitted papers must be written in English, should not have been submitted for review or </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">published elsewhere, and must conform to the ACM SIG proceedings templates </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Submissions are accepted via Easy Chair. Submit your paper at </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transfer13">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transfer13</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Proceedings & Journal Special Issue</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and available electronically </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">via ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors of best </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers to a journal</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">special issue, TBD.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Important dates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Aug 25: Submission date</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Sept 15: Notification of acceptance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Sept 23: Early registration deadline, ASE 2013 (note approx date. Check on ASE website)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Oct 10: Final version due (note: hard deadline)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Nov 12: Workshop date</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Organizing Committee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Tim Menzies, West Virginia University (General Chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Leandro Minku, The University of Birmingham (PC Chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Ye Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (PC Chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Zhimin He, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Publicity and Social Media Chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Fayola Peters, West Virginia University (Publications Chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Program Committee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">-----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Ayse Bener, Ryerson University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Burak Turhan, University of Oulu</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Chris Lokan, University of New South Wales</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">David Bowes, University of Hertfordshire</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Ekrem Kocaguneli, West Virginia University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Federica Sarro, University College London</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Gregory Gay, University of Minnesota</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Harald Gall, University of Zurich</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Jacky Keung, City University of Hong Kong</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Leandro Minku, The University of Birmingham</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Sinno Jialin Pan, Institute for Infocomm Research</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Tracy Hall, Brunel University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Tim Menzies, West Virginia University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Ye Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences</div></body></html>