[ecoop-info] [CFP] First International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2012)

[Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence
Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2012)

In Conjunction with ICSE 2012
http://promisedata.org/raise/2012

Important Dates

Paper submission: 17 Feb 2012
Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2012
Camera ready paper: 29 March 2012
Workshop date: 5 June 2012

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This workshop brings together researchers from the AI and SE communities in
order to explore the 

interdisciplinary synergies which exist and to stimulate collaboration and
future research across 

the disciplines. The workshop is both timely and opportunistic, and will
help to promote a new 

community with interdisciplinary research directions.

Motivation
As SE is asked to answer dynamic, automated, adaptive, and/or large scale
demands, other computer 

science disciplines come in to play. AI is a discipline that may bring SE
new benefits. 

Conversely, SE can also play a role in alleviating development costs and the
development effort 

associated with AI tools. Such mutually beneficial characteristics have
appeared in the past few 

decades and are still evolving due to new challenges. One example of an AI
technique missing in SE 

is the application of cognitive psychology to the creation of knowledge
acquisition tools. 

On the other hand, SE has resulted in tools and methodologies that can build
large and complex 

systems. Prior research in AI suffered from too many prototypes and not
enough deployed systems. 

We assert that SE has much to offer AI about systems engineering and
scalability of methodologies. 

Hence, we propose this RAISE crossover workshop where the state of the art
in both fields is 

documented and extended. Thus this workshop will explore not only the
application of AI techniques 

to software engineering problems but also the application of software
engineering techniques to AI 

problems. 

Topics of interest
In particular, we wish to stimulate discussion, thoughts and subsequent
collaboration on the 

following themes applied to software engineering:

* Testing and quality assurance
* Spectra-based software diagnosis
* System dynamics and simulation models
* Software metrics applied to AI techniques
* Rapid prototyping and scripting for AI techniques
* Cost analysis and risk assessment in software projects
* Software for knowledge acquisition and representation
* Knowledge representation, ontologies, reasoning and other semantic aspects
in software 

engineering
* Software specification, design, integration and requirement engineering
* Assessing the quality of datasets (imbalance, noise, missing values, etc.)
* Cognitive psychology for requirements engineering and knowledge
engineering
* Machine Learning, Optimisation and Computational Intelligence techniques
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Submission

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=raise12

Ten position papers will be chosen for 15 minute presentations followed by
approximately 5 minutes 

of critical discussion from the attendees. Position papers will be
distributed to attendees prior 

to the workshop. Following presentation of the position papers, the
participants will be split 

into two Working Groups, and each will be given a specific question to focus
on, taken from the 

workshop themes.

Following the workshop the authors of the best papers will be invited to
extend their position 

papers into full journal papers, for a Special Issue of the Software Quality
Journal, edited by 

Tim Menzies and Marjan Mernik.

Workshop Organiser
Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University, UK

SQJ Special Issue Editors
Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Workshop Co-chairs
Pedro Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain

Local Organiser
Daniela da Cruz, University of Minho, Portugal

Publicity Chair
Shih-Hsi “Alex” Liu, California State University, USA

Proceedings
Maria Joao Varanda, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Keynote
Mark Harman, UCL.


Programme Committee
Wasif Afzal, BTH, Sweden
Antonio Bahamonde, University of Oviedo, Spain
Lionel Briand, Simula, Norway
Francisco Chicano, University of Malaga, Spain
David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Jim Davies, University of Oxford, UK
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
J P Faria, University of Porto, Portugal
Bernd Fischer, University of Southampton, UK
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Mark Harman, University College London (UCL), UK.
Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Israel Herraiz, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Radu Marinescu, University of Timisoara, Romania
Emilia Mendes, Zayed University, UAE
Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Giovani Liberlotto, Fed University of St Maria, Brazil
Juan Pavon, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Rajeev Raje, IUPUI, USA
Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada
Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, UK
Richard Torkar, BTH, Sweden
Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK
Yuming Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Bin Zhou, University of Maryland, USA