Early Research Achievement Track
The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) Track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting great, promising ideas in early stages of research. Ideally, the ICPC ERA Track seeks papers challenging the status quo of program comprehension with new research directions and provocative ideas. The ERA track is the perfect place for a paper that aims to set the agenda for a new line of research and a series of future papers. In principle, this track addresses the same topics of interest as those of the Technical Research Track. ERA submissions are intended to describe a single and well-defined idea at an early stage of investigation. As opposed to regular research papers, ERA papers are not intended to serve as a vehicle for the dissemination of research results. Submissions to the ERA track should describe research in progress. Ideally, ERA authors will combine research topics in new ways, establish connections to other fields outside of classical program comprehension, as well as argue for the importance of program-comprehension research in new areas.
Format and Submission
Submissions should clearly focus on the new, proposed idea or emerging results, their impact on the field at large, and future research directions. An ERA paper is not expected to have a solid and complete evaluation as in the Technical Research Track. Naturally, preliminary results providing initial support for the proposed idea are welcome. Papers submitted to the ERA track must not have been previously accepted for publication or submitted for review to another conference, journal, or book. Submissions must be four-pages long, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions must be uploaded electronically in PDF format here. All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. Please use either this Word Template or this Latex package (please notice these have been updated on date Jul 29 2014). Make sure that you use US letter page format. Latex users: please use \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} (without option 'compsoc' or 'compsocconf'). Please, do not use the templates available on the IEEE website, since they are not conform to the ones agreed for ICSE and ICPC.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
ERA papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the ERA Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation (if available), quality and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Special emphasis will be put on the originality and timeliness of the proposed contribution, and even though an evaluation of the proposed idea is welcome, it is not required.
Publication and Presentation
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. At least one author of the paper must register and present the paper at the conference; otherwise the paper will be excluded from both the program and the proceedings. The papers will be presented in a formal setting. More details on the presentations will follow the notifications. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings, which will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library. The best paper in the ERA Track at ICPC 2015 will have the opportunity to be revised and extended for consideration in a special issue of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering published by Springer.
Important Dates
Paper Submission: February 20th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 (Extended)
Author Notification: March 15th, 2015
Camera Ready: March 30th, 2015
Track Chairs
Gabriele Bavota, Michael Collard
Program Committee
The College of William & Mary, VA, USA
University of Macedonia
Iowa State University
University of Sannio
Kent State University
Eindhoven University of Technology
The University of Texas at Dallas
Concordia University
Concordia University
ABB, Inc
Youngstown State University
CS, NcState
Delft University of Technology