Technical Research Track
The research track of ICPC 2015 promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and to discuss state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program comprehension. Topics of interest include but are not limited to
- Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments and case studies;
- Individual, team, collaborative, distributed, and adversarial program comprehension;
- Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as web-based systems, open source, mash-ups, legacy systems, product lines, and systems of systems;
- Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, reengineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;
- Novel interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and visualization;
- Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;
- Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation;
- Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry;
- Tool support for program comprehension.
Format and Submission
Submissions must be 10 pages long for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages. 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. Submissions must be in PDF format and must be submitted online via the ICPC 2015 EasyChair conference management system here.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
Submissions for the research track should describe original and significant work in the research or practice of program comprehension. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. Theoretical results, empirical research, such as case studies and experiments, and experience reports are most welcome. Papers must not have been previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library and get a presentation slot.
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 full research papers at ICPC 2015 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a special issue of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) by Springer. Authors of selected papers are expected to comply with the standard guidelines for submitting an extended version of a paper, which includes amongst others the addition of approximately 30% new material.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: January 19th, 2015
Paper Submission: January 26th, 2015 January 30th, 2015 (Extended)
Author Notification: March 9th, 2015
Camera Ready: March 30th, 2015
Track Chairs
Program Committee
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Université de Montréal, Canada
Microsoft Research, USA
University of Passau, Germany
Loyola University Maryland, USA
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
Queen's University, Canada
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
University of Sannio, Italy
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
University of Waterloo, Canada
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
University College London
Montclair State University, USA
University of Alberta, Canada
Clarkson University, USA
Osaka University, Japan
Wichita State University, USA
Queen's University, Canada
University of Bremen, Germany
Osaka University, Japan
University of Lugano, Switzerland
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Kent State University, USA
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
University of Notre Dame, USA
Simula Research Laboratory, Norwey
Delft University of Technology
Wayne State University, USA
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
University of Delaware, USA
The College of William and Mary, USA
University of Saskatchewan
Youngstown State University, USA
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST- Italy
Concordia University, Canada
University of California, USA
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Microsoft Research, USA