Tool Demonstration Track
The Tool Demo track provides a valuable opportunity for live presentations of industry-strength tools, academic prototypes or fully developed products being prepared for commercialization, as long as the demo focuses on the research-related aspects of the tool. We especially encourage tool demonstration proposals that complement full technical papers. Whereas a technical paper is intended to give the background information and point out the scientific contribution of a new program comprehension approach, a Tool Demo track submission provides a unique opportunity to show how the scientific approach has been transferred into a working prototype. Any of the conference topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations.
Format and Submission
Submissions of proposals for tool demonstration must
- adhere to the conference proceedings format (proceedings style);
- have a maximum of 4 pages that describe the first five criteria above;
- be accompanied by a 3-to-5 minute screencast, either with annotations or voice-over, that provides a concise version of the tool demo scenario
The screencast should be posted on YouTube (private, not shared), and its URL should be clearly mentioned in the 4 page paper. Optionally, the video could be hosted on the tool’s website, in which case this website should be referenced in the paper.
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
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the tool demonstration program committee. The committee will review each submission on its merits regarding the following criteria
- relevance to program comprehension
- clear design goals/requirements
- architecture of the tool
- (if available) existing experiments or case studies using the tool
- discussion of related work and tools
- quality and clarity of the demonstration scenario, as shown in the screencast (see below)
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. Accepted tool demonstrations will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings, and will have the possibility to be presented in a formal setting (official demo) as well as an informal setting (on-demand questions).
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: February 16th, 2015
Paper Submission: February 20th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 (Extended)
Author Notification: March 15th, 2015
Camera Ready: March 30th, 2015
Track Chairs
Program Committee
IME - USP
Kyushu University
Delft University of Technology
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
SAIL, Queen's University
University of Notre Dame
University of Montreal
Boise State University
Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged
CQSE GmbH