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CALL FOR PAPERS - IWESEP 2017


The 8th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering
in Practice
https://iwesep2017.github.io/


March 13, 2017, Tokyo, Japan
Co-located with ICST 2017
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The objective of the 8th International Workshop on Empirical Software
Engineering in Practice (IWESEP) is to foster the development of the area by
providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can report on and discuss
new research results and applications in the area of empirical software
engineering. The workshop encourages the exchange of ideas within the
international community to better understand, from an empirical viewpoint, the
strengths and weaknesses of technology in use and new technologies, with the
expectation of furthering the field of software engineering.


The workshop focuses on the process, design, and structure of empirical studies
as well as the results of specific studies. The workshop welcomes both original
and replicated studies, varying from controlled experiments to field studies,
from quantitative to qualitative. We solicit the following two types of
submissions: full research papers (max 6 pages) for oral presentations and
abstracts (max 700 words) for poster presentations. Please check the website for
more information.

Accepted research papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an IEEE catalog number and ISBN number. 
The proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication.


Note that IWESEP 2017 is organized independently from ICST 2017 official workshops.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Empirical studies of software process and product
- Comparison of cost estimation techniques
- Analysis of the effects of design methods and characteristics
- Evaluation of the readability of coding styles
- Development, derivation and/or comparison of organizational models of
  software development
- Evaluation of testing methodologies
- Evaluation of automated patch generation techniques.
- Reports on the benefits derived from using software development environments
- Development or comparison of predictive models for software quality (defects, vulnerabilities, and reliability) from real data
- Infrastructure issues, such as measurement theory, experimental design,
  qualitative modeling and analysis approaches
- Experiences with research methods such as grounded theory, protocol studies
  or families of experiments
- Industrial experience in process improvement
- Quality measurement
- Process modeling and applications in industry
- Experience management


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Submission:

All submissions must use IEEE templates and should be submitted through
EasyChair.
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwesep2017


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Important Dates:

Full research paper
- Abstract submission: December 7th, 2016 (AOE)
- Paper submission: December 11th, 2016 (AOE)
- Notification: January 18th, 2017 (AOE)
- Camera Ready: January 28th, 2017 (AOE)

Fast abstract
- Submission: January 31th, 2017 (AOE)
- Notification: February 5th, 2017 (AOE)

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Organization


General Chair:
- Eunjong Choi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Program Co-Chairs:
- Masao Ohira (Wakayama University, Japan)
- Jaechang Nam (University of Waterloo, Canada)


Publication Chair:
- Sousuke Amasaki (Okayama University, Japan)


Registration Co-Chairs
- Patanamon Thongtanunam (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Xin Yang (Osaka University, Japan)


Local Arrangement Chair:
- Hideshi Sakaguchi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Kiyoshi Honda (Waseda University, Japan)
- Makihara Erina (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Finance Chair:
- Akinori Ihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Norihito Kitagawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Kyohei Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Web Co-Chairs:
- Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Natthawute Sae-Lim (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)


Social Networking Chair
- Kazuhiro Yamashita (Kyushu University, Japan)


Student Staff Chair:
- Yuhao Wu (Osaka University, Japan)


Publicity Co-Chairs
- Daniel Alencar da Costa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
- Eun-Hye Choi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
- Andrea Mocci (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
- Shinpei Hayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)


Steering Committees:
- Akinori Ihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Yasutaka Kamei (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Shinsuke Matsumoto (Osaka University, Japan)
- Masateru Tsunoda (Kinki University, Japan)
- Raula Gaikovina Kula (Osaka University, Japan)
- Hideaki Hata (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Advisory Committees:
- Katsuro Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)
- Shinji Kusumoto (Osaka University, Japan)
- Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Program Committees:
- Aiko Yamashita (CWI, Netherlands & Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway)
- Akinori Ihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Andrea Mocci (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
- Bogdan Dit (Boise State University, USA)
- Bram Adams (MCIS, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
- Cor-Paul Bezemer (Queen’s University, Canada)
- Daniel German (University of Victoria, Canada)
- David Lo (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
- Foutse Khomh (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
- Olga Baysal (Carleton University, Canada)
- Osamu Mizuno (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Patanamon Thongtanunam (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Shane McIntosh (McGill University, Canada)
- Shin Hong (Handong University, South Korea)
- Shinpei Hayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Steffen Herbold (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- Thomas Zimmermann (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Weiyi (Ian) Shang (Concordia University, Canada)
- Yasutaka Kamei (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Yepang Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
- Yoshiki Higo (Osaka University, Japan)
- Zhen Ming Jiang (York University, Canada)