ESEM 2019: International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Hotel Armação Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, September 19-20, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.eseiw2019.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esem2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 18, 2019 |
Submission deadline | April 25, 2019 |
Emerging Results, Vision and Industry papers | June 10, 2019 |
Journal First | July 1, 2019 |
The ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) is the premier conference for presenting research results related to empirical software engineering. ESEM provides a stimulating forum where researchers and practitioners can present and discuss recent research results on a wide range of topics, in addition to exchanging ideas, experiences and challenging problems. The 13th edition of ESEM will be held in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, from September 19th to 20th, 2019 as part of the Empirical Software Engineering International Week (September 16th to 20th, 2019) with several co-located events:
• Annual International Software Engineering Network (ISERN) meeting
• International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE)
• International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE)
Submission Guidelines
Technical Papers
The ESEM Technical Papers track features submissions that describe original, unpublished work in software engineering and software measurement, with a strong empirical foundation. Papers in this track should communicate fully developed research and related results. Strong emphasis should be given to the methodological aspects of the research and the discussion on the validity of results.
Abstract April 18, 2019
Submission April 25, 2019
Notification June 6, 2019
Camera-ready June 27, 2019
Emerging Results
These papers should promote current work in progress on research and practice. Papers on emerging results should communicate initial research results for which there is not yet a complete evaluation. Complete work should be submitted as a Technical Paper. Emerging results papers should clearly state the longer-term objectives and planned work as well as expected results. The primary purpose of such papers is the communication of new ideas to obtain early feedback from the empirical software engineering community.
Submission June 10, 2019
Notification July 14, 2019
Camera-ready July 28, 2019
Vision Papers
The emphasis of these will be on long-term challenges and opportunities in empirical software engineering research that are outside of current mainstream topics of the field. Unlike the other submissions, vision papers should not consider incremental improvements or evaluations of current practices but propose ingenious ways to extend the applicability of techniques in empirical software engineering and/or challenge the existing explicit or implicit assumptions in this field. The goal of vision papers is to describe how empirical software engineering research and practice will look at least ten years from now.
Submission June 10, 2019
Notification July 14, 2019
Camera-ready July 28, 2019
Industry Papers
The ESEM Industry Papers track features submissions that describe original, unpublished work in software engineering and software measurement, empirically observed in the industry. Papers in this track should communicate fully experienced cases and related results in the industry. Strong emphasis should be given to the industrial scenario and the description of experiences.
Submission June 10, 2019
Notification July 14, 2019
Camera-ready July 28, 2019
Journal-first Submissions
After the successful editions of Journal-First presentations at ESEM 2017 and 2018, ESEM has formed partnerships with prestigious software engineering journals to more formally incorporate journal-first papers into the ESEM program. Through this partnership, authors of journal-first papers accepted in the partnering journals can apply to present their work at ESEM. These presentations will allow the authors to speak directly to their peers and will provide additional exciting content to the ESEM program.
The journals that have partnered with ESEM are:
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Information and Software Technology
- Journal of Systems and Software
- IEEE Software
In addition to the general scope of the conference, journal-first presentation submitted to ESEM 2019 must observe the following criteria:
- The paper reports completely new research results or presents novel contributions that significantly extend and were not previously reported in prior work (or has been designed a “journal-first” paper by the publishing journal).
- The paper does not extend prior work solely with additional proofs or algorithms (or other such details presented for completeness), additional empirical results, or minor enhancements or variants of the results presented in the prior work.
- The journal version was accepted to one of the participating journals no earlier than August 1, 2018.
- The paper has not been presented at and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences.
Submission July 1, 2019
Notification July 31, 2019
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted via EasyChair in the PDF format, and they must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for conference proceedings, which can be found at:
IEEE manuscript templates for conference proceedings
For all papers (except Journal-First papers), a structured abstract is required with the headings: Background, Aims, Method, Results, and Conclusions. Papers should contain an explicit description of the empirical strategy used or investigated. The submission must also comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures and the IEEE Policy on Authorship. In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ESEM.
ESEM 2019 will employ a double-blind review process (except for Journal-First papers). Thus, regular submissions may not reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind review process. In particular, the authors’ names must be omitted from the submission and references to their prior work should be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process can be found on the conference website.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts from the international program committee of each track and will receive an additional meta-review. Any papers that are outside the scope of the symposium, exceed the maximum number of pages for the respective category, or do not follow the formatting guidelines will be desk rejected without review.
Finally, please note that each accepted contribution must have a minimum of one author registered (at the full conference rate) by the deadline for the camera-ready submission for their respective paper type. Note that registration for the conference is per paper rather than per author, i.e., if you have more than one paper accepted for the conference, then you will need to register and pay for each paper accepted. Also, each paper must be presented by one of the authors, in person, in Porto de Galinhas. Failure to meet these criteria will result in the paper’s removal from the proceedings.
Submissions will be accepted by EasyChair. Authors should select the right track when submitting. Specific guidelines for each track are shown below:
Technical Papers: submissions in this track are limited to 10 pages excluding references and 12 pages with references.
Industry Papers: Submissions to this track are limited to 6 pages.
Emerging Results and Vision Papers: Submissions to this track are limited to 6 pages.
Journal-first Submissions: submissions to this track are limited to 2 pages presentation proposal consisting of the following information: paper title, authors, abstract, the name of the journal that accepted the paper, pointer to the original paper, and the justification for why this work is relevant to the ESEM audience.
List of Topics
In addition to the specific scope of each track, submissions may address any aspect of software engineering but must tackle the problem from an empirical perspective and using a rigorous empirical method, including:
- Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
- Cross- and multi-disciplinary methods and studies
- Experiments and quasi-experiments
- Case studies, action research, ethnography and field studies
- Survey research
- Simulation
- Artifact studies
- Data mining, machine learning, and AI-based approaches
- Secondary and tertiary studies including
- Systematic literature reviews that include a strong synthesis part
- Meta-analysis, qualitative and quantitative synthesis of studies
- Replication of empirical studies and families of studies
Topics commonly addressed using an empirical approach include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluation and comparison of software technologies
- Evaluation and comparison of software development methods, techniques, and practices
- Modeling, measuring, and assessing product and/or process quality
- Modeling, measuring, and assessing software development productivity
- Defect and quality prediction
- Software cost and size estimation
- Software evolution
- Software verification and validation, including analysis and testing
- Evaluation and modeling of contemporary software systems (IoT, Industry 4.0, Context-Awareness Systems, Cyber-physical, among others)
- Human factors, teamwork, and behavioral aspects of software engineering
We welcome submissions on these meta-topics:
- Development, evaluation, and comparison of empirical approaches and methods
- Infrastructure for conducting empirical studies
- Techniques and tools for supporting empirical studies
- Empirically-based decision making
We also welcome submissions that:
- demonstrate multi-disciplinary work,
- transfer and apply empirical methods from other disciplines,
- replication studies, and
- studies with negative findings.
Committees
General Co-Chairs
Fabio Q. B. da Silva, CIn/UFPE, Brazil
Guilherme H. Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
Program Co-Chairs
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Hakan Erdogmus, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Emerging Results and Vision Papers Co-Chairs
Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy
Marcos Kalinowski, PUC-RJ, Brazil
Industry Papers Co-Chairs
Daniela Cruzes, SINTEF, Norway
Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil
Journal First Co-Chair
Davide Falessi, Cal Poly, US
Proceedings Chair
Cleviton Monteiro, UFRPE, Brazil
Publicity Co-Chairs
Breno Bernard N. de França, UNICAMP, Brazil
David Lo, SMU, Singapore
Maya Daneva, UTwente, Netherlands
Web and Social Media Chair
Marcos Cardoso, UFRPR, Brazil
Organising and Financial Co-Chairs
Márcio de Oliveira Barros, UNIRIO, Brazil
César França, UFRPE, Brazil
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Chairs of specific tracks.