IWSM-MENSURA 2023: International Workshop on Software Measurement and Conference on Software Measurement Product Measurement Frentani Congress Center Rome, Italy, September 14-15, 2023

IWSM-MENSURA is the premier international conference on software measurement. Over the past three decades, the conference has built its reputation by attracting leading-edge researchers, leaders, and innovators with talks, tutorials, and discussions. The main goal is to share experiences, challenges, and solution approaches to facilitate technology transfers from best measurement and estimation-related practices developed by researchers and world industry experts. IWSM-MENSURA is one of the pioneer conferences in attracting industry participation, with each year 50-60% of its participants from the industry, either as speakers or as attendees. Therefore, IWSM-MENSURA is quite unique in its rich discussions on the applicability of theoretical measurement research in the field.

Submission Guidelines

Important Dates

• Submission due: June 11, 2023
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 15, 2023
• Final version: August 1, 2023

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be done electronically in PDF format via the IWSM 2023 Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsmmensura2023. All submissions must adopt the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published with CEUR-WS.  An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. 

You can also download an offline version with the style files from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. It also contains DOCX template files. Please use 1-column style. Submissions can be full papers, short papers, and industry presentations. All papers must be in English, and must be at least 10 pages for full papers and 5-9 pages for short papers and industry presentations. The title page must contain a short abstract clarifying the relation of the paper with the topics above.

Paper submissions must be original contributions that have neither been published previously nor submitted to other conferences or journals while being submitted to IWSM-MENSURA 2023. 

Authors are encouraged to adhere to the best practices of reproducible research, by making available data and related tools for reproducing the results reported in their papers.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper. Final paper presentations must be submitted one week before the conference to allow posting them on the conference website on time for the conference itself.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Proposals

IWSM-MENSURA 2023 is inviting proposals for high-quality workshops to complement its scientific program. Workshop proposals must fall within the broad area of Software Measurement and Estimation and we welcome workshops tackling the development of consensual approaches to measurement in domains which would benefit from standardization to ensure comparability and trustiness in measurement results. Workshop organizers are highly encouraged to include interactive and hands-on working sessions.

The organizers of approved workshops are responsible for the planning of their workshops, identifying contributing experts, soliciting ‘position papers’, proposing discussion topics supported by documented inputs when available, setting discussions objectives, documenting participants suggestions and contributions and suggesting post-workshop activities and goals. 

• Organizers are expected to be present to attend, run, and manage their workshops. 
• Conference facilities such as meeting rooms, wireless Internet and meals will be provided by the IWSM-MENSURA conference organization.

Submission Instructions : Workshop proposals should include the following information:

1. General Information

• Title of the workshop
• Organizers and primary contact (name/affiliation/email)
• Abstract (200 words) - for the IWSM-MENSURA conference website, 
• Expected length of the workshop (full day, half day)

2. Objectives and Scope

• Goals of the workshop including a list of possible workshop sub-topics;
• References when available. 
• Call for Position papers (typically 1-page expressing an opinion-vision-suggestion of sub-topics to be discussed within the main workshop topic.

3.  Workshop Format

• Format of the workshop (paper-based, discussion-based, invitation-based, work sessions, or similar); at least 1 hands-on session is highly recommended.
• Format of hands-on session(s) (demos, brainstorming, discussions, case elaboration, etc.)

Any questions about submissions can be emailed to: sergio.dimartino@unina.it                                

• Submission of proposals: May 1, 2023
• Notification of proposal acceptance: May 15, 2023

CALL FOR TUTORIAL Proposals

IWSM-MENSURA 2023 is inviting proposals for TUTORIALS in a broad range of Software Measurement and Software Estimation topics.  Conference participants include researchers and practitioners who are seeking to gain insight and knowledge of up-to-date software measurement techniques and of their usages as well as estimation models and processes.

All tutorial proposals must include the following information:

• Title of the Tutorial
• Contact information of the presenters (name, affiliation, email, mailing address, phone)
• Abstract outlining the goals and content of the tutorial (max 250 words)
• Definition of intended audience and assumed background and knowledge.
• Overview of the tutorial structure, list of topics covered, and short description of learning objectives/outcomes.
• Biographies of presenter(s), including information regarding their expertise relevant to the tutorial.
• Duration of tutorial, from 1 hour to a half-day (3 hours) in length.
• Sample slides of the tutorial, if available.

Tutorial facilities such as meeting rooms will be provided by the IWSM-MENSURA conference organization.

Any questions about tutorial submissions can be emailed to: sergio.dimartino@unina.it                               

• Submission deadline of proposals: May 1, 2023
• Notification of proposal acceptance: May 15, 2023

List of Topics

We invite proposals from researchers and practitioners in all fields of software measurement. We particularly encourage proposals from experienced industry practitioners and researchers on the state-of-the-art and the future of Information Technology cost estimation and control. The topics of concern are listed in (but not limited to) the following:

• Benchmarking
• Data-driven decision making
• Data Science and Data Analytics
• Decision support systems based on software measurement
• Effort estimation based on early size approximation
• Effort estimation for Artificial Intelligence software
• Effort estimation for Industry 4.0 software
• Empirical studies
• Formal estimation in Agile environments
• Measurement and Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence
• Measurement and estimation practices in Agile software development
• Measurement automation
• Measurement processes and resources, e.g., Agile or model-driven
• Measurement theory for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Measurement-as-a-service
• Measuring and quantifying value
• Measuring technical debt
• Measuring the software for the Industry 4.0 projects
• Monitoring and evaluation in the era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Portfolio estimation
• Resources (cost, effort, time) Estimation
• Service-and product-oriented measures
• Sizing Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
• Sizing software ecosystems
• Software measurement and cost estimation in Artificial Intelligence
• Software measurement and cost estimation in Blockchain, Game development, Metaverse building, and other emerging technologies
• Software measurement data mining
• Software size approximation techniques
• Trends in software estimation
• Usage of Big Data Analytics for improving products and processes
• Visualizations and dashboards

Organization

General chairs

• Luigi Buglione, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy
• Filippo De Carli, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy

Organization Committee

• Paola Billia, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy
• Biagio Nocito, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy
• Luigi Buglione, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy
• Filippo De Carli, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy
• Guido Moretto, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy

Finance chair

• Gianfranco Lanza, GUFPI-ISMA, Italy

Program chairs

• Gabriele De Vito, University of Salerno, Italy
• Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy
• Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno, Italy

Workshop chair

• Sergio Di Martino, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Publicity chairs

• Giusy Annunziata, University of Salerno, Italy
• Francesco Casillo, University of Salerno, Italy
• Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Proceedings chairs

• Huseyin Unlu, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
• Gorkem Kilinc Soylu, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

Steering Committee

• Alain Abran, Ecole de technologie supérieure / ÉTS - University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
• Onur Demirors, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
• Reiner R. Dumke, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

Program Committee

• to be announced

Publication

IWSM-MENSURA 2023 proceedings will be published in CEURS

Venue

The conference will be held in Frentani Congress Center Rome, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fferrucci@unisa.it