SER&IP 2018: 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-June 3, 2018 |
Conference website | https://serip2018.github.io/# |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serip2018 |
Submission deadline | February 5, 2018 |
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of Software Engineering (SE) research and Industrial Practice (IP), and advance collaboration to reduce the gap between research and practice. Research and business are coupled for the software companies which are transforming intellectual property into products, services and business concepts. However, proper synchronization is often missing between SE research and practice. Therefore, the challenges are to identify the gaps and to discover ways of improving collaboration, for the mutual benefit of research and industrial practice.
Different perceptions and expectations are obstacles to collaboration between SE researchers and practitioners. Researchers have a view that practitioners are reluctant to share real industry data due to confidentiality agreements. Practitioners believe that researchers are mostly working on either dated or futuristic theoretical challenges which are very far from IP. Researchers believe that practitioners are looking for quick fixes to their problems instead of using systematic methods or engaging in-depth research. Practitioners have a view that case studies in research do not represent the complexities of real projects and have doubts in the results produced by research. Researchers expect good problems along with real industry data and a few years to generate good publications which may affect a specific domain in a limited way. Practitioners expect a quick general solution which must earn substantial profit immediately. Researchers and practitioners need to overlap research and practice to build trust in their partnership. This workshop is a platform to discuss and address such challenges.
Topics/Scope
The workshop will have paper presentations, practitioners’ talks and round table discussions. Both researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers and talk proposals on topics related to the workshop. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Business models and/or collaboration mechanisms between researchers and practitioners
- Challenges, issues, bottlenecks and gaps in adoption of research
- Examples of what industry wants from research and what research wants from industry
- Existing research and systematic methods which are beneficial but ignored by the industry
- How each side can participate in the issues, needs, and demands of the other
- National and cultural differences in collaborations
- Practical challenges having potential for research
- Stories and practices from SE research-practice partnerships
Submission Guidelines
SER&IP 2018 is soliciting regular and short papers as well as talk proposals. Regular papers should not exceed 8 pages, short papers should not exceed 4 pages and talk proposals from practitioners should not exceed two-page extended abstract and 15 minutes presentation or video. Papers must follow the ACM formatting instructions. Please submit the papers in PDF format on EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serip2018
Papers should be original and unpublished material describing innovative and mature research results, experience reports, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions, ongoing work, new ideas, new results and future trends. All submissions will be reviewed by three program committee members. The program committee will review all papers for impact, lessons learnt, scale of knowledge/technology transfer, novelty, quality, relevance, and their potential to trigger discussions at the workshop.
The accepted workshop papers, both regular and short, will be published in the ICSE companion proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present the paper at the workshop in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2018. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Committees
Program Committee
- Aiko Yamashita, Oslo and Akershus Univ. College of Applied Sciences, Norway
- Amanda Jane Gregory, University of Central Lancashire, UK
- Avinash Kak, Purdue University, USA
- Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden
- Emilie Engström, Lund University, Sweden
- Freddy Munoz, Amazon, USA
- Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Jason Zhang, Nanjing University, China
- Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, USA
- Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany
- Judith Bishop, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Laurence Duchien, University of Lille, France
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Matt Staats, Google, Switzerland
- Paddy Krishnan, Oracle Labs, Australia
- Pete Rotella, Cisco, USA
- Ravi Khadka, Accenture, Netherlands
- Razieh Behjati, Testify AS, Norway
- Sagar Sen, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
- Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota, USA
- Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services, India
- Yuetang Deng, WeChat Tencent, China
Organizing committee
- Rakesh Shukla, Creating Innovators, India
- Dusica Marijan, Simula Research Laobratory, Norway
- Markus Borg, RISE SICS AB, Sweden
- Ye Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA