The Sixth Workshop on Software Visualization, Maintenance, and Evolution (VEM 2018) aims at bringing together the research communities interested in topics related to Software Visualization, Software Evolution, and Software Maintenance to share and discuss ideas, reflecting on alternatives to perform visualization, evolution, and maintenance of software systems. VEM is also a great opportunity for strengthening research group collaborations, as well as identifying new research opportunities. VEM is co-located with the 9th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft 2018).

Submission Guidelines

The VEM workshop accepts technical papers (up to 8 pages) written in English or in Portuguese. All papers must be submitted in PDF format and formatted according to the SBC template (available at http://vem2018.github.io/paper_template/template_sbc.rar).

Submitted papers must be unpublished and should not be under review elsewhere. Experimental evaluation of the results is desirable, but it is not a precondition to submit a paper to the workshop. Papers with innovative and promising proposals are welcome. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the workshop and present the paper. The workshop proceedings will be published online available from CBSoft 2018 page.

Double-Blind Submission

For the first time, VEM 2018 will follow a double-blind review process.

How to prepare the blinded manuscript

First, both author names and affiliations must be omitted from the manuscript. Besides, there are other rules that have to be considered to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind review:

• Uses the third person to refer to your own related work.
• You should anonymize the reference to your previous work in the submitted manuscript. For example, cite papers published by the authors in the manuscript as follows: "based on the previous work [Anonymous 2018]".
• The reference list should be presented as: "Anonymous (2018) Details omitted for double-blind reviewing".
• You should not relying on supplementary material. However, whether you need to make available any artifact, please anonymize it and the respective website.

In case you have any doubt about the preparation of your manuscript following the double-blind rules, do not hesitate to send an email to vemworkshop@gmail.com.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to vemworkshop@gmail.com.