VEM 2021: 9th Workshop on Software Visualization, Evolution and Maintenance Joinville, Brazil, September 27-October 1, 2021 |
Conference website | https://vemworkshop.github.io/vem2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vem2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 16, 2021 |
Submission deadline | July 16, 2021 |
Author notification | August 11, 2021 |
Camera-ready | August 18, 2021 |
The 9th Workshop on Software Visualization, Maintenance and Evolution (VEM 2021) aims at fostering the integration of the software visualization, evolution and maintenance communities, providing a forum where researchers and practitioners from academia and industry can present their work and exchange ideas on the principles, practices and innovations related to their respective areas of interest. VEM is also a great opportunity for strengthening research group collaborations, as well as identifying new research opportunities.
In 2021, VEM will be held, for the second time, in a virtual format. VEM is co-located with the 12th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft 2021).
Submission Guidelines
VEM provides a forum where researchers and practitioners from academia and industry can present and discuss research related to topics on software visualization, maintenance, and evolution. Papers presenting studies, tools, datasets, or innovative ideas are welcome. Experimental evaluation of new tools and ideas is desirable, but it is not a precondition to submit a paper to the workshop. VEM encourages the submission of research in progress and preliminary results.
Papers can be written in Portuguese or English (Portuguese papers do not need an English abstract). Submissions in English are strongly encouraged so that your research can be accessed by non-Portuguese speaking researchers.
Submissions must be no longer than 5 pages including all text, tables, figures, appendices, and references. All papers must be submitted in PDF Format and formatted with the ACM 2-column conference format available at ACM template for VEM. LaTeX users must use the sample-vem.tex file as the main.tex file. Word users should use interim-layout-vem.docx.
For the double-blind review process, submissions must not reveal the authors' identities. In particular, the authors’ names and affiliations must be omitted in the title page and hearders of the paper, and references to their prior work should be in the third person. If you want to make available any artifact in time for submission, please make it anonymous. There are existing tools for doing that easily, for instance, Anonymous GitHub, which is an open source tool that helps you to quickly double-blind GitHub repositories. VEM encourages authors to make artifacts publicly available, and if the authors want to do so but do not want to take the risk to break the double-blind review process, they are invited to add the artifacts' links in the camera-ready versions in case of paper acceptance.
Papers must be submitted electronically through EasyChair at this page. Submitted papers must be unpublished and should not be under review elsewhere.
List of Topics
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Education on software maintenance and evolution
- Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution
- Industrial experience with using software visualization
- Integration of software visualization tools with development environments
- Mining software repositories
- New technologies applied to software visualization
- Program comprehension
- Program repair
- Software analytics
- Software architecture
- Software evolution analysis
- Software migration and renovation
- Software quality assessment
- Software refactoring and restructuring
- Software reverse engineering and reengineering
- Software testing and debugging
- Source code analysis and manipulation
- Source code change analysis
- Source code readability and legibility
- Static and dynamic source code visualization
- Visualization of or to support software development activities (e.g., software testing)
- Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education
Committees
Program Committee
- To be defined.
Organizing committee
- Fernanda Madeiral (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Felipe Ebert (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Invited Speakers
- Roberta Coelho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
- Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta, Canada)
Publication
VEM 2021 proceedings will be published in the SBC OpenLib (SOL) digital library.
Venue
VEM 2021 will be held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to vemworkshop@gmail.com.