Workshop Proposals
Scope and Goal
The 2016 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Workshops provide a forum for a group of 20-50 participants to discuss topics in software engineering research and practice. ICSE Workshops will provide opportunities for researchers to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference or journal publication. ICSE Workshops also serve as incubators for scientific communities that form and share a particular research agenda.
ICSE 2016 Workshops may be either one or two days long and may be held before or after the main conference. Participation in ICSE workshops is typically open. ICSE 2016 workshops can produce workshop proceedings to be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Proposal Submissions
Proposals must not exceed five pages in length, must follow the ICSE 2016 formatting and submission instructions and must include the following information, in the order specified:
4 pages
- full contact information for all organizers of the workshop and main contact person;
- desired length of the workshop (i.e., one or two days);
- desired workshop date(s) and scheduling constraints (workshops can be scheduled before or after the main conference);
- outline of the themes and goals of the workshop, including a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the ICSE 2016 web site;
- concise motivation of the workshop's relevance to the field of software engineering;
- participant solicitation and selection process, including whether the workshop will be open or closed;
- desired minimum and maximum number of workshop participants, expected number of participants, and (in case of previously held workshops) number of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the workshop;
- structure of the workshop and plans for generating and stimulating discussion;
- links to preliminary web site of the workshop and call for papers;
- a list of program committee members, including proposed and committed members;
- any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints;
- a brief description of each organizer's background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops.
1 page
- the call for submissions for the workshop.
All proposals must conform at time of submission to the ICSE 2016 formatting and submission instructions, and must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices and figures, plus 1 extra page for the draft call-for-submissions.
All proposals must be submitted electronically through the online submission site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icse2016workshops.
Workshop proposals must be submitted electronically by the deadline below under Important Dates.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
For Accepted Workshops
For all accepted workshops, ICSE 2016 strongly recommends uniform deadlines for workshop paper submission, notification of authors, and camera-ready copies, as follows:
Workshop paper submissions due: January 22, 2016
Notification to authors: February 19, 2016
Camera-ready copies due: February 26, 2016
- Note that the Camera ready deadline is mandatory for those workshops that will opt for publication in the ACM Digital Library.
- Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2016 formatting and submission instructions and must have a maximum length of seven (7) pages.
- For workshops that will opt for publication in the ACM Digitial Library prior to the event, the call for submissions must include the following statement: “The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2016. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.”
- ICSE 2016 will not pay for registration, travel, or other arrangements for workshop organizers or any of their invited speakers or guests.
- All participants, including workshop organizers, keynote speakers, and invited guests, must register for the workshop.
- Workshop organizers cannot submit (refereed) papers to their own workshop.
Important Dates
Workshop submissions:
- Workshop proposals submission deadline: October 10, 2015
- Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: November 20, 2015
For accepted workshops:
Preliminary workshop web page(s) set up: November 30, 2015
Workshop call for papers out: November 30, 2015
Recommended deadlines to be set by the organizers of accepted
workshops:
Workshop paper submissions due: January 22, 2016
Notification to authors: February 19, 2016
Required deadline:
Camera-ready copies due: February 26, 2016
Workshops Committee
Marija Mikic (Co-Chair) Google Los Angeles, United States
Mauro Pezzè (Co-Chair) Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland -- University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
Committee members
Rob Deline, Microsoft, USA
Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH Postdam Germany
Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Spain
Sam Malek, George Mason University USA
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois Urbana Champain USA
Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST- Italy
John Penix, Google, Mountain View
Claudia Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Chen Zhenyu, Nanjing University China
