ICSE 2016 Austin :: Demonstrations Call for Submissions

Demonstrations Call for Submissions

The objective of the ICSE 2016 Demonstrations Track is to excite the software engineering community about new advances in our field through compelling demonstrations that help advance research and practice. The track is a highly interactive venue where researchers and practitioners can demonstrate their tools and discuss them with attendees.

Tool-based demonstrations describe novel aspects of early prototypes or mature tools. The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the following information to the audience:

the envisioned users;
the software engineering challenge it proposes to address;
the methodology it implies for its users; and
the results of validation studies already conducted for mature tools, or the design of planned studies for early prototypes.

Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to the traditional ICSE research papers. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including details such as implementation and usage issues, data models and representations, APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper.

Evaluation

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations selection committee.
The evaluation criteria include:

the relevance of the proposed demonstration for the ICSE audience;
the technical soundness of the demonstrated tool (for a tool demo);
the quality of its presentation in the associated video; and
the degree to which it considers the relevant literature.

How to Submit

Submissions must conform to the ICSE 2016 formatting and submission instructions. In particular, submissions of demonstrations papers must meet the following criteria:

A demonstration submission may not exceed four pages (including all text, references, appendices, and figures).
Each submission MUST be accompanied by a short video (between three and five minutes long) illustrating the demonstration. The video should be made available online at the time of submission. Videos should (i) provide an overview of the tool’s capabilities; (ii) walk through (some of) the tool capabilities; (iii) where appropriate, provide clarifying voice-over and/or annotation highlights; and (iv) be engaging and exciting for the watcher!
A submission may not have been previously published in a demonstration form.
The paper submission must be in PDF.
Papers must be submitted electronically by November 20, 2015 through the online submission site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsedemos16.
At the end of the abstract, please append the URL at which your demo video can be found. Please note that for consistency, we require that ALL videos be uploaded to YouTube and made accessible during the time of reviewing.

Accepted Demonstration Submissions

Authors of successful submissions will have the opportunity to revise both the paper and the video (and its hosting location) by the camera-ready deadline. The paper will be published in the ICSE 2016 Companion Proceedings and in the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. The official publication date of the 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 the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. For examples of previously successful short videos, please see the following:

For further information, please email icsedemos@easychair.org

Important Dates

Submission deadline: November 20, 2015
Notification deadline: January 22, 2016
Camera ready copy deadline: February 13, 2016

Demonstrations Co-Chairs

Aditya Nori, Microsoft Research, adityan@microsoft.com
Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, yfcai@cs.drexel.edu

Formatting and submission instructions

Submissions must conform to the ICSE 2016 formatting and submission instructions, and must not exceed 4 pages including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.

Program Committee

Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto, Canada
Joshua Garcia, George Mason University, USA
Milos Gligoric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
Aditya Kanade, Indian Institute of Science, India
Akash Lal, Microsoft Research India, India
Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
Jian-Guang Lou, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Mehdi Mirakhorli, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Todd Mytkowicz, Microsoft Research, USA
Martin Naedele, ABB Power Systems, Switzerland
Adrian Nistor, Chapman University, USA
Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
Rahul Purandare, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University, USA
Baishakhi Ray, University of California, Davis, USA
Raghu Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Minghui Zhou, Peking University, China
Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia, Australia