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The sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT
2018)<br>
<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS:<br>
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Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is<br>
to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of<br>
approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including<br>
software development practices, evolution, structure, and software<br>
runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently<br>
interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information<br>
visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software<br>
engineering domain. <br>
<br>
The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for<br>
publishing and discussing research related to software visualization.<br>
VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software<br>
engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and<br>
human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations,<br>
algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software<br>
visualization. <br>
<br>
This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a<br>
variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software<br>
systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical<br>
studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel<br>
ideas and tools.<br>
<br>
VISSOFT topics of interest include:<br>
* Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for<br>
analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code,<br>
dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like<br>
StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime<br>
logs, and DevOps data.<br>
* Visualization to support software development activities, including<br>
design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software<br>
testing, and debugging.<br>
* Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization<br>
* Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education<br>
* Integration of software visualization tools with development
environments<br>
* Empirical evaluation of software visualizations<br>
* Industrial experience with using software visualization<br>
* Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization,<br>
including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and<br>
machine learning.<br>
<br>
We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results.<br>
Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program<br>
committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New<br>
Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted<br>
submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE<br>
Digital Library.<br>
<br>
<br>
-== Technical papers ==-<br>
<br>
A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature<br>
research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a<br>
technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all<br>
figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not<br>
include the bibliography, which is not limited in length.<br>
<br>
The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the<br>
paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors<br>
who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their
paper <br>
if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the
video <br>
should be provided.<br>
<br>
Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to<br>
reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made.<br>
<br>
After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, <br>
data, model, etc.). The following section provides more info about it. <br>
<br>
Important Dates:<br>
Abstract submission date: May 1, 2018<br>
Paper submission date: May 8, 2018<br>
Author response period: June 1 - June 5, 2018<br>
Notification: June 15, 2018<br>
Submission link: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018"
id="LPlnk909415" previewremoved="true">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018</a><br>
<br>
-== Artifacts ==-<br>
<br>
Traditionally, technical research papers are published without<br>
including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.),<br>
even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence<br>
for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers.<br>
Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted<br>
technical papers at VISSOFT 2018 can have their artifacts evaluated by<br>
the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be<br>
reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally<br>
announced during the conference. A paper with an accepted <br>
artifact will have five extra minutes of presentation which can <br>
be used to present the artifact. The authors will also be invited <br>
to demo the artifact also during the interactive informal demo <br>
session organized for the tool demo track.<br>
<br>
Given the short time between the acceptance notification and the
deadline to submit the artifact, we suggest the authors to start
preparing it beforehand.<br>
<br>
Finally, for more information about the artifact evaluation process <br>
visit <a href="http://www.artifact-eval.org" id="LPlnk984875"
previewremoved="true">
http://www.artifact-eval.org</a>.<br>
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Important Dates:<br>
Artifact submission: June 22, 2018<br>
Artifact notification: July 11, 2018<br>
Submission link: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018"
id="LPlnk665216" previewremoved="true">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018</a><br>
<br>
-== NIER and Tool papers==-<br>
<br>
We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas
and<br>
Emerging Results) and Tool contributions.<br>
The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary<br>
exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even<br>
provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas<br>
or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have<br>
to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography).<br>
Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of<br>
software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool<br>
construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights.<br>
Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the<br>
conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast<br>
(e.g., YouTube or Vimeo video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages
long<br>
(including bibliography).<br>
<br>
Important Dates:<br>
Paper submission date: June 11, 2018<br>
Notification: July 2, 2018<br>
Submission link: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018"
id="LPlnk906859" previewremoved="true">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018</a><br>
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Manuel Rubio Sánchez
Profesor Contratado Doctor
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación,
Arquitectura de Computadores,
Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos y
Estadística e Investigación Operativa
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