[AISWorld] SoftwareMining-2012: Submission deadline approaching

[Zeng Fan-Jiang]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SoftwareMining-2012: The First International Workshop on Software Mining

(Held in conjunction with KDD-2012 , Beijing, China, August 12-16, 2012)

http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/softmine12/

(Submissions Due: 23:59 (PDT), May 14, 2012)
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Software systems have been playing important roles in business, scientific
research, and our everyday lives. It is critical to improve both software
productivity and quality, which are major challenges to software
engineering researchers and practitioners. In recent years, software mining
has emerged as a promising means to address these challenges. It has been
successfully applied to discover knowledge from software artifacts (e.g.,
specifications, source code, documentations, execution logs, and bug
reports) to improve software quality and development process (e.g., to
obtain the insights for the causes leading to poor software quality, to
help software engineers locate and identify problems quickly, and to help
the managers optimize the resources for better productivity). Software
mining has attracted much attention in both software engineering and data
mining communities.

The first International Workshop on Software Mining aims to bridge research
in the data mining community and software engineering community by
providing an open and interactive forum for researchers who are interested
in software mining to discuss the methodologies and technical foundations
of software mining, approaches and techniques for mining various types of
software-related data, applications of data mining to facilitate
specialized tasks in software engineering. The participants of diverse
background in either data mining or software engineering can benefit from
this workshop by sharing their expertise, exchanging ideas and discussing
new research results.

Authors who are interested in software mining are invited to submit their
manuscripts related to all aspects of software mining including software
mining foundations, mining specific software data, software mining in
specialized tasks, etc.

The best submission, according to the evaluations from the PC members,
would be granted the "SoftwareMining-2012: Best Paper Award".


Topics
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The first International Workshop on Software Mining (SoftwareMining-2012)
calls for research papers reporting original investigation results,
real-world applications and system development experience in all aspects of
software mining. The topics of the SoftwareMining-2012 submissions may
roughly fall into three major aspects, including 1) Methodological and
technical foundations of software mining, 2) Approaches and techniques for
mining various types of software-related data, and 3) Applications of data
mining to facilitate specialized tasks in software engineering. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:

    A. Software mining foundations
        A1. Novel data mining methodologies / algorithms for software
analytics
        A2. Software mining models and techniques
        A3. Robust and Highly Scalable Algorithms for Mining Large Scale
Software System
        A4. Understanding and visualizing software mining results
        A5. Privacy preserving software mining

    B. Mining specific software data
        B1. Mining software specifications
        B2. Mining source code
        B3. Mining execution traces and logs
        B4. Mining change patterns and trends
        B5. Mining bug and crash reports
        B6. Mining natural language artifacts in software data

    C. Software mining in specialized tasks
        C1. Mining for software defect identification and characterization
        C2. Mining for software testing and debugging
        C3. Mining for cost/effort estimation
        C4. Mining for software development and reuse
        C5. Mining for resource allocation
        C6. Mining for process control



Paper Submission and Publication
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Each submission should be no more than 8 pages total in length, consisting
of title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, an up to 200-words
abstract, up to 5 keywords, and a body with all contents, figures, tables,
and references. The format should be keep the same as the KDD main track
format, which is the standard double-column ACM Proceedings Style.
Additional information about formatting and style files is available online
at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. All
manuscripts must be submitted electronically in a single PDF file using the
conference management tool. Please make sure that any special fonts used
are included in the submitted documents. Detailed instructions will be
available soon on the SoftwareMining-2012 website (
http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/softmine12/).

For accepted papers, authors are required to prepare their final
submissions for the workshop proceedings according to the reviewers'
suggestions. All the accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital
Library (and EI-indexed as well).



Important Dates
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    * Paper Submission Deadline:    23:59 (PDT), May 14, 2012
    * Author Notification:                23:59 (PDT), June 1, 2012
    * Camera Ready Deadline:            23:59 (PDT), June 8, 2012



Organizing Committees
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    Co-Chairs:

    * Ming Li, Nanjing University, China
    * Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
    * David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Program Committee:

    * Mithun Acharya, ABB Research, USA
    * David M. Andrzejewski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    * Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
    * Qiang Fu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
    * Lingxiao Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
    * Sunghun Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    * Jian-Guang Lou, Microsoft Research Asia, China
    * Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
    * Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA
    * Tien N. Nguyen, Iowa State University, USA
    * Lin Tan, University of Waterloo, Canada
    * Suresh Thummalapenta, IBM Research India, India
    * Min-Ling Zhang, Southeast University, China
    * Alice Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
    * Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA
    * Zhengyu Zhang, Institute of Software of CAS, China
    * Yuming Zhou, Nanjing University, China
    * Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA



Contact
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For further information, please visit the symposium website at
http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/softmine12/. Any questions, comments and
suggestions should be directed to softmine2012 at gmail.com.
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