[AISWorld] CIBSE 2023

[CIBSE 2023]

CALL FOR PAPERS

26th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2023)

Montevideo, Uruguay, April 24-28, 2023

https://conf.researchr.org/home/cibse-2023

NEW Doctoral symposium : The possibility for doctoral students to attend
on-line will be allowed!

IMPORTANT DATES

Main track

Abstract submission: January 8th, 2023

Paper submission: January 16th, 2023

Notification: March 6th, 2023

Camera-ready: March 17th, 2023

Doctoral Symposium and Journal First

Paper submission: February 6th, 2023

Notification: March 13th, 2023

Camera-ready: March 24th, 2023

CIbSE is the leading research forum on Software Engineering (SE) in
Ibero-America. The primary goal of this conference is to promote
high-quality scientific research in Ibero-American countries and, thus, to
support the researchers in this community in publishing and discussing
their work. Also, the conference fosters collaboration and scientific
research among academics, students, and practitioners from the industry.

CIbSE 2023 will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, and it will include
keynotes from influential researchers of the Software Engineering community
and will be held in conjunction with three satellite events: a Doctoral
Symposium, the 6th edition of the Advanced Ibero-American School on
Software Engineering (EIbAIS), and Industry Talks. The Doctoral Symposium
is organized to discuss work in progress of Ph.D. theses related to the
general area of Software Engineering. EIbAIS combines lectures and
tutorials on the current trends in Software Engineering by renowned
speakers. The Industry Talks aim at approximating academics and
practitioners from the local community to discuss state-of-the-practice
Software Engineering topics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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   Application of artificial intelligence to software engineering
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   Continuous software engineering practices (e.g., agile development and
   DevOps)
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   Empirical software engineering
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   Formal methods applied to software engineering
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   Human and social aspects of software engineering
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   Mining software repositories and software analytics
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   Model-driven software engineering
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   Requirements engineering
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   Search-based software engineering
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   Software architecture
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   Software dependability
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   Software economics
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   Software ecosystems and systems-of-systems
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   Software engineering education and training
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   Software engineering for emerging application domains (e.g., artificial
   intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, cyber-physical
   systems, IoT, and quantum computing)
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   Software engineering in the industry
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   Software maintenance and evolution
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   Software metrics and measurement
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   Software processes
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   Software product lines
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   Software quality and quality models
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   Software reuse
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   Software testing
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   Technical debt management


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite authors to submit high-quality research papers describing
significant, original, and not previously published results on Software
Engineering in any of the official CIbSE languages: English, Spanish, and
Portuguese.

The following paper categories are welcome.

Technical papers (not exceeding 15 pages): papers describing innovative
research on the conference's topics. Papers in this submission category
should describe a novel contribution to the topics and carefully support
novelty claims with citations to the relevant literature.

Technical papers will be evaluated by originality, soundness, relevance,
the importance of contribution, the strength of validation, quality of
presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. If a submission
builds upon the previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new
contribution must be described clearly concerning the previous work. In
addition, technical papers need to discuss openly how the results were
validated.

Emerging Ideas papers (not exceeding 8 pages): papers describing new,
non-conventional approaches that depart from standard practice on the
conference topics. They are intended to describe clear research ideas early
in the investigation.

Emerging ideas papers will be assessed primarily on their level of
originality and potential for impact on the field regarding promoting
innovative thinking. Hence, inadequacies in the state-of-the-art and the
pertinence, correctness, and impact of the idea must be described
precisely. While the idea described does not need to be fully validated, a
presentation of preliminary results that provide initial insights into the
feasibility and the impact of the idea is expected.

Any paper not in the scope of the conference, not following the formatting
guidelines, or was submitted or published in any other forum (conference or
journal) will be desk-rejected without review. All other submissions will
be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

Among the technical articles presented at the conference, a set of the best
articles will be selected for publication in a WoS-indexed journal.
Additionally, the best paper will receive an award certificate.

Submission

All papers must be submitted through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2023), using PDF format only.
Submissions must be formatted according to the style of the Brazilian
Computing Society for conference papers  (
https://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos
).

The accepted papers will be included in the proceedings made available
online by the Digital Open Library of the Brazilian Computing Society - SOL
(https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/anais) and Curran Associates (
http://www.proceedings.com/) and later indexed by DBLP and Scopus.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the
camera-ready deadline. One registration corresponds to only one paper. An
author of each accepted paper must present in person, or the paper will be
excluded from the proceedings. If an author has more than one accepted
paper, paying 50% of the registration for the second and following
co-authored papers is possible.

Journal First

Authors of papers on the topics of interest of the conference and accepted
in Q1 or Q2 JCR journals are invited to present their research work at
CIbSE. This opportunity allows the authors to discuss their work with the
community and enrich the technical program of CIbSE. Presentations of
journal-first papers will be included in CIbSE 2023 main track.

The main evaluation criterion for selecting journal-first papers is the
description of original results that are not extensions of previous
conference papers. In addition, the paper must have been accepted for
publication in the journal no earlier than January 1st, 2022, and must not
have been presented at any other conference as a journal-first contribution.

At least one author per selected journal-first paper must register and
attend the conference to present it.

Authors interested in presenting journal first papers at CIbSE 2023 must
submit their proposals in PDF format through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2023). The following
information must be provided: (i) paper title; (ii) list of authors; (iii)
keywords; (iv) journal and information about its impact factor and its
rank; (v) DOI; (vi) abstract, and; (vi) a short statement on how the work
satisfies the criteria above.

Doctoral Symposium

The Doctoral Symposium aims at disseminating research-in-progress conducted
by novice researchers. A board of experts will discuss with the researchers
to suggest new perspectives and improvements to the Ph.D. theses.

The submitted research can address any of the CIbSE 2023 research topics.
Although it is not compulsory, we recommend that the research is at an
intermediate stage (~ 2nd year) so that experts’ suggestions could be
included in the Ph.D. work.

The suggested paper structure is as follows:

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   Introduction to the field of research and identification of the main
   challenges therein
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   Explicit formulation of the research questions and objectives justifying
   why they were chosen
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   Outline the current knowledge of the problem domain as well as the state
   of existing solutions
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   Sketch of the research methodology that is being applied
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   Introduction of the proposed solution and the results achieved so far
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   The statement in what aspects the suggested solution is different or
   better as compared to existing approaches
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   An indication of the outstanding issues and a description of the planned
   next steps
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   Provision of a list of references

Doctoral Symposium papers shall be authored by the doctoral candidate
exclusively (thus, the supervisor's name should not be included). All
papers must be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2023). Submissions must be
written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Moreover, the papers must not
exceed eight pages and must be formatted according to the style of the
Brazilian Computing Society for conference papers  (
https://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos).
Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. The
authors of accepted papers must register by the camera-ready deadline, and the
author can present the paper online or in person (hybrid format).

EIbAIS

The Advanced Ibero-American School on Software Engineering (EIbAIS)
represents the CIbSE initiative to disseminate Software Engineering
knowledge in Ibero-America. It started as a natural evolution of the CIbSE
tutorials and short courses.

EIbAIS aims to promote a forum for discussions related to Software
Engineering and its related technologies and theoretical foundations via
the participation of practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students,
and researchers. The lectures are presented by volunteers contributing to
the CIbSE community and spreading Software Engineering knowledge in
Ibero-America.

EIbAIS is organized into two categories of sessions: state-of-the-practice
and state-of-the-art modules.

The modules regarding the state-of-the-practice offer discussions on topics
of general interest and usually represent local demand. These modules
support knowledge sharing and practical issues with the participants,
presenting evidence-based software engineering results to the audience.
Examples of state-of-practice topics include User-Centered Design, DevOps,
Internet of Things, Microservices, and Software Engineering for Data
Science.

The modules regarding the state-of-the-art offer discussion on topics of
prospective interest and usually represent the perspectives of the Software
Engineering research & innovation community. In addition, these modules
intend to provide information on ongoing and next-to-coming Software
Engineering technologies candidates that could represent breakthrough
concepts in the field. Examples of state-of-the-art topics include the same
topics of interest at the conference.

All participants participating in sessions will get a certificate of
participation indicating the modules, lecturers, and contents.

Industry Talks

The Industry Talks aim at providing the industry and practitioners with the
means to present and discuss their current work addressing real-world
applications of Software Engineering. Talk exploring best practices,
problems and solutions, emerging challenges in the industry, and other
Software Engineering-related topics are welcomed. Practitioners and
researchers are invited to work together to explore how Software
Engineering processes, methods, techniques, and tools can provide the
industry with better solutions.

GENERAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Conference Chairs

Martin Solari (Universidad ORT, Uruguay)

Diego Vallespir (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Program Chairs

Giovanni Giachetti (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)

Breno Bernard Nicolau de França (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Journal First Chairs

Gleison Santos (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Unirio),
Brazil)

Ignacio Panach (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Sheila Reinehr (Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR) ,Brazil)

Aurora Vizcaíno (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

EIbAIS Chairs

Andrea Delgado (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)

Marcos Kalinowski (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
(PUC-Rio) , Brazil)

Industry Talks Chairs

Cecilia Apa (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)

Silvana Moreno (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)

Proceedings Chair

Christian Quesada-López (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica)

Publicity Chairs

Silverio Martinez  (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Daniel Calegari  (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)

Adolfo Gustavo Serra Seca Neto (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
(UTFPR), Brazil)

Web Chairs

Sebastián Pizard (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)