[AISWorld] [CfP] EMMA-V 2017 @ ESEC/FSE - Intern. Ws. on Empirical Methods for MAintainability Validation

Thu Apr 20 10:38:54 EDT 2017

                                 Call for papers
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    International Workshop on Empirical Methods for MAintainability 
Validation
                              EMMA-V @ESEC/FSE 2017

                               Paderborn, Germany
                                September 5, 2017

              https://sdq.ipd.kit.edu/conferences_and_events/emma_v/

                     Deadline for Submissions: May 19, 2017
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The Workshop on Empirical Methods for MAintainability Validation 
(EMMA-V) is about empirical case studies and empirical methods on 
software maintainability. Maintainability is across many application 
domains economically one of the most relevant quality attributes of 
software. Unlike other software quality attributes, e.g., performance 
it is hard to predict as well as to measure. This workshop therefore 
asks for papers on empirical case studies and methods to model, 
analyse, predict and measure maintainability. The organisers see in 
community-accepted benchmark example systems a great value. Such 
example systems could be used to systematically evaluate and compare 
novel methods from research on software maintainability. In addition, 
real-world examples on specific maintainability challenges experienced 
in real-world projects are of high value and interest. Hence, the 
workshop tries to bring together practitioners and researcher dealing 
with real-world software maintainability projects, empirical case 
studies or maintainability community examples.

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MOTIVATION

Software Evolution is an established field in software engineering. 
Various conferences and workshops exist over decades. However, means 
for the empirical validation of methods to improve maintainability or 
to measure maintainability are still lacking. Consequences are, among 
others, a lack of validated metrics for maintainability, highly 
inaccurate estimation methods for evolution costs as well as unclear 
impact and applicability of methods to improve software evolution. In 
case of e.g., the quality attribute performance, a comparison of the 
model and the related benchmark provides the desired corrections to 
arrive at a better design solution. These kinds of models and 
benchmarks are not available in the case of the quality attribute 
evolvability. It becomes clear that the serious lack of established 
empirical methods to validate such metrics, models and methods exists 
in research. Neither controlled experiments involving humans nor 
software performance engineering are investigated in the domain of 
evolving system at large.

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GOALS

Our main intention for this workshop is to share and discuss concepts, 
tools, methods, and techniques specifically dedicated for the 
empirical validation of software evolution research. Secondly, we are 
interested in experiences and studies of empirical validations of 
research results.

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TOPICS

Submissions of two kinds (i) methods of empirical validation for 
research in software maintainability and (ii) reports on the 
application of empirical research methods applied to research in 
software maintainability are welcome. We ask for original 
contributions from research and industry including, but not limited 
to:

* Empirical methods specifically tailored for the empirical validation 
of research in software maintainability
* Case study proposals for community accepted example systems
* Discussion of the feasibility of controlled experiments
* Validations of research with empirical methods
* Experiences in the applications of empirical methods, in particular 
planned or executed case studies, for example from the fields
   * Co-Evolution / life cycle management
   * Run-time models
   * Knowledge carrying software/models/code
   * Variability-awareness
   * Security aspects
* Industry experience reports from real-world projects

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VENUE

EMMA-V 2017 is held in conjunction with ESEC/FSE 2017 (11th Joint 
Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM 
SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering) in 
Paderborn at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Germany.

http://esec-fse17.uni-paderborn.de/venue.php

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WORKSHOP FORMAT

To stimulate fruitful discussions upon each presentation, each paper 
is assigned a devil's advocate, who is supposed to prepare a set of up 
to three controversial questions, and to step into the discussion when 
appropriate. In addition, we allocate one additional discussion slot 
of 30 minutes at the end of the workshop to address common issues 
raised during the presentations or for related research questions.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

The workshop solicits novel research and industry papers with a 
maximum length of 10 pages (including figures, tables, appendices and 
references) in conformance to the ESEC/FSE 2017 Format and Submission 
Guidelines.

The international program committee of the workshop will perform a 
peer review of submitted papers with two reviews per paper. As a 
result the most suitable and relevant papers will be invited for 
presentation at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted 
paper must register and present the paper at the workshop in order for 
the paper to be published in the workshop proceedings.

Paper submission will be managed with the Easychair submission system 
under: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emmav2017

Please indicate which type of paper you submit: research or industry.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: May 19, 2017
Notification: June 23, 2017
Camera-Ready Submission: July 3, 2017
Workshop: September 5, 2017

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ORGANISERS

Ralf H. Reussner
reussner at kit.edu
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Michael Goedicke
michael.goedicke at s3.uni-due.de
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Lukas Märtin
l.maertin at tu-braunschweig.de
TU Braunschweig, Germany

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ASSOCIATED TO

EMMA-V is associated to the DFG Priority Programme 1593: Design for 
Future - Managed Software Evolution.
http://www.dfg-spp1593.de

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