Short Papers Track - Call for Papers

The Short Papers Track provides an opportunity for sharing valuable early-stage work with the ICMSE community, eliciting feedback, and fostering discussions and collaborations among researchers interested in the broad area of Software Maintenance and Evolution.

The scope of research topics of this track is the same as for the main conference. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-progress to discuss ongoing research, negative results, practical experience, challenges or issues related to software maintenance and evolution. The papers in this track do not require a strong empirical evaluation.

We use the double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. This means that authors should:

• Leave out author names and affiliations from the body and the metadata of the submitted pdf.
• Ensure that any citations to related work by themselves are written in the third person, for example “the prior work of XYZ” as opposed to “our prior work [2]”.
• Not refer to their personal, lab or university website; similarly, care should be taken with personal accounts on GitHub, Bitbucket, Google Drive, etc.
• Not upload unblinded versions of their paper on archival websites during bidding/reviewing, however uploading unblinded versions prior to submission is allowed and sometimes unavoidable (e.g., thesis).

Please see the Double-Blind Reviewing FAQ for more information and guidance.

Submissions must be in English and conform to the ICSME 2019 Formatting Instructions.

Papers must not exceed 5 pages including all text, appendices, figures, tables and references.

All submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted via the ICSME 2019 EasyChair conference management system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme19.

Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be rejected without being reviewed. Submitted papers must comply with IEEE plagiarism policy and procedures. Papers submitted to the ERA track must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSME 2019.

All authors, reviewers, and organizers are expected to uphold the IEEE Code of Conduct.

All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings of the ICSME 2019 conference and presented at the main conference.