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Empirical Software Engineering - Call for Papers: SANER '24

EMSE Special Issue for the “International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2024)”

  • Fabio Palomba, (University of Salerno, Italy), fpalomba@unisa.it;
  • Ipek Ozkaya, (Carnegie Mellon University, United States), ozkaya@sei.cmu.edu.

Description of the Special Issue

Software analysis, evolution, and reengineering encompass the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems, the exploration of innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and the examination of innovative ways of using this information in system renewal and program understanding.

The special issue invites submission on novel and innovative research results and industrial experience papers in the area of software Analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We especially encourage the submission of extended papers from the 31st International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2024).

The evaluation of papers will be based on:

  • Underlying methodological soundness and rigor;
  • Novelty of the work;
  • The quality of the reporting;
  • Strength of empirical evaluation/basis;
  • Significance and reproducibility of the results.

Submission Topics

  • Software Engineering for AI
  • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance
  • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction
  • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering
  • Program Comprehension
  • Software Evolution Analysis
  • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting
  • Program Transformation and Refactoring
  • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics
  • Software Visualization
  • Software Reconstruction and Migration
  • Software Maintenance and Evolution
  • Program Repair
  • Software Release Engineering
  • Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • Empirical studies on all the above topics
  • Education related to all of the above topics
  • Legal aspects

Schedule

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 First Round Review Due: January 19, 2025 Author Revision Due: April 19, 2025 

Submission Instructions

Papers should be submitted through the [Empirical Software Engineering editorial manager website](http://www.editorialmanager.com/emse/) (http://www.editorialmanager.com/emse/) as follows 

(1) select “Research Papers” and 

(2) later on the Additional Information page: Answer “Yes” to “Does this paper belong to a special issue?” And select “SANER-2024" for "Please select the issue your manuscript belongs to." In the cover letter, please explicitly explain why the submission fits with the special issue and, in case of extensions, what is the additional research with respect to the conference version. EMSE encourages open science and reproducible research for this special issue. 

Please see the [Open Science Initiative] (https://github.com/emsejournal/openscience) for further information. For formatting guidelines as well as submission instructions, visit [http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10664?detailsPage=pltci_2530593](http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10664?detailsPage=pltci_2530593) 

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