SSBSE 2013 - Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering

We invite the submission of high quality papers describing original and significant work in all areas of Search Based Software Engineering, including theoretical work, research on SBSE applications, empirical studies, and reports on industrial experience. Applications may be drawn from throughout the software engineering lifecycle covering requirements engineering, design, coding, testing, maintenance and all form of management disciplines. Search methods may include, but are not limited to operations research techniques and optimisation methods inspired by nature, such as evolutionary algorithms, ant colony inspired optimization and simulated annealing. We particularly encourage papers that describe software engineering applications to which SBSE has not previously been applied.
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION
Papers must not have been previously published, or be in consideration
for, any journal, book, or other conference. Papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee based on their originality, technical soundness and presentation quality. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). We invite submission of technical papers of up to 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. If the paper is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the symposium and to present the paper. We further invite short papers of up to 6 pages length presenting new ideas, tools, experience reports, or novel techniques and ideas, which will be included in the proceedings and presented at the symposium with a poster.
GRADUATE STUDENT TRACK
We also invite papers for a special Graduate Student track that will provide a venue for students to showcase their SBSE research and to receive feedback from senior members of the SBSE community. Papers submitted to this track should be no more than 6 pages in length using the regular symposium format. To be eligible, a student must be registered on a doctoral or masters programme and must not yet have completed their studies. It is the expectation that the student will give the presentation at the symposium, though there may be other authors on the paper. Papers need not contain a complete work, although initial experimental results would be very welcome. This would be an ideal venue for PhD students to present and discuss their research agenda in the company of leading experts in the domain.
CHALLENGE SESSION
More details to be announced.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS).
SPECIAL ISSUE
The authors of 3-4 best symposium papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special section of Elsevier’s Information and Software Technology journal.