SEMS 2016 - 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets

3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets
July 4, 2016 | Vienna, Austria
SEMS is the #1 venue for academic spreadsheet research since 2014 (SEMS’14, SEMS’15). This year, SEMS’16 is going to be co-located with STAF 2016 in Vienna.
Spreadsheets are heavily used in industry as they are easy to create and evolve through their intuitive visual interface. They are often initially developed as simple tools, but, over time, spreadsheets can become increasingly complex, up to the point they become too complicated to maintain. Indeed, in many ways, spreadsheets are similar to “professional” software: both concern the storage and manipulation of data, and the presentation of results to the user. But unlike in “professional” software, activities like design, implementation, and maintenance in spreadsheets have to be undertaken by end-users, not trained professionals. This makes applying methods and techniques from other software technologies a challenging task.
The role of SEMS is to explore the possibilities of adopting successful methods from other software contexts to spreadsheets. Some, like testing and modeling, have been tried before and can be built upon. For methods that have not yet been tried on spreadsheets, SEMS will serve as a platform for early feedback.
The SEMS program will include an industrial keynote, followed by a brainstorming session about the topic, a discussion panel of industrial spreadsheet usage, short and long research papers and plenty of lively discussions. The intended audience is a mixture of spreadsheet researchers and professionals.
Topics
Topics of interest to SEMS ’16 include, but are not restricted to, the following:
Understandability/Maintainability of spreadsheets
Error finding/Debugging
Modeling with spreadsheets
Learnability
Alternatives for the spreadsheet interface
Comparative studies of spreadsheet environments
If you have doubts on the suitability of your paper, feel free to send us an email: sems16-AT-spreadsheetlab.org