ISEC2016 - 9TH INDIA SOFTWARE MULTIPLICAION ENGINEERING CONFERENCE

ISEC is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT under the umbrella of ACM India. The 9th ISEC will be held at BITS Pilani, Goa, India. ISEC will bring together researchers and practitioners from across the world to share the results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering.

ORGANIZATION

GENERAL CHAIRS

Santonu Sarkar (BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus)
Ashish Sureka (ABB Corporate Research Center, India)

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Domenico Cotroneo (University of Naples)
Nishant Sinha (IBM Research, India)

INDUSTRY TRACK PROGRAM CHAIRS

Vibha S. Sinha (IBM Watson, Almaden Research Center, USA )
Radhika Venkatasubramanyam (Siemens, Bangalore India)

MOBILE SE TRACK PROGRAM CHAIRS

Padmaja Joshi (C-DAC, Mumbai)
Pushpendra Singh (IIIT Delhi)

TUTORIAL CHAIR

Subhajit Datta (Singapore University of Technology & Design)

WORKSHOP CHAIR

Atul Kumar (IBM Research, India)

PUBLICATION CHAIR

Jayprakash Lalchandani (IIIT Bangalore)

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Raghu Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad)
Saikrishna Sripada (IIIT Hyderabad)
Roberto Pietrantuono (University of Naples)
Saurabh Sinha (IBM Research, India)

FINANCE CHAIR

Sanjay K. Sahay (BITS Pilani - Goa)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTE

Sanjay K. Sahay (BITS Pilani - Goa)
Bharat M. Deshpande (BITS Pilani - Goa)

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT CHAIR

Atul Gupta (IIITDM - Jabalpur)

PROGRAM

LINK TO PROCEEDINGS - ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY (Note: PDFs of Papers will be available for download from ACM Library after 17th February)

Proceedings - Table of Contents [Papers can be downloaded from Local Server]

KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS

ISEC 2016 Registration Rates and Policy

The registration rates include 14.5% Service Tax [Applicable on both Indian and Overseas Delegate Registration]

Policy

Payments once made are non-refundable and there is no cancellation policy.
There are no differential rates or discounts for IEEE/ACM members. Same rates for IEEE/ACM members and non-members.
There are no differential rates for delegates from Industry or Academia. Same rates for attendees from Industry and Academia.
Every paper needs to be registered individually as a requirement for inclusion in the proceedings. If one author has two accepted papers then both the papers needs to be registered separately (either two registrations by the same author otherwise better to have a co-author do the second registration)
If one of the co-authors of the paper is a student then student registration is fine [Less than 50% of regular registration] and a regular registration is not required
Overseas/International Delegates [Residing outside India and affiliated to an organization outside India]. Amount mentioned is in US Dollars

Indian Delegate [Residing in India and affiliated to an organization in India]. Amount mentioned is in Indian Rupees

ISEC 2016 Registration Rates and Policy

Before 20 December
After 20 December 11:59 PM IST

Regular Student Regular Student
3 Day Conference (All Tracks, Workshops, Tutorials) 300
300
350
350

Before 20 December
After 20 December 11:59 PM IST

Regular Student Regular Student
3 Day Conference (All Tracks, Workshops, Tutorials) 8500
3500
9500
4000

ISEC 2016 MAIN RESEARCH TRACK

CFP IN DOWNLOADABLE/PDF FORMAT

We invite technical papers describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, empirical, and experimental software engineering research. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering. Submissions are invited in all aspects of software engineering, including but not limited to, the following

Autonomic and (self-)adaptive systems
Big data software engineering
Table de multiplication
Cloud computing
Cooperative, distributed, and collaborative software engineering
Debugging, fault localization, and repair
Embedded, wearables and cyber physical systems
End-user software engineering
Formal methods, verification, and synthesis
Green and sustainable technologies
Human factors and social aspects of software engineering
Methodologies and measures for empirical software engineering
Middleware, frameworks, and APIs
Mining software engineering repositories
Mobile and Web applicationsDistributed and Concurrent systems
Performance
Program analysis and testing
Program comprehension and visualization
Programming, specification, and modeling languages
Recommendation systems and Analytics
Scalable, distributed software engineering
Search-based software engineering
Security, privacy and trust
Software economics, management, and metrics
Software evolution and maintenance
Software architecture, modeling, design and reuse
Software product lines
Software testing
Tools and environments
Ubiquitous/pervasive software systems

Submission Details for the Main Research Track

Submissions should contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. This year, we invite research papers submissions under two categories: Regular Papers and Short Papers.

Regular papers should not exceed 11 pages, 10 pages for the main text (including figures, appendix etc) and 1 page for references in standard ACM format.
Short papers should not exceed 5 pages, including references in standard ACM format.

Regular paper submissions are expected to contain in-depth description of the new ideas along with detailed evaluation. Short papers may contain, for example, new interesting ideas which may not be evaluated extensively, tool descriptions or case studies. Please note that the papers will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were submitted, there will be no "demotions" from a Regular to a Short paper.

Important Dates

Accepted papers will be published in ACM Digital Library

Warning: It is ACM policy to forbid double submissions where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved.

Program Chairs

Program Committee

ISEC 2016 INDUSTRY TRACK

​CFP IN PDF/DOWNLOADABLE FORMAT

This year at ISEC we are introducing the Industry track to bring together industrial and research participants eager to share and brainstorm on common interests in software engineering. This half day session will be composed of invited speeches, paper presentations and discussions with a strong focus on software engineering in practice.

We are seeking following types of submissions.

Experience Reports and Case-Study Papers: Each paper should discuss the context of a problem of practical importance and provide a clear take-away. The innovativeness of the solution, the methodology and overall assessment of benefits, risks and other lessons learned should also be provided.

Talk Proposals: This type of submission is only open to practitioners. We solicit talks on topics that are likely to be relevant and interesting to both industrial and academic attendees. Examples of talks include, but are not limited to: software development in startups, post mortem of software projects, forgotten research topics that are still relevant to industry, new challenges in software engineering because of growth of technologies such as “Internet of Things”, “Big Data” etc. that need help from research.

Submission Details for Industry Track

Submissions must adhere to the ISEC 2016 submission [ACM Templates] and formatting instructions and can be made using the EasyChair link provided below.

At-least one author on the submissions needs to be from industry

Case Study and Experience Reports - Paper submissions must be original (not published or under review elsewhere), include the title of the submission, the name and affiliation of each author, and up to 150-words abstract. These papers should not exceed 7 pages, 6 pages for the main text (including figures, appendix etc) and 1 page for references in standard ACM format.

Talk Proposals - Talk proposals will be reviewed in two phases. For the first phase, the proposal should include a title, "talk description", which describes what the talk will be about, highlighting its key points and the reasons why it is interesting to ISEC attendees (500 words). Submissions should include a speaker biography and history, and can include supporting materials such as white papers or videos. Please note that the target audience of the talk proposal are the members of the program committee. The outcome of the first phase is either rejected or conditionally accepted for the next phase. In the second phase, submitters will be required to prepare the complete presentation. The committee will then review the presentations and make the final accept/reject decisions. Each accepted talk will be allowed one page for an "extended abstract" in the ISEC proceedings. The target audience of this document are the attendees of the conference and the readers of the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Case Study

Abstracts due: September 28, 2015 [AoE Time] (hard deadline, extended from September 18)
Submissions due: October 5, 2015 [AoE Time] (hard deadline, extended from September 25)
Notification of Acceptance: Nov 15, 2015
Camera Ready Copy: Dec 15, 2015

Talk Proposals

Phase 1 Submissions Due (proposal, speaker biography): Sep 18, 2015
Phase 1 Notifications: Sep 30, 2015
Phase 2 Submissions Due (Complete Presentations): Oct 24, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: Nov 8, 2015
Camera Ready Copy: Dec 20, 2015

Accepted papers, panels and talks will be published in ACM Digital Library

Warning: It is ACM policy to forbid double submissions where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved.

Contact: vibha dot sinha at us dot ibm dot com

Industry Track Program Chairs

Radhika D Venkatasubramanyam [Siemens CT Research and Technology Center, India]
Vibha Singhal Sinha [IBM Research, India]

Program Committee

Girish Maskeri Rama, Infosys, India
Ravindra Naik, TRDDC, India
Diptikalyan Saha, IBM Research, India
Raoul Jetley, ABB Research, India
Suresh Thummalapenta, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Rahul Purandare, IIITD, India
Reinhold Plosch, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Antonio Pecchia, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
​Debdoot Mukherjee, Myntra, India
​Vikrant Kaulgud, Accenture, India

ISEC 2016 MOBILE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK

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Scope (Mobile Software Engineering Track)

We are organizing the Mobile Software Engineering (MSE) track for the first time, as part of the India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC). The number of smartphones in the world is increasing at a dramatic rate. India has nearly 960 million mobile phones and more than 173 million mobile internet users. Many users are switching from feature phones to smartphones. This gives a tremendous scope for development and use of mobile applications. Developing robust, scalable, innovative, green, secure mobile applications requires advanced environments, tools, techniques, and processes.

We solicit contributions in the following areas of mobile software engineering but not limited to the following Topics:

Development of Mobile Apps
Multiplication Tables
Mobile application development Environments and Tools
Agile or Model driven development for mobile
SDLC for Mobile Apps
Mobile and Touch programming languages
Engineering quality attributes like security, privacy, and availability for Mobiles
Performing, Energy Efficient, resource aware app development
Analysis and Re-engineering of Mobile Apps
Testing and Quality Assurance
Empirical studies, case studies and industry experiences
​Applications of Mobile Apps
Mobile for Finance, Health care
Mobile commerce, Enterprise, Others
Apps for Fitness, Travel & Hospitality, Social
Innovations, Emerging areas
HCI aspects of/for Mobile Applications
Mobile Middleware
Social Mobile Analytics
Internet of Things for Mobile
Wearable devices and Apps for Wearable devices
Mobile Cloud computing, Code Offloading
Emerging markets for Mobile Apps

Submission Details

Submissions should contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. The format of the papers should confirm to the ACM guidelines available at ACM publications link. Paper submissions are to be made ONLY using the EasyChair link.This year, we invite papers submissions under two categories:

Regular Papers which can be research or experience papers should not exceed 11 pages, 10 pages for the main text (including figures, appendix etc) and 1 page for references in standard ACM format.

Fast Abstract, maximum of 1 page that should include a short, crisp description of the talk contents, why it is interesting to MSE participants and possible pointers to relevant material. In addition, a short bio of the speaker is required (can be beyond the 1 page limit). The talk can be about emerging ideas, new/innovative environment, or an interesting tool in the mobile world. Fast abstracts will be evaluated for its novelty and potential interest to the audience. The PC may accept conditionally, interact with the authors and after refinements of the abstract, provide the final decision of accept or reject. The author needs to finally submit a 1-page extended abstract of his/her talk

Accepted papers will be published in ACM Digital Library

Regular Papers

Abstracts Due: September 28, 2015 AoE Time (Extended from September 18)
Full Papers Submission: October 5, 2015 AoE Time (Extended from October September 25)
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2015
Camera Ready Copy Due: December 15, 2015

Fast Abstract

Abstract + Biography Due: September 28, 2015 (AoE Time)
Notification 1: October 10, 2015
Revised Submission Due: November 10, 2015
Notification 2: November 21, 2015
Camera Ready Copy Due: December 15, 2015

Mobile SE Track Program Chairs

Padmaja Joshi [C-DAC, Mumbai]
Pushpendra Singh [IIIT Delhi]

Mobile SE Track Steering Committee

Padmaja Joshi [C-DAC, Mumbai]
Pushpendra Singh [IIIT Delhi]
Raghu Reddy [IIIT Hyderabad]
Ravindra Naik [TCS Innovation Labs, TRDDC, Pune]
Vikrant Kaulgud [Accenture Technology Labs, Bangalore]

Program Committee​​

​​Rushikesh K Joshi, IIT Bombay
Gabi Zodik, Software and Services Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Ravindra Naik, TCS Innovation Labs, Pune
Arun Bahulkar, TCS Innovation Labs, Pune
Raghu Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad
Vikrant Kaulgud, Accenture
Pushpendra Singh, IIIT Delhi
Padmaja Joshi, C-DAC, Mumbai
Satish Chandra, Samsung Electronics
Rahul Purandare, IIIT Delhi
Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Lab
Sougata Mukherjea, IBM India Research Lab
Kuldeep Yadav, Xerox Research
Vivek Balaraman, TCS Innovation Labs, Pune
Suman Roychoudhury, TCS Innovation Labs, Pune
Zia Saquib, C-DAC, Mumbai

ISEC 2016 ACCEPTED WORKSHOPS

Modelling Symposium (ModSym)
Software Architectures for Adaptive Autonomous Systems (SAAAS)

ISEC Workshops provide opportunities to researchers, industry practitioners and students to discuss specific areas of software engineering in a relatively small gathering. Workshops also act as incubators for the software engineering community to work towards a particular research agenda in software engineering. Focus areas for workshops include all areas of software engineering (please refer to the list in main conference call for paper for the research paper track). Proposal for half day (3 hours) workshops are invited.

Atul Kumar, Workshop Chair, ISEC 2016

Proposal Submission
Proposal must not exceed 4 pages in ACM format. Proposal must include the following:

Title.
Workshop organizers (max 4 from at least two separate institutions/organizations).
Objective of the Workshop (e.g., short abstract).
Description.
Format (contributed papers through an open call for paper or invited talks only).
Plan (if the workshop has contributed papers then workshop submission and review schedule, and list of program committee members with a draft call for paper).
Brief bio of organizers with past organization experience if any.

Important Dates

Proposal Submission Deadline: Oct 25, 2015
Notification Date: Nov 08, 2015
Workshops Date: 18 Feb 2016

A 2-Page Workshop Report (a 2 page report for each workshop) will be published in the proceedings/ACM Digital Library.

If the workshop organizers want to publish a proceeding then they can do the same independent of the main conference. It is not necessary to use ACM. For example, It can be CEUR. Page limits and type of papers (full, short, poster) are also decided by workshop organizers. It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to publish workshop proceedings if they wish so, conference can just provide some support.

ACCEPTED TUTORIALS

A Process Framework for Product Quality Achievement - Kesav V Nori (IIIT, Hyderabad), Swaminathan Natarajan (TCS) and Padmalata V Nistala (TCS)
Reliability by Construction using Design by Contract Methodology - PVR Murthy (M.S.Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences Bangalore)

Tutorial Track Program Chair

Subhajit Datta [Singapore University of Technology and Design]

Scope (Tutorial Track)

We solicit tutorial proposals from educators, researchers, and practitioners to present an in-depth study on any topic relevant to software engineering. We are specially interested in proposals which discuss topics that software engineers may find useful in the near future. Tutorial slots are available for half-day or full-day sessions.

To submit a tutorial proposal, please provide the following information in standard ACM format, in no more than 3 pages excluding references. You can use either Word template or Latex format. Make sure that you use US letter page format.

  1. Title of Tutorial
  2. Background of presenter(s)

Following details are required for each presenter:

2.1 Name, email address, and affiliation
2.2 Short-bio (less than 250 words) citing expertise in the area of the proposed tutorial topic
2.3 Previous experience in presenting tutorials. Please include venue, co-presenter, and duration for each of the previous t tutorials.

  1. Extended abstract

This should include the following:

3.1 The concrete objective of the tutorial
3.2 Why the tutorial topic is of interest to the software engineering community
3.3 Details of the topics - like summary of the papers to be presented

  1. Organization

This should include the following details:

4.1 Proposed duration
4.2 If multiple speakers are presenting, then division of topics between the speakers
4.3 Intended audience - level (basic or advanced), prerequisites, if any
4.4 Pointers to related materials
4.5 Details of tool demonstration (Table Pythagore).
4.6 Details of hands-on exercise, if any.

Important Dates

Abstracts due: Sep 18, 2015
Submissions due: Sep 25, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: Nov 8, 2015
Camera Ready Copy: Dec 20, 2015