Call for Papers

Types of Submission

The conference invites the following types of submission:

• Full Technical Papers
• Vision Paper and Emerging Results Papers
• Doctoral Symposium Papers
• Workshops proposals and workshop papers

Topics

We welcome submissions of original and unpublished research in all areas of empirical software engineering (requirements engineering, architecture design, development, testing, process evaluation, and the like), which include, but are not limited to:

• Assessing the benefits/costs associated with using chosen development technologies
• Cross- and multi-disciplinary methods and studies
• Case studies, action-research, and field studies, including multilevel research designs
• Design science studies
• Development and evaluation of empirical prediction systems or software estimation models
• Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
• Empirically based decision making
• Evaluation and comparison of techniques and models
• Experiments and quasi-experiments
• Survey research
• Systematic literature reviews
• Meta-analysis, qualitative and quantitative synthesis of studies
• Modelling, measuring, and assessing product and/or process quality
• Replication of empirical studies and families of studies
• Software engineering analytics
• Simulation-based studies in software engineering
• Software project management and knowledge management
• Software technology transfer to the industry