SEDES 2024- 10th Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 14 May 2024

Notification: 10 June 2024 

Camera-ready: 20 June 2024

GOAL AND SCOPE

The goal of the SEDES doctoral symposium is to provide PhD students in software engineering with an environment in which they can present and discuss their work, receive constructive feedback and suggestions from established faculty members, peers, and network with other researchers in the field. Besides being an opportunity to gather the community of researchers in software engineering, both in academic or industrial settings, it represents a forum to publicise the research work with the goal of looking for collaborations and/or (industrial) applications.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We invite PhD students who have still some time to benefit from the discussion in the Doctoral Symposium before submitting their dissertation, but who have already settled on a thesis topic. Student research areas include software engineering or related fields such as computer science and information systems. 

TOPICS

PhD students are encouraged to submit proposal covering quality approaches in relation to at least one of the knowledge areas defined in SWEBOK, the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.swebok.org). Examples of these include, but are not limited to:

• Software processes 

• Software development and tools 

• Software architectures

• Software quality 

• People issues in software engineering 

• Software monitoring and maintenance 

• Use of COTS and software integration

• Human-Computer Interaction and user experience

• Ubiquitous systems in software engineering 

PhD students are also encouraged to submit proposals that include software applications in various types of open-source platforms, such as GitHub, Zenodo, etc. 

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should be in English, at least 6 pages and not exceeding 8 pages including references (LCNS format). Submissions should be coauthored by the PhD student only. Overall, submissions should clearly describe the topic to be addressed and its relevance. Submissions should comply to the following template:

1.  Title

2. Keywords (following the 2012 ACM CCS)

3. Abstract

4. Introduction

5. Research plan

a) Research goal/questions/objectives

b) Research contributions

      c) Research methods

6. State-of-the-art

7. Time plan

a) Preliminary results

b) Future work and expected results

8. References

REVIEW PROCESS

At least three SEDES PC members will blind-review each submission, focusing on the quality, maturity and clarity of the ongoing research work, both in terms of scope delimitation and problem relevance, adequacy of the adopted methodology, results significance and their validation, technical writing style, etc. Accepted papers are expected to submit a camera-ready version of the paper that takes into account the comments and suggestions provided by the reviewers.

PROCEEDINGS

All papers must conform to the Springer CCIS Format and be submitted through the EasyChair link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2024 

COMMITTEE

Chairs: Alessio Bucaioni (Mälardalen University) and Catia Trubiani (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Program Committee:

• Amleto Di Salle, Gran Sasso Science Institute

• Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy.

• Bara Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy

• Breno Miranda, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, Brazil

• Claudio Mandrioli, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg

• Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Emilio Incerto, IMT Lucca, Italy

• Francesco Tiezzi, University of Florence, Italy

• Giovanni Quattrocchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• Hugo Brunelliere, IMTA, France

• Ioannis Stefanakos, University of York, UK

• Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy

• Jon Ayerdi,  University of Mondragon, Spain 

• Leonardo Mariani, Milano Bicocca, Italy

• Luca Berardinelli, JKU Linz, Austria

• Michele Tucci, University of L’Aquila, Italy

• Miren Illarramendi, University of Mondragon, Spain 

• Roberto Natella, University of Federico II, Naples, Italy