Research Track - Call for Papers
The SANER 2019 technical track invites high quality submissions of papers describing original and
unpublished research results.
We encourage submissions describing various types of research, such as, empirical, theoretical,
tool-oriented, etc.
The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and
reengineering community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction
- Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering
- Program Comprehension
- Software Evolution Analysis
- Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting
- Program Transformation and Refactoring
- Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics
- Software Visualization
- Software Reconstruction and Migration
- Software Maintenance and Evolution
- Program Repair
- Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Education related to all of the above topics
- Legal aspects
Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated by at least three program committee members. The evaluation will focus on the
novelty, originality, importance to the field, proper use of research methods, and presentation of the
submissions. We strongly encourage authors to make available all data and software they use in their work,
in order to allow for verification and replication of their results.
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for
review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.
All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the
IEEE
Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines(title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font,
LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}
without including the compsoc
or compsocconf
option.
Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.
All submissions must be in English. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (the last 2 pages can be used for
references only), and should be uploaded electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. Submissions that do not
adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review.
Important note: SANER 2019 follows a full double-blind review process.
In order to be compliant with the double-blind policy, submitted papers must adhere to the following rules
(largely reused from SANER 2018 double-blind
instructions):
- Author names and affiliations must be omitted.
- References to authors' own related work must be in the third person. (For example, not "We build on our
previous work..." but rather "We build on the work of...")
- There may be cases in which the current submission is clear follow up of one of your previous work, and
despite what recommended in the previous point, reviewers will clearly associate authorship of such a
previous work to the current submission. In this case, you may decide to anonymize the reference itself
at submission time. For example: "based on previous results [10]" .. where the reference is reported as
"[10] Anonymous Authors. Omitted per double blind reviewing." In doing so, however, please make sure
that the Saner 2019 submission is self-contained and its content can be reviewed and understood without
accessing the previous paper.
- Do not include acknowledgements of people, grants, organizations, etc. that would give away your
identity. You may, of course, add these acknowledgements in the camera-ready version.
- If you use an identifiable naming convention for your work, such as a project name, use a different name
for your submission, which you may indicate has been changed for the purposes of double-blind reviewing.
This includes names that may unblind individual authors and their institutions. For example, if your
project is called GoogleDeveloperHelper, which makes it clear the work was done at Google, for the
submission version, use the name DeveloperHelper or BigCompanyDeveloperHelper instead.
- Avoid revealing the institution affiliations of authors or at which the work was performed. For example,
if the evaluation includes a user study conducted with undergraduates from the CS 101 class that you
teach, you might say "The study participants consist of 200 students in an introductory CS course." You
can of course add the institutional information in the camera-ready. Similar suggestions apply for work
conducted in specific organizations (e.g., industrial studies). In such cases, avoid to mention the
organization's name. Instead, you may just refer the organization as "Org" or "Company", etc. When
appropriate and when this does not help too much in revealing the company's name, you might mention the
context (e.g., financial organization, videogame development company, etc.).
- Avoid linking directly to code repositories or tool deployments which can reveal your identity. Whenever
possible, please use the EasyChair additional material field to submit a .zip or .tgz file including
additional material. This is of course possible for small attachments. In other cases, you may post
anonymized links (with a warning that following said link may reveal authors' identities), include links
to anonymized code or deployments. When creating such repositories, a good practice can be asking
somebody in your team to test the anonymization of the repository and of its content. In case
anonymization is difficult to be achieved and you still want to provide availability of data/tools, you
can simply state that you will link to the code or deployment in the camera-ready version. Program
committee members are asked to keep into account the double-blind policy when reviewing papers, and
therefore not requiring full availability of artifacts at submission time.
Please see the Double-Blind Reviewing FAQ for more information and guidance.
Special Issue
Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2019 will be invited to submit revised, extended
versions of their manuscripts for a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering
journal (EMSE), edited by Springer.
Important Dates