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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia

Call for Papers

The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ASE provides a vibrant forum for forward looking, innovative research in software engineering. The main goal of the NIER track is to accelerate the exposure of the software engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, techniques and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline. The potential types of papers could be:

  • Visionary forward looking research: exciting new directions or techniques that may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results, but nonetheless supported by strong and well argued scientific intuitions.
  • Thought provoking reflections: bold and unexpected results and reflections that can help us look at current research directions under a new light, calling for fundamentally new directions of future research.
Evaluation Criteria

Each submission will be reviewed and evaluated in terms of the following quality criteria:

  • Value: whether the problem is worth exploring;
  • Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice;
  • Soundness: the validity of the rationale;
  • Quality: the overall quality of the paper’s writing
Formatting

Each submission must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, appendices, figures, and must have at most 2 pages of references.

All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Proceedings Template at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (LaTEX users must use \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.

How to Submit

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE NIER 2020 HotCRP submission site.

By submitting to the ASE NIER Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism) and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ (https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html). In particular, papers submitted to ASE NIER 2020 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ASE NIER 2020.

Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the ACM or IEEE, to detect violations of these policies.

Double Blind Submission Guidelines

The ASE NIER 2020 adopts a double-blind review process. No submitted paper may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind review process; reviewers will be asked to honour the double-blind review process as much as possible. Any author having further questions on double blind reviewing is encouraged to contact the track’s program co-chairs by e-mail. Any submission that does not comply with the double blind review process will be desk-rejected. Further advice, guidance and explanation about the double-blind review process can be found in the Q&A page https://conf.researchr.org/track/ase-2020/ase-2020-papers#FAQs-on-Double-Blind.

Conference Attendance Expectation

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for and attend the full 3-day technical conference and present the paper in person.

Dates
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Wed 23 Sep 2020
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Tracks
ASE Industry Showcase
ASE Journal-first Papers
ASE NIER track
ASE Research Papers
ASE Tool Demonstrations
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Tue 22 Sep

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02:20 - 03:20
Formal Methods (1)NIER track / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Nazareno Aguirre Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto
03:00
10m
Talk
Proving Termination by k-Induction
NIER track
Jianhui Chen Tsinghua University, Fei He Tsinghua University, China
08:00 - 09:00
Compiler and Systems TestingNIER track / Research Papers at Wombat
Chair(s): Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University
08:40
10m
Talk
Generating Highly-structured Input Data by Combining Search-based Testing and Grammar-based Fuzzing
NIER track
Mitchell Olsthoorn Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
08:50
10m
Talk
Closer to the Edge: Testing Compilers More Thoroughly by Being Less Conservative About Undefined Behaviour
NIER track
Karine Even-Mendoza Imperial College London, Cristian Cadar Imperial College London, UK, Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London
Pre-print Media Attached
17:10 - 18:10
AI for Software Engineering (1)NIER track / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Tingting Yu University of Kentucky
17:50
10m
Talk
On Benign Features in Malware Detection
NIER track
Michael Cao The University of British Columbia, Sahar Badihi University of British Columbia, Canada, Khaled Ahmed The University of British Columbia, Peiyu Xiong The University of British Columbia, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Canada

Wed 23 Sep

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00:00 - 01:00
Software Engineering for AI (1)NIER track / Research Papers at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Song Wang York University, Canada
00:40
10m
Talk
Making Fair ML Software using Trustworthy Explanation
NIER track
Joymallya Chakraborty North Carolina State University, USA, Kewen Peng North Carolina State University, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University, USA
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
01:10 - 02:10
Software Security and Trust (1) NIER track / Tool Demonstrations / Research Papers at Platypus
Chair(s): Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington
01:50
10m
Talk
A Hybrid Analysis to Detect Java Serialisation Vulnerabilities
NIER track
Shawn Rasheed Massey University, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington

Thu 24 Sep

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01:10 - 02:10
Test EfficiencyResearch Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
01:50
10m
Talk
SRRTA: Regression Testing Acceleration via State Reuse
NIER track
Jinhao Dong Peking University, Yiling Lou Peking University, China, Dan Hao Peking University, China
02:20 - 03:20
AI for Software Engineering (4)Research Papers / NIER track at Wombat
Chair(s): Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong
03:00
10m
Talk
BugPecker: Locating Faulty Methods with Deep Learning on Revision Graphs
NIER track
Junming Cao School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shouliang Yang School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wenhui Jiang School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hushuang Zeng School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijun Shen School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
16:00 - 17:00
Mobile App (2)NIER track / Tool Demonstrations / Research Papers at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM
16:40
10m
Talk
A Framework for Automated Test Mocking of Mobile Apps
NIER track
Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute, Alessandro Orso Georgia Tech
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