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ASE 2021
Sun 14 - Sat 20 November 2021 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 can have up to 2 additional pages containing references only.

All submissions must be 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 type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

How to Submit

If you missed the abstract submission deadline for the NIER track, you can still submit your papers by the submission deadline - 18th Jun AoE.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE NIER 2021 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 2021 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ASE NIER 2021.

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 2021 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-2021/ase-2021-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.

Accepted Papers

After acceptance, the list of paper authors can not be changed under any circumstances and the list of authors on camera-ready papers must be identical to those on submitted papers. After acceptance paper titles can not be changed except by permission of the Track Chairs, and only then when referees recommended a change for clarity or accuracy with paper content.

Dates
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Tracks
ASE Industry Showcase
ASE Journal-first Papers
ASE NIER track
ASE Research Papers
ASE Tool Demonstrations
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Tue 16 Nov

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12:00 - 13:00
ProgrammingJournal-first Papers / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Amiangshu Bosu Wayne State University
12:40
10m
Talk
A Mocktail of Source Code Representations
NIER track
Dheeraj Vagavolu RISHA Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, Karthik Chandra Swarna RISHA Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda RISHA Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
12:00 - 13:00
LanguagesNIER track / Tool Demonstrations / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Jean-Guy Schneider Deakin University
12:40
10m
Talk
Empowering Web Applications with WebAssembly: Are We There Yet?
NIER track
Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY
18:00 - 19:00
Testing IResearch Papers / NIER track / Industry Showcase at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
18:50
10m
Talk
Property-based Test for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool
NIER track
Shuo Jin School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Songqiang Chen School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
18:00 - 19:00
Mining and IssuesNIER track / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle
18:40
10m
Talk
Understanding Code Fragments with Issue Reports
NIER track
Zexuan Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
18:50
10m
Talk
An Empirical Study on Obsolete Issue Reports
NIER track
Zexuan Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
19:00 - 20:00
CodeTool Demonstrations / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart
19:40
10m
Talk
Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination
NIER track
Max Hort University College London, Federica Sarro University College London
22:00 - 23:00
ApplicationsResearch Papers / Industry Showcase / NIER track at Koala
Chair(s): ingo Mueller Monash University
22:40
10m
Talk
Shake Those System Parameters! On the Need for Parameter Coverage for Decision Systems
NIER track
Thomas Laurent Lero & University College Dublin, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Anthony Ventresque University College Dublin

Wed 17 Nov

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09:00 - 10:00
Learning INIER track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
09:40
10m
Talk
What do pre-trained code models know about code?
NIER track
Anjan Karmakar Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Romain Robbes
11:00 - 12:00
Finding DefectsResearch Papers / NIER track / Journal-first Papers at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Xiao Liu School of Information Technology, Deakin University
11:40
10m
Talk
Towards Systematic and Dynamic Task Allocation for Collaborative Parallel Fuzzing
NIER track
Thuan Pham The University of Melbourne, Manh-Dung Nguyen Montimage R&D, France, Quang-Trung Ta National University of Singapore, Toby Murray University of Melbourne, Benjamin I.P. Rubinstein University of Melbourne
12:00 - 13:00
Testing ApplicationsIndustry Showcase / NIER track / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Scott Barnett
12:20
10m
Talk
Systematic Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Using Map Topology-Based Scenario Classification
NIER track
Yun Tang Nanyang Technological University, Yuan Zhou Nanyang Technological University, Tianwei Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Fenghua Wu Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Gang Wang Alibaba Group
19:00 - 20:00
DetectionResearch Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology
19:40
10m
Talk
Log Anomaly to Resolution: AI Based Proactive Incident Remediation
NIER track
Ruchi Mahindru IBM Research, Harshit Kumar IBM Research, Sahil Bansal IBM Research
19:50
10m
Talk
HyperGI: Automated Detection and Repair of Information Flow Leakage
NIER track
Ibrahim Mesecan Iowa State University, Daniel Blackwell University College London, David Clark University College London, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Justyna Petke University College London
Pre-print

Thu 18 Nov

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09:00 - 10:00
DevelopmentIndustry Showcase / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): James C. Davis Purdue University, USA
09:20
10m
Talk
Privacy as first-class requirements in software development: A socio-technical approach
NIER track
Itsik Benbenisty University of Haifa, Irit Hadar University of Haifa, Gil Luria University of Haifa, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
18:00 - 19:00
FirmwareResearch Papers / NIER track / Industry Showcase at Kangaroo
Chair(s): ingo Mueller Monash University
18:50
10m
Talk
Adaptation 2.0: Adapting Specification Learners in Assured Adaptive Systems
NIER track
Dalal Alrajeh Imperial College London, Patrick Benjamin Imperial College London, Sebastian Uchitel Imperial College London & University of Buenos Aires
19:00 - 20:00
DevelopersResearch Papers / Industry Showcase / NIER track at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Chetan Arora Deakin University
19:50
10m
Talk
Towards Fluid Software Architectures: Bidirectional Human-AI Interaction
NIER track
Ammar Yasser German University in Cairo, Mervat Abu-Elkheir German University in Cairo
19:00 - 20:00
Bugs IIResearch Papers / NIER track / Tool Demonstrations at Koala
Chair(s): Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
19:40
10m
Talk
Bugs4Q: A Benchmark of Real Bugs for Quantum Programs
NIER track
Pengzhan Zhao Kyushu University, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University, Zhongtao Miao Kyushu University, Shuhan Lan Kyushu University
22:00 - 23:00
Analysis IIINIER track / Research Papers at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University
22:40
10m
Talk
Assessing Robustness of ML-Based Program Analysis Tools using Metamorphic Program Transformations
NIER track
Leonhard Applis Delft University of Technology, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pre-print
22:50
10m
Talk
Defeating program analysis techniques via Ambiguous Translation
NIER track
Chijung Jung University of Virginia, Doowon Kim University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY, Yunhui Zheng IBM Research, Kyu Hyung Lee University of Georgia, Yonghwi Kwon University of Virginia

Accepted Papers

Title
Adaptation 2.0: Adapting Specification Learners in Assured Adaptive Systems
NIER track
A Mocktail of Source Code Representations
NIER track
An Empirical Study on Obsolete Issue Reports
NIER track
Assessing Robustness of ML-Based Program Analysis Tools using Metamorphic Program Transformations
NIER track
Pre-print
Bugs4Q: A Benchmark of Real Bugs for Quantum Programs
NIER track
Defeating program analysis techniques via Ambiguous Translation
NIER track
Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination
NIER track
Empowering Web Applications with WebAssembly: Are We There Yet?
NIER track
HyperGI: Automated Detection and Repair of Information Flow Leakage
NIER track
Pre-print
Log Anomaly to Resolution: AI Based Proactive Incident Remediation
NIER track
Privacy as first-class requirements in software development: A socio-technical approach
NIER track
Property-based Test for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool
NIER track
Shake Those System Parameters! On the Need for Parameter Coverage for Decision Systems
NIER track
Systematic Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Using Map Topology-Based Scenario Classification
NIER track
Towards Fluid Software Architectures: Bidirectional Human-AI Interaction
NIER track
Towards Systematic and Dynamic Task Allocation for Collaborative Parallel Fuzzing
NIER track
Understanding Code Fragments with Issue Reports
NIER track
What do pre-trained code models know about code?
NIER track
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