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.
Tue 16 NovDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
12:00 - 13:00 | ProgrammingJournal-first Papers / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo Chair(s): Amiangshu Bosu Wayne State University | ||
12:40 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Understanding Code Fragments with Issue Reports NIER track | ||
18:50 10mTalk | An Empirical Study on Obsolete Issue Reports NIER track |
19:00 - 20:00 | CodeTool Demonstrations / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo Chair(s): Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart | ||
19:40 10mTalk | Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination NIER track |
22:00 - 23:00 | ApplicationsResearch Papers / Industry Showcase / NIER track at Koala Chair(s): ingo Mueller Monash University | ||
22:40 10mTalk | 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 NovDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
09:00 - 10:00 | Learning INIER track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Kangaroo Chair(s): Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary | ||
09:40 10mTalk | What do pre-trained code models know about code? NIER track |
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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Log Anomaly to Resolution: AI Based Proactive Incident Remediation NIER track | ||
19:50 10mTalk | 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 NovDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
09:00 - 10:00 | DevelopmentIndustry Showcase / Research Papers / NIER track at Kangaroo Chair(s): James C. Davis Purdue University, USA | ||
09:20 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Towards Fluid Software Architectures: Bidirectional Human-AI Interaction NIER track |
19:00 - 20:00 | Bugs IIResearch Papers / NIER track / Tool Demonstrations at Koala Chair(s): Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology | ||
19:40 10mTalk | 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 | |||
22:40 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 |