Tue 12 SepDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:30 - 12:00 | Testing AI Systems 1NIER Track / Research Papers at Room C Chair(s): Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca | ||
10:42 12mTalk | SOCRATEST- Towards Autonomous Testing Agents via Conversational Large Language Models NIER Track Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Sungmin Kang KAIST, Juyeon Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Shin Yoo KAIST Pre-print File Attached | ||
10:54 12mResearch paper | Semantic Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Testing using Generative AI NIER Track sondess missaoui University of York, Simos Gerasimou University of York, Nicholas Matragkas Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List. File Attached |
10:30 - 12:00 | Infrastructure, Build, and LogsResearch Papers / Industry Showcase (Papers) / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers at Room D Chair(s): Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology | ||
10:42 12mTalk | Log Parsing: How Far Can ChatGPT Go? NIER Track Pre-print |
13:30 - 15:00 | Testing AI Systems 2NIER Track / Journal-first Papers / Research Papers at Room C Chair(s): Lwin Khin Shar Singapore Management University | ||
13:42 12mTalk | Automating Bias Testing of LLMs NIER Track Sergio Morales Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Robert Clarisó Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Jordi Cabot Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Pre-print File Attached | ||
13:54 12mTalk | MUTEN: Mutant-Based Ensembles for Boosting Gradient-Based Adversarial Attack NIER Track Qiang Hu University of Luxembourg, Yuejun GUo Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Maxime Cordy University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg File Attached | ||
14:30 12mTalk | Are We Ready to Embrace Generative AI for Software Q&A? NIER Track Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Thanh-Dat Nguyen University of Melbourne, Le-Cong Thanh The University of Melbourne, Thong Hoang CSIRO's Data61, Jiakun Liu Singapore Management University, Kisub Kim Singapore Management University, Singapore, Chen GONG University of Virginia, Changan Niu Software Institute, Nanjing University, Chenyu Wang Singapore Management University, Xuan-Bach D. Le University of Melbourne, David Lo Singapore Management University |
13:30 - 15:00 | Smart Contracts, Blockchain, Energy efficiency, and green softwareResearch Papers / NIER Track / Industry Showcase (Papers) / Tool Demonstrations / Journal-first Papers at Room D | ||
14:42 12mTalk | Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software DevelopmentRecorded talk NIER Track Priyavanshi Pathania Accenture Labs, Rohit Mehra Accenture Labs, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Vikrant Kaulgud Accenture Labs, India, Sanjay Podder Accenture, Adam P. Burden Accenture Media Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | Testing AI Systems 3Journal-first Papers / Research Papers / Industry Showcase (Papers) / NIER Track at Room C Chair(s): Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg | ||
15:42 12mTalk | Towards Self-Adaptive Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Through QoS-Aware Model Switching NIER Track Pre-print | ||
16:30 12mTalk | Evolve the Model universe of a System UniverseRecorded talk NIER Track Media Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | Testing Tools and TechniquesNIER Track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Room E Chair(s): Tim Menzies North Carolina State University | ||
15:30 12mTalk | Modeling Programmer Attention as Scanpath Prediction NIER Track Aakash Bansal University of Notre Dame, Chia-Yi Su University of Notre Dame, Zachary Karas Vanderbilt University, Yifan Zhang Vanderbilt University, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University, Toby Jia-Jun Li University of Notre Dame, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame | ||
15:42 12mTalk | On Automated Assistants for Software Development: The Role of LLMs NIER Track Pre-print File Attached |
Wed 13 SepDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:30 - 12:00 | Program Repair 1Tool Demonstrations / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers / Research Papers at Room C Chair(s): Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology | ||
10:54 12mTalk | Better patching using LLM prompting, via Self-Consistency NIER Track Pre-print |
10:30 - 12:00 | Program AnalysisResearch Papers / Tool Demonstrations / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers at Room D Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg | ||
11:06 12mTalk | Live Programming for Finite Model Finders NIER Track Allison Sullivan University of Texas at Arlington Pre-print File Attached |
10:30 - 12:00 | Web Development 2Industry Showcase (Papers) / Research Papers / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers at Room E Chair(s): Hadar Ziv University of California, Irvine | ||
11:30 12mTalk | Characterizing Flaky Tests in Node.js ApplicationsRecorded talk NIER Track Xiaoning Chang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zheheng Liang Joint Laboratory on Cyberspace Security of China Southern Power Grid, Guoquan Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing College; China Southern Power Grid, Yu Gao Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Wei Chen Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing College, Jun Wei Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Chongqing School, Zhenyue Long , Lei Cui Joint Laboratory on Cyberspace Security of China Southern Power Grid, Tao Huang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Media Attached |
13:30 - 15:00 | Program Verification 1Research Papers / NIER Track / Tool Demonstrations at Room C Chair(s): Nico Rosner Amazon Web Services | ||
13:54 12mTalk | PSMT: Satisfiability Modulo Theories Meets Probability Distribution NIER Track Fuqi Jia Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rui Han Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xutong Ma State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Baoquan Cui Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Minghao Liu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pei Huang Stanford University, Feifei Ma Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jian Zhang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Pre-print File Attached | ||
14:30 12mTalk | SAT-verifiable LTL Satisfiability Checking via Graph Representation LearningRecorded talk NIER Track Weilin Luo Sun Yat-Sen University, Yuhang Zheng Sun Yat-Sen University, Rongzhen Ye Sun Yat-Sen University, Hai Wan School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Jianfeng Du Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Pingjia Liang Sun Yat-Sen University, Polong Chen Sun Yat-Sen University Media Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | Code Generation 2Research Papers / NIER Track / Tool Demonstrations at Plenary Room 2 Chair(s): Marianne Huchard LIRMM | ||
16:34 12mTalk | Enhancing Code Safety in Quantum Intermediate Representation NIER Track File Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | Software Testing for Specialized Systems 1Research Papers / Journal-first Papers / NIER Track at Room C Chair(s): Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg | ||
16:30 12mTalk | PURLTL: Mining LTL Specification from Imperfect Traces in TestingRecorded talk NIER Track Bo Peng Sun Yat-Sen University, Pingjia Liang Sun Yat-Sen University, Tingchen Han Sun Yat-Sen University, Weilin Luo Sun Yat-Sen University, Jianfeng Du Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Hai Wan School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Rongzhen Ye Sun Yat-Sen University, Yuhang Zheng Sun Yat-Sen University Media Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | Autonomous Systems and AgentsResearch Papers / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Room E Chair(s): Alessio Gambi IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems | ||
15:54 12mTalk | Towards a Formal Framework for Normative Requirements Elicitation NIER Track Nick Feng University of Toronto, Lina Marsso University of Toronto, Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Beverley Townsend University of York, Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto File Attached |
Thu 14 SepDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:30 - 12:00 | Program Repair 2Research Papers / Journal-first Papers / NIER Track at Plenary Room 2 Chair(s): Shin Yoo KAIST | ||
11:30 12mTalk | Hot Patching Hot Fixes: Reflection and Perspectives NIER Track Pre-print File Attached |
10:30 - 12:00 | Program Verification 2Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations / NIER Track at Room E Chair(s): Martin Kellogg New Jersey Institute of Technology | ||
11:18 12mTalk | Symbolic Verification of Fuzzy Logic ModelsRecorded talk NIER Track Siang Zhao School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China, Zhongyang Li School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China, Zhenbang Chen National University of Defense Technology, Ji Wang School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China Pre-print Media Attached |
13:30 - 15:00 | |||
13:42 12mTalk | Fault Localization for Buggy Deep Learning Framework Conversions in Image Recognition NIER Track Nikolaos Louloudakis University of Edinburgh, Perry Gibson University of Glasgow, José Cano University of Glasgow, Ajitha Rajan University of Edinburgh Pre-print File Attached | ||
13:54 12mTalk | Towards Safe Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution NIER Track Raffi Khatchadourian City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College, Tatiana Castro Vélez City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, Mehdi Bagherzadeh Oakland University, Nan Jia City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, Anita Raja City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:30 12mTalk | A Majority Invariant Approach to Patch Robustness Certification for Deep Learning ModelsRecorded talk NIER Track Qilin Zhou City University of Hong Kong, Zhengyuan Wei City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Haipeng Wang City University of Hong Kong, Wing-Kwong Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Pre-print Media Attached |
15:30 - 17:00 | FuzzingNIER Track / Journal-first Papers / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Plenary Room 2 Chair(s): Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
16:42 12mTalk | Scalable Industrial Control System Analysis via XAI-based Gray-Box Fuzzing NIER Track Justin Kur Oakland University, Jingshu Chen Oakland University, Jun Huang City University of Hong Kong |
Accepted Papers
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.
Scopes
The scopes and the topics of the NIER track are the same as the topics of the ASE 2023 research track.
[New this year!] The ASE NIER track solicits submissions in three categories:
- Groundbreaking research papers: 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.
- Reflections papers: Bold and unexpected results and reflections that challenge the existing research outcomes and help us look at current research directions in a new light, calling for fundamentally new directions of future research.
- Late-breaking advances papers: Emerging work in a cutting-edge field that can generate interest and attract more further related work.
The NIER track also provides a platform to seek comments and suggestions on ongoing work. We hope that the feedback from reviewers will help the research to mature into full-track submissions at top software engineering conferences in the future. Please note that summaries of existing papers do not qualify for this track.
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;
In addition, the NIER track PC comment on:
- Soundness: The validity of the rationale;
- Quality: The overall quality of the paper’s presentation
Formatting
The NIER track is calling for two types of submissions:
- Conventional NIER Track: Each submission must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, appendices, figures, and can have up to 2 additional pages containing references only.
- Late-breaking NIER Track: Each submission must not exceed 2 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
Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE NIER 2023 website available at https://ase2023-nier.hotcrp.com/.
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 2023 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ASE NIER 2023.
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 2023 adopts a double-blind review process. No submitted paper may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honour 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.
ACM Policy on Research Involving Humans
If work reported in the paper involves human subjects, authors will be required to affirm compliance with the ACM Policy on Research Involving Humans as part of the submission process: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects
It is the authors’ responsibility (each author individually and the authors collectively) to comply with and provide evidence of compliance with this Policy. Where local ethical review boards are required, authors are responsible for having their research reviewed and approved by such boards. Authors are also responsible for the overall ethical conduct of their research. All ACM Authors must be prepared to provide documentary evidence to ACM that they have adhered to local ethical and legal standards, as ACM may require documentary evidence of such approval at any time following submission of the Work and prior to or after the publication of the Work.
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 recommend a change for clarity or accuracy with paper content.
Questions and Comments
If you have any further questions, please contact the PC chairs at jie.zhang@kcl.ac.uk and shane.mcintosh@uwaterloo.ca.