ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Dates
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Tracks
ASE Industry Showcase
ASE Journal-first Papers
ASE NIER Track
ASE Research Papers
ASE Tool Demonstrations
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Tue 29 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Test selection and prioritizationResearch Papers / Journal-first Papers / NIER Track at Camellia
Chair(s): Wing Lam George Mason University
11:45
10m
Talk
Prioritizing Tests for Improved Runtime
NIER Track
Abdelrahman Baz The University of Texas at Austin, Minchao Huang The University of Texas at Austin, August Shi The University of Texas at Austin
10:30 - 12:00
Requirement engineeringResearch Papers / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers at Carr
Chair(s): Lina Marsso University of Toronto
11:45
10m
Talk
Translation Titans, Reasoning Challenges: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models for Detecting Conflicting Requirements
NIER Track
Mohamad Fazelnia University of Hawaii at Manoa, Mehdi Mirakhorli University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln
10:30 - 12:00
SE for AI 1NIER Track / Journal-first Papers / Research Papers at Magnoila
Chair(s): Chengcheng Wan East China Normal University
11:30
10m
Talk
A Conceptual Framework for Quality Assurance of LLM-based Socio-critical Systems
NIER Track
Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano, Matteo Camilli Politecnico di Milano, Tommaso Dolci Politecnico di Milano, Giovanni Quattrocchi Politecnico di Milano
11:40
10m
Talk
Towards Robust ML-enabled Software Systems: Detecting Out-of-Distribution data using Gini Coefficients
NIER Track
Hala Abdelkader Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Jean-Guy Schneider Monash University, Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University, Australia, Priya Rani RMIT University, Rajesh Vasa Deakin University, Australia
11:50
10m
Talk
Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models on Coding Tasks
NIER Track
Chi Zhang , Zifan Wang Center for AI Safety, Ruoshi Zhao Independent Researcher, Ravi Mangal Colorado State University, Matt Fredrikson Carnegie Mellon University, Limin Jia , Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University; NASA Ames
13:30 - 15:00
LLM for SE 1Research Papers / NIER Track / Tool Demonstrations / Journal-first Papers at Camellia
Chair(s): Chengcheng Wan East China Normal University
14:40
10m
Talk
Towards Leveraging LLMs for Reducing Open Source Onboarding Information Overload
NIER Track
Elijah Kayode Adejumo George Mason University, Brittany Johnson George Mason University
14:50
10m
Talk
CoDefeater: Using LLMs To Find Defeaters in Assurance Cases
NIER Track
Usman Gohar Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Michael Hunter Iowa State University, Robyn Lutz Iowa State University, Myra Cohen Iowa State University
15:30 - 17:00
16:25
10m
Talk
A Formal Treatment of Performance BugsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Omar I. Al Bataineh Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
15:30 - 16:30
Mobile app development and app reivewJournal-first Papers / NIER Track / Tool Demonstrations at Magnoila
16:00
10m
Talk
Assessing the feasibility of Micro frontend architecture in native mobile app development
NIER Track
Quentin Capdepon LIRMM - University of Montpellier, Nicolas Hlad Berger-Levrault, Benoit Verhaeghe Berger-Levrault, Abdelhak Seriai LIRMM, CNRS and University of Montpellier
16:20
10m
Talk
Towards Extracting Ethical Concerns-related Software Requirements from App ReviewsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Aakash Sorathiya University of Calgary, Gouri Ginde (Deshpande) University of Calgary
16:30 - 17:30
Program repair 1Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations / NIER Track at Magnoila
Chair(s): Vikram Nitin Columbia University
17:00
10m
Talk
Automated Repair of Multi-fault Programs: Obstacles, Approaches, and ProspectsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Omar I. Al Bataineh Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)

Wed 30 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
LLM for SE 2NIER Track / Research Papers / Industry Showcase / Tool Demonstrations at Camellia
Chair(s): Wenxi Wang University of Virgina
14:40
10m
Talk
GPTZoo: A Large-scale Dataset of GPTs for the Research Community
NIER Track
Xinyi Hou Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shenao Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
14:50
10m
Talk
Emergence of A Novel Domain Expert: A Generative AI-based Framework for Software Function Point Analysis
NIER Track
13:30 - 15:00
Anomaly and fault detectionResearch Papers / NIER Track at Compagno
Chair(s): Xing Hu Zhejiang University
14:30
10m
Talk
Trident: Detecting SQL Injection Attacks via Abstract Syntax Tree-based Neural Network
NIER Track
Yuanlin Li Tsinghua University, Zhiwei Xu Tsinghua University, Min Zhou Tsinghua University, Hai Wan Tsinghua University, Xibin Zhao Tsinghua University
14:40
10m
Talk
A vision on a methodology for the application of an Intrusion Detection System for satellites
NIER Track
Sébastien Gios UCLouvain, Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel UCLouvain, Mark Diamantino Caribé Telespazio - ESA, Axel Legay Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
DOI
15:30 - 16:30
SE for AI 2NIER Track / Research Papers at Camellia
Chair(s): Wenxi Wang University of Virgina
16:15
15m
Talk
Learning DNN Abstractions using Gradient DescentRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Diganta Mukhopadhyay TCS Research, Pune, India, Sanaa Siddiqui Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, Hrishikesh Karmarkar TCS Research, Kumar Madhukar Indian Institute of Technologiy Delhi, New Delhi, India, Guy Katz The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15:30 - 16:30
Fuzzing 2Industry Showcase / NIER Track / Research Papers at Magnoila
Chair(s): Marcel Böhme MPI-SP, Bochum
16:15
10m
Talk
Visualizing and Understanding the Internals of Fuzzing
NIER Track
Sriteja Kummita Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design (Fraunhofer IEM), Zenong Zhang The University of Texas - Dallas, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas

Thu 31 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Release engineeringResearch Papers / NIER Track / Industry Showcase at Camellia
Chair(s): Parnian Kamran University of California, Davis
11:30
10m
Talk
Towards Automated Configuration Documentation
NIER Track
Jobayer Ahmmed Iowa State University, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida
DOI Pre-print
11:40
10m
Talk
Unity Is Strength: Collaborative LLM-Based Agents for Code Reviewer Recommendation
NIER Track
Luqiao Wang Xidian University, Yangtao Zhou Xidian University, Huiying Zhuang Xidian University, Qingshan Li Xidian University, Di Cui Xidian University, Yutong Zhao University of Central Missouri, Lu Wang Xidian University
11:50
10m
Talk
Build Issue Resolution from the Perspective of Non-Contributors
NIER Track
Sunzhou Huang The University of Texas at San Antonio, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
DOI Pre-print
10:30 - 12:00
Vulnerability and security2NIER Track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Magnoila
Chair(s): Yiming Tang Rochester Institute of Technology
11:40
10m
Talk
The Software Genome Project: Unraveling Software Through Genetic Principles
NIER Track
Yueming Wu Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University; Imperial Global Singapore, Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Yiran Zhang , Zhu Zhiling Zhejiang University of Technology, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
11:50
10m
Talk
Mining for Mutation Operators for Reduction of Information Flow Control Violations
NIER Track
Ilya Kosorukov University College London, Daniel Blackwell University College London, David Clark University College London, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Justyna Petke University College London
13:30 - 15:00
Testing 3Tool Demonstrations / Journal-first Papers / Research Papers / Industry Showcase / NIER Track at Camellia
Chair(s): Yi Song School of Computer Science, Wuhan University
14:08
12m
Talk
Toward Individual Fairness Testing with Data Validity
NIER Track
Takashi Kitamura , Sousuke Amasaki Okayama Prefectural University, Jun Inoue National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Yoshinao Isobe AIST, Takahisa Toda The University of Electro-Communications
15:30 - 16:30
Smart contract and block chain 2NIER Track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Camellia
Chair(s): Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA
16:20
10m
Talk
Oracle-Guided Vulnerability Diversity and Exploit Synthesis of Smart Contracts Using LLMs
NIER Track
Mojtaba Eshghie KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Cyrille Artho KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
15:30 - 16:30
16:15
10m
Talk
Copilot-in-the-Loop: Fixing Code Smells in Copilot-Generated Python Code using Copilot
NIER Track
Beiqi Zhang Wuhan University, Peng Liang Wuhan University, China, Qiong Feng Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Yujia Fu Wuhan University, Zengyang Li Central China Normal University
DOI Pre-print
15:30 - 16:30
Code completionResearch Papers / NIER Track at Compagno
Chair(s): Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, New York; AWS AI Lab
16:15
10m
Talk
RepoSim: Evaluating Prompt Strategies for Code Completion via User Behavior Simulation
NIER Track
Chao Peng ByteDance, Qinyun Wu Bytedance Ltd., Jiangchao Liu ByteDance, Jierui Liu ByteDance, Bo Jiang Bytedance Network Technology, Mengqian Xu East China Normal University, Yinghao Wang ByteDance, Xia Liu ByteDance, Ping Yang Bytedance Network Technology

Accepted Papers

Title
A Conceptual Framework for Quality Assurance of LLM-based Socio-critical Systems
NIER Track
A Formal Treatment of Performance BugsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Assessing the feasibility of Micro frontend architecture in native mobile app development
NIER Track
Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models on Coding Tasks
NIER Track
Automated Repair of Multi-fault Programs: Obstacles, Approaches, and ProspectsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
A vision on a methodology for the application of an Intrusion Detection System for satellites
NIER Track
DOI
Build Issue Resolution from the Perspective of Non-Contributors
NIER Track
DOI Pre-print
CoDefeater: Using LLMs To Find Defeaters in Assurance Cases
NIER Track
Copilot-in-the-Loop: Fixing Code Smells in Copilot-Generated Python Code using Copilot
NIER Track
DOI Pre-print
Emergence of A Novel Domain Expert: A Generative AI-based Framework for Software Function Point Analysis
NIER Track
GPTZoo: A Large-scale Dataset of GPTs for the Research Community
NIER Track
Learning DNN Abstractions using Gradient DescentRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Mining for Mutation Operators for Reduction of Information Flow Control Violations
NIER Track
Oracle-Guided Vulnerability Diversity and Exploit Synthesis of Smart Contracts Using LLMs
NIER Track
Prioritizing Tests for Improved Runtime
NIER Track
RepoSim: Evaluating Prompt Strategies for Code Completion via User Behavior Simulation
NIER Track
The Software Genome Project: Unraveling Software Through Genetic Principles
NIER Track
Toward Individual Fairness Testing with Data Validity
NIER Track
Towards Automated Configuration Documentation
NIER Track
DOI Pre-print
Towards Extracting Ethical Concerns-related Software Requirements from App ReviewsRecorded Talk
NIER Track
Towards Leveraging LLMs for Reducing Open Source Onboarding Information Overload
NIER Track
Towards Robust ML-enabled Software Systems: Detecting Out-of-Distribution data using Gini Coefficients
NIER Track
Translation Titans, Reasoning Challenges: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models for Detecting Conflicting Requirements
NIER Track
Trident: Detecting SQL Injection Attacks via Abstract Syntax Tree-based Neural Network
NIER Track
Unity Is Strength: Collaborative LLM-Based Agents for Code Reviewer Recommendation
NIER Track
Visualizing and Understanding the Internals of Fuzzing
NIER Track

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.

Submission Deadline Extended! Abstracts now due June 14th and Full papers are due June 17th!!

Scopes

The scope and the topics of the NIER track are the same as those of the ASE 2024 research track.

The ASE NIER track solicits submissions in two categories:

  • Groundbreaking research papers: Exciting new directions or techniques that may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results but supported by strong and well-argued scientific intuitions. Reflection 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 future research directions.

  • 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 mature into full-track submissions at top software engineering conferences. Please note that summaries of existing papers do not qualify for this track.

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 mature into full-track submissions at top software engineering conferences. 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

  • Each submission must be at most 4 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures, and can have up to 2 additional pages containing references only.

All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the ACM Proceedings Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. LaTeX users must use the \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart} option.

How to Submit

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE NIER 2024 website at https://ase2024-nier.hotcrp.com/. All submissions must be in English.

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 2024 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ASE NIER 2024.

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 2024 adopts a double-blind review process. No submitted paper may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must try 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 not complying with the double-blind review process will be desk-rejected. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process can be found on 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 before 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 further questions, please contact the PC chairs at denys@cs.wm.edu and john.businge@unlv.edu.

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