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ICGSE 2020
Fri 26 - Sun 28 June 2020
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Experience Reports provide the opportunity for you to share your practical experience through a paper and accompanying talk at the conference. An experience report is a reflection of your own industry experiences (e.g. challenges you have seen, what you tried and approaches you have taken, what worked and what didn’t work). We invite you to submit an abstract in which you briefly explain your own, unpublished experience related to Global Software Engineering. If your proposal is accepted, you will then be shepherded as you write your report. Experience reports are short papers (maximum 5 pages) that will be published in the conference proceedings.

Questions to Consider

These questions might help you decide how to focus your experience report:

  • How did you uniquely adopt, adapt, use global software engineering?
  • How have you uniquely tackled architecture, development, design, usability, quality assurance, deployment, marketing, product definition, requirements or documentation in GSE settings?
  • What were the challenges you faced? How successful were you in overcoming them? What challenges remain?
  • What mistakes did you make? What insights have you gained that others could learn from?

Shepherding of Experience Reports

We know it’s not easy to get an idea to paper. Whether you’re a first-time author or you already have some publications under your belt, we can all benefit from some guidance and help with our writing. ‘Shepherding’ is a process where more experienced authors guide and coach you as you write your experience report paper. If your proposal is accepted, you will be assigned a shepherd to work with you to help you shape your paper and get it ready for publication. Shepherds work closely with authors, reviewing drafts and freely giving advice. Shepherds ask clarifying questions and suggest improvements. But ultimately, it is you, the author, who decides what to tell and how to tell it. A shepherd is not an editor, although they may generously make detailed comments on how to revise your paper. Once the shepherd and the program committee agree that your report is acceptable, you will have time to make final revisions before the paper is published.

Important Dates

  • January 17th, 2020 (AoE) January 24th, 2020 (AoE) - Abstract/proposal submission deadline
  • January 31th, 2020 (AoE) - Conditional acceptance notification. Shepherding process begins.
  • February 21st, 2020 (AoE) - Go/no-go decision based on whether paper is progressing. We will make a call whether to continue based on the quality of the paper at this date, and the shepherd’s judgment of the paper’s progress. Writing continues. Get paper ready for publication.
  • March 15th, 2020 (AoE) - Camera-ready submission deadline

Please see the Call for Contributions for all the details concerning topics of interest, formatting, and submission instructions.

Experience Report Chairs:

Josiane Kroll (Experience Reports co-chair) - University of Manitoba, Canada

Anna Filippova (Experience Reports co-chair) - GitHub, USA

Dates
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Fri 26 Jun

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15:00 - 18:00
Session 1ICSSP / [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE / Research Papers at ICSSP-ICGSE
Chair(s): David Raffo Portland State University, Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR)

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ICGSE Theme: Software development communities

ICSSP Theme: Software engineering process related case studies

15:00
15m
Day opening
Opening
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University, Liguo Huang Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Paul Clarke , Eray Tüzün Bilkent University
15:15
10m
Day opening
LogisticsRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen
15:25
45m
Keynote
Global Software Engineering in the Age of GitHub and Zoom. How collaboration technologies and the mainstreaming of open source have changed global software engineering.Keynote
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University
16:10
15m
Research paper
On the Detection of Community Smells using Genetic Programming-based Ensemble Classifier Chain
Research Papers
Nuri Almarimi Ecole de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Moataz Chouchen Ecole de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Islem Saidani Ecole de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology
16:25
15m
Research paper
Understanding Collaborative Software Development: An Interview Study
Research Papers
Kattiana Constantino Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Shurui Zhou Carnegie Mellon University, USA / University of Toronto, CA, Mauricio Souza UFLA, Eduardo Figueiredo UFMG, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
16:40
15m
Research paper
A Case Study on Tool Support for Collaboration in Agile Development
Research Papers
Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Andrea Giove University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Marco Losavio Klopotek Software & Technology Services Italia
16:55
15m
Full-paper
Experimentation for Business-to-Business Mission-Critical Systems: A Case Study
ICSSP
David Issa Mattos Chalmers University of Technology, Anas Dakkak Ericsson, Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University
17:10
15m
Full-paper
Digital Re-imagination of Software and Systems Processes for Quality Engineering: iSPIN Approach
ICSSP
Padmalata Nistala TCS Research, Asha Rajbhoj TCS Research, Vinay Kulkarni Tata Consultancy Services Research, Kesav Vithal Nori IIIT Hyderabad
17:25
15m
Full-paper
Process Inspection Support: an Industrial Case Study
ICSSP
Christoph Mayr-Dorn Johannes Kepler University Linz, Johann Tuder Johannes Kepler University Linz, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University, Linz

Sat 27 Jun

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06:00 - 09:00
Session 2Research Papers / Experience Reports / ICSSP / [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE at ICSSP-ICGSE
Chair(s): Tony Clear Auckland University of Technology, Regina Hebig Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen

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ICGSE Theme: Trust and culture in GSD

ICSSP Theme: Enterprise processes for Agile and DevOps

06:00
5m
Day opening
OpeningRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University
06:05
10m
Day opening
LogisticsRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen
06:15
15m
Experience report
Prioritizing trust in a globally distributed software engineering team to overcome complexity and make releases a non-event
Experience Reports
Prasad Kabbur Siemens Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Mani Vs Siemens Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Juergen Schuelein Siemens Healthineers
06:30
15m
Research paper
On Value Creation in Developer Relations (DevRel): a practitioners’ perspective
Research Papers
Awdren Fontão Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Sergio Cleger-Tamayo SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Igor Scaliante Wiese Federal University of Technology – Paraná - UTFPR, Rodrigo Santos UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Arilo Claudio Dias Neto Universidade Federal do Amazonas
06:45
15m
Full-paper
Generating Use Case Scenarios from User Stories
ICSSP
Fabian Gilson University of Canterbury, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury, François Georis University of Namur
07:00
15m
Full-paper
On the Role of Software Architecture in DevOps Transformation: An Industrial Case Study
ICSSP
Mojtaba Shahin Monash University, Muhammad Ali Babar The University of Adelaide
07:15
15m
Full-paper
Action-based recommendation in Pull-request development
ICSSP
Muhammad Ilyas Azeem Institute of Software, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Sebastiano Panichella Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Andrea Di Sorbo University of Sannio, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Qing Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
07:30
15m
Research paper
The Design Thinking of Co-located vs. Distributed Software Developers: Distance Strikes Again!
Research Papers
Rodi Jolak Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Andreas Wortmann RWTH Aachen University, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University, Eric Umuhoza Carnegie Mellon University-Africa, Michel R. V. Chaudron Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
07:45
15m
Research paper
Attending to Implicit Bias as a Way to Move Beyond Negative Stereotyping in GSE
Research Papers
Stina Matthiesen Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Pernille Bjørn University of Copenhagen, Denmark & University of Washington, USA, Claus Trillingsgaard EG A/S
08:00
15m
Experience report
Developing a Multi-Cultural Conversational Agent With a Globally Distributed Team
Experience Reports
Elayne Ruane University College Dublin, Anthony Ventresque Lero and University College Dublin, Ross Smith Microsoft
08:15
15m
Full-paper
Occurrence Frequency and All Historical Failure Information Based Method for TCP in CI
ICSSP
Ying Shang Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Qianyu Li Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Yang Yang Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Zheng Li University of Concepción
08:30
15m
Doctoral symposium paper
How to Treat the Use of Grey Literature in Software Engineering
ICSSP
Xin Zhou State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Software Institute, Nanjing University
15:00 - 18:00
Session 3Research Papers / Experience Reports / ICSSP / [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE / Journal First at ICSSP-ICGSE
Chair(s): Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Paul Clarke , Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University

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ICGSE Theme: Onboarding and community evolution

ICSSP Theme: Machine Learning, AI and Microservices Architectures

15:00
5m
Day opening
OpeningRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University
15:05
15m
Research paper
TasRec: A Framework for Task Recommendation in Crowdsourcing
Research Papers
Kumar Abhinav Accenture Labs, Gurpriya Kaur Bhatia Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, Alpana Dubey Accenture Labs, India, Sakshi Jain Accenture, Nitish Bhardwaj Accenture Technology Labs
15:20
15m
Talk
From Art to Science: Evolution of Community Development
Journal First
15:35
15m
Full-paper
Process Implications of Executable Domain Models for Microservices Development
ICSSP
Bo Wang University of Southern California, Barry Boehm University of Southern California
15:50
15m
Full-paper
Do Instance-level Review Diagrams Support Validation Processes of Cyber-Physical System Specifications
ICSSP
Marian Daun University of Duisburg-Essen, Jennifer Brings University of Duisburg-Essen, Thorsten Weyer University Koblenz-Landau
16:05
15m
Full-paper
Onboarding Bot for Newcomers to Software Engineering
ICSSP
James Dominic Clemson University, Charles Ritter Clemson University, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University
16:20
15m
Experience report
How do newcomers learn work process in Global Software Development (GSD)? A survey study from the perspective of newly project leaders
Experience Reports
Raquel Cunha SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Fernanda Souza SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Franciney Lima SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Bruno Bonifácio Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM
16:35
15m
Experience report
Designing Engineering Onboarding for 60+ Nationalities
Experience Reports
Julian Harty Commercetest Limited
16:50
15m
Full-paper
From Ad-Hoc Data Analytics to DataOps
ICSSP
Aiswarya Munappy Chalmers University of Technology, David Issa Mattos Chalmers University of Technology, Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University, Anas Dakkak Ericsson
17:05
15m
Full-paper
Emerging and Changing Tasks in the Development Process for Machine Learning Systems
ICSSP
Hanyan Liu Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Samuel Eksmo Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Johan Risberg IBM Sweden, Regina Hebig University of Gothenburg
17:20
15m
Full-paper
Developing ML/DL Models: A Design Framework
ICSSP
Meenu Mary John Malmö University, Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University, Jan Bosch

Sun 28 Jun

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06:00 - 09:00
Session 4Experience Reports / ICSSP / Industry Talks / [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE at ICSSP-ICGSE
Chair(s): Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork and Lero, Ireland, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University

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ICGSE Theme: Process and requirements

ICSSP Theme: Empirical studies and experience reports on agile and hybrid processes

06:00
5m
Day opening
OpeningRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University
06:05
15m
Experience report
Moray-STF: A Novel Approach for Requirement Definition for GSD Projects in a Mobile Ecosystem
Experience Reports
Klinsman M. Goncalves SIDIA R&D Institute, Yasmine G Vaz SIDIA R&D Institute, Eberth F. Cruz SIDIA R&D Institute, Rafael E. Silva SIDIA R&D Institute, Lineker Souza SIDIA R&D Institute, Fábio M. Azevedo SIDIA R&D Institute, Eduardo D. Sardinha SIDIA R&D Institute, Paulo Fonseca SIDIA R&D Institute, Cícero Augusto De Lara Pahins SIDIA Research Institute
06:20
15m
Experience report
Using a Tool-based Approach to Comply with Smartphone User Manual Regulations in Latin America Countries
Experience Reports
Klinsman M. Goncalves SIDIA R&D Institute, Yasmine G Vaz SIDIA R&D Institute, Eberth F. Cruz SIDIA R&D Institute, Rafael E. Silva SIDIA R&D Institute, Lineker Souza SIDIA R&D Institute, Fábio M. Azevedo SIDIA R&D Institute, Eduardo D. Sardinha SIDIA R&D Institute, Paulo Fonseca SIDIA R&D Institute, Cícero Augusto De Lara Pahins SIDIA Research Institute
06:35
15m
Full-paper
Constructing a Hybrid Software Process Simulation Model in Practice: An Exemplar from Industry
ICSSP
Yue Li Oxford-Hainan Blockchain Research Institute, He Zhang Nanjing University, Liming Dong Nanjing University, Bohan Liu Nanjing University, Jinyu Ma Nanjing University
06:50
15m
Full-paper
How are Hybrid Development Approaches Organized? - A Systematic Literature Review
ICSSP
Nils Prenner Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group, Carolin Unger-Windeler Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group, Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group
07:05
15m
Full-paper
Determining Context Factors for Hybrid Development Methods with Trained Models
ICSSP
Jil Klünder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Dzejlana Karajic University of Passau, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Oliver Karras Leibniz University Hannover, Christian Muenkel Leibniz University Hannover, Jürgen Münch Reutlingen University, Stephen MacDonell Auckland University of Technology, Regina Hebig University of Gothenburg, Marco Kuhrmann University of Passau
07:20
15m
Industry talk
Observability Driven Development and Continuous Delivery
Industry Talks
Mahesh Venkataraman Accenture, Reuben George Accenture
07:35
15m
Experience report
Expanding the responsibility of an offshore team and sustainably increasing business value using SAFe
Experience Reports
Alaukikdev Pandya Siemens Healthineers, V. S. Mani Siemens , Ansuman Pattanayak Siemens Healthineers
07:50
15m
Experience report
Hybrid Sourcing: Novel Combination of Crowdsourcing and Inner-sourcing for Software Developments
Experience Reports
Shinobu Saito NTT Software Innovation Center, IIMURA Yukako NTT Software Innovation Center
08:05
15m
Full-paper
Charting Coordination Needs in Large-Scale Agile Organizations with Boundary Objects and Methodological Islands
ICSSP
Rashidah Kasauli Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Rebekka Wohlrab Chalmers University of Technology | Systemite AB, Eric Knauss Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenbrug, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, Salome Maro Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
08:20
15m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards Improving the Organization of Hybrid Development Approaches
ICSSP
Nils Prenner Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group
15:00 - 18:00
Session 5[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE / Research Papers / ICSSP / Experience Reports at ICSSP-ICGSE
Chair(s): Josiane Kroll University of Manitoba, Leon Osterweil

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ICGSE Theme: Tools for GSD

ICSSP Theme: Applied Software Engineering Practices

15:00
5m
Day opening
OpeningRecorded
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University
15:05
45m
Keynote
Preventing Undesirable Behavior of Intelligent MachinesKeynote
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
15:50
15m
Experience report
Challenges in scaling AI-powered distributed software product
Experience Reports
Rajeev Kumar Gupta Siemens Healthineers India LLP, Balaji B Siemens Healthineers India LLP, Mekanathan Venkatachalapathy Siemens, Ferose Khan Jeberla Siemens
16:05
15m
Experience report
Developing a Release Management Tool to Support Global Software Development: An Experience Report on Android Platform
Experience Reports
Hualter Oliveira Barbosa SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Witalo Albuquerque SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Alexandre Bandeira SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Luis Albuquerque SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Ueslei Pivoto SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Fernando Pires SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Bruno Bonifácio Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM
16:20
15m
Research paper
GLOBAL-MANAGER: A Serious Game for providing training in Project Manager Skills
Research Papers
Rubén Marquez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Aurora Vizcaíno Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Felix García University of Castilla-La Mancha, Antonio Manjavacas University of Castilla-La Mancha
16:35
15m
Full-paper
Why do Software Teams Deviate from Scrum? Reasons and Implications
ICSSP
Mohamad Mortada Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Hamdy Michael Ayas Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Regina Hebig University of Gothenburg
16:50
15m
Full-paper
EcoKnow: Engineering Effective, Co-created and Compliant Adaptive Case Management Systems for Knowledge Workers
ICSSP
Thomas T. Hildebrandt University of Copenhagen, Amine Abbad Andaloussi Technical University of Denmark, Lars Rune Christensen IT University of Copenhagen, Søren Debois IT University of Copenhagen, Nicklas Pape Healy Syddjurs Municipality, Hugo A. López IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & DCR Solutions A/S, Morten Marquard DCR Solutions A/S, Naja Holten Møller University of Copenhagen, Anette C. M. Petersen IT University of Copenhagen, Tijs Slaats University of Copenhagen, Barbara Weber St. Gallen University
17:05
10m
Day closing
Closing
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University, Liguo Huang Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205
17:15
10m
Awards
Awards ceremony
[Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE
Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Josiane Kroll University of Manitoba, Paul Clarke , Eray Tüzün Bilkent University

Accepted Papers

Title
Challenges in scaling AI-powered distributed software product
Experience Reports
Designing Engineering Onboarding for 60+ Nationalities
Experience Reports
Developing a Multi-Cultural Conversational Agent With a Globally Distributed Team
Experience Reports
Developing a Release Management Tool to Support Global Software Development: An Experience Report on Android Platform
Experience Reports
Expanding the responsibility of an offshore team and sustainably increasing business value using SAFe
Experience Reports
How do newcomers learn work process in Global Software Development (GSD)? A survey study from the perspective of newly project leaders
Experience Reports
Hybrid Sourcing: Novel Combination of Crowdsourcing and Inner-sourcing for Software Developments
Experience Reports
Moray-STF: A Novel Approach for Requirement Definition for GSD Projects in a Mobile Ecosystem
Experience Reports
Prioritizing trust in a globally distributed software engineering team to overcome complexity and make releases a non-event
Experience Reports
Using a Tool-based Approach to Comply with Smartphone User Manual Regulations in Latin America Countries
Experience Reports

Call for papers

Scope

The experience reports track of ICGSE 2020 solicits novel, high-quality submissions on a wide range of topics related to global software engineering. We welcome submissions addressing topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Human Aspects of Distributed Development
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Communication, coordination, and collaboration
    • Team building
    • Trust and social relationships
    • Onboarding and socialization of newcomers
  • Methods and processes
    • Agile methods in distributed settings
    • Large-scale agile software
    • Lean development
    • DevOps
    • Hybrid processes
    • Remote pair and mob programming
    • Open source software development
    • Crowdsourcing software development
    • SW Architectures and GSE
    • SW Architectures and distributions of component ownership
  • Global business strategy
    • Business models
    • Economics
    • Hiring in global settings
    • Industrial offshoring and outsourcing experiences
    • Strategic issues
    • Supplier management
  • Technologies supporting distributed cooperative work
    • Collaboration tools
    • ALM/PLM for distributed teams
    • Infrastructure for distributed development
    • Social media support
    • Chatbots
  • Education and training in industry
    • Educational studies
    • GSE curricula
    • Lessons learned
  • Emerging Technologies to support/improve/enhance GSE
    • Augmented reality/extended reality
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain
    • Wearables

How to submit

All submissions must conform to the formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 5 pages for the main text, including all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two more pages containing only references are permitted. All submissions must be in PDF. All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper is accepted).

Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.

By submitting to the ICGSE 2020 Research 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 ICGSE 2020 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ICGSE 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.

Submissions to the Experience Reports Track that meet the above requirements can be made via Easychair by the submission deadline. We encourage the authors to upload their paper info early (and can submit the PDF later) to properly enter their conflicts.

Any submission that does not comply with these requirements may be desk rejected by the Technical Track PC Chairs without further review.

Upon notification of acceptance, authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete a copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the results at the ICGSE 2020 conference. ICGSE 2020 has the right to pull papers out of the proceedings if there is no associated registration by two weeks past the early registration deadline. All accepted contributions with at least one registered author will be published in the conference electronic proceedings and appear in the digital libraries of both IEEE and ACM.

Open Science Policy

ICGSE 2019 encourages authors to submit replication packages and/or data sets with their papers, for the sake of transparency as replicability, as well as for facilitating the peer review process. The following guidelines are recommendations and not mandatory. Your choice will not affect the review process for your paper. Should you decide to embrace this policy, we strongly encourage you to archive empirical datasets on Zenodo or Dataverse, following Google guidelines to dataset providers, and share analysis scripts on freely accessible code repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

ICGSE 2020 also encourages authors to self-archive a preprint of your accepted manuscript in arXiv.org or other similar open repositories. This is allowed by ACM and IEEE publishers for ICSE proceedings. Note that the final version of the paper, as laid out by the publisher, cannot be self-archived. Instead, manuscript with reviewer comments addressed must be used, but before applying the camera-ready instructions and templates.

Feel free to contact the ICGSE 2020 PCs for more details.

Important Dates

  • January 17th, 2020 (AoE) January 24th, 2020 (AoE) - Abstract/proposal submission deadline
  • January 31th, 2020 (AoE) - Conditional acceptance notification. Shepherding process begins.
  • February 28th, 2020 (AoE) - Go/no-go decision based on whether paper is progressing. We will make a call whether to continue based on the quality of the paper at this date, and the shepherd’s judgment of the paper’s progress. Writing continues. Get paper ready for publication.
  • March 15th, 2020 (AoE) - Camera-ready submission deadline

Experience Report Chairs:

Josiane Kroll (Experience Reports co-chair) - University of Manitoba, Canada

Anna Filippova (Experience Reports co-chair) - GitHub, USA