ResearchICPC 2021

Accepted Papers

	Title
	A Multi-Modal Transformer-based Code Summarization Approach for Smart Contracts Research Zhen Yang, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Xiaodong Gu, Zhengyuan Wei, Xiaoxue Ma, Miao ZHANG Pre-print Media Attached
	Assessing Semantic Frames to Support Program Comprehension Activities Research Arthur Marques, Giovanni Viviani, Gail Murphy Pre-print Media Attached
	Atoms of Confusion in Java Research Chris Langhout, Maurício Aniche Pre-print Media Attached
	Automated Comment Update: How Far are We? Research Bo Lin, Shangwen Wang, Kui Liu, Xiaoguang Mao, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé Pre-print Media Attached
	Bug or not bug? That is the question Research Quentin Perez, Pierre-Antoine Jean, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Vauttier Pre-print Media Attached
	Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow Research Mohamad Yazdaninia, David Lo, Ashkan Sami Pre-print Media Attached
	Code Authors Hidden in File Revision Histories: An Empirical Study Research Siyi Gong, Hao Zhong Media Attached
	Comprehensive Integration of API Usage Patterns Research Qi Shen, Shijun Wu, Yanzhen Zou, Bing Xie Pre-print Media Attached
	ConfInLog: Leveraging Software Logs to Infer Configuration Constraints Research Shulin Zhou, Xiaodong Liu, Shanshan Li, Zhouyang Jia, Yuanliang Zhang, Teng Wang, Wang Li, Liao Xiangke Pre-print Media Attached
	Considerations and Pitfalls in Controlled Experiments on Code Comprehension Research Dror Feitelson Pre-print Media Attached
	Does Code Structure Affect Comprehension? On Using and Naming Intermediate Variables Research Roee Cates, Nadav Yunik, Dror Feitelson Pre-print Media Attached
	EtherSolve: Computing an Accurate Control-Flow Graph from Ethereum Bytecode Research Filippo Contro, Marco Crosara, Mariano Ceccato, Mila Dalla Preda Pre-print Media Attached
	Exploiting Method Names to Improve Code Summarization: A Deliberation Multi-Task Learning Approach Research Rui Xie, Wei Ye, Jinan Sun, Shikun Zhang Pre-print Media Attached
	Exploiting the Unique Expression for Improved Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering Text Research Kexin Sun, Hui Gao, Hongyu Kuang, Xiaoxing Ma, Guoping Rong, Dong Shao, He Zhang Pre-print Media Attached
	FLeCCS: A Technique for Suggesting Fragment-Level Similar Co-change Candidates Research Manishankar Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy, Banani Roy, Kevin Schneider Media Attached
	Free social Room/Coffee Time Research
	Free social Room/Coffee Time Research
	Free social Room/Happy hour Together/Drink and Science Research
	Free social Room/Happy hour Together/Drink and Science Research
	From Novice to Expert: Analysis of Token Level Effects in a Longitudinal Eye Tracking Study Research Naser Al Madi, Cole S. Peterson, Bonita Sharif, Jonathan I. Maletic Pre-print Media Attached
	How to write socio-technical papers in ICPC Community Research Bonita Sharif, Foutse Khomh, Eliane Wiese
	Improving Code Summarization with Block-wise Abstract Syntax Tree Splitting Research Chen Lin, Zhichao Ouyang, Junqing Zhuang, Jianqiang Chen, Hui Li, Rongxin Wu Pre-print Media Attached
	Introduction to the social program Research
	Keywords Guided Method Name Generation Research Fan Ge, Li Kuang Pre-print Media Attached
	Locating Faulty Methods with a Mixed RNN and Attention Model Research Shouliang Yang, Junming Cao, Hushuang Zeng, Beijun Shen, Hao Zhong Pre-print Media Attached
	Mental health in Academia Research
	Multi-Programming-Language Commits in OSS: An Empirical Study on Apache Projects Research Zengyang Li, Xiaoxiao Qi, Qinyi Yu, Peng Liang, Ran Mo, Chen Yang Pre-print Media Attached
	Pet Event Research
	Predicting Community Smells’ Occurrence on Individual Developers by Sentiments Research Zijie Huang, Zhiqing Shao, Guisheng Fan, Jianhua Gao, Ziyi Zhou, Kang Yang, Xingguang Yang Pre-print Media Attached
	Predicting Crash Fault Residence via Simplified Deep Forest Based on A Reduced Feature Set Research Kunsong Zhao, Jin Liu, Zhou Xu, Li Li, Meng Yan, Jiaojiao Yu, Yuxuan Zhou Pre-print Media Attached
	Project-Level Encoding for Neural Source Code Summarization of Subroutines Research Aakash Bansal, Sakib Haque, Collin McMillan Pre-print Media Attached
	Quiz- How much do you know about ICPC? Research
	RAID: Tool Support for Refactoring-Aware Code Reviews Research Rodrigo Brito, Marco Tulio Valente Pre-print Media Attached
	Shallow or Deep? An Empirical Study on Detecting Vulnerabilities using Deep Learning Research Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo, Anamaria Mojica-Hanke, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota Pre-print Media Attached
	The effect of block-based formulas on formula comprehension in spreadsheets Research Bas Jansen, Felienne Hermans Pre-print Media Attached
	The Effect Of Crowding On The Reading Of Program Code For Programmers With Dyslexia Research Ian Mcchesney, Raymond Bond Pre-print Media Attached
	Understanding Architecture Erosion: The Practitioners' Perceptive Research Ruiyin Li, Peng Liang, Mohamed Soliman, Paris Avgeriou Pre-print Media Attached
	Understanding Code Smell Detection via Code Review: A Study of the OpenStack Community Research Xiaofeng Han, Amjed Tahir, Peng Liang, Steve Counsell, Yajing Luo Pre-print Media Attached
	Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution Research Anthony Peruma, Emily Hu, Jiajun Chen, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman Pre-print Media Attached
	Using Non-Verbal Expressions as a Tool in Naming Research Research Omer Regev, Michael Soloveitchik, Dror Feitelson Pre-print Media Attached
	Weighing the Evidence: On Relationship Types in Microservice Extraction Research Lisa Kirby, Evelien Boerstra, Zachary John Christopher Anderson, Julia Rubin Pre-print Media Attached
	Where to Handle an Exception? Recommending Exception Handling Locations from a Global Perspective Research Xiangyang Jia, Songqiang Chen, Xingqi Zhou, Xintong Li, Run Yu, Xu Chen, Jifeng Xuan Pre-print Media Attached

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue for work in the area of software program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension.

The research track provides a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss new results in program comprehension. Topics of interest for all tracks include but are not limited to:

• Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;
• Human aspects in program comprehension, including gender considerations in program comprehension, information processing strategies, the role of emotions in program comprehension, and more;
• Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies;
• Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension;
• Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension;
• Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
• Novel text summarisation techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
• Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications, spreadsheets, web-based systems, legacy systems, product lines, libraries, multi-threaded applications, and systems of systems;
• Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;
• Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers to GitHub code review messages - all artifacts software developer encounters when creating or evolving software;
• Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation;
• Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry;
• Tool support for program comprehension.

Technical Research Track papers accepted for presentation at ICPC 2021 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of the Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers of the conference will be also awarded with an IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award. In addition, ICPC 2021 will introduce for the first time the ICPC Honorable Mentions, special awards that will be assigned, on the basis of the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest.

Format and Submission

Submissions must not be longer than 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices. References only may be included on up to 2 additional pages. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed.

Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions 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 options).

The submissions must comply with the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification. In particular, they must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ICPC. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship, part of the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ.

Submissions should not disclose the identity of the authors to comply with the double-blind review process employed by ICPC. The authors’ names must be omitted from the submissions and references to their prior work should be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process are available on the Q & A of ICSE 2021.

ICPC 2021 follows the ACM SIGSOFT rules on Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality of Submissions and all authors, reviewers, and organizers will uphold the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

By submitting to the ICPC, authors acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the ACM, and the authorship policy of the IEEE.

Submissions to the Research Track that meet the above requirements can be made via the Easychair submission site (https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021) by the submission deadline. When submitting, select the track ‘ICPC 2021 Research’. We encourage the authors to upload their paper information early (and can submit the PDF later) to properly enter conflicts for double-blind reviewing.

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

Supplementary Material

Supplementary material can be uploaded via the EasyChair site or anonymously linked from the paper submission. Although PC members are not obligated to look at this material, we strongly encourage submitters to use supplementary material to provide access to anonymized code or data, whenever possible. Please carefully review any supplementary material to ensure it conforms to the double-blind policy (described above). For example, code and data repositories may be exported to remove version control history, scrubbed of names in comments and metadata, and anonymously uploaded to a sharing site to support review.

One resource that may be helpful in accomplishing this task is this blog post: https://ineed.coffee/5205/how-to-disclose-data-for-double-blind-review-and-make-it-archived-open-data-upon-acceptance/.

Review and Evaluation Criteria

Research papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Soundness: The extent to which the paper’s contributions are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods;
• Significance: The extent to which the paper’s contributions are important with respect to open software engineering challenges;
• Novelty: The extent to which the contribution is sufficiently original and is clearly explained with respect to the state-of-the-art;
• Verifiability: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to support independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions;
• Presentation: The extent to which the paper’s quality of writing meets the standards of ICPC, including clear descriptions and explanations, appropriate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

Publication and Presentation

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for ICPC 2021 and present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings, which will also be available in the IEEEXplore Library. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or COVID-19 prevention). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications.