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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020

The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ICSE provides a vibrant forum for forward looking, innovative research in software engineering. Our aim is to accelerate the exposure of the software engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, or to techniques and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline.

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Accepted Papers

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A Container-Based Infrastructure for Fuzzy-Driven Root Causing of Flaky TestsNIER
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Automatically Predicting Bug Severity Early in the Development ProcessNIER
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Better Code, Better Sharing: On the Need of Analyzing Jupyter NotebooksNIER
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Blending Kinematic and Software Models for Tighter Reachability AnalysisNIER
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Boosting Automated Program Repair with Bug-Inducing CommitsNIER
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CHASE: Checklist to Assess User Experience in Internet of Things EnvironmentsNIER
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Code Duplication on Stack OverflowNIER
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Cooperative API Misuse Detection Using Correction RulesNIER
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Eye of the Mind: Image Processing for Social CodingNIER
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Hey, my data are mine! Active data to empower the userNIER
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Is Your Quantum Program Bug-Free?New Ideas and Emerging Results Distinguished Paper AwardsNIER
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Manifold for Machine Learning AssuranceNIER
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On the Power of Abstraction: a Model-Driven Co-evolution Approach of Software CodeNIER
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Predictive Constraint Solving and AnalysisNew Ideas and Emerging Results Distinguished Paper AwardsNIER
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Program Debloating via Stochastic OptimizationNIER
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Stress and Burnout in Open Source: Toward Finding, Understanding, and Mitigating Unhealthy InteractionsNIER
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Synthesis of Assurance Cases for Software CertificationNIER
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The Dual Channel HypothesisNIER
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Threat modeling: from infancy to maturityNIER
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Threats to Validity in Experimenting Mutation-Based Fault LocalizationNIER
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Towards Engineering Future Gameful ApplicationsNIER
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Towards Understanding Emotional Response to Requirements Changes in Agile TeamsNIER
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Understanding FLOSS through community publications: Strategies for Grey Literature ReviewNIER
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Using Hypersafety Verification for Proving Correctness of Programming AssignmentsNIER
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Visual Sketching: From Image Sketches to CodeNIER
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Where should I comment my code? A dataset and model for predicting locations that need commentsNIER
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Why Will My Question Be Closed? NLP-Based Pre-Submission Predictions of Question Closing Reasons on Stack OverflowNIER
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With Registered Reports Towards Large Scale Data CurationNIER
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Call for Papers

The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ICSE provides a vibrant forum for forward looking, innovative research in software engineering. Our aim is to accelerate the exposure of the software engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, or to techniques and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline. To broadly capture this goal, NIER 2020 will publish the following types of papers.

  • 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.

Scope of NIER Track

A NIER track paper is not just a scaled down version of a ICSE full research track paper. NIER track is reserved for first class, top quality technical contributions. Therefore, a NIER submission is neither a ICSE full research track submission with weaker or no evaluation, nor an op-ed piece advertising for existing and already published results. Authors of such submissions should instead consider submitting to either the main track, or one of the many satellite events of ICSE.

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 references. 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.

How to Submit

All submissions must conform to the ICSE 2020 formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of references, all figures, tables, appendices, etc. 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 ICSE 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 ICSE 2020 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ICSE 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.

Double Blind Submission Guidelines

The ICSE 2020 NIER track will adopt 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/icse-2020/icse-2020-papers#Submitting-to-ICSE-Q-A).

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.

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