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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia

Call for Submissions

The ICSE Doctoral Symposium provides doctoral students an opportunity to interact with their colleagues working on foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of software engineering.

The goals of the symposium are to:

  • provide the participants independent and constructive feedback on their current research and future research directions;

  • develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; and

  • provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the software engineering community.

Who should participate

Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium if they are at least nine months away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or thesis topic.

Submission categories

There are two submission categories:

  • Early PhD submissions. These are aimed at students in the first years of their PhD, that have no publications that are core to their PhD and that are looking for early feedback on how to continue their PhD. Accepted submissions will appear as two-page summaries in the proceedings, students will be invited to present a poster at the symposium and may have the opportunity to give a short talk to the symposium attendees depending on the available time.

  • Late PhD submissions. These are aimed at students that are in their last years of their PhD and that have results that they wish to present at the symposium. Accepted submissions will appear as four-page summaries in the proceedings, students will be invited to present a poster at the symposium and to give a talk to the symposium attendees.

Submissions

Each student’s Doctoral Symposium submission consists of two elements:

  1. A letter of recommendation from the student’s dissertation advisor. The letter should be sent by e-mail directly to the Doctoral Symposium Chairs (dposhyvanyk@gmail.com or didar.zowghi@uts.edu.au). The letter of recommendation must include an assessment of the current status of the research and an expected date for the completion of the dissertation.

  2. A short paper describing the student’s dissertation research. This paper has to be authored only by the student.

For late PhD submissions, the paper should be 4 pages long (one more page containing only references is permitted) and should clearly state:

a) the problem to be solved in the student’s research; justify why this problem is important and make clear that previous research and related work has not yet solved that problem,

b) the research hypothesis or claim,

c) the expected contributions of the research, including a discussion of related work,

d) how the student plans to evaluate the results and to present credible evidence of the results to the community,

e) a description of the results achieved so far, and

f) the planned timeline for completion.

For early PhD submissions, the paper should be 2 pages (one more page containing only references is permitted) and should include all the items above from (a) to (d) and not include (e) nor (f).

Please note that the ICSE DS does NOT require double-anonymous review.

Submissions can be made via the Doctoral Symposium submission site ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icse2023ds ). We encourage submitters to upload their paper early and to properly enter potential conflicts for reviewing.

Formatting

Submissions must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in 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 options). Submissions must strictly conform to the IEEE conference proceedings formatting instructions specified above. Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the instructions may result in desk rejection without further review.[PD2]

All submissions must be written in English. All submissions should be made accessible to people with disabilities. Guidelines (from the folks at SIGACCESS) can be found here: https://assets21.sigaccess.org/creating_accessible_pdfs.html .

Review process

Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Doctoral Symposium Committee. Participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution to the Doctoral Symposium goals as well as the potential benefit to the participants. Among the criteria that will be considered in reviewing submissions are:

  • the potential quality of the research and its relevance to software engineering,

  • the stage of the research; see the Section “Who should participate” above, and

  • the diversity of backgrounds, research topics, and approaches.

Attendance

Authors of submissions selected for participation will have the opportunity to present their work during the Doctoral Symposium and to have a camera-ready version of their papers published in a companion volume to the ICSE 2023 Conference Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Selected participants will receive feedback both from a panel of experts and from other Doctoral Symposium participants. The participants will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and performing research in software engineering.

To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Symposium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Doctoral Symposium Committee. 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).

Important Dates

  • Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2023

  • Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2023

  • Camera-ready copy of paper due: March 1, 2023

Contact

If there are queries regarding the CFP, please contact the ICSE DS 2023 chairs Didar Zowghi Didar.Zowghi@data61.csiro.au and Denys Poshyvanyk dposhyvanyk@gmail.com


Accepted Papers

Title
Addressing Performance Regressions in DevOps: Can We Escape from System Performance Testing?
DS - Doctoral Symposium
A Framework to Communicate Software Engineering Data Effectively with Dashboards
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Assessing Cognitive Load in Software Development with Wearable Sensors
DS - Doctoral Symposium

Automating Code Generation for MDE using Machine Learning
DS - Doctoral Symposium

Automating Code Review
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Boosting Symbolic Execution for Heap-based Vulnerability Detection and Exploit Generation
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Complementing secure code review with automated program analysis
DS - Doctoral Symposium

Cost-effective Strategies for Building Energy Efficient Mobile Applications
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Designing Adaptive Developer-Chatbot Interactions: Context Integration, Experimental Studies and Levels of Automation
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Pre-print
Domain Specific Languages for Optimisation Modelling
DS - Doctoral Symposium

Evaluation of Stakeholder Mapping and Sustainability Personas Towards Sustainable Software Development
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning for Cyber-physical System Design
DS - Doctoral Symposium
From Input to Failure: Explaining Program Behavior via Cause-Effect Chains
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Pre-print
Grammar-Based String Refinement Types
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Graph Solver as a Service
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Improving Automatic C-to-Rust Translation with Static Analysis
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Incident Prevention Through Reliable Changes Deployment
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Learning Program Models from Generated Inputs
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Learning Test Input Constraints from Branch Conditions
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Software Supply Chain Risk Assessment Framework
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Some Investigations of Machine Learning Models for Software Defects
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Static Analysis for Android GDPR Compliance Assurance
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Pre-print
Toward More Effective Deep Learning-based Automated Software Vulnerability Prediction, Classification, and Repair
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Towards an AI-centric Requirement Engineering Framework for Trustworthy AI
DS - Doctoral Symposium

Towards Automated Embedded Systems Programming
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Towards machine learning guided by best practices
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Towards strengthening software library interfaces with granular and interactive type migrations
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Towards Utilizing Natural Language Processing Techniques to Assist in Software Engineering Tasks
DS - Doctoral Symposium

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09:00 - 10:30
Welcome, introductions, panelDS - Doctoral Symposium at Meeting Room 101
09:00
90m
Day opening
Welcome, introductions, panel
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Didar Zowghi CSIRO's Data61, Denys Poshyvanyk College of William and Mary
11:00 - 12:30
Late Paper presentationsDS - Doctoral Symposium at Meeting Room 101
11:00
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Detecting Scattered and Tangled Quality Concerns in Code to Aid Maintenance and Evolution Tasks
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Rrezarta Krasniqi University of North Carolina at Charlotte
11:12
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automating Code Review
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana
11:25
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Addressing Performance Regressions in DevOps: Can We Escape from System Performance Testing?
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Lizhi Liao Concordia University
11:38
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Toward More Effective Deep Learning-based Automated Software Vulnerability Prediction, Classification, and Repair
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Michael Fu Monash University
11:51
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Enhancing Deep Reinforcement Learning with Executable Specifications
DS - Doctoral Symposium
12:04
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Toward Automated Tools to Support Ethical GUI Design
DS - Doctoral Symposium
S M Hasan Mansur George Mason University
12:17
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards strengthening software library interfaces with granular and interactive type migrations
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Richárd Szalay Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Programming Languages and Compilers
13:45 - 15:15
Late Paper presentationsDS - Doctoral Symposium at Meeting Room 101
13:45
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Designing Adaptive Developer-Chatbot Interactions: Context Integration, Experimental Studies and Levels of Automation
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Glaucia Melo University of Waterloo
Pre-print
13:57
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards machine learning guided by best practices
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Anamaria Mojica-Hanke University of Passau and Universidad de los Andes
14:10
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Software Supply Chain Risk Assessment Framework
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Nusrat Zahan North Carolina State University
14:23
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Some Investigations of Machine Learning Models for Software Defects
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Umamaheswara Sharma B National Institute of Technology, Warangal
14:36
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Improving Automatic C-to-Rust Translation with Static Analysis
DS - Doctoral Symposium
14:49
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Cost-effective Strategies for Building Energy Efficient Mobile Applications
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Abdul Ali Bangash University of Alberta, Canada
15:02
12m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards Utilizing Natural Language Processing Techniques to Assist in Software Engineering Tasks
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Zishuo Ding Concordia University
15:45 - 18:00
15:45
7m
Poster
Towards Automated Embedded Systems Programming
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Imam Nur Bani Yusuf Singapore Management University, Singapore
15:52
7m
Poster
Boosting Symbolic Execution for Heap-based Vulnerability Detection and Exploit Generation
DS - Doctoral Symposium
16:00
7m
Poster
Automating Code Generation for MDE using Machine Learning
DS - Doctoral Symposium

16:07
7m
Poster
Assessing Cognitive Load in Software Development with Wearable Sensors
DS - Doctoral Symposium

16:15
7m
Poster
A Framework to Communicate Software Engineering Data Effectively with Dashboards
DS - Doctoral Symposium
16:22
7m
Poster
Complementing secure code review with automated program analysis
DS - Doctoral Symposium

16:30
7m
Poster
Domain Specific Languages for Optimisation Modelling
DS - Doctoral Symposium

16:37
7m
Poster
Evaluation of Stakeholder Mapping and Sustainability Personas Towards Sustainable Software Development
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Bimpe Ayoola Dalhousie University
16:45
7m
Poster
Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning for Cyber-physical System Design
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Chengjie Lu Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo
16:52
7m
Poster
From Input to Failure: Explaining Program Behavior via Cause-Effect Chains
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Marius Smytzek CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Pre-print
17:00
7m
Poster
Grammar-Based String Refinement Types
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Fengmin Zhu CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
17:07
7m
Poster
Graph Solver as a Service
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Fozail Ahmad McGill University
17:15
7m
Poster
Incident Prevention Through Reliable Changes Deployment
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Eileen Kapel Delft University of Technology
17:22
7m
Poster
Learning Program Models from Generated Inputs
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Tural Mammadov CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
17:30
7m
Poster
Learning Test Input Constraints from Branch Conditions
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Leon Bettscheider CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
17:37
7m
Poster
Static Analysis for Android GDPR Compliance Assurance
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Mugdha Khedkar Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University
Pre-print
17:45
7m
Poster
Towards an AI-centric Requirement Engineering Framework for Trustworthy AI
DS - Doctoral Symposium

17:52
7m
Day closing
Closing
DS - Doctoral Symposium
Didar Zowghi CSIRO's Data61, Denys Poshyvanyk College of William and Mary