ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Submissions

The ICSE Doctoral Symposium (DS) 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 early stages of their PhD, who have already settled on a research area but have no publications that are core to their PhD and who are looking for early feedback on how to continue their PhD. Accepted submissions outlining the topic of the PhD dissertation 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 who already have results that they wish to present at the symposium. Accepted submissions outlining the topic of the PhD dissertation and the obtained results 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 and advisory committee.

Submissions

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

  1. A short paper describing the student’s dissertation research. This paper submission has to be authored by the student only. The Doctoral Symposium does NOT require submissions to be double-anonymized for the review.
  2. A letter of recommendation from (one of) the student’s dissertation advisors. The letter should be sent by e-mail to icse2024-ds@googlegroups.com. 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.

For the early PhD category, the submissions should be 2 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions 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,
  • d) the plan for evaluating the contribution and presenting credible evidence of the results to the community.

For the late PhD category, the submissions should be 4 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions should include the items (a) to (d) above, and:

  • e) a description of the results achieved so far, and
  • f) the planned timeline for completion.

Submissions can be made via the Doctoral Symposium submission site: https://icse2024-ds.hotcrp.com/. We encourage submitters to upload their paper early and to properly enter potential conflicts for reviewing.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Formatting

Submissions must conform to the “ACM Primary Article Template”, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review option (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers). To that end, place the following LaTeX code at the start of the LaTeX document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}

\acmConference[ICSE 2024]{46th International Conference on Software Engineering}{April 2024}{Lisbon, Portugal}

Submissions must strictly conform to the formatting instructions. Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the instructions may result in desk rejection without further review.

All submissions must be written in English and be made accessible to people with disabilities. Guidelines (from 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 to 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 at the Doctoral Symposium and 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 Ph.D. and performing research in software engineering. Authors will have camera-ready versions of their papers published in a companion volume to the ICSE 2024 Conference Proceedings. The authors of accepted submissions are required to register for ICSE 2024 and present their work. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance at 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: November 22, 2023
  • Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2023
  • Camera-ready copy of paper due: January 12th, 2024

Contact

If there are queries regarding the CFP, please contact the ICSE DS 2024 chairs at icse2024-ds@googlegroups.com.

Plenary
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09:00 - 10:30
Welcome, Introductions, KeynoteDoctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
Chair(s): Jürgen Cito TU Wien, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Canada
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Open Space
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
Focus Group: Software Models and SimulationsDoctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
14:00
18m
Talk
Learning Models of Cyber-Physical Systems with Discrete and Continuous Behaviour for Digital Twin Synthesis
Doctoral Symposium
Felix Wallner Graz University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology
14:18
18m
Talk
Simulation-based Testing of Automated Driving Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Fauzia Khan University of Tartu, Estonia
14:36
18m
Talk
Resolving Goal-Conflicts and Scaling Synthesis through Mode-Based Decomposition
Doctoral Symposium
Matías Brizzio IMDEA Software Institute
14:54
18m
Talk
Sustainable Software Engineering: Visions and Perspectives beyond Energy Efficiency
Doctoral Symposium
Christoph König Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
15:12
18m
Talk
Automated Model Quality Estimation and Change Impact Analysis on Model Histories
Doctoral Symposium
14:00 - 15:30
Focus Group: Software SecurityDoctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
14:00
18m
Talk
Studying and Improving Software License Compliance in Practice
Doctoral Symposium
Nathan Wintersgill College of William & Mary
14:18
18m
Talk
Sustainable Adaptive Security
Doctoral Symposium
Kushal Ramkumar Lero@University College Dublin
14:36
18m
Talk
Increasing trust in the open source supply chain with reproducible builds and functional package management
Doctoral Symposium
Julien Malka LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
14:54
18m
Talk
Enhancing Model-Driven Reverse Engineering Using Machine Learning
Doctoral Symposium
Hanan Siala King's College London
15:12
18m
Talk
A software security evaluation framework
Doctoral Symposium
Arina Kudriavtseva Leiden University
14:00 - 15:30
Focus Group: Microservices, Cloud, and Monitoring Doctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
14:00
22m
Talk
Towards combining STPA and safety-critical runtime monitoring
Doctoral Symposium
Eva Zimmermann University of Stuttgart
14:22
22m
Talk
Architecture-Based Cross-Component Issue Management and Propagation Analysis
Doctoral Symposium
Sandro Speth University of Stuttgart, Institute of Software Engineering
14:45
22m
Talk
Managing API Evolution in Microservice Architecture
Doctoral Symposium
Alexander Lercher University of Klagenfurt
15:07
22m
Talk
Smart Quality Monitoring for Evolving Complex Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Noura EL MOUSSA Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
14:00 - 15:30
Focus Group: Software TestingDoctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
14:00
22m
Talk
On Improving Management of Duplicate Video-Based Bug Reports
Doctoral Symposium
Yanfu Yan William & Mary
14:22
22m
Talk
Selecting and Constraining Metamorphic Relations
Doctoral Symposium
Alejandra Duque-Torres University of Tartu
14:45
22m
Talk
Ensuring Critical Properties of Test Oracles for Effective Bug Detection
Doctoral Symposium
Soneya Binta Hossain University of Virginia, USA
15:07
22m
Talk
Autonomic Testing: Testing with Scenarios from Production
Doctoral Symposium
Ketai Qiu Università della Svizzera Italiana
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Open Space
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:30
Late Paper PresentationsDoctoral Symposium at Fernando Pessoa
16:00
25m
Talk
Toward Rapid Bug Resolution for Android Apps
Doctoral Symposium
Junayed Mahmud George Mason University
16:25
25m
Talk
Towards AI-centric Requirements Engineering for Industrial Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Sarmad Bashir RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
16:50
25m
Talk
Towards Automatic Inference of Behavioral Component Models for ROS-Based Robotics Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Tobias Dürschmid Carnegie Mellon University, USA
17:15
15m
Day closing
Reflections and Closing
Doctoral Symposium

18:30 - 21:00
Doctoral Symposium dinnerDoctoral Symposium at Forest Pizza & Coffee Culture
Chair(s): Jürgen Cito TU Wien, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Canada
18:30
2h30m
Dinner
Doctoral Symposium dinner
Doctoral Symposium

Accepted Papers

Title
Accurate Architectural Threat Elicitation From Source Code Through Hybrid Information Flow Analysis
Doctoral Symposium
Aiding Developer Understanding of Software Changes via Symbolic Execution-based Semantic Differencing
Doctoral Symposium
Architecture-Based Cross-Component Issue Management and Propagation Analysis
Doctoral Symposium
A software security evaluation framework
Doctoral Symposium
Automated Model Quality Estimation and Change Impact Analysis on Model Histories
Doctoral Symposium
Autonomic Testing: Testing with Scenarios from Production
Doctoral Symposium
Beyond Accuracy and Robustness Metrics for Large Language Models for Code
Doctoral Symposium
Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Source Code Capabilities in Large Language Models for Software Engineering
Doctoral Symposium
Building a Framework to Improve the User Experience of Static Analysis Tools
Doctoral Symposium
Enhancing Model-Driven Reverse Engineering Using Machine Learning
Doctoral Symposium
Ensuring Critical Properties of Test Oracles for Effective Bug Detection
Doctoral Symposium
Exploring Strategies for Continuous User Requirement Discovery in ML-Based Software
Doctoral Symposium
Generating User Experience Based on Personas with AI Assistants
Doctoral Symposium
Increasing trust in the open source supply chain with reproducible builds and functional package management
Doctoral Symposium
Investigating Cultural Dispersion: on the Role of Cultural Differences in Software Development Teams
Doctoral Symposium
Learning Models of Cyber-Physical Systems with Discrete and Continuous Behaviour for Digital Twin Synthesis
Doctoral Symposium
Managing API Evolution in Microservice Architecture
Doctoral Symposium
MEITREX - Gamified and Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring in Software Engineering Education
Doctoral Symposium
On Improving Management of Duplicate Video-Based Bug Reports
Doctoral Symposium
Programming Language Models in Multilingual Settings
Doctoral Symposium
Resolving Goal-Conflicts and Scaling Synthesis through Mode-Based Decomposition
Doctoral Symposium
Selecting and Constraining Metamorphic Relations
Doctoral Symposium
Simulation-based Testing of Automated Driving Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Smart Quality Monitoring for Evolving Complex Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Studying and Improving Software License Compliance in Practice
Doctoral Symposium
Sustainable Adaptive Security
Doctoral Symposium
Sustainable Software Engineering: Visions and Perspectives beyond Energy Efficiency
Doctoral Symposium
Sustaining Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystems: Challenges, Practices, and Opportunities
Doctoral Symposium
Toward Rapid Bug Resolution for Android Apps
Doctoral Symposium
Towards AI-centric Requirements Engineering for Industrial Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Towards Automatic Inference of Behavioral Component Models for ROS-Based Robotics Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Towards combining STPA and safety-critical runtime monitoring
Doctoral Symposium
Towards Interpreting the Behavior of Large Language Models on Software Engineering Tasks
Doctoral Symposium
Towards Safe, Secure, and Usable LLMs4Code
Doctoral Symposium
Understandable Test Generation Through Capture/Replay and LLMs
Doctoral Symposium