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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada

ICSE’s New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking research in software engineering with the goal of accelerating the exposure of the community to disruptive innovations that challenge the status quo of the software engineering discipline or early, yet promising and potentially inspiring research efforts.

Dates
Wed 29 May 2019
Thu 30 May 2019
Fri 31 May 2019
Tracks
ICSE Demonstrations
ICSE Journal-First Papers
ICSE New Ideas and Emerging Results
ICSE Papers
ICSE Software Engineering in Practice
ICSE Technical Track
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Wed 29 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Testing EffectivenessJournal-First Papers / Software Engineering in Practice / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Duluth
Chair(s): Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business
12:00
10m
Talk
Assurances in Software Testing: A RoadmapIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Marcel Böhme Monash University
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
Security 1Journal-First Papers / Papers / Technical Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Software Engineering in Practice at Van-Horne
Chair(s): Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center
12:10
10m
Talk
VULTRON: Catching Vulnerable Smart Contracts Once and for AllNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Haijun Wang Nanyang Technological University, Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Shang-Wei Lin Nanyang Technological University, Lei Ma Kyushu University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
14:00 - 15:30
14:40
10m
Talk
Detecting Suspicious Package UpdatesIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Kalil Garrett Georgia State University, Gabriel Ferreira Carnegie Mellon University, Limin Jia Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
14:00 - 15:30
IoT and Cooperative SystemsPapers / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Software Engineering in Practice / Demonstrations at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine
Chair(s): Marcelo d'Amorim Federal University of Pernambuco
15:00
10m
Talk
(Do Not) Trust in EcosystemsIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Emilia Cioroaica Fraunhofer IESE, Thomas Kuhn , Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
16:00 - 18:00
17:30
10m
Talk
Navigation-aware and Personalized Prefetching of Network Requests in Android AppsIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Francesco Nocera Polytechnic University of Bari, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Marina Mongiello Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Pre-print Media Attached
16:00 - 18:00
Studying DevelopersPapers / Technical Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Journal-First Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Thomas Fritz University of Zurich, University of British Columbia
17:30
10m
Talk
Biofeedback augmented software engineering: monitoring of programmers' mental effortNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ricardo Couceiro University of Coimbra, Gonçalo Duarte University of Coimbra, João Durães CISUC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, João Castelhano ICNAS, University of Coimbra, Catarina Duarte ICNAS, University of Coimbra, Cesar Teixeira University of Coimbra, Miguel Castelo Branco ICNAS/CIBIT, University of Coimbra, Paulo Carvalho University of Coimbra, Henrique Madeira University of Coimbra
16:00 - 18:00
Model-Based Software EngineeringJournal-First Papers / Demonstrations / Papers / Technical Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Software Engineering in Practice at Van-Horne
Chair(s): Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
17:20
10m
Talk
Towards a Cognizant Virtual Software Modeling Assistant using Model ClonesNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Matthew Stephan Miami University
Pre-print
16:00 - 18:00
SE Datasets, Research Infrastructure, and MethodologyJournal-First Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Demonstrations / Papers / Technical Track at Viger
Chair(s): Rashina Hoda The University of Auckland
16:40
10m
Talk
Open Collaborative Data – using OSS principles to share data in SW engineeringNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Per Runeson Lund University
16:50
10m
Talk
Leveraging Small Software Engineering Data Sets with Pre-trained Neural NetworksNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Andrea Janes , Romain Robbes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
17:30
10m
Talk
Mining Plausible Hypotheses from the Literature via Meta-AnalysisNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Vladimir Ivanov , Giancarlo Succi Innopolis University, Jooyong Yi UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

Thu 30 May

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11:00 - 12:30
12:10
10m
Talk
Towards effective AI-powered agile project managementIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Truyen Tran , John Grundy Monash University, Aditya Ghose , Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
12:10
10m
Talk
Towards Predicting the Impact of Software Changes on Building ActivitiesNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Michele Tufano College of William and Mary, Hitesh Sajnani Microsoft , Kim Herzig Tools for Software Engineers, Microsoft
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
RequirementsDemonstrations / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at Van-Horne
Chair(s): Liliana Pasquale University College Dublin & Lero, Ireland
12:10
10m
Talk
Requirements Engineering as Science in the SmallNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Munindar P. Singh North Carolina State University, Amit Chopra Lancaster University, UK
14:00 - 15:30
14:20
10m
Talk
Blockchain-based Software EngineeringNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Moritz Beller Delft University of Technology, Joseph Hejderup Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pre-print
14:30
10m
Talk
On Testing Quantum ProgramsNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Andriy Miranskyy Ryerson University, Lei Zhang Ryerson University
Pre-print
14:40
10m
Talk
Towards a Systematic Study of Values in SE: Tools for Industry and EducationNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Emily Winter Lancaster University, Stephen Forshaw Lancaster University, Lucy Hunt Lancaster University, Maria Angela Ferarrio Lancaster University
14:50
10m
Talk
Robustness and Games Against Nature in Molecular ProgrammingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Jack H. Lutz Iowa State University, Neil Lutz University of Pennsylvania, Robyn Lutz Iowa State University, Matthew Riley Iowa State University

Fri 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
12:10
10m
Talk
Energy-Based Anomaly Detection A New Perspective for Predicting Software FailuresNIER Distinguished Paper AwardNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Cristina Monni Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mauro Pezze Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) (Switzerland) and Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy)
Pre-print
14:00 - 15:30
15:00
10m
Talk
Beyond Integrated Development Environments: Adding Context to Software DevelopmentNIER Distinguished Paper AwardNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Gail Murphy University of British Columbia
Pre-print
14:00 - 15:30
15:00
10m
Talk
Towards Improved Testing For Deep LearningNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Jasmine Sekhon University of Virginia, Cody Fleming University of Virginia
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Structural Coverage Criteria for Neural Networks Could Be MisleadingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Zenan Li Nanjing University, Xiaoxing Ma Nanjing University, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Chun Cao Nanjing University
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Robustness of Neural Networks: A Probabilistic and Practical PerspectiveNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ravi Mangal Georgia Institute of Technology, Aditya Nori , Alessandro Orso Georgia Tech
14:00 - 15:30
15:00
10m
Talk
PLUS: Performance Learning for Uncertainty of SoftwareNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute, Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Simulator-Based Diff-Time Performance TestingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ivan Postolski , Víctor Braberman , Diego Garbervetsky University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sebastian Uchitel Universidad de Buenos Aires / Imperial College
Pre-print
16:00 - 17:20
17:00
10m
Talk
API FluencyNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Romain Robbes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Mircea F. Lungu University of Groningen, Andrea Janes
16:00 - 17:20
Energy Consumption in Mobile AppsPapers / Journal-First Papers / Technical Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results at St-Denis / Notre-Dame
Chair(s): Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
16:40
10m
Talk
EMaaS: Energy Measurements as a Service for Mobile ApplicationsNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Luís Cruz University of Porto, Rui Abreu Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID
Pre-print
16:00 - 17:20
Program TransformationsNew Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track / Papers at Van-Horne
Chair(s): Cindy Rubio-González University of California, Davis
17:00
10m
Talk
Conditional Compilation is Dead, Long Live Conditional Compilation!NIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida, Shiyi Wei The University of Texas at Dallas
Pre-print
16:00 - 17:20
Software QualitySoftware Engineering in Practice / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Papers / Technical Track at Viger
Chair(s): Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
16:40
10m
Talk
Trade-off-Oriented Development: Making Quality Attribute Trade-offs First-ClassNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Tobias Dürschmid Carnegie Mellon University, Institute for Software Research, Eunsuk Kang Carnegie Mellon University, David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
16:50
10m
Talk
Current Challenges in Practical Object-Oriented Software DesignNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Maurício Aniche Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Joe Yoder The Refactory, Inc., Fabio Kon University of São Paulo

Accepted Papers

Title
API FluencyNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Assurances in Software Testing: A RoadmapIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Beyond Integrated Development Environments: Adding Context to Software DevelopmentNIER Distinguished Paper AwardNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Biofeedback augmented software engineering: monitoring of programmers' mental effortNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Blockchain-based Software EngineeringNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Conditional Compilation is Dead, Long Live Conditional Compilation!NIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Current Challenges in Practical Object-Oriented Software DesignNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Detecting Suspicious Package UpdatesIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
(Do Not) Trust in EcosystemsIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
EMaaS: Energy Measurements as a Service for Mobile ApplicationsNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Energy-Based Anomaly Detection A New Perspective for Predicting Software FailuresNIER Distinguished Paper AwardNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Leveraging Small Software Engineering Data Sets with Pre-trained Neural NetworksNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Mining Plausible Hypotheses from the Literature via Meta-AnalysisNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Navigation-aware and Personalized Prefetching of Network Requests in Android AppsIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print Media Attached
On Testing Quantum ProgramsNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Open Collaborative Data – using OSS principles to share data in SW engineeringNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
PLUS: Performance Learning for Uncertainty of SoftwareNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Requirements Engineering as Science in the SmallNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Robustness and Games Against Nature in Molecular ProgrammingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Robustness of Neural Networks: A Probabilistic and Practical PerspectiveNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Simulator-Based Diff-Time Performance TestingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Structural Coverage Criteria for Neural Networks Could Be MisleadingNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Towards a Cognizant Virtual Software Modeling Assistant using Model ClonesNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Towards a Systematic Study of Values in SE: Tools for Industry and EducationNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Towards effective AI-powered agile project managementIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Towards Improved Testing For Deep LearningNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Towards Predicting the Impact of Software Changes on Building ActivitiesNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
Trade-off-Oriented Development: Making Quality Attribute Trade-offs First-ClassNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Pre-print
VULTRON: Catching Vulnerable Smart Contracts Once and for AllNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results

Call for Papers

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ICSE’s New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking research in software engineering with the goal of accelerating the exposure of the community to disruptive innovations that challenge the status quo of the software engineering discipline or early, yet promising and potentially inspiring research efforts.

To support this goal, NIER 2019 will publish two kinds of papers:

1. Reflections on the past, such as:

  • Startling results that call current research directions into question;
  • Bold arguments on current research directions that may be somehow misguided;
  • Results that disregard established results or belief of evidence that call for fundamentally new directions.

2. Visions of the future, such as:

  • Bold visions of new directions that may not yet be supported by solid results, but rather by a strong and well-motivated scientific intuition. An example of such a vision can be unusual synergies with other disciplines or the importance of software engineering in problems where software engineering aspects have not been studied earlier.

Note that evaluation results are not required for NIER papers, but preliminary results providing initial support for the proposed ideas claimed are welcomed.

The track addresses the same topics of interest as those of the ICSE 2018 technical research paper track. However, NIER authors are encouraged (1) to combine these topics in new ways, (2) to establish connections to other fields outside of classic software engineering, as well as (3) to argue for the importance of software engineering research in areas not explicitly listed.

Out of scope

A NIER paper is not a second-class ICSE research track paper. NIER is a forum for first-class contributions that provide novel, soundly motivated research directions and emerging results. Therefore, a NIER submission should not be an ICSE research submission with less or no evaluation, nor disguised advertisements for previously published results. Such a submission is considered out of the scope of NIER, and its authors should instead consider submitting it to the main ICSE conference, to one of the many ICSE workshops, or to one of the satellite ICSE conferences.

Evaluation

Each paper will be evaluated in terms of the following 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

How to submit

A NIER paper must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures and must conform at the time of submission to the  IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

A NIER paper must be submitted electronically at the NIER submission site by the submission deadline (see below). A submission will be desk rejected if it does not comply with the instructions and size limits, or is already published or under review elsewhere.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the ICSE 2019 conference and to present the paper.

Note that authors of an accepted paper are also highly encouraged to present a poster describing their work. Posters will allow the authors and interested readers of the paper to connect to each other and to engage in discussions about the work presented in the paper.

Double-blind submission guidelines

The ICSE 2019 NIER track will employ 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. 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.

Program co-chairs

 

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