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.
Wed 29 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 | Security 2Demonstrations / Technical Track / Papers / Journal-First Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Duluth Chair(s): Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology | ||
14:40 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | (Do Not) Trust in EcosystemsIndustry ProgramNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Link to publication DOI Pre-print |
16:00 - 18:00 | Mobile AppsJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Software Engineering in Practice / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Mansfield / Sherbrooke Chair(s): Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa | ||
17:30 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Open Collaborative Data – using OSS principles to share data in SW engineeringNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Per Runeson Lund University | ||
16:50 10mTalk | Leveraging Small Software Engineering Data Sets with Pre-trained Neural NetworksNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results | ||
17:30 10mTalk | 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 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Process and Project ManagementSoftware Engineering in Practice / Papers / Journal-First Papers / Demonstrations / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Centre-Ville Chair(s): Eray Tüzün Bilkent University | ||
12:10 10mTalk | 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 | Software AnalyticsJournal-First Papers / Software Engineering in Practice / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Papers / Technical Track at Place du Canada Chair(s): Christian Bird Microsoft Research | ||
12:10 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Requirements Engineering as Science in the SmallNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results |
14:00 - 15:30 | Trends and Challenges in SENew Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track / Software Engineering in Practice / Papers at Place du Canada Chair(s): Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University | ||
14:20 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | On Testing Quantum ProgramsNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Pre-print | ||
14:40 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Defect PredictionJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Laurier Chair(s): Burak Turhan Monash University | ||
12:10 10mTalk | Energy-Based Anomaly Detection A New Perspective for Predicting Software FailuresNIER 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 | IDEsTechnical Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results / Demonstrations / Papers at Mansfield / Sherbrooke Chair(s): Sarah Nadi University of Alberta | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Beyond Integrated Development Environments: Adding Context to Software DevelopmentNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Gail Murphy University of British Columbia Pre-print |
14:00 - 15:30 | Testing of AI SystemsNew Ideas and Emerging Results / Demonstrations / Technical Track at Place du Canada Chair(s): Marija Mikic Google | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Towards Improved Testing For Deep LearningNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Pre-print | ||
15:10 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | Robustness of Neural Networks: A Probabilistic and Practical PerspectiveNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results |
14:00 - 15:30 | PerformanceTechnical Track / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine Chair(s): Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart | ||
15:00 10mTalk | PLUS: Performance Learning for Uncertainty of SoftwareNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Pre-print | ||
15:10 10mTalk | 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 | APIsNew Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track / Papers / Demonstrations at Duluth Chair(s): Chris Parnin NCSU | ||
17:00 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | EMaaS: Energy Measurements as a Service for Mobile ApplicationsNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results 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 10mTalk | Conditional Compilation is Dead, Long Live Conditional Compilation!NIER New Ideas and Emerging Results 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 10mTalk | 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 10mTalk | 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
Call for Papers
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
- Anita Sarma, Oregon State University
- Leonardo Murta, Universidade Federal Fluminense