Important note
For deadlines before April 27, we solicited submissions in the IEEE format. For all later deadlines, please use the ACM format as described below.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE 2018 submission site.

All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Proceedings Template (LaTEX users must use \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}).

Papers submitted to ASE 2018 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere when being considered for ASE 2018.

Technical Research Papers and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. Paper submissions may include an appendix after the references with additional material for reviewers; the appendix does not count toward the page limit and will not be part of the proceedings if the paper is accepted; as with supplementary web pages, reviewers can but are not required to refer to the appendix.

New Ideas Papers must not exceed 6 pages (including figures, appendices AND references).

ASE 2018 will again pursue a double-blind review process. For details see Instructions for Authors.

All submissions must be in English.

Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review.

For ASE 2018, the program committee will discuss papers electronically. This will avoid the time, cost and ecological impact of transporting an increasingly large committee to one point on the globe, as justified here.

• Abstract submission: April 19, 2018
• Paper submission: April 26, 2018
• Author notification: July 3, 2018
• Camera-ready: July 24, 2018

• Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK

See Program Committee - Research Track.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations selection committee. The evaluation criteria include:

• the relevance of the proposed demonstration for the ASE audience;
• the technical soundness of the demonstrated tool (for a tool demo);
• the originality of its underlying ideas;
• the quality of the optionally provided video, code, and datasets;
• and the degree to which it considers the relevant literature.

Tool demos that can demonstrate real-world applicability of the underlying ideas, e.g. by references to industrial case studies, will be particularly appreciated.

Submissions must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting and submission instructions (ACM format preferred but IEEE format also acceptable). In particular, submissions of demonstrations papers must meet the following criteria:

• A demonstration submission must not exceed four pages (including all text, references, and figures).
• Authors are encouraged to submit a short video (between three and five minutes long) illustrating the demonstration. The video should be made available on YouTube at the time of submission. Videos should (i) provide an overview of the tool's capabilities; (ii) walk through (some of) the tool capabilities; (iii) where appropriate, provide clarifying voice-over and/or annotation highlights; and (iv) be engaging and exciting for the watcher!
• Authors are encouraged to make their code and datasets open source, and to provide a URL for the code and datasets with the submission.
• A submission must not have been previously published in a demonstration form and must not simultaneously be submitted to another symposium.
• Submissions for tool track will NOT follow double-blind review process.
• The paper submission must be in PDF.

Papers must be submitted electronically through HotCRP by May 31, 2018.

At the end of the abstract, please append the URLs, if any, at which your demo video, code, and datasets can be found. Please note that for consistency, we require that ALL videos be uploaded to YouTube and made accessible during the time of reviewing. Authors of successful submissions will have the opportunity to revise the paper, the video (and its hosting location), the code, and the datasets by the camera-ready deadline.

Submissions must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting and submission instructions (ACM format preferred but IEEE format also acceptable). Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.

For further information, please email the Tool Demonstration co-chairs.

• Tool demonstration submission: May 31, 2018
• Tool demonstration notification: July 3, 2018
• Tool demonstration camera-ready: July 24, 2018

• Julia Lawall, Inria/LIP6, France
• Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

See Program Committee - Tool Demonstrations.

We invite applications for journal papers published in:

• Automated Software Engineering (Springer)
• IEEE Transaction of Software Engineering (IEEE TSE)
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• Empirical Software Engineering

Other journals may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

A journal-first presentation submitted to ASE 2018 must adhere to the following criteria:

• The accepted paper version was published (or accepted for publication) in a journal from the above list no earlier than January 1st 2017.
• The paper is in the scope of the conference.
• The paper reports completely new research results or presents novel contributions that significantly extend and were not previously reported in prior work.
• The paper does not extend prior work solely with additional proofs or algorithms (or other such details presented for completeness), additional empirical results, or minor enhancements or variants of the results presented in the prior work.
• The paper has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences.

Authors of manuscripts that respect these criteria are invited to fill out this application form, including the paper title, authors, an extended abstract and a pointer to the original journal paper.

Authors will be invited to present their paper at ASE 2018 after a check that the paper is in scope for the conference and it adheres to the criteria above. The papers will not be reviewed again for technical content. In case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, presentation proposals will be prioritized according to fit to the conference theme and structure of sessions.

• Submission: June 15, 2018, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12)
• Notification: July 3, 2018

• Bogdan Vasilescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

The Doctoral Symposium Committee will select participants using the following criteria:

• Quality of the research (plan) and its relevance to ASE
• Quality of the research abstract
• Diversity of background, research topics and approaches

Students should not infer that a list of prior publications is in any way expected or required; we welcome submissions from students for whom this will be their first formal submission as well as those who have previously published.

To apply as a student participant in the ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium, one should prepare a submission package consisting of two parts, both of which must be submitted by the submission deadline (see instructions below).

All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Proceedings Template (LaTEX users must use \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}).

The research abstract must conform to the ASE 2018 formatting and submission instructions and should cover all of the following:

• The research problem with justification of its importance
• Discussion on previous work by submitter and others
• A sketch of the proposed approach or solution
• The expected contributions of the dissertation research
• Progress that has been made so far in solving the stated problem
• The methods that are or will be used to carry out the research
• A plan for evaluating the work and presenting credible evidence to the research community
• A list of publications (if any) of the submitter (appeared, accepted, submitted)

Students at the initial stage of their research might have some difficulty in addressing some of these instructions, but should make the best attempt. The research abstract should include the title of the work, the submitter's name a one-paragraph summary in the style of an abstract for a regular paper, and a text body that covers the points above. A paper for a doctoral symposium typically describes the work of a single student and does not have any coauthors. During the submission process, the system will additionally ask for the name of the advisor(s), contact information, and a link to the submitter's academic web page.

The deadline for submitting the research abstract is May 31, 2018; notifications are expected for July 3, 2018.

Research Abstracts should be submitted over EasyChair.

In addition to the research abstract, a submitter must provide a letter for recommendation from their Ph.D. advisor. This letter should include the student's name and a candid assessment of the current status of the dissertation research and an expected date for dissertation submission. The recommendation letter should be in PDF, and sent to the co-chairs with the subject "ASE 2018 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM RECOMMENDATION".

All authors of accepted contributions will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. Authors must register for the ASE 2018 Doctoral Symposium and present their work at the symposium.

• Submission: May 31, 2018
• Deadline extension: June 12, 2018
• Notification: July 10, 2018
• Camera-ready: July 24, 2018

• Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, University of Montpellier, France
• Virginie Wiels, The French Aerospace Lab ONERA, France

• Benoit Baudry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  Benoit Baudry has more than 15 years of experience developing and supervising research in software engineering. He is a Professor of Software Technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2004 to 2017, he was a research scientist at INRIA in Rennes, France. There, he led the DiverSE research group, one of the largest French group for software research, from 2013 to 2017. His research interests are in the areas of software diversification and testing for performance and moving target defenses. His work relies on experimental science and strong collaborations with the software indsutry, in order to develop sound and relevant results. He has supervised more than 10 PhD students since 2004 funded by public research grants and by industry.

See Program Committee - Doctoral Symposium.

Proposals for organizing workshops should be written in English, limited to 4 pages (in IEEE format, following the formatting guidelines for the main track), and submitted in PDF to both workshop co-chairs Houari Sahraoui (sahraouh@iro.umontreal.ca) and Chouki Tibermacine (chouki.tibermacine@lirmm.fr) by e-mail. Workshop proposals should include the following information:

• Theme and goals of the workshop including its relevance to the field of Automated Software Engineering.
• Targeted audience and the expected number of participants (minimum and maximum).
• Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions, combination of formats).
• The equipment, room capacity, and any other resource necessary for the organization of the workshop.
• Publicity strategy, participant solicitation and selection process that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the workshop.
• Brief description of the organizer's background, including relevant past experience on organizing workshops and contact information.
• Initial version of the call for papers that the workshop organizers intend to use.
• Workshop dates, duration and any other scheduling constraints.

Note that the workshop co-chairs will consider the preference of workshop dates specified by the organizers, but the acceptance of a workshop proposal does not guarantee adherence to the requested date/time. The workshop co-chairs will assume that workshop proposers will be able to run a workshop on the dates that ASE 2018 has reserved for workshops.

Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ASE 2018 workshop co-chairs. Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop's potential for generating useful results, the timeliness and expected interest in the topic, the organizer's ability to lead a successful workshop and the potential for attracting a sufficient number of participants. Accepted workshops must adhere to the common deadlines that will be listed for submissions of papers, acceptance of papers and preparation of proceedings.

• Proposal: February 26, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2018
• Camera-ready: March 23, 2018

• Houari Sahraoui, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Chouki Tibermacine, Université de Montpellier, France

Proposal submissions should include the following information:

• Name and affiliation of the proposer/organizer (including e-mail address)
• Name and affiliation of each additional instructor
• Instructors' experience in the area, including other tutorials, courses, etc.
• Title, objective, abstract, and duration
• Outline with approximate timings
• Target audience, including the indication of level (novice, intermediate, expert)
• Assumed background of attendees
• Brief biography of each instructor (for later inclusion in publicity materials)
• History of the tutorial (if it has been already presented; provide location, approximate attendance, etc.)
• Audio-visual and technical requirements
• Preferences for tutorial date, duration (half-day or full-day), and any other scheduling constraints, with justification for full day (if a full day is proposed)

Proposals are due by April 30, 2018 and should be submitted over EasyChair.

Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the ASE 2018 tutorial co-chairs Yamine Aït Ameur and David Delahaye. Acceptance will be based on the timeliness and expected interest in the topic and the potential for attracting a sufficient number of participants.

• Tutorial proposal submission: April 30, 2018
• Tutorial proposal notification: May 14, 2018
• Tutorial advertisement material for the ASE web site: May 28, 2018
  Note: The authors of accepted proposals must provide text so their tutorials can be advertised on the ASE web site. This text should include tutorial description and author information (picture, website link, and biodata). We will include the text on the conference website.
• Tutorial final notification: July 16, 2018
  Note: Tutorials with too few registered attendees may be cancelled.

• Yamine Aït Ameur, INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, France
• David Delahaye, University of Montpellier, France

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the tutorial co-chairs.