Call for Papers: The 28th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2021)

The 28th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2021)
6th - 9th December 2021 - Taiwan
https://apsec2021.seat.org.tw/

The Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) has long been established as a premier regional conference that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to share the state of the art and the practice of software engineering, and to explore emerging challenges and solutions in software engineering innovation. APSEC 2021 will continue in the tradition of previous editions of this regional conference. As past APSEC series, the main research track features the most recent and significant innovations in the field of software engineering and all its sub-disciplines. APSEC 2021 also invites invite submissions of high-quality research papers that describe original and unpublished results on all topics of both theoretical and empirical software engineering research.

APSEC 2021 will offer an extensive program of interest to academia, government, and industry. It will include several distinguished keynote speakers and conference days of paper presentations and demos. A series of exciting tutorials to develop skills in various aspects of software engineering practices is of particular interest to the industry. Co-located workshops offer forums for participants to present novel techniques and methods in specific sub-disciplines of software engineering.

(IMPORTANT NOTICE)

APSEC 2021 will be held in an online/onsite hybrid model to ensure effective interaction between online participants (participants that are not at the venue) and onsite participants (participants that can attend the venue). For online sessions, session chairs will play presentation video clips pre-recorded by the authors and initiate online discussion. In the conference venue, each onsite session is broadcasted in an online chatroom, so that the online/onsite participants can join both online/onsite sessions.

(IMPORTANT DATES)

Technical/SEIP Research Papers (10 pages)
- Abstract Due: 1 July 2021 (AoE)
- Submission Due: 8 July 2021 (AoE)
- Notification: 2 September 2021
- Camera-Ready Due: 23 September 2021

ERA (Early Research Achievements) Papers (5 pages)
- Submissions Due: 19 August 2021 (AoE)
- Notification: 23 September 2021
- Camera-Ready Due: 7 October 2021

Poster Papers (2 pages)
- Submissions Due: 7 October 2021 (AoE)
- Notification: 14 October 2021
- Camera-Ready Due: 21 October 2021

Call for Workshops
- Proposal Submissions Due: 15 July 2021 (AoE)
- Proposal Notification: 29 July 2021

(TOPICS)

Topics related to all aspects of software engineering that include, but are not limited to:

* AI for Software Engineering
* Agile methodologies
* Cloud and Service-oriented Computing
* Component-based Software Engineering
* Configuration Management and Deployment
* Cooperative, Distributed, and Global Software Engineering
* Cyber-physical Systems and Internet of Things
* Debugging, Defect Prediction and Fault Localization
* DevOps and Container
* Embedded Real-time Systems
* Empirical Software Engineering
* Formal Methods
* Human Factors and Social Aspects of Software Engineering
* Middleware, Frameworks, and APIs
* Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
* Model-driven and Domain-specific Engineering
* Open Source Development
* Parallel, Distributed, and Concurrent Systems
* Programming Languages and Systems
* Refactoring
* Requirements Engineering
* Reverse Engineering
* Search-based Software Engineering
* Security, Reliability, and Privacy
* Software Architecture, Modelling and Design
* Software Comprehension, Visualization, and Traceability
* Software Engineering Education
* Software Engineering Process and Standards
* Software Engineering for Smart Manufacturing
* Software Engineering Tools and Environments
* Software for Green and Sustainable Technologies
* Software Maintenance and Evolution
* Software Product-line Engineering
* Software Project Management
* Software Reuse
* Software Repository Mining and Data Analytics
* Testing, Verification, and Validation
* Web-based Software Engineering

(GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION)

- Submissions must be submitted electronically in PDF before the due date via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apsec2021).
- All submissions must be in English, and must come in A4 paper size PDF format and conform, at 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). Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.
- Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.
- The Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions (without reviews) that are not in compliance or out of scope for the conference.
- All accepted papers will be submitted to the IEEE-CS Digital Library as the APSEC 2021 conference proceedings.
- For your paper to be published in the APSEC 2021 conference proceedings, at least one of the authors of the paper must register for the conference and confirm that she/he will present the paper at the conference (onsite or online).

Further information is available at: https://apsec2021.seat.org.tw/.