# Call for Technical Research papers

The APSEC 2022 technical research track invites high quality submissions of papers describing original research studies and results in the discipline of software engineering. All accepted papers will be submitted to the IEEE-CS Digital Library in the APSEC 2022 conference proceedings.

For your paper to be published in the APSEC 2022 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 online.

Topics relate to any aspect of software engineering that include, but are not limited to:

- 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, Modeling 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

## Evaluation Criteria

Technical research papers must not be more than 10 pages. Submissions will be evaluated by at least three program committee members. The evaluation will focus on the novelty, originality, importance to the field, proper use of research methods, and presentation of the submissions.

## Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

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. Submissions must be submitted electronically in PDF before the due date via EasyChair. The Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions (without reviews) that are not in compliance or out of scope for the conference.

IMPORTANT: The APSEC 2022 technical research track will use a double-blind reviewing process, which means that submissions must not reveal the authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. Submissions must adhere to the following rules (largely reused from ASE 2017 double-blind instructions and SANER 2022 double-blind instructions). Please read carefully the APSEC 2022 double-blind instructions before preparing your paper.

## Submission Link

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=apsec2022

## Important Dates

- Abstract Deadline: July 13, 2022
- Paper Deadline: July 20, 2022
- Author Notification: Aug 25, 2022
- Camera Ready Deadline: Late October, 2022

## Accepted Papers and Attendance Expectation

Accepted papers will not be permitted any additional page of content. But, we hope that the authors will reflect the reviewers’ comments as much as possible in the camera-ready version. After acceptance, the list of paper authors can not be changed under any circumstances, and the list of authors on camera-ready papers must be identical to those on submitted papers. After acceptance, paper titles can not be changed except by permission of the Program Co-Chairs, and only then when referees recommend a change for clarity or accuracy with paper content. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register for APSEC 2022 and present the paper at the conference. If an accepted paper is not presented, the paper is removed from the proceedings.

## Contact

Yoshiki Higo and Yunja Choi
APSEC 2022 Program Co-Chairs