The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software engineering.

We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. We solicit submissions relating to all aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architecture and design
Components, services, and middleware
Configuration management and deployment
Distributed, parallel and concurrent software
Economics and metrics
Embedded and real-time software
Empirical studies of software engineering
End user software engineering
Formal methods
Knowledge-based software engineering
Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive software
Model-driven software engineering
Patterns and frameworks
Policy and ethics
Processes and workflows
Program comprehension and visualization
Requirements engineering
Reverse engineering and maintenance
Security, safety and reliability
Software tools and development environments
Specification and verification
Testing and analysis
User Interfaces
Web software and cloud computing

Important dates

Research papers due: 16 March, 2012
Notifications to authors: 18 June, 2012