GTSE 2014 - Call for Papers
3rd Semat Workshop on General Theories of Software Engineering
http://semat.org/?page_id=1061
2014, Hyderabad, India
In conjunction with the International. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
 
Most academic disciplines emphasize the importance of their general theories. Examples of general theories include the Big Bang theory, Maxwell’s equations, the theory of the cell, the theory of evolution, and the theory of demand and supply. Among the general theories are also found theories with names such as the general theory of crime and the theory of marriage, both well-established within their respective fields. Few general theories of software engineering have, however, been proposed, and none have achieved significant recognition. The main consequence of a lack of theory is a craft, limited to problem solving by trial-and-error and rules-of-thumb. Its knowledge base can only be used for rudimentary predictions. This, in turn, means that innovations only can be tested in vivo, which may be both expensive and painful. The long list of well-known software failures is a testament to the tradition of trial-and-error. Theory - a system of rules that mimics the real world cheaply and without pain - addresses this problem. A general theory of software engineering would ideally advise against costly error before trials are initiated.

This workshop, organized by the SEMAT initiative, aims to provide a forum for discussing the concept of general theories of software engineering. The topics considered include proposed general theories as well as papers on the benefits, the desired qualities, the core components and the form of such theories. The workshop follows GTSE 2012, held in November 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, and GTSE 2013, held in May 2013 in conjunction with the ICSE 2013 in San Francisco.

To allow submissions of both developed research and of early ideas, GTSE solicits two categories of papers: 12-page research papers and 4-page position papers. All papers will be published in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. The papers must follow ICSE formatting guidelines: http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/submission-guidelines, and they should be submitted to the workshop's EasyChair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gtse2014.

Papers from GTSE 2013 were invited to a special GTSE issue in the Science of Computer Programming journal. We aim to organize a special issue also for GTSE 2014.

Important Dates 
Paper submission deadline: January 24, 2014 
Paper acceptance notification: February 24, 2014
Camera-ready accepted paper deadline: March 14, 2014 
Workshop: June 2, 2014

Organizing Committee
Pontus Johnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson International, Switzerland
Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Program Committee
Joao Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim
Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST
Jongmoon Baik, KAIST
Luciano Baresi, DEI - Politecnico di Milano
Reda Bendraou, UPMC-LIP6
Arne.J. Berre, SINTEF
Ilia Bider, Stockholm University/IbisSoft
Jürgen Börstler, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University
Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Cengiz Erbas, Aselsan
Iaakov Exman, JCE - Jerusalem College of Engineering
Anthony Finkelstein, University College London
Ian Gorton, PNNL
Robert Hall, AT&T Labs Research
Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University
Howell Jordan, Lero, University College Dublin
Stefan Jähnichen, Technische Universität Berlin
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia
Cristina Marinescu, Politehnica University of Timisoara
Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München
Tim Menzies, LCSEE, WVU
Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria
Dewayne E. Perry, ESEL, The University of Texas at Austin
Tero Päivärinta, Luleå University of Technology
Paul Ralph, Lancaster University
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Stanley Sutton, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology
Mikko Tiusanen, Tampere University of Technology
Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio
Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua University
 
Contact information
To contact the organizers, please send an email to pontusj@kth.se.