The tool demo
session is an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present and discuss
visualization-related tools in an informal
setting.
=== Track Chair:
Richard Müller (rmueller@wifa.uni-leipzig.de),
Leipzig University, Germany
Call for Papers
============
Software visualization is a
broad research area whose general goal is to
enhance and promote the theory, realization,
and evaluation of approaches to visually
encode and analyze software systems,
including software development practices,
evolution, structure, and software runtime
behavior. Software visualization is
inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on
theories and techniques from areas such as
information visualization, human-computer
interaction, computer graphics, and data
science, and applying these in the software
engineering domain.
The VISSOFT conference is
principally a venue for publishing and
discussing research related to software
visualization. Consequently, VISSOFT brings
together a community of researchers from
software engineering, information
visualization, human-computer interaction,
computer graphics, and data science to
discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms,
techniques, tools, and applications related
to software visualization.
This year’s VISSOFT, co-held
with ICSME, encourages a variety of
submissions that address outstanding
challenges in software systems using
visualization. This includes technical
papers, evaluations, applications/design
studies, systems and formalisms, and papers
that present novel ideas and tools.
=== Topics of interest include:
- Innovative visualization and
visual analytics techniques for analysis of
software engineering data. This includes
source code, dependencies, repositories,
developer social networks like StackOverflow
and GitHub, mobile app reviews,
documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data
- Visualization to support
software development activities, including
design, requirements engineering, software
maintenance, program comprehension, software
performance, software testing, and debugging
- Interaction techniques and
algorithms for software visualization
- Visualization-based
techniques in software engineering education
- Integration of software
visualization tools with development
environments
- Empirical evaluation of
software visualizations, including
eye-tracking
- Industrial experience with
using software visualization
- Applications of new
technologies to enhance software
visualization, including virtual reality,
augmented reality, gamification, and machine
learning
- Analytical approaches to
understand software-related aspects based on
data science concepts
We solicit papers that present
original, unpublished research results.
Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an
international program committee. In addition
to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New
Ideas and Emerging Results and Tool Demo
(NIER/TD) track. All accepted submissions
will appear in the conference proceedings
and the IEEE Digital Library.
Submission Types
===============
==== Technical papers:
A technical paper contribution
must describe an in-depth and mature
research result relevant to software
visualization. The content of a technical
paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long
(including all figures, tables, and
appendices). However, the 10 page limit does
not include the bibliography, which is
limited by two additional pages.
The submission of a video (up to
5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper
is highly encouraged to show interaction
possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a
video can submit the video together with
their paper if the size of the video is
smaller than 50 MB, alternatively a URL to
the video could be provided.
Authors of technical papers that
do not receive an acceptance recommendation
from reviewers can, eventually, be invited
to adapt the paper and make it acceptable
for the NIER/TD track.
Awards: VISSOFT 2021 will award
best technical papers.
Special issue: A selection
of best papers will be invited
to submit extended versions for
tentative publication in a Special
Section of the journal of
Information and Software Technology
published by Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infsof
Artifact evaluation: Paper
authors are encouraged to submit research
artifacts (e.g., tools, data repositories,
frameworks, videos) to the artifact
evaluation track of ICSME. Please find
further details in
https://icsme2021.github.io/
== Important Dates:
Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021
Paper Submission: June 18, 2021
Notification: July 23, 2021
Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021
Conference: September 27-28,
2021 (to be confirmed)
==== NIER/TD Track:
The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT
accepts two types of contributions: NIER
(New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool
Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD
contributions have a page limit of 5
(including bibliography).
NIER contributions describe
work-in-progress and preliminary exciting
results. Authors are encouraged to include
open questions and even provocative
hypotheses to get early feedback on their
research ideas. A sound evaluation is not
required for NIER contributions. One of the
goals of the NIER Track is to foster
collaboration among different research
groups.
Tool Demonstrations (TD)
describe the design or actual utilization of
software visualization tools, with a focus
on the architecture of the tool or its use
to gain new insights. During the conference,
we will organize an informal tool
demonstration session where authors of TD
papers are invited to demonstrate their
tools. The submission may also contain a
link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or
Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities
offered by the tool.
== Important Dates:
Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021
Paper Submission: June 18, 2021
Notification: July 23, 2021
Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021
Conference: September 27-28,
2021 (to be confirmed)
==== Journal First Track
A submission to the VISSOFT 2021
call for journal-first paper presentations
must adhere to the following criteria:
- The paper was accepted to a
relevant journal and it is in the scope of
the conference
- The paper was published
between June 1, 2018 and June 10, 2021:
- The paper reports new
research results and/or presents novel
contributions that significantly extend, and
were not previously reported in, prior work
- The paper has not been
presented at, and is not under consideration
for, journal-first programs of other
conferences
Authors of a paper that meets
these criteria are invited to submit a
one-page presentation proposal consisting of
the paper’s title, the paper’s authors, a
short statement on how the work satisfies
the journal first criteria, and a pointer to
the original journal paper at the journal’s
Web site. If the paper is not online yet,
then specify so. The original paper should
also be uploaded during submission.
If a submission is accepted for
the journal-first program, at least one
author of the associated journal paper must
register and present the paper at the
conference. The journal-first manuscripts
are published through the journals and will
not be part of the Conference proceedings.
The journal-first papers will be listed in
the conference program. Journal first
presentations will have the same
presentation time than technical papers.
== Important Dates:
Paper Submission: July 2, 2021
Notification: July 23, 2021
Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021
Conference: September 27-28,
2021 (to be confirmed)
How to submit
============
Technical papers must not exceed
10 pages (including figures and appendices)
plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY
references. NIER/TD papers must not exceed 5
pages including references. Journal-first
presentations must submit a one-page
proposal.
Supplemental material (e.g.,
video, data, software) that might be helpful
for the reviewers can be submitted together
with your paper. All material must be
included in a single ZIP file.
Note that VISSOFT uses a
single-blind review process (i.e., the
authors' names and affiliations are revealed
to reviewers but reviewers' identities are
not revealed to authors). The authors do not
need to anonymize their papers.
Important Dates
=============
Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021
Paper Submission:
June 18, 2021 (Technical Papers,
NIER/TD Track)
July 2, 2021 (Journal First
Track)
Notification: July 23, 2021
Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021
Conference Date: September
27-28, 2021 (to be confirmed)