SUITE 2009

/****************************************************************/	      CALL FOR PAPERS (SUITE 2009) International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Environment (http://smallwiki.unide.ch/suite2009)

May 16, 2009  Vancouver, Canada In association with the 31st International Conference on               Software Engineering (ICSE2009) /****************************************************************/

As software development is a process of both information creation and information gathering, software developers are constantly searching for the right information and person to solve their problems at hand. This workshop will focus specifically on exploring the notion of search as a fundamental activity during software development.

The goal of the workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners with special interest on search technology for software developers together. Participants will have broad range of expertise in topics ranging from building software tools and infrastructure, information retrieval, user studies and HCI, benchmarking and evaluation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications and tools for searching software artifacts. - Approaches to search for developer expertise. - Crawling, analysis and parsing of internet-scale code repositories. - Empirical studies of search and navigation in IDEs. - Experience on setting up and running large software search engines. - Information retrieval techniques to search software. - Integration of search engines with IDEs. - Just in time comprehension tools for developers. - Leveraging Web 2.0 and social computing techniques. - Machine learning approaches to search software. - Methods of integrating indexed data from various sources and histories. - Natural language processing to support software development. - Novel models for searching in software message boards and mail archives. - Programming by example. - Query languages for software search. - Ranking strategies and heuristics for code search. - Search techniques to assist developers in finding components and code fragments for reuse. - Recommendation systems for software development. - Slicing and generative techniques for code extraction and synthesis. - Standards and benchmarks for the evaluation of search tools. - The use of visualizations to support software search. - Experts finding for software development. - Understanding information needs of software developers.

/*******************************/ /* Submissions and Proceedings */ /*******************************/ The workshop invites the submission of position papers of at most 4 pages in the IEEE Proceedings format. Proceedings of the workshop will be included in the IEEE digital library. The program committee will review the submissions for their relevance and technical merits. We especially encourage the submission of provoking or unconventional ideas that can lead to lively and productive discussions, and inspire new research ideas and directions.

Submissions should be uploaded online to the workshop's EasyChair webpage. Please refer to the workshop's webpage http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/suite2009/#submit for details on submission.

/*************************/ /*     Deadlines        */ /*************************/

Submission:  Jan 28, 2009 Notification: Feb 15, 2009 Camera Ready: Feb 18, 2009

/* Organizing Committee */

Sushil Bajracharya, Univ. of California Irvine, USA Adrian Kuhn, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland Yunwen Ye, SRA, Japan

/* Program Committee */

Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA Harald Gall, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland Mark Grechanik, Accenture, USA Reid Holmes, Univ. of Calgary, Canada Einar Host, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Toshihiro Kamiya, AIST, Japan Andrew Ko, Univ. of Washington, USA Ken Krugler, Krugle, USA Cristina Lopes, Univ. of California Irvine, USA Andrian Marcus, Wayne State Univ., USA Kumiyo Nakakoji, Univ. of Tokyo and SRA, Japan Oscar Nierstrasz, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland Lori Pollock, Univ. of Delaware, USA Romain Robbes, Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland Susan Sim, Univ. of California Irvine, USA Janice Singer, NRC, Canada Suresh Thummalapenta, North Carolina State Univ., USA Andreas Zeller, Saarland Univ., Germany This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP