APSEC 2018

Call for Workshop proposals

The APSEC 2018 Workshops will provide a forum for small groups of participants (approximately 20-50) to discuss current topics in software engineering research and practice. The APSEC Workshops will provide opportunities for researchers to exchange and discuss innovative scientific and engineering ideas at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference or journal publication, as well as new developments in the field. APSEC Workshops also serve as incubators for scientific ideas or new scientific communities that form and share a particular research agenda.

Each workshop can be full or half day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to ongoing research or industrial projects on software engineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience.

Evaluation Criteria

Workshop proposals will be judged on their originality, relevance to the topics of APSEC 2018, the expected level of interest in the topic, and the organizers’ ability to lead a successful workshop. The accepted workshops will be scheduled by the APSEC Organizing Committee to fit the overall program of the conference.

Submission Instructions

Please send your proposal via email to apsec2018-workshop_AT_sa.cs.titech.ac.jp

Workshop proposals should include the following information, with a maximum of two pages in IEEE proceedings format:

• Workshop title
• Main contact for the workshop
• Workshop organizing committee
• Brief description of workshop topic and goals
• Expected numbers of submissions and participants
• Expected number of accepted papers
• Draft workshop schedule including duration (full day or half day), format of sessions and discussions
• Paper selection criteria and mechanism
• Plan to publish the proceedings.
• Special requirements regarding facilities, equipment, and materials if applicable
• (Optional) information regarding previous instances of the workshop/similar workshops by the organizers

Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for:

• Creating a web page for the workshop for publicity and communication. The call must make it clear that the workshop will be open to all participants of APSEC 2018.
• Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page and program.
• Publish the proceedings. All workshop proceedings are NOT included the main conference proceedings.

The workshop proceedings can be published via a free open-access publication service, such as CEUR.org (link: http://ceur-ws.org/).

• All advertising of the workshop beyond APSEC 2018 web page publicity

Important Dates

• Proposal Submission: July 12, 2018 (AoE) (extended) July 6, 2018 (AoE)
• Proposal Notification: July 27, 2018

Contact

Takashi Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

APSEC 2018 Workshops Chair