ERA Papers

Goals and Scope

The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting novel ideas in early stages of research. The proposed ideas and promising work submitted to this track are not required to have been fully evaluated. The topics of interest for this track are the same as the main research track and concern all the topics in the research and practice of software maintenance and evolution.

The ERA track is specifically looking for fresh, innovative, provocative ideas. We aim to create an open atmosphere where discussion and feedback stands central.

Papers submitted to the ERA must not have been previously accepted for publication or submitted for review to another conference, journal, or book.

Format

Submissions must be in English and conform to the IEEE proceedings style. They must be five-page long, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via Easychair.

Review and Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Emphasis will be put on the originality and timeliness of the proposed contribution; a full evaluation of the proposed ideas is not required. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the ERA Program Committee.

Accepted Papers

Accepted papers will get a short presentation and also a poster presentation.

Program committee

•  Carlos Noguera, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

• Vadim Zaytsev, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands

• Georgios Gousios, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• Michael Würsch, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Elmar Juergens, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

• Gul Calikli, Ryerson University, Canada

• Daniele Romano, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany

• Emad Shihab, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

• Christoph Treude, McGill University, Canada

• Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile

• Latifa Guerrouj, Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada

• Bogdan Dit, The College of William and Mary, United States

• Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands

• Ali Mesbah, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Kim Mens, Université catholique De Louvain, Belgium

• Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland

• Paul Klint, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands

For further details contact your ERA track chairs Andy Zaidman and Coen De Roover.