2012 20th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
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We are delighted to welcome you to ICPC 2012, the 20th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, held June 11–13, 2012, in Passau, Bavaria, Germany. It is hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary of this venue for program comprehension. What started out many years ago as a small workshop has grown into an annual international conference spanning software engineering, human-computer interaction, user and empirical studies, reverse engineering, artifact analysis, statistical modelling and machine learning, and many other topics as well. This year, the program co-chairs decided to draw a clear distinction between full and short paper submissions. Each full and short paper submission was accepted or rejected on its own merits; we did not permit ”demotion” of full papers into short paper status. However, authors of rejected full and short papers did have the opportunity to subsequently submit poster and tool demonstration papers, as the submission deadline for those tracks was after the notification deadline for full and short papers. We received many strong papers for ICPC 2012. We accepted 21 out of 51 full-paper submissions (41 %) and 2 out of 8 short paper and industrial submissions (25 %), with an overall acceptance rate of 39% in the main track. Furthermore, we accepted 4 out of 7 tool-demo papers (57 %), 4 out of 9 poster papers (44 %), and 4 out of 9 student-symposium papers (44 %). ICPC continues to be a truly international venue, with submissions in 2012 coming from 22 different countries spanning all five major continents. In terms of number of authors of submitted papers, the top five countries were Canada (28), the United States (22), Italy (19), Germany (17), and Japan (15). Additionally, the 38 members of the 2012 program committee come from 14 different countries. While the ultimate acceptance decisions were made by the program co-chairs, we have continued to use an “open reviewing” model in ICPC, in which all program-committee members are able to read and comment on the reviews of all submissions (apart from those where there was a stated conflict-of-interest, of course). We found that this model has worked extremely well in the recent past, and it worked well again in 2012; the program co-chairs acted more as discussion facilitators than mere judges, and we were able to achieve clear consensus among concerned PC members on virtually all of the submissions. Each paper received at least three formal reviews from members of the program committee, but there was also a lot of online meta-discussion about the submissions that helped us to reach consensus. The accepted papers first of all increase our insight in the human activity of comprehending software. This is typically achieved by means of empirical studies, for example on source-code reading, the use of on-line discussion fora by developers, or on developers’ information needs. Studies like these form the input for the second category of papers, which propose new processes and technologies for supporting program comprehension. In this year’s ICPC, we can see innovative ideas for helping developers use an API, for establishing traceability relations between development artifacts, and for recognizing patterns in execution traces, to name a few. We are delighted that we have found two internationally leading researchers to provide keynote presentations to ICPC. In the first, Oscar Nierstrasz, from the University of Bern, will shed light on agile software assessments, focusing on understanding to support decision making. In the second, Rob DeLine, from Microsoft Research, will report on his experiences in studying software developers when they are using development tools. It is our great pleasure to acknowledge the most-influential paper (MIP) from IWPC 2002 with the ICPC 2012 MIP Award. The award committee has determined the winner as: “The Role of Concepts in Program Comprehension” by V´aclav Rajlich and Norman Wilde. This paper has doubtlessly inspired and influenced many papers and people in our community, in particular, by its detailed description of a research problem in program comprehension and by its outline of a research agenda on the topic. Congratulations! We are also delighted to announce that a selection of the best papers from this year’s conference will be invited to submit extended versions for consideration in a special issue of the journal Empirical Software Engineering. The invitees will be announced during the opening session of ICPC 2012. We sincerely thank all of you in the program-comprehension research community for helping to make ICPC an ongoing success. In particular, we would like to thank the program committee and the external reviewers for helping us to decide on the program as a group, and for their careful analysis and constructive feedback to the authors. We also thank the other chairs who did extra duty in shaping ICPC: tool-demonstrations co-chairs Abram Hindle and Chris Parnin, posters cochairs Chanchal Roy and Stefan L¨owe, industrial chair Ira Baxter, student-symposium co-chairs Massimiliano Di Penta and Denys Poshyvanyk, local arrangements chair Philipp Wendler, publicity chair Jochen Quante, and finance chair Eva Veitweber. Finally, we thank the authors of ICPC 2012 for contributing to our community and taking part in the larger process of research. And we hope that you, the participants of ICSE 2012, will enjoy and find useful what we have prepared for you. Welcome to ICPC 2012 in Passau!
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik |
| Schlagworte | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) • International Conference on ProgramComprehension (ICPC) • University Passau |
| ISBN-10 | 3-86387-163-4 / 3863871634 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-86387-163-5 / 9783863871635 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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