MSR 2009

MSR 2009
6th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Event in series	MSR
Dates	2009/05/16 (iCal) - 2009/05/17
Homepage:	msrconf.org
Location
Location:	Vancouver, Canada
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Important dates
Abstracts:	2009/01/05
Submissions:	2009/01/09
Notification:	2009/02/06
Camera ready due:	2009/02/17
Table of Contents

Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are recognizing the benefits of mining this information to support the maintenance of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in which mining these repositories can help to understand software development and software evolution, to support predictions about software development, and to exploit this knowledge concretely in planning future development.

The goal of this two-day working conference is to advance the science and practice of software engineering via the analysis of data stored in software repositories.

Submissions

We solicit poster papers (max: 4 pages) and research papers (max: 10 pages) for the main part of the conference. Additionally, we solicit submissions to the MSR Challenge 2009.

• Poster papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed. Authors of accepted poster papers will present their ideas in poster form during a poster session at the conference, and in a short lightning talk.
• Research papers are expected to describe new research results, and have a higher degree of technical rigor than poster papers. Authors of accepted research papers will present their ideas in a research talk at the conference.

Paper submissions must be formatted according to ICSE guidelines. A selection of the best research papers will be invited for consideration in a special issue of the Springer journal Empirical Software Engineering.

Topics

Papers may address issues along the general themes, including but not limited to the following:

• Models for social and development processes that occur in large software projects
• Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of software repositories
• Models of software project evolution based on historical repository data
• Prediction, characterization, and classification of software defects based on analysis of software repositories
• Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences
• Search-based software engineering, including search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components and code fragments for reuse, and software search engines
• Analysis of change patterns to assist in future development
• Visualization techniques and models of mined data
• Techniques, tools, and interchange formats for capturing new forms of data for storage in software repositories, such as effort data, fine-grain changes, and refactoring
• Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining
• Quality aspects and guidelines to ensure quality results in mining
• Meta-models, exchange formats, and infrastructure tools to facilitate the sharing of extracted data and to encourage reuse and repeatability
• Case studies on extracting data from repositories of large long-lived projects
• Methods of integrating mined data from various historical sources

Important Dates

• Abstracts due (research/poster papers): Mon 5 Jan 2009 (11:59pm Apia Time)
• Submission deadline (research/poster papers): Fri 9 Jan 2009
• Notifications sent out: Fri 6 Feb 2009
• Camera-ready copy due: Tues 17 Feb 2009
• Conference dates: Sat/Sun 16-17 May 2009

Committees

• General Chair:
  • Katsuro Inoue, U. of Osaka, Japan

• Program Co-chairs:
  • Michael Godfrey, U. of Waterloo, Canada
  • Jim Whitehead, U. of California-Santa Cruz, USA

• Challenge Chair:
  • Christian Bird, UC Davis, USA

• Program Committee:
  • Giuliano Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
  • Andrew Begel, Microsoft Corp., USA
  • Geoff Clemm, IBM / Rational, USA
  • Stephan Diehl, U. of Trier, Germany
  • Massimiliano di Penta, U. of Sannio, Italy
  • Harald Gall]], U. of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Daniel German, U. of Victoria, Canada
  • Tudor Girba, U. of Bern, Switzerland
  • Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
  • Ahmed Hassan, Queen's U., Canada
  • Ric Holt, U. of Waterloo, Canada
  • Huzefa Kagdi, Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA
  • Tohru Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan
  • Miryung Kim, U. of Texas-Austin, USA
  • Sung Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Michele Lanza, U. of Lugano, Switzerland
  • Ben Liblit, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Jonathan Maletic, Kent State U., USA
  • Andrian Marcus, Wayne State U., USA
  • Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs, USA
  • Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Corp., USA
  • Dewayne Perry, U. of Texas-Austin, USA
  • Martin Pinzger, U. of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Lori Pollock, U. of Delaware, USA
  • Martin Robillard, McGill U., Canada
  • Gregorio Robles, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
  • Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, Ottawa U., Canada
  • Walt Scacchi, U. of California-Irvine, USA
  • Tao Xie, North Caroline State U., USA
  • Andy Zaidman, Delft Technical U., Netherlands
  • Thomas Zimmermann, U. of Calgary, Canada