[TYPES/announce] CfP: 1st International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR) 2016

[ouni ali]

Call for papers: 1st International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR) 2016

September 4, 2016, Singapore, Singapore.
http://www.softrefactoring.com/

Co-located with the 31st IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE 2016)

Important Dates
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Deadline for submissions: June 13, 2016
Notification of authors: July 3, 2016
Camera-ready: July 20, 2016
Workshop date: September 4, 2016
                 
Workshop summary
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Successful software products evolve through a process of continuous changes as bugs are fixed,
new features added, and quality issues addressed. Refactoring supports the volatile
software lifecycle by providing better ways to reduce and manage the growing complexity of
software systems while improving developer productivity. Refactoring can be performed at all
levels from requirement specification down to source code level, and, in essence, involves
improving the internal structure of a software artefact without altering its functionality.
In spite of the popularity of refactoring both in practice and as a research topic, many open
questions remain, particularly in terms of understanding how refactoring is performed, measuring
the impact of refactoring, and improving tool support in all areas of refactoring.

We invite submissions from both academia and industry on any topic that is refactoring related.
We welcome submissions from people working in programming language semantics and verification 
in relation to refactoring. The workshop topics include, but not limited to:

 - Source code refactoring
 - Programming language semantics and verification in relation to refactoring
 - Requirement, design and architectural refactoring
 - Refactoring of mobile, web and cloud applications
 - Refactoring opportunities detection and recommendation
 - Tool support for refactoring
 - Mining refactoring changes from software repositories
 - Evaluation and benchmarking of refactoring methods
 - Refactoring in Model Driven Engineering
 - Code smell detection and correction
 - Search based refactoring
 - Effect of refactoring on system complexity and quality
 - Empirical studies and experience reports
 - Software remodularization
 - Model transformation
 - Introduction of design patterns through refactoring
 - Machine learning applied to software refactoring
 - Role of refactoring in evolution and migration
 - Refactoring in the software lifecycle
 - Refactoring and testing

Workshop format
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The objective of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR 2016)
is to provide an informal interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to
exchange ideas and experiences, streamline and foster research on software refactoring,
identify some common ground for their work, share lessons and challenges, thereby
articulating a vision for the future of software refactoring research.

We solicit four types of submissions: full research papers (max 8 pages), position papers (max 4 pages),
and tool demo papers (max 4 pages), and industrial presentation. Please check the website for more information.

Proceedings and Special Issue
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Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library.

A selection of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special
Issue of the journal Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier.
Journal website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infsof

Submission
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All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 
LaTeX users, use the style Option 2) and should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsr2016

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three referees.

Organization
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General Chair:
 - Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
 - Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, USA
 - Mel Ó Cinnéide, University College Dublin, Ireland

Publication Chair:
 - Norihiro Yoshida, Nagoya University, Japan

Web Chair:
 - Wiem Mkaouer, University of Michigan, USA

Program Committee:
 - Aiko Yamashita, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
 - Christopher Simons, University of the West of England, UK
 - Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA
 - Danny Dig, Oregon State University, USA
 - Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA
 - Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
 - Gabriele Bavota, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 - Gustavo Pinto, UFPE, Brazil
 - Houari Sahraoui, Université de Montréal, Canada
 - Iman Hemati Moghadam, Vali-Asr University, Iran
 - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
 - Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
 - Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, Japan
 - Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 - Mark Harman, University College London, UK
 - Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
 - Nikolaos Tsantalis,Concordia University, Canada
 - Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen (ANSYMO), Belgium
 - Shinpei Hayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 - Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK
 - Steve Counsell, Brunel University, UK
 - Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
 - Wiem Mkaouer, University of Michigan, USA
 - Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
 - Yoshiki Higo, Osaka University, Japan
 - Yun Lin, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore



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