[TYPES/announce] CFP: ISSTA 2020 Doctoral Symposium

[Jaco Geldenhuys]

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     ISSTA 2020 Doctoral Symposium

     18 July 2020

     Los Angeles, CA



https://conf.researchr.org/track/issta-2020/issta-2020-doctoral-symposium


     Call for Papers

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The ISSTA 2020 Doctoral Symposium is a one-day event to be held on July 18,
2020 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The symposium will bring
together doctoral students working in the area of software testing and
analysis
and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research goals,
methods, and preliminary results in a constructive and international
atmosphere. The Symposium will include two keynotes by a prominent academic
leaders. The Symposium will be closed-door, with participation restricted to
the students taking part in the symposium and the members of the ISSTA 2020
Doctoral Symposium Program Committee. Accepted submissions will also be
published as short papers in the ISSTA 2020 conference proceedings.

The goals of the Doctoral Symposium are to:

 - provide the participants independent and constructive feedback on their
   current research and future research directions;
 - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative
   research;
 - provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with
established
   researchers and practitioners in the software engineering community.

Participating students will have the unique opportunity to describe their
research ideas and receive comments and suggestions from experienced
researchers in the software testing and analysis community.


# Important Dates

Submission deadline:         *** 30 April 2020 ***
Acceptance notification:           14 May 2020
Doctoral Symposium                18 July 2020
Main conference dates:         18-22 July 2020


# Submission

Prospective student participants should be at a stage in their research
where
they have already identified a research topic, but should still be at least
six
months away from completing their dissertation. Participants will be
selected
based on a four-page paper describing their proposed thesis research. The
paper
should state the problem their research intends to address and detail how
they
propose to address it, including a statement of their hypotheses, a
description
of their approach and evaluation plans, their positioning with respect to
the
state of the art, and the expected improvements and benefits.

A Doctoral Symposium submission must not exceed 4 pages, including all text,
figures, tables, and appendices; one additional page containing only
references
is permitted. Submission should be in ACM Master conference format using
9-point type. For LaTeX users, this means using the acmart document class
with
the sigconf option (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}).

Please submit through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issta20ds


# Program Committee

 -  Marcel Böhme (co-chair, Monash University, Australia)
 -  Jaco Geldenhuys (co-chair, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
 -  Aldeida Aleti (Monash University, Australia)
 -  Sang Kil Cha (KAIST, South Korea)
 -  Sudipta Chattopadhyay (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
 -  Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada)
 -  Antonio Filieri (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
 -  Gordon Fraser (University of Passau, Germany)
 -  Julia Lawall (INRIA)
 -  Andreas Zeller (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
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