[ecoop-info] CFP - MSR 2008 : 5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

[Michele Lanza]

Call for Papers

      M S R   2008
      International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
      and MSR Mining Challenge

      http://msrconf.org/

      May 10-11, 2008
      Leipzig, Germany

      Co-located with ICSE 2008
      30th International Conference on Software Engineering

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  Topics:

+ 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
+ Models for social and development processes that occur in large
   software projects
+ Search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components
   for reuse
+ Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences
+ Analysis of change patterns to assist in future development
+ Case studies on extracting data from repositories of large long-lived
   projects
+ Visualization techniques and models of mined data

  Submissions:

+ Research papers (10 pages)
+ Short position papers (4 pages)
+ Challenge submissions (1 or 4 pages)

  Important Dates:

+ Paper submission: 		24 January  2008
+ Acceptance notification: 	 7 February 2008
+ Camera-ready due: 		21 February 2008
+ Workshop date:		10-11 May 2008


  MSR Challenge:

We invite researchers to demonstrate the usefulness of their mining  
tools on the CVS and Bugzilla data of Eclipse by participating in
the two MSR Challenge tracks:
    1. Open. We invite you to report on the most interesting facts about
       Eclipse and its evolution that you have discovered (that have not
       yet been reported).  Results should be reported as 4-page
       submissions, to be included in the proceedings as
       challenge papers.

    2. Prediction. We will provide the number of bugs that occurred in
       selected Eclipse packages between 2003 and 2006. We challenge
       you to predict the number of bugs that will occur in those
       packages between February 10, 2008 and May 10, 2008. Guesses,
       together with the rationale behind your prediction, should be
       reported as 1-page submissions.  Seat-of-your-pants wild guesses
       are also welcome and will put the "real" miners under pressure.

The winners of both tracks will receive an award.


  Organizers:

Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland (Program co-chair)
Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada (Program co-chair)
Ahmed Hassan, Queen's University, Canada (General chair)
Sung Kim, MIT, USA (Mining challenge chair)

  Program Committee:

Tsuneo Ajisaka, Wakayama U., Japan
Giuliano Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Abraham Bernstein, U. of Zurich, Switzerland
Prem Devanbu, U. of California (Davis), 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
Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, U. de Montreal, Canada
Ric Holt, U. Waterloo, Canada
Katsuro Inoue, Osaka U., Japan
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Jonathan Maletic, Kent State U., USA
Andrian Marcus, Wayne State U., USA
Radu Marinescu, TU Timisoara, Romania
Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs, USA
Leon Moonen, Delft U. of Tech., Netherlands
David Notkin, U. of Washington, USA
Masao Ohira, NAIST, Japan
Alex Orso, Georgia Tech, USA
Dewayne Perry, U. of Texas (Austin), USA
Martin Pinzger, U. of Zurich, Switzerland
Gregorio Robles, U. of Madrid, Spain
Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Alexandru Telea, Eindhoven TU, The Netherlands
Annie Ying, IBM Research (Watson), USA
Jim Whitehead, U. of California (Santa Cruz), USA
Andreas Zeller, Saarland U., Germany
Thomas Zimmermann, U. of Calgary, Canada