[ecoop-info] CFP: Mining Software Archives - Special Issue of IEEE Software

[Tom Zimmermann]

IEEE Software Special Issue on Mining Software Archives

Submission Deadline: 1 July 2008
Publication: Jan./Feb. 2009

During software development and maintenance, programmers write new
code, track issue reports, add features to software, fix defects, and
discuss changes over email, among other activities. As more and more
development activities are organized and integrated using software
tools, they leave behind automatically accessible data. We can glean
these archives for a tremendous amount of information by applying data
mining and machine learning techniques. The resulting patterns and
rules can increase program quality and programmer productivity.

IEEE Software seeks submissions for a special issue on Mining Software
Archives. Possible topics include

- Approaches, applications, and tools for mining software archives
- Case studies on extracting data from software archives of large,
long-lived projects
- Search techniques, for example to help developers find suitable
components for reuse
- Analyzing change patterns to assist in future development
- Mining social networks from large software projects -- for example, to
understand and improve collaboration
- Visualization techniques for mined data -- for example, to understand
software evolution
- Techniques for predicting reliability and defects through mining
software archives
- Collecting and predicting effort data
- Mining requirements documents and predicting requirements volatility
- Prioritizing test suites by leveraging historical test data
- How software developers, teams, and managers can leverage data mined
from software archives in their day-to-day work

Manuscripts must not exceed 5,400 words including figures and tables,
which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits
may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the
theme’s scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for
magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right
to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of
the theme or special issue you are submitting for.

Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style
accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented
or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be
novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously
in other venues, including other periodicals and formal
conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in
print or in electronic form.

For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:
- Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research
- Andreas Zeller, Saarland University
- Tom Zimmermann, University of Calgary

For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm

For submission details: software at computer.org


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Thomas Zimmermann
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/



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