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<div>IEEE Software Special Issue on Mining Software Archives</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>Submission Deadline: 1 July 2008</div><div>Publication: Jan./Feb. 2009</div><div><br></div><div>During software development and maintenance, programmers write new</div><div>code, track issue reports, add features to software, fix defects, and</div><div>discuss changes over email, among other activities. As more and more</div><div>development activities are organized and integrated using software</div><div>tools, they leave behind automatically accessible data. We can glean</div><div>these archives for a tremendous amount of information by applying data</div><div>mining and machine learning techniques. The resulting patterns and</div><div>rules can increase program quality and programmer productivity.</div><div><br></div><div>IEEE Software seeks submissions for a special issue on Mining Software</div><div>Archives. Possible topics include</div><div><br></div><div>- Approaches, applications, and tools for mining software archives</div><div>- Case studies on extracting data from software archives of large,</div><div>long-lived projects</div><div>- Search techniques, for example to help developers find suitable</div><div>components for reuse</div><div>- Analyzing change patterns to assist in future development</div><div>- Mining social networks from large software projects -- for example, to</div><div>understand and improve collaboration</div><div>- Visualization techniques for mined data -- for example, to understand</div><div>software evolution</div><div>- Techniques for predicting reliability and defects through mining</div><div>software archives</div><div>- Collecting and predicting effort data</div><div>- Mining requirements documents and predicting requirements volatility</div><div>- Prioritizing test suites by leveraging historical test data</div><div>- How software developers, teams, and managers can leverage data mined</div><div>from software archives in their day-to-day work</div><div><br></div><div>Manuscripts must not exceed 5,400 words including figures and tables,</div><div>which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits</div><div>may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the</div><div>theme’s scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for</div><div>magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right</div><div>to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of</div><div>the theme or special issue you are submitting for.</div><div><br></div><div>Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style</div><div>accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented</div><div>or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be</div><div>novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously</div><div>in other venues, including other periodicals and formal</div><div>conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in</div><div>print or in electronic form.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:</div><div>- Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research</div><div>- Andreas Zeller, Saarland University</div><div>- Tom Zimmermann, University of Calgary</div><div><br></div><div>For general author guidelines: <a href="http://www.computer.org/software/author.htm">www.computer.org/software/author.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>For submission details: <a href="mailto:software@computer.org">software@computer.org</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">--</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Thomas Zimmermann</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-size: 11px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/</span></span></font></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>