Opening ICSE 2021 -- Technical Track

Opening slides for the Technical Track of ICSE 2021, summarizing the review process and outcomes.

https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2021

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1. ICSE 2021
   Technical Track
   Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Tao Xie, Peking University, China
   

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2. The ICSE 2021 Program Committee
   •159 program committee members
   •Selected to have right mix of expertise for expected set of papers
   •Representative for software engineering research community
   • North America / Europe / Asia / Other: 40/30/20/10 %
   • Academia / industry: 90/10 %
   • Male / female: 60/40 %
   • Mix of experienced PC members and first-timers
   •Gratefully used SIGSOFT (self) nominations
   •Accepted in 2019 to serve on PC – unaware of COVID-19
   THANK
   YOU!!
   

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3. New: Seven Key Areas and their Subtopics
   

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4. Area Chairs
   Help to scale ICSE and oversee reviewing process
   • AI and software engineering: Dongmei Zhang (Microsoft Research)
   • Testing and analysis: Anders Møller (Aarhus University)
   • Empirical software engineering: Tom Zimmermann (Microsoft Research)
   • Software evolution: Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)
   • Social aspects of software engineering: Daniela Damian (University of Victoria)
   • Requirements, modeling and design: Zhi Jin (Peking University)
   • Dependability: Eric Bodden (Paderborn University)
   

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5. 615 Submitted Papers!
   •Around 2,000 authors
   •Submitted in spring / summer 2020 -- in time of COVID-19
   •Program committee accepted 138 papers – highest ever
   •Acceptance rate of 22.4% -- compared to 21% of past 3 years
   THANK
   YOU!!
   

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6. Papers can be in
   multiple areas
   Percentages of papers
   with at least one topic
   in given area.
   

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7. Review Process
   •Week 1-2 Bidding, desk rejects, assignments to reviewers
   •Week 3-9 Review writing
   •Week 9 Check on review quality, expertise, and author questions
   •Week 10-11 Review improvement, extra reviews, replacements
   •Week 12 Author response period
   •Week 13-15 Reviewer discussions and consensus building
   •Week 16 Chairs finalize decisions and meta-reviews
   1800 reviews, 550 meta-reviews, 10,000 comments
   

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8. Reviewer Process – 10 eyes per paper
   •Each paper received 3 reviews
   •For each paper a 4th PC member served as moderator
   • Guide discussion to consensus
   • Write meta-review
   •For each paper one area chair oversaw the process
   • Consistency across papers
   • Guide difficult discussion
   • Ensure decision is made
   

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9. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
   ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Apps. Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen,
   Feng Wu, Tianming Liu, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu
   Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow. Kaibo Cao, Chunyang Chen, Sebastian Baltes,
   Christoph Treude, Xiang Chen
   CodeShovel: Constructing Method-Level Source Code Histories. Felix Grund, Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Nick Bradley, Braxton Hall, Reid Holmes
   Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets Modules. Ying Wang, Liang Qiao, Chang Xu, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Na Meng, Hai Yu, Zhiliang
   Zhu
   "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19. Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero,
   Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
   Improving Fault Localization by Integrating Value and Predicate Based Causal Inference Techniques. Yigit Kucuk, Tim A. D. Henderson, Andy
   Podgurski
   Interface Compliance of Inline Assembly: Automatically Check, Patch and Refine. Frédéric Recoules, Sébastien Bardin, Richard Bonichon,
   Matthieu Lemerre, Laurent Mounier, Marie-Laure Potet
   JEST: N+1-version Differential Testing of Both JavaScript Engines and Specification. Jihyeok Park, Seungmin An, Dongjun Youn, Gyeongwon Kim,
   Sukyoung Ryu
   Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study. Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, André Brechmann, Janet
   Siegmund
   Traceability Transformed: Generating moreAccurate Links with Pre-Trained BERT Models. Jinfeng Lin, Yalin Liu, Qingkai Zeng, Meng Jiang, Jane
   Cleland-Huang
   What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects? Edson Dias, Paulo Meirelles, Fernando Castor, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese, Gustavo
   Pinto
   Why don’t Developers Detect Improper Input Validation?'; DROP TABLE Papers; - Larissa Braz, Enrico Fregnan, Gül Calikli, Alberto Bacchelli
   ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award: Synthesizing Object State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates.
   Zelin Zhao, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, Tianxiao Gu, Xiaoxing Ma
   

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10. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
    ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Apps. Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen,
    Feng Wu, Tianming Liu, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu
    Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow. Kaibo Cao, Chunyang Chen, Sebastian Baltes,
    Christoph Treude, Xiang Chen
    CodeShovel: Constructing Method-Level Source Code Histories. Felix Grund, Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Nick Bradley, Braxton Hall, Reid Holmes
    Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets Modules. Ying Wang, Liang Qiao, Chang Xu, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Na Meng, Hai Yu, Zhiliang
    Zhu
    "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19. Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero,
    Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
    Improving Fault Localization by Integrating Value and Predicate Based Causal Inference Techniques. Yigit Kucuk, Tim A. D. Henderson, Andy
    Podgurski
    Interface Compliance of Inline Assembly: Automatically Check, Patch and Refine. Frédéric Recoules, Sébastien Bardin, Richard Bonichon,
    Matthieu Lemerre, Laurent Mounier, Marie-Laure Potet
    JEST: N+1-version Differential Testing of Both JavaScript Engines and Specification. Jihyeok Park, Seungmin An, Dongjun Youn, Gyeongwon Kim,
    Sukyoung Ryu
    Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study. Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, André Brechmann, Janet
    Siegmund
    Traceability Transformed: Generating moreAccurate Links with Pre-Trained BERT Models. Jinfeng Lin, Yalin Liu, Qingkai Zeng, Meng Jiang, Jane
    Cleland-Huang
    What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects? Edson Dias, Paulo Meirelles, Fernando Castor, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese, Gustavo
    Pinto
    Why don’t Developers Detect Improper Input Validation?'; DROP TABLE Papers; - Larissa Braz, Enrico Fregnan, Gül Calikli, Alberto Bacchelli
    ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award: Synthesizing Object State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates.
    Zelin Zhao, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, Tianxiao Gu, Xiaoxing Ma
    Award Ceremony for ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award,
    ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
    

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11. Distinguished Reviewers
    Gabriele Bavota, USI-Lugano, Switzerland
    Jonathan Bell, Northeastern University, USA
    Maria Christakis, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
    Myra Cohen, Iowa State University, USA
    Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
    Stephanie Forrest, Arizona State University, USA
    Miryung Kim, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
    Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
    Julia Lawall, INRIA, France
    Xiaoxing Ma, Nanjing University, China
    Emerson Murphy-Hill, Google, USA
    Martin Pinzger, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
    Antonio Ruiz-Cortés ,University of Seville, Spain
    Kathryn Stolee ,North Carolina State University, USA
    Yulei Sui ,University of Technology Sydney, Australia
    Paolo Tonella ,USI-Lugano, Switzerland
    Award Ceremony for Distinguished Reviewers
    

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12. We hope you’ll enjoy the program!
    

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