Please consider submitting a paper to the International Conference on Software Engineering, where I am on the PC of the research track. The conference is in Honoulu, Hawaii. The submission deadline for the research track is August 20.
I will also co-organize the Mining Software Repositories conference and the ACM Student Research Competition (sponsored by Microsoft Research, both during the ICSE week.
ICSE is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering. The conference features the presentation of research papers, technical tutorials and workshops, research demonstrations, and updates on the use of advanced software engineering techniques in industry. ICSE 2011 is the ideal venue for meeting and learning from like-minded colleagues from around the world.
For more information, visit the ICSE 2011 homepage.
Please consider submitting a paper to the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, where I am on the PC. The conference is in Oldenburg, Germany. The deadline for the research track is October 22 (abstracts: October 15). Follow @CSMR2011 on Twitter
The European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), the premier European conference on the theory and practice of maintenance, reengineering and evolution of software systems, promotes discussion and interaction among researchers and practitioners about the development of maintainable systems, and the evolution, migration and reengineering of existing ones. We invite people from industry, industrial research and academia to submit papers or experience reports. This conference is not limited to European participants. Authors from outside Europe are also welcomed.
For more information, visit the CSMR 2011 homepage.

I am on the PC of the MaRK workshop. The submission deadline is June 20. You can submit short papers (3-5 pages), full papers (6-10 pages), and posters and demo papers (1-2 pages).
MaRK’10 focuses on potentials and benefits of lightweight knowledge management approaches, such as ontologies, semantic Wikis, recommender systems and rationale management techniques, applied to requirements engineering. Novel ideas, emerging methodologies, frameworks and tools as well as industrial experiences for capturing, representing, sharing and reusing tacit knowledge in requirements engineering processes are discussed. Furthermore, the workshop will provide an interactive exchange platform between the knowledge management community, requirements engineering community and industrial practitioners.
There are three very good reasons why you should submit a paper (via the organizers, Walid Maalej, Anil Kumar Thurimella, Alexander Felfernig):
- MaRK’08 and MaRK’09 were both excellent for discussing emergent results, gathering valuable feedback, as well as getting new ideas and contacts from academia and industry.
- With app. 25% acceptance rate the publications are competitive and of high quality. You will get a detailed feedback from the renowned PC. If accepted your paper will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library. For MaRK’10 we are also planning a special issue in an international journal.
- The venue this year is great. MaRK’10 is collocated with RE’10, which takes place in beautiful Sydney and has an excellent program as well as social functions in several wonderful places.

Please consider submitting a paper to ISSTA 2011 in Toronto, Canada. The deadline for research papers will be in January/early February 2011. (I am on the PC for the research track.)
ISSTA is the leading research conference in software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems. The ISSTA program will include technical papers, keynotes, workshops, and a doctoral symposium.
For more information, visit the ISSTA 2011 homepage.

Here’s how my ICSE week looks like.
Co-located events:
SUITE (Saturday, attendee)
MSR (Sunday/Monday, PC co-chair)
RSSE (Tuesday, co-organizer)
Main conference:
Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows (presenter, in Session Faults 3). Work done with Philip J. Guo, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Brendan Murphy.
Friday, 14:00—15:30
New Horizons Evening (demoing Codebook with Andy Begel)
Wednesday, 18:00—21:00
ACM Student Research Competition (coordinator)
Wednesday, 13:30—14:00 (SRC Poster Session)
Wednesday, 15:30—16:00 (SRC Poster Session)
Thursday, 11:00—12:30 (SRC Finals)
Microsoft Booth. Thursday, 15:30-16:00
And don’t miss Andy Begel’s presentations:
Keeping Up With Your Friends: Function Foo, Library Bar.DLL, and Work Item 24. Andrew Begel, Thomas Zimmermann. (Web2SE workshop)
Tuesday, 11:00—12:30
Codebook: Discovering and Exploiting Relationships in Software Repositories. Andrew Begel, Khoo Yit Phang, Thomas Zimmermann. (ICSE, in Session Software Archaeology)
Wednesday, 15:30—17:00
MSR 2011: 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
May 21st – 22nd, 2011. Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Co-located with ICSE 2011.

Please consider submitting a paper to the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, where I am on the PC. The deadline for the research track is April 30.
Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its evolution. The ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis), now at its fifth edition, is the premiere forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, and computer science education) to present original research on software visualization.
We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications, techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies.
For more information, visit the SoftVis 2010 homepage.
Please consider submitting a paper to the ACM Recommender Systems 2010 conference. I am on the PC of the Research Track. The deadline for the research track is April 23 (abstracts: April 16); for the other tracks, check out the important dates on the web-page.
We are pleased to invite you to participate in this premier annual event on research and applications of recommender technologies.
The 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems builds on the success of Recommenders 06 Summer School in Bilbao, Spain; the 1st Conference in Minneapolis, USA; the 2nd Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the 3rd Conference in New York, USA. In these events many members of the practitioner and research communities valued the rich exchange of ideas made possible by the shared plenary sessions. The 4th conference will promote the same close interaction among practitioners and researchers, reaching a wider range of participants including those from Europe and Asia. Published papers will go through a full peer review process. The conference proceedings are expected to be widely read and cited.
In addition to a regular technical program, there will be tutorials covering the state-of-the-art of this domain, a doctoral consortium, and an industrial program comprising of keynote speakers and practice/industry-paper tracks.
For more information, visit the RecSys 2010 homepage.
Please consider submitting a paper to ISSRE 2010. I am on the PC of the Research Track. The deadline for the research track is May 10 (abstracts: May 3); for the other tracks, check out the important dates on the web-page.
The 21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering ISSRE is returning to San Jose after 10 years.
San Jose/Silicon Valley needs no introduction as it is home to many successful and thriving software companies. Holding ISSRE in San Jose lets us access the entire software engineering talent in addition to engineers and researchers specifically working in software reliability. The program for ISSRE 2010 aims at growing our strong mix of research and practice to a larger audience. The engagement with software companies from embedded to mainframes, clients to servers, enterprise to cloud and desktop applications to web-based services connect us with a new generation of engineers hungry for the advances in research and practice. Cisco has generously agreed to host the meeting at their conference center in San Jose. As we build the ISSRE 2010 team, we welcome your input, ideas, contributions and willingness to volunteer.
Tentative Program Areas: Research Papers, Practice Papers, Student Papers, Fast Abstracts, Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, Vendor Booths.
For more information, visit the ISSRE 2010 homepage.