ICSSP2020DT

Doctoral Track Overview

The International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2020) invites submissions for consideration for inclusion in the ICSSP 2020 Doctoral Track which will be hosted as an integral part of the main ICSSP 2020 program. Successful submissions will present to the main ICSSP 2020 audience and as such offers an excellent opportunity for current Ph.D. candidates to present their work and elicit feedback from the ICSSP community, which is comprised of some of the leading figures in the software and systems process domain.

The goal of the ICSSP community in hosting the Doctoral Track is driven by a keen appreciation of the importance of Doctoral studies and the many benefits that expert community-led constructive feedback can deliver in terms of enhancing Doctoral work, while also supporting leading researchers of the future. Thus, the Track offers a rare opportunity to obtain valuable expert feedback and to get in touch with peer students in the same field of interest. The event is designed with 2nd/3rd year PhD candidates in mind, and particularly where initial results are not yet mature enough for a full conference paper and the work going forward may benefit from feedback from the ICSSP community. The ICSSP Doctoral Track should address topics of interest to ICSSP 2020 and also more generally, all research areas that are in scope of the ICSSP conference series. However, given the context of Doctoral Track, the research work which is able to reflect the latest development and progress in the ICSSP community is extremely welcomed. Successful submissions will be published in the main conference proceedings.

Doctoral Track papers shall present research progress to date, current work-in-progress and plan to completion. Please note that the sole author on the submission must be the doctoral candidate and that advisor(s) should be noted immediately below the author details. Submissions should address the following concerns:

Motivation: describe the problem that you want to address and briefly summarize existing approaches along with their deficiencies.

Objectives: outline the key objectives of your PhD research and argue how achieving them will address the problem outlined in the motivation.

Methodology: identify what methodology you will adopt to meet the objectives of your project. Clearly state on what existing works your work will build.

Research challenges: outline the technical, methodological, conceptual, or other hurdles faced in completing the research.

Research plan: describe what preliminary results – if any – you have already achieved and summarize your plans for future work. Please add a rough schedule that allows to judge whether your research plan is feasible.

Authors of selected submissions will be required to produce and present a Poster to reflect their ICSSP 2020 Doctoral Track paper, which will be displayed alongside the main ICSE 2020 Posters. Details on poster formats will be provided in due course.

Preconditions for Submission

As with the main ICSSP conference, all submissions must comply with the ACM and IEEE policies on authorship and publication. These include:

• The Policy on Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing as they apply to authors
• The ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
• The ACM policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions
• The IEEE guidance on publishing ethics

Note that submitted papers must reflect the original work of the authors, the authors must be entitled to publish the work, the work must not have been published previously in a refereed or formally reviewed publication, and the work must not be under review or in press elsewhere while under review for the ICSSP Doctoral Track, among other provisions.

How to Submit

Submissions to the ICSSP 2020 Doctoral Track must be up to a maximum of 4 pages in length. Papers not adhering to this page length requirement will not be admitted to the review process. Page limits include all text, figures, tables, references, and appendices. All submissions must be in English.

Important: ICSSP is NOT following a double-blind reviewing process, so author name(s) and affiliation(s) should appear beneath the title of a submission. (This is different from the policy followed by ICSE and some other co-located events.)

Submissions must conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines.

Submissions must be made through the submission site on ICSSP2020 DT track website prior to the submission deadline.

Authors of accepted papers shall prepare a final camera-ready version of the paper, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the guidelines above.

Requirement for Letter of Recommendation

Each student submission must be supported by a letter of recommendation from the student’s research advisor(s). The letter of recommendation should ideally be brief, indicating that the student will be in a position to attend and present at the conference if their submission is successful, and including an assessment of the current status of the research, including an expected date for the dissertation’s filing (which may be approximate). Note that letters may be shared with reviewers of the submission but will generally be kept confidential.

The letter of recommendation must be made along with the student submission prior to the submission deadline. Submissions without a supporting letter of recommendation will not be reviewed.

Requirement to Register, Attend and Present

If a submission is accepted, the doctoral candidate must register for and attend the conference and present the paper in person. Failure to meet this requirement may result in the paper being withdrawn from the program and proceedings.

Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two Doctoral Track Committee members. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, the motivation and quality of the proposed research, as well as the suitability of the chosen methodology. The potential for students to benefit from participation in the Track may also be considered in making the final selection of accepted papers.

Important Dates

• 23-24 May 2020 Conference dates
• Fri 6 Mar 2020 Camera-ready copies due (All)
• Fri 21 Feb 2020 Notification to authors
• Fri 24 Jan 2020 Full papers due (Main Track), letter of support for Doctoral Track
• Fri 17 Jan 2020 Abstracts due (Main Track & Doctoral Track)

Note: Some of these important dates differ from the respective dates for the main track.

Doctoral Track Committee

Ove Armbrust, Intel, United States

Murat Yilmaz, Dublin City University, Ireland

Juergen Muench, Reutlingen University, Germany

Paolo Tell, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Antonia Mas, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Antoni Lluís Mesquida, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

So Norimatsu, Japan Software Process Improvement Consortium(JASPIC), Japan

Silvana Togneri Mac Mahon, Dublin City University & Lero, Ireland

Stanley M. Sutton, Jr., Independent Researcher

Mercedes Ruiz, University of Cadiz, Spain

Marco Kuhrmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Haifeng Shen, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Jidong Ge, Nanjing University, China

Jinyue Li, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China

He Zhang, Nanjing University, China

Contact Information

For any further information on the ICSSP 2020 Doctoral Track, please contact the ICSSP 2020 Doctoral Track on ICSSP website.