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lang="EN-US">PROPSER 2022 Call For Papers</span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US">The Second International Workshop on Properties of
Software Engineering Research and their Systematic Documentation
and Evaluation (PROPSER) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
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lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://propser.ipd.kit.edu/home/">http://propser.ipd.kit.edu/home/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE"
lang="EN-US">The deadlines for the submissions are as follows:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">* Optional abstract submission: March 7th, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">* Paper submission: (Feb. 28th 2022) <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">extended to March 14th,
2022</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
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lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Organized by Prof. Dr. Ralf H. Reussner, Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Anne Koziolek, Dr. Francesca Lonetti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">The Second International Workshop on Properties of
Software Engineering Research and their Systematic Documentation
and Evaluation (PROPSER) aims to bring together researchers at
various points in their career and practitioners alike, for
discussing the systematic description and evaluation of software
engineering research and their documentation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">The extend of software engineering research is
rapidly growing and still needs to be demand-driven searched, to
be understood and evaluated by researchers and practitioners.
Researchers need to understand how to present their work, how to
evaluate the work by other researchers in peer reviews and to
build own research on top. Practitioners need to understand how
to judge suitability and relevance for own projects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">The workshop is motivated by two observations:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">(i) writing and reviewing software engineering
research results is often hindered by the lack of a community
understanding what are important questions (hypotheses) to
validate research and which methods are suitable, appropriate
and needed for demonstrating evidence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">(ii) retrieving research results just through
syntactical terms of the paper title (or even abstract) is often
very hard, and, as a consequence, comprehensively relating
research results to each other in terms of support,
strengthening or contradiction is rarely done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Thus, this workshop aims to consider insights, new
proposals and open questions on (i) planning and conducting
research; (ii) writing research papers; (iii) reviewing research
papers; (iv) communicating research and (v) effectively finding
research results in a digital world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Therefore, in PROPSER we want to discuss in
particular:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">properties for describing software engineering
research, such as relevance, evidence, applicability,
appropriateness, etc;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">general patterns for suitable empirical validations
of research results and hypotheses;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">suitable classifications of software engineering
research, beyond established subject categories;</span></p>
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style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">experiences, rules or guidelines, on how to decide
on suitable validation questions and subsequently suitable
empirical methods;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">managing and organising research knowledge at a
finer grain than paper citations;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">methods for evaluating the impact of research on
software engineering practice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">The workshop aims to discuss these subjects as
such, it is not meant to be a platform for original research
results in a specific software engineering topic. Therefore, we
intentionally do not require original new ideas to be submitted.
Of course, for inclusion in the proceedings a paper should be
original text.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE"
lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE"
lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Topics of interest of the proposed workshop
include, but are not limited to, the following themes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">• properties for describing software engineering
research, such as relevance, evidence, applicability,
appropriateness, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">• general patterns for suitable empirical
validations of research results and hypotheses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">• suitable classifications of software engineering
research, beyond established subject categories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">• experiences, rules or guidelines, on how to
decide on suitable validation methods depending on properties of
the research.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">• managing and organizing research knowledge more
fine grained than paper citations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE"
lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE"
lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Concretely, we invite three types of submissions:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">taxonomy and overview papers (up to 8 pages):
papers presenting or surveying classifications of software
engineering subjects, empirical methods, areas of software
applications, etc.; including hypotheses about relationships
between such categories (e.g., "contributions of type X should
be validated with method Y.")</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">open question papers (up to 6 pages): papers
describing ongoing research that has unsolved questions
regarding how to demonstrate the validity and relevance of the
work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">proposal-for-solution papers (up to 6 pages):
papers describing sketches or solutions to address one or
several of the mentioned topics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Note, that the "open question papers" are different
from the commonly used format of research result submissions
(like: "motivation, idea, foundations, approach, state of the
art, validation, conclusion"). Of course, any paper of that
format could be presented as an open question paper (keeping the
first parts, but substituting the validation with open questions
accordingly). But we also encourage the submission of papers on
ongoing research, where validation is indeed open. Please note,
that we intentionally to not require original new work to be
submitted, as the workshop does not aim to be a platform for
original research results in a specific software engineering
subject. In fact, the workshop wants to discuss the above
described subjects concerning the organisation, validation and
documentation of software engineering research as such. Papers
will be reviewed with respect of their rigour of argumentation,
potential to spark interesting discussions during the workshop
regarding the above mentioned topics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Submissions are done via the Easychair site of
EASE.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:DE"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:DE">PUBLICATION</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">All accepted papers will be published at ACM EASE
2022 conference companion proceedings.</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
KASTEL - Institute of Information Security and Dependability
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
Prof. Dr. Ralf H. Reussner
KIT: Chair Dependability of Software-intensive Systems (DSiS): <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:reussner@kit.edu">reussner@kit.edu</a>
KIT: Vice Dean of KIT-Department of Informatics: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:reussner@kit.edu">reussner@kit.edu</a>
FZI: Director: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:reussner@fzi.de">reussner@fzi.de</a>
Am Fasanengarten 5, Building 50.34, Room 328
D-76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY
Phone: +49 721 608-45993
Fax: +49 721 608-45990
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sdq.ipd.kit.edu">http://sdq.ipd.kit.edu</a> / <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fzi.de">http://www.fzi.de</a>
Registered office:
Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
KIT -- The Research University in the Helmholtz Association
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The Palladio book: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/modeling-and-simulating-software-architectures">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/modeling-and-simulating-software-architectures</a>
The Design For Future book: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030134983">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030134983</a>
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