[fg-arc] Validierung von SE-Forschungsergebnissen: CfP Workshop on Properties of Software Engineering Research and their Systematic Documentation and Evaluation (PROPSER)

[Anne Koziolek (IPD)]

Liebe Kolleg:innen,

für alle von Ihnen, die sich dafür interessieren, wie SE-Forschung 
validiert werden kann und sollte, möchten wir auf unseren Workshop on 
Properties of Software Engineering Research and their Systematic 
Documentation and Evaluation (PROPSER) auf der EASE-Konferenz hinweisen. 
Bitte leiten Sie den Aufruf gern auch an potentiell interessierte 
Forscher:innen, insbesondere Doktorand:innen, weiter! Für viele 
interessant könnte die Paper-Kategorie "method-not-obvious", in der wir 
Beiträge suchen, die erst diskutieren, wie ein bestimmter konkreter 
Beitrag validiert werden könnte.

Vielen Dank und viele Grüße
Anne Koziolek

für alle Organisatoren
Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / FZI – IT 
Research Centre, Germany (main contact)


*** First International Workshop on Properties of Software Engineering 
Research (PROPSER) ***
co-located with the International Conference on Evaluation and 
Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 21 - 23 June 2021

= Aim =

This workshop 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.
Motivation

The workshop is motivated by two observations:

1) 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;

2) 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.

Therefore, in PROPSER we want to discuss in particular:

* properties for describing software engineering research, such as 
relevance, evidence, applicability, appropriateness, etc;
* general patterns for suitable empirical validations of research 
results and hypotheses;
* suitable classifications of software engineering research, beyond 
established subject categories;
* experiences, rules or guidelines, on how to decide on suitable 
validation questions and subsequently suitable empirical methods;
* managing and organising research knowledge at a finer grain than paper 
citations;
* methods for evaluating the impact of research on software engineering 
practice.

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.

= Submissions =

Concretely, we invite three types of submissions:

* taxonomy 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.")
* method-not-obvious papers (up to 6 pages): papers describing ongoing 
research that has unsolved questions regarding how to demonstrate the 
validity and relevance of the work.
* proposal papers (up to 6 pages): papers that directly address one or a 
few of the above-mentioned topics.


None of these submission types strictly requires a conventional sequence 
of sections; please find a suitable section format for your respective 
case, but make heavy use of headings to help readers with orientation.

Papers will be reviewed with respect of their strength of argumentation 
and their potential to spark interesting discussions during the workshop 
regarding the above-mentioned topics.

Submitted papers must be written in English and conform to the ACM 
Proceedings Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Submissions are done via the Easychair site of EASE at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ease2021

= Deadlines =

The deadlines and important dates for the submissions are as follows:

* Paper submission: 26 March 2021
* Author notification: 19 April 2021
* Workshop: 30 April 2021

All accepted papers will be published at ACM EASE Companion Proceedings.

= Chairs =

* Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy
* Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
* Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / FZI – IT 
Research Centre, Germany (main contact)

= Programme Committee =

Robert Feldt, Chalmers University, Sweden
Paul Ralph, Dalhousie University, Canada
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italia
Gustavo Pinto, Federal University of Pará, Brasil
Barbara Kitchenham, Keele University, UK
Lutz Prechelt, FU Berlin, Germany
Walter Tichy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sira Vegas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
KASTEL – Institute of Information Security and Dependability
MCSE – Modelling for Continuous Software Engineering group

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anne Koziolek

Am Fasanengarten 5,
Building 50.34, Room 326
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Phone: +49 721 608-4-3473
Fax: +49 721 608-4-5990
Web: http://are.ipd.kit.edu/people/anne_koziolek/

Registered office:
Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

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