Opening slides for the ASE 2017 conference http://ase2017.org

1. Grigore Rosu, General Chair
Massimiliano Di Penta & Tien N. Nguyen, Program Chairs
David Lo & Alexander Pretschner, Tool Chairs

2. ASE 2017 Attendees:
310 from 26 Countries

3. ASE 2017 Attendees:
310 from 26 Countries
Argen&na: 3 Australia:2
Austria: 3 Brazil: 5
Canada: 15 China: 33
Colombia: 1 France: 5
Germany: 17 Hong Kong: 1
India: 3 Italy: 8
Japan: 3 Luxembourg: 1
Netherlands: 4 Saudi Arabia: 2
Singapore: 6 Slovakia: 1
South Africa: 2 South Korea: 14
Spain: 2 Sri Lanka: 1
Sweden: 2 Switzerland: 1
United Kingdom: 11 United States: 164United States 53%
China 11%
South Korea 5%
Canada 5%
Germany 5%
United Kingdom 4%

4. University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Wright St
Urbana
Champaign

5. What UIUC is (not) known for
See Wikipedia
• Not for its skyscrapers, mountains, or shopping centers
• But faculty and alumni invented or co-invented:
• LED; integrated circuit; transistor; pH meter; MRI; plasma screen
• JavaScript; LLVM
• … and founded or co-founded:
• Oracle; YouTube; AMD; PayPal; Yelp!; Tesla Motors; Siebel Systems; Lotus
• Mosaic browser; Netscape; Firefox; Safari; Mortal Kombat
• Delta Air Lines; Beckman Instruments; National Football League; Playboy; …
• … and they got
• 28 Nobel prizes (John Bardeen, the only person to have won twice in Physics)
• 22 Pulitzer prizes

6. EXIT
You are
here!
1st Floor 2nd Floor
4th Floor
Use these room for
- Technical discussions
- Talk preparation
- Interviews
Illini Union
Layout

7. Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 5:30 – 8:30pm
No smoking campus
Not even outside
Not even after sunset
Open bar

8. Program at a Glance
Daily Schedule
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 Invited talk
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 12:30 Session 1
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Session 2
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 5:30 Session 3
Social event

9. Illini
Union
Alumni
Center
10 min
Banquet
Wednesday, 6 – 9 pm
Will perform
at banquet
You must have this! Please
return it if you don’t need it.
?

10. Illini
UnionTour (1) & Reception (2)
Thursday, 4:30 – 9 pm
30 m
in1
2
3 min
Blue Waters: one of the most
powerful supercomputers
I-Hotel

11. Internet
Also eduroam
Power
Limited supply (75)

12. Volunteers

13. Organizing
Committee
(3,000+ messages) General
Chair
Program Committee Reviews Process Tool Demonstrations
Sponsorship Local Finance Workshops Doctoral Symposium Tutorials
Proceedings Conference Organization Publicity Student Volunteers Webmasters

14. Sponsors

15. ASE 2017 TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Massimiliano Di Penta
University of Sannio, Italy
Tien N. Nguyen
Univ. ofTexas at Dallas, USA

16. PAPER CATEGORIES
Research
Experience
New Idea

17. ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONSAbstracts
0
125
250
375
500
Date (Midnight AOE)
Apr 5 Apr 10 Apr 15 Apr 20 Apr 25 Apr 30 May 5
1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 8 8 10 10 10 11 12 14 17 17 17 18 23 33
71
184
495

18. REVIEWING PROCESS
20 desk rejected
1 withdrawn
Reviewing
236 pre-rejected 43 rejected
18
pre-accepted
45 accepted
14 cond. accepted
11 reclassified
495
Abstracts
5
May
367
papers
to review
17
May
Online
Discussion
22
June
PC
Meeting
8-9
July
Papers’
scrutiny
388
Papers
12
May
113
papers
6
July

19. DETAILED OUTCOME
• 65 technical papers (21%), 3 distinguished papers
• 2 experience papers (25%), 1 best paper
• 10 new ideas papers (22%)
• 9 out of 11 technical reclassified as new idea

20. OPENNESS
PC/ERP Papers Other Papers
Fisher’s exact test p-value=1 - Odds Ratio=1.02

21. SUBMISSIONSTREND
0
100
200
300
400
2014 2015 2016 2017
45
35
2847
9
1414
19
313
284275257
Technical
Experience
New ideas
323 317
333
367

22. 623,810 WORDS
1,464 DISCUSSION POSTS
SOME FIGURES…
1,121 REVIEWS

23. PERCEIVED REVIEW QUALITY
100 responses out of
1,195 authors
54% had their paperrejected
6 distinguished
reviewers
0246810
Rating

24. 11%
11%
16%
78%
72%
62%
11%
18%
22%
Justification.of.the.outcome
Qualified.Reviewers
Useful.feedback.to.improve.the.work
100 50 0 50 100
Percentage
Response Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree
Outcome justified by reviews
Qualified reviewers
Useful to improve work
11%
11%
16%
78%
72%
62%22%
18%
11%

25. SUBMISSIONS PER COUNTRY
United States
China
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Brazil
Singapore
Italy
Australia
Japan
Netherlands
South Korea
India
Austria
Hong Kong
Luxembourg
Spain
France
Switzerland
Norway
Others
# of normalized papers
0 30 60 90 120 150
23
3
3
3
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
10
10
11
12
14
15
27
66
123

26. ACCEPTED/REJECTED
United States
China
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Singapore
Canada
Australia
South Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Sweden
Spain
Japan
Austria
Luxembourg
Argentina
Slovakia
Others
Number of normalized papers
0 35 70 105 140
33
1
4
5
7
3
1
10
5
5
7
11
7
6
9
20
53
93
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
4
4
4
6
7
13
30
Accepted
Rejected

27. SUBMISSIONTOPICSTesting, verification, and validation
Software analysis
Empirical software engineering
Maintenance and evolution
Data mining for software engineering
Automated reasoning techniques
Program comprehension
Program synthesis & transform., automated repair
Software security and trust; data privacy
Recommender systems for software engineering
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Model-driven development
Mobile app development
Software architecture and design
Human-computer interaction
Requirements engineering
Component-based service-oriented systems
Software product line engineering
Specification languages
Computer-supported cooperative work
Cloud computing
Knowledge acquisition and management
Configuration management
Domain modeling and meta-modeling
Software visualization
Number of normalized papers
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
5
6
7
7
8
9
11
11
13
13
14
22
25
26
31
32
32
34
37
43
69
73
79
92
167

28. SUBMISSIONS ABOUT…

29. ACCEPTED PAPERS
Testing, verification, and validation
Software analysis
Empirical software engineering
Maintenance and evolution
Data mining for software engineering
Automated reasoning techniques
Program comprehension
Program synthesis & transform., automated repair
Software security and trust; data privacy
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Recommender systems for software engineering
Mobile app development
Requirements engineering
Software product line engineering
Computer-supported cooperative work
Knowledge acquisition and management
Model-driven development
Human-computer interaction
Component-based service-oriented systems
Software architecture and design
Configuration management
Domain modeling and meta-modeling
Specification languages
Software visualization
Cloud computing
Accepted papers (normalized)
0 10 20 30 40
0
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
6
7
8
8
8
11
14
15
16
21
24
37

30. ACCEPTED PAPERS ABOUT…

31. ACCEPTANCE RATE PERTOPIC
Knowledge acquisition and management
Computer-supported cooperative work
Software product line engineering
Domain modeling and meta-modeling
Automated reasoning techniques
Requirements engineering
Program comprehension
Configuration management
Empirical software engineering
Software analysis
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Software security and trust; data privacy
Mobile app development
Program synthesis & transform., automated repair
Component-based service-oriented systems
Testing, verification, and validation
Maintenance and evolution
Recommender systems for software engineering
Data mining for software engineering
Human-computer interaction
Software visualization
Model-driven development
Software architecture and design
Specification languages
Cloud computing
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
0%
9%
9%
12%
20%
21%
22%
22%
22%
22%
23%
24%
24%
25%
26%
26%
27%
29%
30%
31%
33%
33%
36%
44%
57%

32. JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS
• Automated Software Engineering Journal (ASEJ) papers
• Published since Jan 2016, no extension of previous work
• 13 invited, 6 accepted the invitation
• Interleaved with the rest of the technical program
Thanks to Robert Hall,ASEJ Editor-In-Chief!

33. TECHNICAL SESSIONS
• Mix of Research, Experience, New Ideas and Journal First papers
• Presentation+Q&A slots
• 10 min. for offline questions at the end of the session
Presentation (long) q&a Pres. (short) q&a Offline q&a
17 min
. . .
8 min 10 min5 min 3 min

34. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

35. PROGRAM COMMITTEE

36. EXPERT REVIEW PANEL
Sven Apel, Benoit Baudry, Eric Bodden, Cristian Cadar, Sarfraz Khurshid,
Marsha Chechik, Jane Cleland-Huang, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Gordon Fraser,
Milos Gligoric, Mark Grechanik, Paul Grünbacher, John Grundy, Yue Jia,
Yasutaka Kamei, Moonzoo Kim, Mario Linares-Vasquez, Darko Marinov,
Leandro Minku, Sarah Nadi, Shiva Nejati, Sebastiano Panichella, Corina
Pasareanu, Martin Pinzger, Denys Poshyvanyk, Baishakhi Ray, Houari A.
Sahraoui, Giuseppe Scanniello, Kathryn T. Stolee, Gabriele Taentzer, Lin Tan,
NikolaosTsantalis, BurakTurhan, Lu Zhang

37. ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS
Mathieu Acher, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carol Alexandru, Amin Alipour, Paul Ammann, Davide Arcelli, Deniz Arsan, Alberto Bacchelli,
Alexandre Bartel, Edouard Batot, Stefanie Beyer,Thomas Bock, Chris Bogart, Johann Bourcier,Travis Breaux, Romain Brenguier, Caius
Brindescu,Yuriy Brun, Nimrod Busany,Taejoon Byun, Saikat Chakraborty, Souti Chattopadhyay, Junjie Chen, Christina Chung, Andrea
Di Sorbo, Nima Dini, Naipeng Dong, Zhen Dong, Gabriel Ferreira, Eduardo Figueiredo, Maxime Gaillais-Jimenez, Svetoslav Ganov,
Elaheh Ghassabani, Divya Gopinath,Thomas Grassauer, Jianmei Guo,Alex Gyori, Quinn Hanam, Michael Hilton, Johannes Hofmeister,
Bo Hu, Claus Hunsen, Boris Koepf, Pooyan Jamshidi, Harshavardhan Kadiyala, Rajdeep Kambo, Andreas Katis,Wael Kessentini, Ameya
Ketkar, Hyunwoo Kim, Yunho Kim, Sergiy Kolesnikov, Thomas Krismayer, Daniel Kroening, Konstantin Kuznetsov, Duling Lai, Rafael
Leano, Xia Li, Hyunsu Lim, Christian Macho, Muhammad Suleman Mahmood, Dongyu Mao, Reza Matinnejad, Davood Mazinanian,
Jens Meinicke, Eric Mercer, Chihab Mokaddem, Federico Mora, Kevin Moran, Anitha Murugesan, Nicholas Nelson, Yannic Noller,
Fabio Palomba, Matthew Patrick, Or Pistiner, Daniele Di Pompeo, Sebastian Proksch, Lina Qiu, Larissa Rocha, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh,
Ripon Saha, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Adalberto Sampaio Jr., Florian Sattler, Simone Scalabrino, Martin Schäf, Geord Seibt, Rafi
Shalom, August Shi, Seung Yeob Shin, Konrad Slind, Hui Song, Andreas Stahlbauer, Stefan Stanciulescu, Danielle Stewart, Andrea
Stocco, Fang-Hsiang Su, Damian Tamburri, Shin Hwei Tan, Hao Tang, Michael Tautschni, Yuchi Tian, Oksana Tkachuk, Catia Trubiani,
Rachel Tzoref-Brill, Marko Vasic, Christopher Vendome, Michael Vierhauser, C. Aaron Visaggio,Thomas Vogel, Kaiyuan Wang,Yingying
Wang, Cody Watson,Andreas Woelfl, Chu-Pan Wong,Yingfei Xiong, Jie Zhang, Mengshi Zhang, Shurui Zhou, Eugenio Zimeo

38. Alexander
Prestchner
David Lo
Singapore Management
University
Technical University
of Munich
TOOL DEMOTRACK

39. DATES AND STATISTICS
Submission July 2, 2017
NoFficaFon July 30, 2017
Camera Ready Sept 9, 2017
2 best papers (to be announced at the banquet)

40. SUBMITTED PER COUNTRY
China
USA
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
United Kingdom
Argentina
Portugal
Russia
Austria
Japan
Netherlands
Brazil
Turkey
Number of normalized papers
0 2 4 6 8 10
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.5
0.8
1
1
1
1.3
1.5
2.1
2.1
2.9
8.5
8.7

41. ACCEPTED PER COUNTRY
USA
Canada
Germany
China
France
Italy
Argentina
Austria
United Kingdom
Japan
Netherlands
Brazil
Turkey
Number of normalized papers
0 2 4 6 8
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
7

42. TOOL DEMO COMMITTEE
Gabriele Bavota, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Zhenyu Chen,
Wolfgang Grieskamp, Lingxiao Jiang, Yasutaka Kamei,
Marouane Kessentini, Julia Lawall, Yang Liu, Shahar Maoz,
Leonardo Mariani, Martín Ochoa, Anita Sarma, Weiyi
Shang, Daniel Varro, Marco Vieira, Sebastian Voss, Xin Xia,
Zhenchang Xing, ShengqianYang,Thomas Zimmermann

43. KEYNOTE
Gerard Holzmann
Cobra - An Interactive Static Code Analyzer

44. KEYNOTE
Jiawei Han
Mining Structures from MassiveText Data:
Will it Help Software Engineering?

45. KEYNOTE
Arie van Deursen
Software Engineering without Borders