Call for Papers

The objective of the symposium is to provide junior researchers with the opportunity to present their work to the empirical software engineering community, and receive valuable feedback from experienced researchers in that community. Accepted papers will be published on the ESEM conference website.

Some of the most experienced members of the empirical software engineering community will serve as the symposium advisors and provide feedback to students presenting their work. Watch the IDoESE website for a list of IDoESE advisors. In addition, the symposium will facilitate the exchange of ideas among young researchers.

Participation in the symposium is being solicited at three levels:

Participants are doctoral students, preferably at a mid-point in their dissertation work (i.e. are at least 12 months from defending their dissertation, but have at least a preliminary research design), who will present their work at the symposium and receive feedback from the symposium advisors and other attendees.

Those wishing to be participants are asked to submit a paper (up to 8 pages following ACM templates) on their research plan including as much as possible:

• Title and abstract (up to 250 words);
• Introduction (motivation, rationale, background) to the research;
• Description of issues or points on which the author would like to get the most advice on;
• Relevant prior work (foundations, relevant research results, research gap this work tries to fill);
• Research objectives, questions and hypotheses (with rationale);
• Research approach, empirical study design and arrangements;
• Definition of most important metrics (e.g., following the GQM approach);
• Data analysis methods and techniques;
• Validity threats and their control;
• Summary of the current status of the research and planned next steps;
  

Participants in the symposium are required the following:

• submitting and presenting a research plan,
• reviewing and commenting up to two research plans, and
• acting as a scribe in one review session.

All papers must be submitted through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esem2012 in PDF format. Papers are limited to 8 pages, must be written in English, and be formatted according to the ACM templates. Papers exceeding 8 pages are outside the scope of IDoESE. Those papers not following the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review.

Apprentices are also doctoral students, but at an earlier stage in their studies. Apprentices will attend the symposium and are encouraged to ask questions of the presenters, and will benefit from the feedback given to other students.

Observers are any other members of the empirical software engineering research community who would like to attend the symposium.
NOTE: Any observer or symposium advisor who is serving as a dissertation advisor to one of the participants is "kindly requested" to not speaking during the presentation and discussion of their student's work.

Important Dates IDoESE 2012
May 20, 2012	Deadline for paper submission
June 22, 2012	Notification of Acceptance
July 10, 2012	Camera-Ready Copy Due
September 21, 2012 (morning)	Execution
October 20, 2012	Session notes sent to participants

For further information, please, send a message to marcela.genero@uclm.es, Title´s tag: [IDoESE].