research demonstrations

Goal

ICSE 2010 Research Demonstrations track will provide a forum for conference participants to use presentations, live demonstrations, and interactive poster presentations to learn about research tools from the software engineering community. Research demonstrations are expected to present implementation of tools for novel and innovative software engineering techniques and processes. Any of the ICSE 2010 topics of interest are appropriate areas for research demonstrations.

Scope

The program will include two categories of demonstrations: formal research demonstrations and informal research demonstrations:

• Formal research demonstrations are tool demos suitable for mature presentations. Each such demonstration will be presented during a formal presentation session. In addition, we expect presenters to be available for additional informal demonstrations to participants. Four-page papers will be published in the ICSE proceedings.

• Informal research demonstrations will be demonstrated only informally, through one-on-one or small-group interactions, in a suitably allotted time slot. Two-page extended abstracts will be published in the ICSE proceedings.

Review and Evaluation Criteria 

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the research demonstrations committee. The committee will review each submission to assess the relevance and quality of the proposed demonstration in terms of originality, soundness, and presentation quality. Submissions should describe their relevance to software engineering, discuss the level of maturity of the tool, and reference the technical foundations upon which they are based (typically, through appropriate references to previously-published work). Based on reviewers' comments and recommendations, the committee will classify accepted demonstrations as either formal or informal research demonstrations which will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submission

Research demonstration papers must be submitted electronically via CyberChairPro and conform to the ICSE 2010 Format and Submission Guidelines. The deadline for research demonstration papers submission is 7 January 2010. Submissions should consist of a single document with two to three parts. The first part, at most four pages, should describe the tool presented. The second part, as an appendix of at most two pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show. Optionally, authors may attach up to four additional pages of screen dumps, well-captioned, to illustrate the planned demo.

Publication

Final camera ready papers will follow the ICSE 2010 Format and Submission Guidelines. The camera ready for formal demonstrations will be limited to four pages. The camera ready for informal demonstrations will be limited to two pages that will summarize the original submission. All accepted formal and informal research demonstration papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Presentation and Demonstration

Besides the paper, the authors of accepted formal demonstrations will be expected to deliver both presentations and demonstrations. The authors of the accepted informal demonstrations will be expected to deliver demonstrations only.

Presentations:

Presentations of the technical characteristics of the systems will be demonstrated during a session of the conference. Two data projectors will be available, so that both a live demonstration and the slides can be projected at the same time.

Demonstrations

There will be a separate time slot for demonstration of about 3 hours in a venue equipped for small-group informal demonstrations. In this way, ICSE attendees and demonstrators will have more opportunities for stimulating one-on-one interactions. Only desks will be provided during this time period.

Posters

Authors should prepare posters to display during the demonstration slot; the posters will also be on display during breaks for ICSE participants to view.

Equipment

We will not provide any computing equipment such as computers, disk drives, or monitors. We will, however, provide basic electronic projection capabilities during the formal demonstration and desks for the informal demonstrations.

Important Dates

Research Demonstrations Co-Chairs

Cornelius Ncube
Bournemouth University

Andrea Zisman
City University London, UK

Program Committee

Luciano Baresi
Politecnico de Milano, Italy

Jaelson B. Castro
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

W.K. Chan
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Alex Egyed
Johannes Kepler University, Austria  

Xavier Franch
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Aurona Gerber
Meraka Institute, South Africa

Dimitra Giannakopoulou
NASA Ames, USA

Martin Glinz
University of Zurich, Zurich

Olly Gotel
Pace University, USA

Robert Hall
AT&T Research Labs, USA

Peter Haumer
IBM Rational, USA

John Hosking
University of Auckland, New Zeeland

Jane Huang
DePaul University, USA

John Penix
Google, USA

Hridesh Rajan
Iowa State University, USA

George Spanoudakis
City University London, UK

Kurt Stirewalt
Michigan State University, USA

Tetsuo Tamai
University of Tokyo, Japan

Willem Visser
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Albert Zuendorf
University of Kassel, Germany