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The 24. International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE) 2021
Topics
- Software engineering as an engineering discipline, including its interaction with and impact on society and economics;
- Requirements engineering: capture, consistency, and change management of software requirements;
- Software architectures: description and analysis of the architecture, e.g. SOA, microservice architectures or software product lines;
- Specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems: (self-)adaptive, collaborative, intelligent, embedded, distributed, mobile, pervasive, cyber-physical or service-oriented applications;
- Software quality: (static or run-time) validation and verification of functional and non-functional software properties (including security and data privacy) using techniques such as theorem proving, model checking, testing, analysis, simulation, refinement methods, metrics or visualization techniques;
- Model-driven development and model transformation: meta-modelling, design and semantics of domain-specific languages, consistency and transformation of models, generative architectures;
- Software processes: support for iterative, agile, and open source development;
- Software evolution: refactoring, reverse and re-engineering, configuration management and architectural change, or aspect-orientation;
- Search-based software engineering.
Submissions
The review process of FASE 2021 is double-blind, without a rebuttal phase. In your submission, omit your names and institutions; refer to your prior work in the third person, just as you refer to prior work by others; do not include acknowledgements that might identify you.
Paper categories:
FASE 2021 solicits three types of submissions: research papers, empirical evaluation papers and tool demonstration papers.
Research papers clearly identify and justify a principled advance to the fundamentals of software engineering. Research papers should clearly articulate their contribution, and provide sufficient evidence for the soundness and applicability of the proposed approach. Research papers are expected to have 15-18 pages llncs.cls (excluding bibliography). Papers longer than 18 pages (excluding bibliography) will be desk-rejected. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version may be included in a clearly marked appendix.
Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing software challenges or critically validate current proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, controlled experiments, rigorous case studies, simulations, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in the software industry also falls into this category. Empirical evaluation papers are expected to have 15-18 pp llncs.cls (excluding bibliography). Papers longer than 18 pages (excluding bibliography) will be desk-rejected. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version may be included in a clearly marked appendix.
Tool demonstration papers present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations and emphasize the design and implementation concerns, including software architecture. The paper should give a clear account of the tool's functionality and discuss the tool's practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the web. Experimental evaluation is not required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and significant should be provided. Tool demonstration papers can have a maximum of 6 pp llncs.cls (including bibliography). They should have an appendix of up to 6 additional pages with details on the actual demonstration.
Important Dates
(No abstract submission deadline)
Paper submission deadline: 15 October 2020 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12)
Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, partially, TACAS): 7 December 00:01 AoE - 9 December 23:59 AoE
Author notification: 23 December 2020
Camera-ready versions: 22 January 2021
