We are soliciting technical papers (full and short), posters, tool demonstrations, industrial papers, and student research papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments and case studies.
Individual, team, collaborative, distributed, and adversarial program comprehension.
Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as web-based systems, open source, mash-ups, legacy systems, product lines, and systems of systems.
Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, reengineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing.
Novel interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and visualization.
Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches.
Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation.
Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry.
Tool support for program comprehension.
Transfer of new technology into industrial practice.

Submissions must not be previously published or currently under consideration for publication. The best papers at ICPC2012 will be invited to submit extended, revised versions to a journal special issue.