The 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024) will take place in Namur, Belgium, Thu. 21 - Fri. 22 November 2024.


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Website: https://benevol2024.github.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenevolWorkshop
Contact: benevol2024@easychair.org
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The goal of BENEVOL is to bring together researchers who are working in the field of software evolution and maintenance. BENEVOL offers an informal forum to meet and discuss new ideas, relevant problems, and fresh research results.


Submission categories:
* Technical Research Papers (TECH). Full-length technical papers present original research empirically or formally validated. We also welcome papers in the early stages of their development that would benefit from feedback from the community.

* New Ideas and Controversial Perspectives (NICE). We welcome position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives. Such papers may not have an evaluation, though illustrative examples and cases are welcome.

* Replicated or Invalidated Papers (RIP). The growing complexity and size of software systems combined with the rise of machine learning for maintenance and evolution tasks makes replicability challenging. We invite replication efforts of existing papers, describing successes (replicated) or difficulties (invalidated). This category extends to new negative results, which are key to narrowing down hypotheses.

* Presentation Abstracts (ABS). Presentation abstracts report on research results without inclusion in the proceedings. Presentation abstracts cover research that has already been published or is ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal.


Reviewing:

At least three program committee members will review TECH, NICE, and RIP papers. They will assess the adherence to the workshop’s scope (maintenance and evolution) and the above categories. Accepted papers will be part of the proceedings. ABS papers will only be reviewed for relevance and will be made available on the workshop’s website.

Page Limits:

* TECH, RIP papers: 10 to 12 pages of main text + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices;
* NICE papers: Maximum five pages + four pages for references and appendices;
* ABS papers: Maximum two pages including references.


Submission instructions:

All submissions must conform to the new CEUR-ART style. One can use the LaTeX template directly on Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt) or download an offline version (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip) with the style files (including DOCX template files). All submissions should use the single-column template.

We allow using AI tools for writing assistance (grammar checkers, rephrasing). Of course, we explicitly forbid LLM-generated papers as it may lead to plagiarism and may be regarded as unethical. Therefore, such tools cannot be credited as authors. Please check the CEUR-WS Policy on AI assisting tools (https://ceur-ws.org/ACADEMIC-ETHICS.html) for more information.

You should submit your paper via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=benevol2024). Please mark the category it belongs to. You can upload incremental versions of your paper, so do not wait until the last minute.
We will ask the authors to improve their paper and submit a camera-ready version according to the reviews. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org (http://ceur-ws.org/) for online publication.


Important Dates:
* Submission deadline: Monday September 23, 2024, AoE
* Author notification: Monday, October 14, 2024, AoE
* Registration deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, AoE
* Camera-ready: Monday, October 28, 2024, AoE
* Workshop date: November 21-22, 2024


Organization:
* General chair: Xavier Devroey, University of Namur, Belgium
* Program Chairs: Gilles Perrouin & Benoit Vanderose, University of Namur, Belgium
* Local Arrangements Chairs: Anthony Cleve & Babette Di Guardia, University of Namur, Belgium
* Web chair: Alix Decrop, University of Namur, Belgium
* Co-organizer: Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium