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ASE Journal 2012 : Special Issue of Automated Software Engineering journal on Innovative ASE Tools | |||||||||
Link: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ause/ | |||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||
Special Issue of Automated Software Engineering journal
"Innovative Tools for Automated Software Engineering" Submissions due: 31st March 2012 Guest Editors John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology John Hosking, Australian National University & University of Auckland Background By definition, "automated" software engineering needs the support of automation - tools - in order to be effective (or even possible). Many, many tools have been developed to support automation, in narrow domains and in broad. These range from AI toolkits, theorem provers and model checkers; requirements, design, coding and testing support tools; various configuration management, process enactment and project management support tools; to code generators, code analysis, visualisation, refactoring and reverse engineering tools. Rationale for this Special Issue To continue to advance the field in Automated Software Engineering, good automation-supporting tools need to be developed and deployed, along with new and improved ASE techniques. Such tools are usually themselves extremely complex engineered software artifacts. ASE tools are challenging to design, to build, to scale, to make robust and to integrate and evolve. We are interested in new directions in tool engineering and deployment: new approaches in building tools, scaling and deploying tools, new domains or ways in which to apply tools, and synthesis of tools and techniques. Submission Topics We seek substantial, archival contributions to the ASE literature; submissions will be reviewed according to the Journal's usual high quality standards. We would like to publish a range of quality papers focusing on innovative aspects of ASE tools. The theme of this special issue is deliberately broad and encompasses: * new approaches to engineering innovative ASE tools * ASE tools for theorem proving, model checking and other complex model analysis * ASE tools for data mining, searching and other knowledge-intensive ASE techniques * ASE tools for requirements engineering * ASE tools for model construction including requirements, design, coding, or combinations * ASE tools for testing * ASE tools for reverse engineering, refactoring, visualisation of models and/or code * ASE tools for development process support including process, project and configuration management * architecting ASE tools including issues of scaling, robustness, reliability, integration * evaluating ASE tools including issues of usability, performance, effectiveness * ASE tools applied to new or emerging domains e.g. health IT, bio-informatics, embedded systems, communications systems, mobile devices * industrial case studies and/or real-world experiences deploying ASE tools The focus of papers should be on the tool aspect, not the technique aspect. Journal readers should be able to learn important lessons about tool innovation in the target tool domain(s). We expect evaluation may be holistic: some tools evaluated by their performance, scaling to large models, the range of support features offered or handling of complexity. Others may be evaluated on their support for software engineers including tool usability, expressiveness, effectiveness, differentiation from other tools, and integration with other tools. Negative result papers are welcome so long as clear lessons for future ASE tool engineering and deployment are demonstrated, not just "we had a good tool idea but it didn't work". Please submit full papers via: http://ause.edmgr.com/ by 31st March 2012. |
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