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CALL FOR PAPERS (SUITE 2009)
International Workshop on Search-Driven Development:
Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Environment
(http://smallwiki.unide.ch/suite2009)

May 16, 2009 Vancouver, Canada
In association with the 31st International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE2009)
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As software development is a process of both information creation and
information gathering, software developers are constantly searching
for the right information and person to solve their problems at hand.
This workshop will focus specifically on exploring the notion of search
as a fundamental activity during software development.

The goal of the workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners with
special interest on search technology for software developers together.
Participants will have broad range of expertise in topics ranging from
building software tools and infrastructure, information retrieval, user
studies and HCI, benchmarking and evaluation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications and tools for searching software artifacts.
- Approaches to search for developer expertise.
- Crawling, analysis and parsing of internet-scale code repositories.
- Empirical studies of search and navigation in IDEs.
- Experience on setting up and running large software search engines.
- Information retrieval techniques to search software.
- Integration of search engines with IDEs.
- Just in time comprehension tools for developers.
- Leveraging Web 2.0 and social computing techniques.
- Machine learning approaches to search software.
- Methods of integrating indexed data from various sources and histories.
- Natural language processing to support software development.
- Novel models for searching in software message boards and mail archives.
- Programming by example.
- Query languages for software search.
- Ranking strategies and heuristics for code search.
- Search techniques to assist developers in finding components and code
fragments for reuse.
- Recommendation systems for software development.
- Slicing and generative techniques for code extraction and synthesis.
- Standards and benchmarks for the evaluation of search tools.
- The use of visualizations to support software search.
- Experts finding for software development.
- Understanding information needs of software developers.

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/* Submissions and Proceedings */
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The workshop invites the submission of position papers of at most 4 pages
in the IEEE Proceedings format. Proceedings of the workshop will be
included in the IEEE digital library. The program committee will review
the submissions for their relevance and technical merits. We especially
encourage the submission of provoking or unconventional ideas that can
lead to lively and productive discussions, and inspire new research ideas
and directions.

Submissions should be uploaded online to the workshop's EasyChair webpage.
Please refer to the workshop's webpage
http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/suite2009/#submit
for details on submission.

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/* Deadlines */
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Submission: Jan 28, 2009
Notification: Feb 15, 2009
Camera Ready: Feb 18, 2009


/* Organizing Committee */

Sushil Bajracharya, Univ. of California Irvine, USA
Adrian Kuhn, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Yunwen Ye, SRA, Japan

/* Program Committee */

Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA
Harald Gall, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
Mark Grechanik, Accenture, USA
Reid Holmes, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Einar Host, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway
Toshihiro Kamiya, AIST, Japan
Andrew Ko, Univ. of Washington, USA
Ken Krugler, Krugle, USA
Cristina Lopes, Univ. of California Irvine, USA
Andrian Marcus, Wayne State Univ., USA
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Univ. of Tokyo and SRA, Japan
Oscar Nierstrasz, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Lori Pollock, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Romain Robbes, Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland
Susan Sim, Univ. of California Irvine, USA
Janice Singer, NRC, Canada
Suresh Thummalapenta, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Andreas Zeller, Saarland Univ., Germany