We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research. Papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will also be considered. Submissions that facilitate reproducibility by using available data sets or making the described tools publicly available are especially encouraged.

Papers submitted to FSE should not have been already published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the reviewing period. Specifically, authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions.

Important Dates
Full paper submission date · March 9th, 2018

Rebuttal period: TBD

Notification date: TBD

Camera ready date: TBD

Conference · November 4-9, 2018

Important: Note that the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of FSE 2018. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper at FSE 2018 in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. One-day registrations do NOT satisfy the registration requirement. Please carefully read the complete list of FSE Submission Policies and Policies for Accepted Contributions.

Topics of Interest
We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to software engineering. These include, but are not limited to:

Architecture and design

Autonomic computing and (self-)adaptive systems

Big data

Cloud computing

Components, services, and middleware

Computer-supported cooperative work

Configuration management and deployment

Crowdsourcing

Debugging

Dependability, safety, and reliability

Development tools and environments

Distributed, parallel, and concurrent software

Education

Embedded and real-time software

Empirical software engineering

End-user software engineering

Formal methods, including languages, methods, and tools

Green computing

Human and social factors in software engineering

Human-computer interaction

Knowledge-based software engineering

Mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive software

Model-driven software engineering

Patterns and frameworks

Processes and workflows
Program analysis

Program comprehension and visualization

Program synthesis

Refactoring
Requirements engineering

Reverse engineering

Safety-critical systems

Scientific computing

Search-based software engineering

Security and privacy

Software economics and metrics

Software evolution and maintenance

Software modularity

Software product lines

Software reuse

Software services

Testing

Traceability

Web-based software