The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
Virtual Conference
March 22-26, 2021
Software Engineering Track
Aims and Topics
The Objective of the Software Engineering (SE) Track is to provide an open forum for discussing a wide range of experience and ideas of developing high-quality software applications more effectively and efficiently. The SE track examines both macroscopic and microscopic aspects of in-depth theories, tools, and practices in the field of software engineering. It provides a platform for academic researchers and industry practitioners to seek collaboration opportunities, and identify the state-of-art technologies, which are vital to the software engineering community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Architecture, Framework, and Design Patterns
- Requirements Engineering
- Process, Standards, and Project Management
- Software Maintenance and Evolution
- Software Testing and Verification
- Mining Software Repositories
- AI-Based Software Engineering Methods and Tools
- Software Security
- Mobile Software Engineering
- Quality Assurance and Management
- Verification, Validation, Testing, and Analysis
- Safety, Security, Privacy, and Risk management
- Dependability and Reliability
- Fault Tolerance and Availability
- Metrics and Measurement
- Formal Methods and Theories
- Aspect-Oriented Software Development and Design
- Component-Based Development and Reuse
- Empirical Studies, Benchmarking, and Industrial Best Practices
- Pervasive, Ubiquitous, Smart Service-Oriented Computing
- Collaborative, Distributed, Embedded, Real-Time, Highly Dependable, Intelligent Multimedia Systems
Important Dates
September 15, 2020 September 28, 2020 October 12, 2020, 11:59PM (UTC): Paper submission DueNovember 10, 2020: Author notification November 24, 2020, 11:59(UTC) : Author notificationNovember 25, 2020: Camera-ready copy December 14, 2020, 11:59(UTC) : Camera-ready copyDecember 9, 2020: Author registration December 14, 2020, 11:59(UTC) : Author registration
Paper Submission & Selection
Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in the PDF format using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the START submission system. Each submission will be reviewed in a double-blind process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. To facilitate blind review, author’s names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and must NOT appear in any part of the paper including title, paper body, references, and any self-reference should be in the third person.
Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the SE Track. Upon paper acceptance, prospective authors must provide a camera-ready version which takes into account the review comments. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM and also available online through the ACM Digital Library
Note that we don’t have any separate review category for poster papers. Therefore, all submissions will be reviewed as regular papers. Papers that received high reviews but were not accepted as regular papers can be invited for the poster session. If the invited authors accept our invitation, their camera-ready paper should be re-formatted as a short (poster) paper.
Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.
Special Issue of IET Software
The SE Track will invite the authors of high-quality accepted papers to submit their extended versions (at least 30% additional contents) to the Special issue of IET Software. The authors should resolve all problems proposed by reviewers and submit the response letter and the extended versions. Note that the extended version should include the different descriptions with the conference version. If there is any problem, please feel free to contact the Lead Guest Editor Tao Zhang.
Student Research Abstracts Competition(SRC)
Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts following the instructions published at SAC 2021 SRC website through the START SRC Submission System.
Note for Accepted Papers
- The length of each regular paper is 8 pages + 2 pages at extra charge (max of 10 pages).
- The length of each poster paper is 3 pages + 1 page at extra charge (max of 4 pages). In addition, the poster authors need to prepare and bring to the conference a large poster for display and presentation. The poster size information will be posted on the SAC 2020 website.
- The length of each SRC abstract is 4 pages (no extra pages allowed).
SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program
The SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) was established to provide financial support for SIGAPP student members to attend SIGAPP primary conference (SAC) to present their accepted work. Student primary authors and co-authors are eligible to apply for these awards. The eligibility rules may vary year to year depending on funds availability. Applications are evaluated on a competitive basis.
The SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) provides support for SIGAPP student members to attend the SAC 2021 conference and present their work. The eligibility criteria are:
- The applicant (student author) must be an active SIGAPP member.
- The applicant must be an active student in his/her institution.
- The student author must attend the conference and present the work.
The application deadline is December 20, 2020. Eligible applications will be evaluated on a competitive basis. Covered expenses are outlined above. The amount of each award depends on the type of travel (domestic or international - intercontinental or intra-continental) and the applicant pool and their needs. Notifications will be sent out by January 20, 2021.
For any questions, please contact Dr. Jiman Hong at jiman@ssu.ac.kr.
Track Co-Chairs
| Tao Zhang (Lead TC) | Byungjeong Lee |
| Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau SAR, China | University of Seoul, Korea |
| Email: tazhang@must.edu.mo | Email: bjlee@uos.ac.kr |
Program Committee
| Mathieu Acher, University of Rennes 1, France |
| Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, Uinted Kingdom |
| José Creissac Campos, Universidade do Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC, Portugal |
| Alejandra Cechich, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina |
| Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea |
| Insang Chung, Hansung University, Korea |
| Hyunsook Do, University of North Texas, USA |
| Tadashi Doha, Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Horst E. Lichter, Rheinisch-Westfälische |
| Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy |
| Ronald Finkbine, Indiana University Southeast, USA |
| Hiroaki Fukuda, Associate Professor, Japan |
| Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy |
| Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux, France |
| Jose Maldonado, University of San Paulo at San Carlos, Brazil |
| Humberto T. Marques-Neto, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland |
| Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy |
| Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux, France |
| Pornsiri Muenchaisri, Chulalongkorn University,Thailand |
| Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics (NII), JAPAN |
| Thomas Noll, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany |
| Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, United Kingdom |
| Jungwoo Ryoo, Penn State University, Altoona, USA |
| Rogério Eduard Garcia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil |
| Rubing Huang, Jiangsu University, China |
| He Jiang, Dalian University of Technology, China |
| Dae-Kyoo Kim, Oakland University, USA |
| Herbert Kuchen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
| Paul Leger, University of Chile, Chile |
| Emanuel S. Grant, University of North Dakota, USA |
| Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori, AMC (Academic Medical Center) - UvA, Netherlands |
| Richard Lipka, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic |
| Huai Liu, RMIT University, Australia |
| Yi Liu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA |
| Yepang Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Devon M. Simmonds, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA |
| Somayeh Malakuti, University of Twente, Netherlands |
| Tommi Mikkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Sandro Morasca, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy |
| José Amancio Santos, State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil |
| Tiberiu Seceleanu, ABB AB, Corporate Research, Sweden |
| Wuwei Shen, Western Michigan University, USA |
| Hasan Sozer, Özyeğin University, Turkey |
| Mu-Chun Su, National Central University, Taiwan |
| Humberto T. Marques-Neto, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Robert Tairas, Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Thein Than Tun, The Open University, United Kingdom |
| Pornsiri Muenchaisri, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi, DC/UFSCar, Brazil |
| Linzhang Wang, Nanjing University, China |
| Ying Wang, Northeastern University, China |
| Xiaoyuan Xie, Wuhan University, China |
| Xin Xia, Zhejiang University, China |
| Frank Xu, University of Baltimore, USA |
| Zhou Xu, Chongqin University, China |
| Hongji Yang, Leicester University, United Kingdom |
| Tewfik Ziadi, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France |
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