<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">============</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">============</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">============</span></div><div class="">VISSOFT 2021: 9th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Call for Tool Demos ++++ </span>Second Call for Papers (Abstract Deadline June 11th)</div><div class="">============<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">============</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">============</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Call for Tool Demos</span></div><div class="">============</div><div class=""><a href="https://vissoft.info/2021/submission.html#demo" class="">https://vissoft.info/2021/submission.html#demo</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">=== Goal and Scope:</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The tool demo session is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss visualization-related tools in an informal setting.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="">It is open to authors of VISSOFT papers as well as to authors of visualization-related tools published at ICSME and SCAM from both the current year and the previous year.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">=== </span>How to submit:<br class="">Please submit your tool demo proposal to <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021</a> including<br class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span>a title,<br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span>a short description (max. 500 words), and<br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span>a teaser video (max. 1 min).<br class=""></div><br class="">In addition to presenting your tool demo at VISSOFT, you have the option to present it at ICSME. If you want to use this option please send a mail with the above-mentioned information to Eleni Constantinou (<a href="mailto:e.constantinou@tue.nl" class="">e.constantinou@tue.nl</a>) and Xavier Devroey (<a href="mailto:x.d.m.devroey@tudelft.nl" class="">x.d.m.devroey@tudelft.nl</a>).</div><br class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">=== </span>Important Dates:<br class="">Tool demo submission: September 1, 2021<br class="">Notification: September 12, 2021<br class="">Presentation (VISSOFT): September 27, 2021<br class="">Presentation (ICSME): see <a href="https://icsme2021.github.io/" class="">https://icsme2021.github.io/</a></div><br class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">=== </span>Track Chair:<br class="">Richard Müller (<a href="mailto:rmueller@wifa.uni-leipzig.de" class="">rmueller@wifa.uni-leipzig.de</a>), Leipzig University, Germany<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Call for Papers</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">============</div></div><div class="">Conference website: <a href="https://vissoft.info/2021/" class="">https://vissoft.info/2021/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from areas such as information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science, and applying these in the software engineering domain.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. Consequently, VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, evaluations, applications/design studies, systems and formalisms, and papers that present novel ideas and tools.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=== Topics of interest include:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, software maintenance, program comprehension, software performance, software testing, and debugging</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Integration of software visualization tools with development environments</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye-tracking</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Industrial experience with using software visualization</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas and Emerging Results and Tool Demo (NIER/TD) track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submission Types</div><div class="">===============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==== Technical papers:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, alternatively a URL to the video could be provided.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Authors of technical papers that do not receive an acceptance recommendation from reviewers can, eventually, be invited to adapt the paper and make it acceptable for the NIER/TD track.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Awards: VISSOFT 2021 will award best technical papers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Special issue: A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of the journal of Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infsof" class="">http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infsof</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Artifact evaluation: Paper authors are encouraged to submit research artifacts (e.g., tools, data repositories, frameworks, videos) to the artifact evaluation track of ICSME. Please find further details in <a href="https://icsme2021.github.io/" class="">https://icsme2021.github.io/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== Important Dates:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021</div><div class="">Paper Submission: June 18, 2021</div><div class="">Notification: July 23, 2021</div><div class="">Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021</div><div class="">Conference: September 27-28, 2021 (to be confirmed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==== NIER/TD Track:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: NIER (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tool Demonstrations (TD) describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are invited to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== Important Dates:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021</div><div class="">Paper Submission: June 18, 2021</div><div class="">Notification: July 23, 2021</div><div class="">Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021</div><div class="">Conference: September 27-28, 2021 (to be confirmed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==== Journal First Track</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A submission to the VISSOFT 2021 call for journal-first paper presentations must adhere to the following criteria:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- The paper was accepted to a relevant journal and it is in the scope of the conference</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- The paper was published between June 1, 2018 and June 10, 2021:</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- The paper reports new research results and/or presents novel contributions that significantly extend, and were not previously reported in, prior work</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- The paper has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Authors of a paper that meets these criteria are invited to submit a one-page presentation proposal consisting of the paper’s title, the paper’s authors, a short statement on how the work satisfies the journal first criteria, and a pointer to the original journal paper at the journal’s Web site. If the paper is not online yet, then specify so. The original paper should also be uploaded during submission.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If a submission is accepted for the journal-first program, at least one author of the associated journal paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The journal-first manuscripts are published through the journals and will not be part of the Conference proceedings. The journal-first papers will be listed in the conference program. Journal first presentations will have the same presentation time than technical papers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== Important Dates:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paper Submission: July 2, 2021</div><div class="">Notification: July 23, 2021</div><div class="">Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021</div><div class="">Conference: September 27-28, 2021 (to be confirmed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2021</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="">How to submit</div><div class="">============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Technical papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures and appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. NIER/TD papers must not exceed 5 pages including references. Journal-first presentations must submit a one-page proposal. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Papers must strictly adhere to the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format. Please use the available IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings: <a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" class="">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Supplemental material (e.g., video, data, software) that might be helpful for the reviewers can be submitted together with your paper. All material must be included in a single ZIP file. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that VISSOFT uses a single-blind review process (i.e., the authors' names and affiliations are revealed to reviewers but reviewers' identities are not revealed to authors). The authors do not need to anonymize their papers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class="">=============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All dates refer to midnight 23:59:59 AoE (<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe" class="">http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paper Abstract: June 11, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paper Submission:</div><div class="">June 18, 2021 (Technical Papers, NIER/TD Track)</div><div class="">July 2, 2021 (Journal First Track)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Notification: July 23, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Camera-Ready: August 6, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conference Date: September 27-28, 2021 (to be confirmed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>