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Submissions

Track Submitted Accepted %

Research/Practice (full):   85 29 34%

Research/Practice (short): 27 10 37%

Data showcase: 22 15 68%

Challenge: 19 9 47%

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Popular topics 1 (# of accepts/# of submissions)

• Analysis of software ecosystems and mining of repositories across multiple projects (11/34, 32%)

• Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining (8/29, 29%)

• Characterization, classification, and prediction of software defects based on analysis of software repositories (12/26, 46%)

• Analysis of change patterns and trends to assist in future development (8/22, 36%)

• Analysis of natural language artifacts in software repositories (5/17, 29%)

Popular topics 1 (# of accepts/# of submissions)

•Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of software repositories (2/16, 12%)

•Empirical studies on extracting data from repositories of large long-lived and/or industrial projects (4/13, 32%)

•Models of software project evolution based on historical repository data (6/13, 46%)

•Techniques and tools for capturing new forms of data for storage in software repositories, such as effort data, fine-grained changes, and refactoring (4/13, 31%)

•Models for social and development processes that occur in large software projects (4/12, 33%)

Selection Process

Each paper reviewed by three PC members

Open e-discussion held on all papers taken into consideration for acceptance

List of accepted papers available to PC members 48 hours before notification

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PC Members of research/practice,

data showcase and challenge track

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Additional reviewers

All authors for submitting great

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