…a few notes from the Program Chairs…

14th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis

and Manipulation

Abram Hindle

Rocco Oliveto

110 abstracts

2012 - 50 abstracts 2013 - 40 abstracts !

in 2014…

83 papers1 withdrawn 21 deleted (missing paper) 5 desk rejected (out of scope)

on July 3rd, 2014 the day after the deadline

20 demos 18 on July 3rd

Submissions by Country

1: for each paper!2: paper.assignTo(R1, R2, R3);!3: do {!4: reviewer.doReview();!5: while (date != July 27th, 2014);!6: do {!7: ! all.discuss();!8: if (contrastingReview(paper))!9: paper.assign(R4); !10: while (date != August 1st, 2014);!11: chairs.makeDecision();!12: do {!13: all.discussDecisions();!14: while (date != August 4th, 2014);!15: chairs.sendNotifications();

The reviewing process

26 research papers accepted 32% acceptance rate

9 demos accepted 50% acceptance rate

How final decisions were made

300 reviews

330 comments

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Ahmed E. Hassan, Andy Zaidman, Annibale Panichella, Árpád Beszédes, Bram Adams, Chanchal K. Roy, Cristina

Marinescu, Dave Binkley, David Shepherd, Denys Poshyvanyk, Earl Barr, Emily Hill, Filippo Ricca, Foutse

Khomh, Gabriele Bavota, Giulio Antoniol, Ira Baxter, James R. Cordy, Jens Krinke, Jeremy Singer, Juergen Rilling, Katsuro Inoue, Lori Pollock, Luigi Cerulo, Mariano Ceccato, Marius

Minea, Mark Harman, Mark Grechanik, Massimiliano Di Penta, Michael Collard, Mike Godfrey, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Paul

Anderson, Philip Mayer, Raghavan Komondoor, Ralf Laemmel, Rudolf Ferenc, Sebastian Danicic, Suresh

Thummalapenta, Thomas Dean, Thomas Zimmermann, Tibor Gyimothy, Vadim Zaytsev, Zheng Li

Thanks to the 44 pc members

…and…

Andrea Avancini, Andrea Stocco, Andrei Varanovich, Ayushi Rastogi, Candy Pang, Coen De Roover, Csaba Nagy, Dave Vitek, Dávid Tengeri, Davood Mazinanian, Dénes Bán, Drew Guarnera, Eric Rapos, Gábor Szőke, Gergõ Balogh, Gergő Ladányi, Gustavo Ansaldi Oliva, Heather Michaud, István

Kádár, István Siket, Jeffery Svajlenko, Jon Eyolfson, Joshua Campbell, Judith Francisca, Kla Tantithamthavorn, Lajos

Schrettner, László Vidács, Le An, Leleh Eshkevari, Manishankar Mondal, Maurizio Leotta, Md. Saidur Rahman, Meiyappan Nagappan, Moritz Beller, Peter Hegedus, Petru

Mihancea, Roberto Tiella, Takashi Ishio, Tamas Gergely, Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Thomas Schmorleiz, Tibor Bakota, Venera Arnaoudova, Wei Wang, Wei Wu, Weiyi Shang,

Zéphyrin Soh, Zoltán Tóth

Thanks to the 48 additional reviewers

…and…

You, the committee, deserve all the credit for making this high quality program this year!

Accepted papers by Country

Acceptance rate by Country

What papers talk about…

September 28th September 29th

9.00 - 10.30 III - Slicing

10.00 - 11.00 Break Break

11.00 - 12.30 I - Clones IV - Mining Software Repositories

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 V - Static Analysis

15.30 - 16.00 Break Break

16.00 - 17.30II - Software Quality

VI - Recommendation Systems

17.30 - 18.00

18.00 - 18.15 Closing

Program: Technical sessions

September 28th September 29th

9.00 - 10.30 III - Slicing

10.00 - 11.00 Break Break

11.00 - 12.30 I - Clones IV - Mining Software Repositories

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 V - Static Analysis

15.30 - 16.00 Break Break

16.00 - 17.30II - Software Quality

VI - Recommendation Systems

17.30 - 18.00

18.00 - 18.15 Closing

Program: Technical sessions

Two hours sessions!

Session format…

12 mins presentation +3 mins for questions

30 mins discussion guided by one/two provocative

statements by each speaker

September 28th September 29th

9.00 - 10.30 III - Slicing

10.00 - 11.00 Break Break

11.00 - 12.30 I - Clones IV - Mining Software Repositories

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 Tools V - Static Analysis

15.30 - 16.00 Break Break

16.00 - 17.30II - Software Quality

VI - Recommendation Systems

17.30 - 18.00

18.00 - 18.15 Closing

Program: Tool demos

September 28th September 29th

9.00 - 10.30 Keynote by Tom Zimmerman III - Slicing

10.00 - 11.00 Break Break

11.00 - 12.30 I - Clones IV - Mining Software Repositories

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 Tools V - Static Analysis

15.30 - 16.00 Break Break

16.00 - 17.30II - Software Quality

VI - Recommendation Systems

17.30 - 18.00 Open Steering Committee Meeting

18.00 - 18.15 Closing

Program: More

Best Paper award

Best Reviewer award

SCAM 2014 Awards

SCAM 2014 Special Issue

A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (edited by

Springer) will feature extended, revised versions of the best papers

Submission deadline: January 31st, 2015!Acceptance deadline: March 31st, 2016!Publication: Spring 2016

enjoy SCAM 2014