SCAM 2014 - Welcome from PC Chairs

1. 14th IEEE International Working
Conference on Source Code Analysis
and Manipulation
…a few notes from the Program Chairs…
Abram
Hindle
Rocco
Oliveto

2. 2012 - 50 abstracts
2013 - 40 abstracts
!
in 2014…
110 abstracts

3. on July 3rd, 2014
the day after the deadline
83 papers
1 withdrawn
21 deleted (missing paper)
5 desk rejected (out of scope)

4. 20 demos
18 on July 3rd

5. Submissions by Country

6. The reviewing process
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();

7. 26 research papers accepted
32% acceptance rate
9 demos accepted
50% acceptance rate

8. How final decisions were made
300 reviews
330 comments
# of reviews
80
60
40
20
0
156,649 words
100- 100-250 250-500 500-750 750-1000 1000+
# of words

9. Thanks to the 44 pc members
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
…and…

10. Thanks to the 48 additional reviewers
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
…and…

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

12. Accepted papers by Country

13. Acceptance rate by Country

14. What papers talk about…

15. 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 - 17.30
II - Software Quality
VI - Recommendation Systems
17.30 - 18.00
18.00 - 18.15 Closing

16. 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 - 17.30
II - Software Quality
VI - Recommendation Systems
17.30 - 18.00
18.00 - 18.15 Closing
Two hours sessions!

17. Session format…
12 mins presentation
+3 mins for questions
30 mins discussion
guided by one/two provocative
statements by each speaker

18. Program: Tool demos
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 - 17.30
II - Software Quality
VI - Recommendation Systems
17.30 - 18.00
18.00 - 18.15 Closing

19. Program: More
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 - 17.30
II - Software Quality
VI - Recommendation Systems
17.30 - 18.00 Open Steering Committee Meeting
18.00 - 18.15 Closing

20. SCAM 2014 Awards
Best Paper award
Best Reviewer award

21. 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

22. enjoy
SCAM 2014