The 2nd International Workshop on
Empirical Software Engineering in Practice  (IWESEP2010)
in Nara, Japan, December 7-8, 2010
http://iwesep.wordpress.com/


The objective of the International Workshop on Empirical Software 
Engineering in Practice (IWESEP) is to foster the development of 
the area by providing a forum where researchers and practitioners 
can report on and discuss new research results and applications in 
the area of empirical software engineering.  The workshop encourages 
the exchange of ideas within the international community so as to be 
able to understand, from an empirical viewpoint, the strengths and 
weaknesses of technology in use and new technologies, with the 
expectation of furthering the more generic field of software 
engineering.

The workshop focuses on the processes, design and structure of 
empirical studies as well as the results of specific studies. 
These studies may be on original or replicated studies, varying from 
controlled experiments to field studies, from quantitative to 
qualitative.  We solicit research papers (6 pages) and proposals 
for tool demonstrations (2 pages). 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Empirical studies of software process and product
- Comparison of cost estimation techniques 
- Analysis of the effects of design methods and characteristics 
- Evaluation of the readability of coding styles 
- Development, derivation and/or comparison of organizational 
  models of software development 
- Evaluation of testing methodologies 
- Reports on the benefits derived from using software development 
  environments 
- Development of predictive models of defect rates and reliability 
  from real data 
- Infrastructure issues, such as measurement theory, experimental 
  design, qualitative modeling and analysis approaches
- Experiences with research methods such as grounded theory, 
  protocol studies or families of experiments
- Industrial experience in process improvement 
- Quality measurement
- Process modeling and applications in industry
- Experience management


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Tutorial: MSR School in Asia

We hold MSR School as tutorial of IWESEP2010 to provide participants
with opportunities to learn the techniques used in the area of 
MSR (Mining Software Repositories).  MSR School was held in the 
International Conference Software Engineering 2010. We invite the 
following three researchers, who are speakers in the tutorial, and 
they give some lectures.
  - Ahmed E. Hassan (Queen's University)
  - Sung Kim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  - Thomas Zimmermann (Microsoft Research and University of Calgary)
They are leading experts on MSR from academia and industry. 
We hope participants to lead to better motivation to study software 
engineering in this tutorial.


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Important Date

  Abstract submission due:    October 4, 2010
  Paper/demo submission due:  October 11, 2010
  Notification of acceptance: November 8, 2010
  Camera-ready due:           November 22, 2010

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Submission

Please send your submission (in PDF) through EasyChair.
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwesep2010

All submissions should follow the ACM SIG Proceedings Format 
without permission block (Option 1).  
Research papers must not exceed 6 pages in length and 
demonstration proposals must not exceed 2 pages in length. 
All submissions must be in English.
Accepted papers will be published as online proceedings.

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Organization


General Chair
  Akinori Ihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Program Chair
  Takashi Ishio (Osaka University, Japan)

Program Committee
  Bram Adams (Queen's University, Canada)
  Sousuke Amasaki (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)
  Christian Bird (Microsoft Research, USA)
  Ahmed E. Hassan (Queen's University, Canada)
  Hideaki Hata (Osaka University, Japan)
  Shinpei Hayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Israel Herraiz (University Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain)
  Yasutaka Kamei (Queen's University, Canada)
  Masa Katahira (JAXA, Japan)
  Shinji Kawaguchi (JAMSS, Japan)
  Jacky Keung (NICTA, Australia)
  Hua Jie Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  Shinsuke Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan)
  Koji Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  Hidetake Uwano (Nara National College of Technology, Japan)
  Rodrigo Vivanco (University of Manitoba, Canada)
  Thomas Zimmermann (Microsoft Research, USA)


Publication Chair
  Kyohei Fushida (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Publicity Co-Chair
  Emad Shihab (Queen's University, Canada)
  Sunghun Kim (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Registration Chair
  Masateru Tsunoda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Local Arrangements Chair
  Norihiro Yoshida (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)