In conjunction with 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021), Madrid, Spain (held virtually)
Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth of works on automated program repair in various scientific communities including software engineering, programming languages and formal methods, and this growth has culminated in successful deployments of program repair technology in industry. Despite these considerable advances, program repair still faces fundamental technological and societal challenges. This workshop will create an opportunity for the research community to coordinate its effort for addressing these challenges, share recent ideas and results, and formulate an agenda for future research.
We invite submissions that discuss recent developments in the theory and practice of automated program repair. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers interested in program repair to exchange ideas and find out about current research directions in the field. A particular emphasis of this workshop is on reducing the gap between academic research on automated program repair and the demands of industry.
This workshop will explore topics related to:
Reviewers will evaluate each contribution for its soundness, significance, novelty, verifiability, and clarity. Submissions should clearly state how they are novel and how they improve upon existing work.
We will employ a double-blind review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind review process. In particular, the authors’ names must be omitted from the submission and references to their prior work should be in the third person.
All submissions must conform to the ICSE 2021 formatting and submission instructions. All submissions must be in PDF. We invite submissions of papers of the following types:
Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type. LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}
without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).
Submissions can be made via the submission site (https://apr21.hotcrp.com/) by the submission deadline. We encourage the authors to upload their paper info early (and can submit the PDF later) to properly enter conflicts for double-blind reviewing. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper in person.
The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available by IEEE. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2021. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
University College London, UK
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kyungpook National University
University of Luxembourg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
Università della Svizzera italiana
University of Melbourne
Wuhan University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peking University
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tianjin University
University College London
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Kennesaw State University
National University of Defense Technology
The University of Texas at Austin