The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) is the premier software engineering event in Brazil. The event is annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and it typically gathers nearly 500 people, including academics, practitioners, and students.

SBES is held in conjunction with CBSoft – Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The symposium program includes technical research sessions, invited talks, courses, panels, demonstration of software tools, a PhD and MSc thesis workshop, and several other satellite events. This call for papers (CFP) invites researchers and practitioners to submit original and unpublished papers for the event technical research track.

This CFP welcomes technical papers related (but not limited) to:

• Industrial applications of software engineering
• Social aspects of software engineering
• Software dependability
• CSCW and software engineering
• Model-driven software development
• Requirements engineering
• Experimental software engineering
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Aspect-oriented software engineering
• Component-based software engineering
• Software engineering for the World Wide Web
• Theoretical foundations of software engineering and formal methods
• Software product lines
• Software maintenance
• Methods, techniques, languages, and tools for software engineering
• Software metrics and measurements
• Software processes (including agile methods)
• Software quality and quality models
• Software reengineering
• Software reuse
• Software verification, validation, and testing

 

 PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are submitted to the Xplore and CSDL. Moreover, only papers written in English will be eligible for the SBES best papers award. Papers submitted to SBES must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it.

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three referees, based on its originality, relevance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all figures and references.

The review process includes a rebuttal period where authors will have access to reviews and may argue and answer questions from referees before the final acceptance/rejection decision. The rebuttal is limited to a plain text up to 3000 characters.

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must comply with CPS format. Papers should be submitted electronically through JEMS system (http://submissoes.sbc.org.br).

 

MENTORING PROGRAM

In this 28th edition in 2014, SBES brings a novelty. Authors that never published in SBES or at any international prestigious conferences in the field (on the program committee coordinator's discretion) may request to participate in the Mentoring program. The program will assign a member of the program committee to make a preliminary assessment of the work and give feedback before the submission deadline, increasing the chances of less experienced and authors from other areas. Check the deadline to join the program in the Important Dates section, but we encourage the request to be made as soon as possible, since the number of papers in the program is limited and the assignment will be made in a first come first serve basis. ATTENTION, to join this program none of the authors may have previous publication in any SBES edition or any international prestigious conferences. The request must be made exclusively by the email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject "Participation in the SBES 2014 Mentoring". You should include in the email body the working title of the work, the full list of authors, and an abstract.

 

BEST PAPER AWARD

Every year the SBES Steering Committee appoints a committee to award the symposium’s best papers. Only papers written in English will be eligible for the SBES best papers award in this year’s issue. Awarded papers are announced during the event and invited to be submit as an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD).

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Last date to Mentoring request: March 01, 2014 (by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Last date to Mentoring paper submission: March 16, 2014 (selected authors will be instructed)
Paper registration (Abstract submission): April 13, 2014
Paper upload: April 20, 2014 (firm deadline)
Rebuttal: June 02-03, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2014
Camera-ready: July 06, 2014

 

ORGANIZATION AND COORDINATION

PROGRAM CHAIR

Sergio Soares, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Instituto SENAI de Inovação para TICs, Brasil

STEERING COMMITTEE

Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio
Leonardo Murta, UFF
Marcio Delamaro, USP
Sergio Soares, UFPE and ISI-TICs
Thais Batista, UFRN

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (UNDER DEFINITION)

Adenilso Simão, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Alessandro Garcia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Alfredo Goldman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Antonio Francisco Prado, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Antônio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brasil
Arndt von Staa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Augusto Sampaio, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Auri M. R. Vincenzi, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Cecilia Rubira, Universidade de Campinas, Brasil
Christina Chavez, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil
Claudia Werner, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Claudio Sant’Anna, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil
Cleidson de Souza, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil
Daniel Berry, Universidade de Waterloo, Canadá
Daniela Cruzes, Universidade Norueguesa de Ciência e Tecnologia, Noruega
Eduardo Almeida, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil
Eduardo Aranha, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Eduardo Figueiredo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Eliane Martins, Universidade de Campinas, Brasil
Ellen Francine Barbosa, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Fabiano Ferrari, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Fernanda Alencar, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Fernando Castor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Flavia Delicato, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Flavio Oquendo, Universidade Européia de Brittany, França
Francisco Dantas, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Glauco Carneiro, Universidade de Salvador, Brasil
Gledson Elias, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil
Guilherme Travassos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Gustavo Rossi, Universidade Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brasil
Jaelson Freire Brelaz de Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Jair Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
José Conejero, Universidade de Extremadura, Espanha
Kiev Gama, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Leila Silva, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil
Leonardo Murta, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Itália
Marcelo Fantinato, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Marcelo Maia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brasil
Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Marco Túlio Valente, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Miguel Goulao, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Márcio Barros, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Márcio Delamaro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Márcio Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil
Mike Papadakis, Universidade de Luxemburgo, Luxemburgo
Nabor Mendonca, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brasil
Nelio Cacho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Nelson Rosa, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Oscar Pastor, Universidade Politécnica de Valência, Espanha
Otavio Lemos, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Patricia Machado, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil
Paulo Borba, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Paulo Masiero, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute, EUA
Paulo Pires, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Rafael Prikladnicki, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Regina Braga, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil
Ricardo Choren, Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brasil
Roberta Coelho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Rogerio de Lemos, Universidade de Kent, Reino Unido
Rosana Braga, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Rosângela Penteado, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Sandra Fabbri, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Sergio Soares, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Instituto SENAI de Inovação para TICs, Brasil
Silvia Abrahão, Universidade Politécnica de Valencia, Espanha
Silvia Vergilio, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil
Simone Souza, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Tayana Conte, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
Thais Vasconcelos Batista, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Tiago Massoni, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil
Uirá Kulesza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Valter Camargo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Vander Alves, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil