ICPC 2011 Student Research Symposium provides a forum for students who are currently working on their Ph.D., M.S. and undergraduate degrees, to present their work.  Students at all stages of their degrees are invited to participate.  Student Research Symposium track offers an opportunity to present research projects, preliminary and intermediate ideas/directions, the results obtained up-to-date, and plans towards completion of their Ph.D. degrees, M.S. or B.S. degrees.  The participants of the track will be able to discuss their research plans with fellow students as well as established researchers from ICPC community.

The main goal of the Student Research Symposium is to provide graduate and undergraduate students working in the area of program comprehension with some help and advice on conducting their research projects. Moreover, the purpose of the track is to retain interested undergraduate or M.S. students in the field and promote them to consider Ph.D. studies. The forum will also provide an opportunity for researchers in early stages of their career to meet and start building professional networks of colleagues in the area of program comprehension.

The students will receive advice from expert advisors in the field who have had rich experience in supervising and examining graduate and undergraduate students. Accepted papers will be presented at the track in front of expert panel members, all interested conference attendees and other Student Research Symposium participants. Each presentation will be followed by questions from the audience and comments/feedbacks from the panel members. In addition, there will be general discussion addressing various issues on research work and research experience in general.

Review and evaluation criteria

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Student Research Symposium program committee. The submission should include the following ingredients:

1. (1)a statement of the technical problem addressed and its importance and relevance to program comprehension, with respect to the existing state-of-the-art;
   

2. (2)the specific research hypothesis or questions;
   

3. (3)a sketch of the research methodology and a proposed solution; and
   

4. (4)a description of the adopted evaluation method and the result obtained so far (optional, for mature projects).
   

The Student Research Symposium Committee will select participants using the following four criteria:

1. (1)the potential quality of the research and its relevance to program comprehension;
   

2. (2)quality of the research abstract;
   

3. (3)the stage of the research;
   

4. (4)diversity of background, research topics and approaches.
   

It is required that the student (or one of the students, if this is a group work) is the main author of the paper. The paper must also be presented by the student (even in a case when it is co-authored with student’s advisor or other collaborators). Submissions must not be previously published in, currently submitted to, or currently in consideration for any journal, book, conference, or workshop. 

Student Research Symposium papers must conform to the IEEE CS Proceedings Format and Submission Guidelines. Submissions should consist of a single document up to 4 pages. All submissions must be in English. Accepted papers will be published in the ICPC 2011 conference proceedings.

Proposals must be submitted electronically through EasyChair.

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpc2011sat

Submission Deadline: February 21, 2011

Notification: March 7, 2011

Camera-ready copy:  April 1, 2011

Student Symposium Chairs:

Denys Poshyvanyk, The College of William and Mary, USA

Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio – Benevento, Italy

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