Formatting and Submission Instructions

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Formatting Guidelines (LaTeX users, please use the "Option 2" style). All submissions must be in PDF format.

Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories as follows:

Technical research papers 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices;
references may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
Software engineering in practice Experience reports and case studies: 10 pages
Panel proposals: 2 pages
Software engineering education and training 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures
New ideas and emerging results 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures
Workshop proposals 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures,
and 1 additional page for your workshop's call for papers
Tutorial proposals 3 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures
Doctoral symposium 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures
ACM student research competition 2 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures;
and 1 additional page for the list of references only
Formal demonstrations 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures;
submissions need to be accompanied by a 3-5 minute video
Posters 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures,
and the poster in A0 portrait format

Submissions that do not comply with the foregoing instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.

ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS

All accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings and in both the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions.