Education Track

** CALL FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION TRACK PAPERS **
SBES 2017: 31st Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
September 18 – 22, 2017 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
http://www.sbc.org.br/cbsoft2017


The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), is the premier Software Engineering event in Latin America. SBES is held in conjunction with CBSoft – Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The CBSoft program includes technical research sessions, insightful ideas sessions, industry sessions, invited talks, courses, tutorials, panels, demonstration of software tools, a Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses workshop, and several other satellite events. It traditionally gathers nearly 600 people, including academics, practitioners, and students.

In 2017, SBES will include three tracks. The Research Track publishes solid results with a strong contribution to the Software Engineering community. The Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results Track provides opportunity for researchers and practitioners to submit and present innovative and promising ideas and results in early stages of research. The Education Track (former FEES – Forum of Education in Software Engineering) publishes papers that address challenges, innovations, and best practices in Software Engineering education. For details of the Research Track and Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results Track, please refer to the specific calls for papers or access the conference website.

THE EDUCATION TRACK

In 2017, for the first time, SBES will include an Education Track. Quality submissions covering curriculum development, empirical studies, best practices, personal or institutional experiences, and conceptual or theoretical work are particularly invited. Papers on this track are reviewed based on their originality, relevance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation.

Papers submitted to the SBES Education Track must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration (abstract submission) deadline: NEW May 12th, 2017 (previous May 05th, 2017)
Paper upload deadline: NEW May 19th, 2017 (previous May 12th, 2017)
Rebuttal period: NEW June 16-23, 2017 (previous June 6-­13, 2017)
Notification of acceptance: NEW July 07th, 2017 (previous June 27th, 2017)
Camera-ready deadline: NEW July 21st, 2017 (previous July 11th, 2017)

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The Education Track welcomes technical research papers related (but not limited) to:

  • New and innovative best practices for software engineering education;
  • Innovative curriculum or course formats;
  • Teaching of Software Engineering in Computer Science courses, Information Systems courses, Information Technology courses and others.
  • Teaching of methods, techniques and tools for the development of software.
  • Problem-based teaching/learning, which collaborate with the real needs of organizations or society.
  • Teaching/learning experiences using approaches of new practical scenarios of Software Engineering, such as: agile methods, open source, distributed software development, cloud computing, big – data, mobile devices, embedded systems, robotics and others.
  • Tools and methods for the evaluation of software engineering learning.
  • Tools, simulators and games for supporting Software Engineering teaching.
  • Ways of teaching/learning that consider the knowledge of social, professional, legal, ethic, political, and human issues on Software engineering.
  • Integration of practical experiences in teaching Software Engineering.
  • Integration between research on Software Engineering and teaching/learning Software Engineering.
  • Interdisciplinarity in Software Engineering: relationship with other disciplines and courses, such as arts, music, administration, economics and psychology.
  • Innovative methods that promote studying and stimulating learning in professors, keeping them updated for the teaching of Software Engineering.
  • Methods for e-teaching/e-learning Software Engineering.
  • Use of games and competitions (“gamification”) in teaching/learning Software Engineering.
  • Education in Software Engineering that stimulates entrepreneurship, specially startups creation.
  • Open source in education.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION

Papers must be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it.

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must comply with the ACM 2-column conference (ACM_SigConf) format available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.

Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all figures and references.

Papers should be electronically submitted through the JEMS system (http://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the Education Track will be rejected without reviewing. All other papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members.

The review process includes a rebuttal period in which the authors will have access to the reviewers’ comments and may argue and answer questions from the reviewers before the final acceptance/rejection decision. The rebuttal is limited to a plain text up to 4,000 characters (including spaces).

Program Chair

Tayana Conte, UFAM

Steering Committee

Eduardo Almeida, UFBA
Leonardo Murta, UFF
Sergio Soares, UFPE and ISI-TICs
Jose Carlos Maldonado, ICMC/USP
Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari, UFSCar
Uirá Kulesza, UFRN

Technical Program Committee (in formation)

Ana Paula Bacelo, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Ana Regina Rocha, COPPE/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Andreia Malucelli, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná
Bruno Gadelha, Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Carla Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Cesar França, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Christina Chavez, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Claudia Werner, COPPE/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Daltro Nunes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Davi Viana, Universidade Federal do Maranhão
Edmundo Spoto, UFG – Universidade Federal de Goias
Edson Oliveira Jr, Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Eduardo Figueiredo, Universidade Federal de  Minas Gerais
Elder Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Pampa
Fabio Rocha, Universidade Tiradentes
Fernando Castor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Francisco Dantas, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte
Gleison Santos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Heitor Costa, Universidade Federal de Lavras
Igor Steinmacher, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Igor Wiese, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Parana
Ingrid Nunes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Jair Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Juliano Lopes de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Luciana Zaina, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Marcelo Yamaguti, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Marco Wehrmeister, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Marco Aurélio Graciotto Silva, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Maria Augusta Vieira Nelson, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
Mauricio Aniche, Universidade de São Paulo
Milene Serrano, Universidade de Brasília
Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Paulo Meirelles, Universidade de Brasília
Pedro Santos Neto, Universidade Federal do Piaui
Rafael Prikladnicki, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Roberta Coelho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Rodolfo Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Rodrigo Santos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rossana Andrade, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Sabrina Marczak, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Sheila Reinehr, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná
Simone Souza, Universidade de Brasília
Uirá Kulesza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Valter Camargo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos