ISEC is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFTIndia. The 14thedition of the conference will be held at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share problems, experiences, and cutting-edge advancements in the field of software and systems engineering.

ISEC 2021invites the submission of technical papers describing original and unpublished results of foundational, theoretical, empirical, and applied software and systems engineering research. Submissions are invited in all areas of software and systems engineering, including but not limited to the followings:

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Submission Details

Submissions should present the most recent and significant technical contributions to the field of Software and Systems Engineering. We invite high quality submissions to be evaluated against the following criteria:

• Soundness: The extent to which contributions are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods.
• Significance: Demonstrating that contributions are novel, original, and important, with respect to the existing body of knowledge.
• Verifiability: The presentation of sufficient information to support independent verification or replication of the claimed contributions,
• Presentation: Achieving clear descriptions and explanations, adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

This year, we invite submissions under three categories: Regular, Short, Poster:

• Regular papers should not exceed 11 pages, 10 pages for the main text (including figures, appendix etc.) and 1 page for references in standard ACM format. Regular papers contain full descriptions that constitute contributions to knowledge and are evaluated against the criteria given above.
• Short papers should not exceed 5 pages, including references in standard ACM format. Short papers should clearly demonstrate that the work is a contribution to knowledge, but may be incomplete in terms of being able to demonstrate one or more of soundness, significance, or verifiability.
• Poster papers should not exceed 2 pages. A poster paper is intended to describe work that is at an early stage in development. Accepted poster papers will be provided with an opportunity to display a poster and to discuss the ideas with delegatesduring a dedicated session of the conference.

Regular paper submissions are expected to contain in-depth descriptions of the new ideas along with detailed evaluation, and when relevant rigorously consider reasonable broader impacts, both positive and negative, e.g. in a separate "Broader Impacts" section (refer to the blog post: https://acm-fca.org/2018/03/29/negativeimpacts/).

Submissions may take the form of experience reports or case studies. In particular we would welcome such submissions from Industry. Experience reports and case studies should address the application of software engineering practices (which may include work on principles, techniques, tools, methods, processes) to a specific business domain or to the development of a substantial software platform/system. Each paper should describe the context of a problem of practical importance and provide plausible solutions. Please take care to cover the following issues: innovation of the approach and the solution, the methodology, assessment of the benefits, risks and lessons learned.

Short papers may contain, for example, new interesting ideas which may not be evaluated extensively, tool descriptions or case studies.

Submissions must comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures. In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ISEC. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Digital Library and indexed by DBLP.If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper in person.

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Submission Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

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Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isec2021

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Program Co-Chairs

• Tony Clark, Aston University, UK.
• Alpana Dubey, Accenture Labs, India

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Important Dates

• ISEC 2021 Conference: 25 -27 February, 2021
• Paper submission deadline: 20 September 2020, AoE 11 October 2020, AoE
• Paper notification: 04 December 2020, AoE
• Camera ready due: 25 December 2020, AoE

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Programme Committee

Name	University / Institution	Country
Salman Abdul Moiz	University of Hyderabad	India
Kumar Abhinav	Accenture Labs	India
Wasif Afzal	Mälardalen University	Sweden
Pooja Aggarwal	IBM Research	India
Amin Alipour	University of Houston	USA
Artur Andrzejak	Heidelberg University	Germany
Steven Arzt	Fraunhofer	Germany
Annappa Basava	National Institute of Tech Karnataka Surathkal	India
Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay	Hasso Plattner Institut	Germany
Ansuman Banerjee	Indian Statistical Institute	India
Balbir Barn	Middlesex University	UK
Sudipta Chattopadhyay	Singapore University of Technology and Design	Singapore
Sridhar Chimalakonda	Indian Institute of Technology - Tirupati	India
Tony Clark	Aston University	UK
Benoit Combemale	University of Toulouse &Inria	France
Luis Cruz	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
Meenakshi D'Souza	International Institute of Information Technology	India
Xuan-Bach D. Le	The University of Melbourne	Australia
Subhajit Datta	Singapore University of Technology and Design	Singapore
Juan De Lara	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid	Spain
Alpana Dubey	Accenture	India
Eduard Paul Enoiu	Mälardalen University	Sweden
Joseph Hallett	The University of Bristol	UK
Lingxiao Jiang	Singapore Management University	Singapore
Rushikesh Joshi	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
Takashi Kobayashi	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
Pavneet Singh Kochhar	Microsoft	India
Dimitris Kolovos	University of York	UK
Atul Kumar	IBM	India
Kevin Lano	King's College London	UK
Gary T. Leavens	University of Central Florida	USA
Atri Mandal	IBM	India
Durga Prasad Mohapatra	NIT, Rourkela	India
Henry Muccini	University of L'Aquila	Italy
Rd Naik	TRDDC TCS Research	India
Sagar Naik	University of Waterloo	Canada
Richard Paige	McMaster University	Canada
Rahul Pandita	Phase Change Software, LLC	USA
Oscar Pastor	UniversitatPolitècnica de València	Spain
Alfonso Pierantonio	University of L'Aquila	Italy
Klaus Pohl	Paluno, University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
Rahul Purandare	Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology	India
Venkatesh R	TCS	India
Ayushi Rastogi	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
Santanu Rath	NIT Rourkela	India
Rajarshi Ray	National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya	India
Raghu Reddy	IIIT Hyderabad, India	India
Subhajit Roy	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India
Santonu Sarkar	Dept of Computer Sc, BITS Pilani	India
Tushar Sharma	Siemens Corporate Technology	USA
Vibhu S. Sharma	Accenture Technology Labs	India
Divyasheel Sharma	ABB Corporate Research	India
Srikanth G.Tamilselvam	IBM	India
Xiaoyuan Xie	School of Computer Science, Wuhan University	China
Tao Zhang	Macau University of Science and Technology	China
Steffen Zschaler	King's College London	UK
Zhiqiang Zuo	Nanjing University, China	China
Rajib Mall	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India
Jennifer Horkoff	Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg	Sweden
Martin Gogolla	Universität Bremen	Germany
Artur Boronat	Lecturer at University of Leicester	UK
Diptikalyan Saha	IBM Research, India	India
David Lo	Singapore Management University	Singapore