CfP Gender Equality in Software Engineering

[Erika Abraham]

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS
                        GE at ICSE2018

  First Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering
              May 28, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

          https://sites.google.com/view/ge-icse2018

                Satellite event at ICSE 2018
    40th International Conference on Software Engineering
                  https://www.icse2018.org

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=== Important dates ===

Paper submission:     February 05, 2018
Paper notification:   March 5, 2018
Final version:        March 19, 2018
Conference:           May 28, 2018

=== Objectives and scope ===

ICT is pervasively influencing all human activities. In this
context, more and more people of any age, gender and culture
is exposed to such technologies and has to acquire some
ability and skill in this context.

For reasons that are still being studied, the engagement of
genders with ICT is not uniform. This gap is occurring at
all levels and it is evident, for instance, in the small
percentage of women covering top positions in professional
and academic activities in the field.

At the same time, the community is realising that diversity,
when it does not assume the negative aspects of
discrimination, plays a key role to a successful and
competitive context for software development and research.
Such diversity is not only related to gender aspects but
refers also to the combination of culture, religion and
geographical distribution.

In this context, the purpose of this workshop, which will be
held as part of ICSE 2018, is to discuss about the role,
difficulties and opportunities concerning people of different
gender in the field of software engineering, in research,
education and industry.

=== What to submit ===

Students, industry professionals, academics, and other
leaders in software engineering are invited to submit
position papers, collaborate and attend this workshop with
the objective of assessing the current gender situation in
various contexts  and geographic areas, also in combination
with any discriminatory factor, and of identifying and
discussing possible difficulties and corresponding
solutions.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Summaries, challenges, and studies regarding the role of
   different genders in software engineering education and
   research.
- Studies concerning the role of different genders in
   software engineering industry.
- Specific experiences that can be generalized and shared
   with the public.

Also submissions from other scientific areas with contents
that are transferable to software engineering are welcome.

All contributions will undergo a peer-review process carried
out by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be
included in the ACM workshop proceedings.

=== Submission guidelines ===

Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages and
follow the ACM SIGS proceedings format (see
https://www.icse2018.org/track/icse-2018-Double-blind-review#Formatting).

Submissions should be made using the Easychair site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geicse2018 .

=== Invited speakers ===

Gabriele Abermann (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences,
Austria)

Reyyan Ayfer (Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey)

Anna Nilsson-Ehle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Philip B. Stark (Berkeley Institute for Data Science, USA)

=== Committees ===

Program Chairs:
   Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
   Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
   Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Program Committee:
   Alberto Avritzer (Sonatype, Fulton, USA)
   Steffen Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
   Antonella Ferrecchia (University College Dublin, Ireland)
   Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
   Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and
     Technology, Norway)
   Rick Kazman (Carnegie-Mellon University and University of
     Hawaii, USA)
   Tiziana Margaria (Lero, Ireland)
   Marija Mikic (Google, USA)
   Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia, Canada)
   Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University, UK and Lero, Ireland)
   Flavio Oquendo (IRISA / UMR CNRS and University
     Bretagne-Sud, France)
   Jennifer Perez Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
   Rafael Prikladnicki (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do
     Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
   Patrizia Scandurra (DIIMM - University of Bergamo, Italy)
   David Shepherd (ABB, Inc, USA)
   Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires, Argentinia
     and Imperial College London, UK)
   Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

=== Sponsor ===

The workshop is sponsored by Chalmers University of
Technology http://www.chalmers.se/en/Pages/default.aspx .