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ACM ICSE
Name	ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Abbreviation	ICSE
Discipline	Software engineering
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
First	1975
Frequency	Annual
Country	International

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ACM ICSE is a premier annual international conference on Software engineering and related areas, attracting researchers, practitioners, and educators from institutions such as MIT, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Oxford. It serves as a forum for presenting advances tied to projects and labs at places like IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research, Bell Labs, and ETH Zurich while intersecting with topics pursued at Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, and University of Washington. Attendees often include members from companies such as Amazon (company), Facebook, Apple Inc., Netflix, Intel, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, Cisco Systems, and Sony Corporation.

History

ICSE emerged amid developments at venues including ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, IFIP, and USENIX and parallels milestones associated with UNIX, Ada (programming language), C programming language, Smalltalk, and Pascal (programming language). Early conferences featured contributors from institutions like Bell Labs, DEC, Xerox PARC, and Hewlett-Packard and overlapped subjectwise with work celebrated at Turing Award lectures and events such as NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and FSE. Over time ICSE reflected trends seen in initiatives like Open Source Initiative, Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, and projects like Eclipse (software), GNU Project, and Mozilla Foundation. Notable historical participants have included researchers affiliated with AT&T, Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Bell Labs Research, and ATLAS Consortium.

ICSE covers a range of topics overlapping work at Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA), International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), and International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). Frequent topics draw on research streams from Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), and International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). Specific themes connect to projects at DARPA, European Research Council, National Science Foundation, European Space Agency, and NASA and to tools named in publications like Eclipse IDE, JUnit, CMake, GDB, and Git. ICSE sessions often reference paradigms and systems such as Model-Driven Architecture, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, Microservices architecture, and DevOps.

The ICSE program resembles event structures used by SIGPLAN, SIGCHI, SIGMOD, SIGCOMM, and SIGIR with tracks for research, industry, workshops, and tutorials, and auxiliary meetings like doctoral symposia and panels. Typical accepted contributions mirror formats presented at PLDI, OOPSLA, FSE, ESEC/FSE, ICSME, and SOSP and co-located workshops echo themes from Mining Software Repositories (MSR), RE@ICSE (Requirements Engineering), ICPC (International Conference on Program Comprehension), and PROMISE. ICSE often hosts keynotes from figures associated with Turing Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Royal Society, IEEE Fellows, and leaders from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Facebook. Venues have included cities connected to institutions like Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, San Francisco, Lisbon, Zurich, Vienna, Hyderabad, Toronto, and Tokyo.

Proceedings are published under the aegis of Association for Computing Machinery publishing outlets, aligning with bibliographic practices used by IEEE Xplore, Springer, ACM Digital Library, and citation indices such as Scopus and Web of Science. Papers appear in formats comparable to those at NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KDD, and SIGKDD. Special issues and post-conference journals have appeared in venues like IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Journal of Systems and Software, Empirical Software Engineering (journal), and Software: Practice and Experience. Artifact evaluation and reproducibility efforts mirror initiatives from Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Figshare, and policies influenced by Plan S and other open access movements.

ICSE has hosted influential work that interacts with landmark results from Dijkstra Prize-related research, citations often cross-referenced with findings in John von Neumann-era computing histories, and innovations parallel to advances in Lambda calculus, Hoare logic, Petri nets, UML (Unified Modeling Language), and Design Patterns by authors linked to Gamma distribution-named publications and scholars at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Irvine, Purdue University, Cornell University, University of Maryland, College Park, Rice University, University of Sydney, Monash University, and University of New South Wales. ICSE papers have influenced tools and frameworks such as FindBugs, PMD, SonarQube, Coverity, EvoSuite, Randoop, Soot (software), and testing methodologies adopted by NASA, European Space Agency, NATO Science and Technology Organisation, and CERN. Cross-disciplinary impacts link to results presented at ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), ICML, CVPR, SIGMETRICS, and STOC.

ICSE confers awards comparable in prestige to recognitions from ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, Turing Award, ACM Fellows, IEEE Fellows, Most Influential Paper Award, and Test-of-Time Award programs. Previous honorees often hold affiliations with Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Google Research, Stanford University, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford. Conference awards parallel categories found at CHI Awards, NeurIPS Outstanding Paper, ICML Best Paper, FSE ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, and ESEC/FSE Most Influential Paper.