IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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| IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering | |
|---|---|
| Name | IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering |
| Abbreviation | ASE |
| Established | 1986 |
| Discipline | Software engineering |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society; ACM |
| Frequency | Annual |
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering is an annual scholarly conference focused on methods, tools, and empirical studies for automating software engineering tasks. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from institutions such as Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University as well as participants from companies like Google, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Intel, and Oracle. ASE regularly features contributions connected to initiatives led by organizations including DARPA, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Toyota Research Institute, and Siemens.
History
ASE originated in the mid-1980s amid developments at venues such as SIGSOFT and collaborations between researchers at University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, and University of Cambridge. Early conferences showcased work related to toolchains influenced by projects at Xerox PARC, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and SRI International. Over decades ASE intersected with activities in programs like ICSE, FSE, ESEC/FSE, ICFP, and PLDI, and hosted tutorial sessions led by scholars affiliated with Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Washington, and University of Michigan. ASE venues have been located in cities including San Diego, New York City, Seattle, Madrid, Tokyo, Beijing, Bangalore, and Kraków.
Scope and Topics
ASE covers automation in areas that connect to projects at NASA, European Space Agency, General Motors Research, Bosch, and Nokia. Topic areas include program analysis advances from groups at University of Oxford and ETH Zurich, testing technologies developed at Google, Microsoft Research Redmond, and Facebook AI Research, and program synthesis approaches explored at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and DeepMind. Research themes reflect collaborations with labs such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and institutions like Imperial College London and University College London. ASE features work on verification associated with teams at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and University of California, Los Angeles, and studies on maintenance and evolution tied to consultancies and companies including Accenture, Capgemini, and SAP.
Conference Organization and Sponsorship
Organizing committees typically include academics from Duke University, Rice University, University of Maryland, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University alongside industry representatives from IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Intel Research. Sponsorship often comes from entities such as the IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and corporate partners like Red Hat and VMware. Program chairs have historically been faculty from Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, University of Illinois Chicago, and Tokyo Institute of Technology with support from program committees containing members from Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, National University of Singapore, and Tsinghua University.
Proceedings and Publication
ASE proceedings are published under imprints of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery and are indexed in services such as IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Scopus, and Web of Science. Special issues have appeared in journals tied to publishers like Springer Nature, Elsevier, and Wiley, and selected papers have been expanded for journals including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Empirical Software Engineering (Springer), Journal of Systems and Software, and Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). Workshop proceedings affiliated with ASE are sometimes archived by organizations like CEUR-WS and databases used by repositories such as arXiv and HAL.
Notable Contributions and Impact
ASE has been a venue for influential work connected to tools and frameworks from teams at Microsoft Research and Google DeepMind, methods inspired by theories from Robin Milner-related research groups and proofs developed in systems like Coq and Isabelle/HOL. Contributions have influenced industrial practices at Spotify, Uber, Salesforce, Adobe, and Ericsson and have seeded startups founded by alumni from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. ASE papers have advanced static analysis techniques linked to Frama-C and LLVM, dynamic testing strategies related to JUnit extensions and continuous integration pipelines used at Travis CI and Jenkins, and program synthesis approaches that intersect with projects at OpenAI and DeepMind.
Awards and Recognition
ASE grants best paper awards and distinguished paper recognitions adjudicated by committees including members affiliated with ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE TCSE, SIAM, and national academies like the National Academy of Engineering and Royal Society. Past award recipients have come from institutions such as Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California, University of Toronto, and McGill University and companies including IBM Research and Microsoft Research. ASE contributions have been cited in award-winning projects recognized by prizes like the Turing Award, Gödel Prize, and ACM Software System Award through indirect influence on software reliability and automation.
Conference Format and Events
ASE programs include keynote talks delivered by leaders from Bell Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Google Research New York, and IBM Research Zurich; tutorials run by faculty from University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Seoul National University; and workshops associated with groups from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Delft University of Technology, and Chalmers University of Technology. The conference hosts doctoral symposia featuring students from Stanford University, MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zurich; hackathons sponsored by GitHub and GitLab; and panel sessions including representatives from Oracle, SAP Research, Huawei, and Tencent Research.