Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ICSE 2012 Workshop Committee according to the following criteria:

• Workshop's potential to advance the state of software engineering research and/or practice
• Timeliness of and expected interest in the workshop topics
• Organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful workshop
• Balance and synergy among all ICSE 2012 events

Proposals must not exceed four pages in length, must follow the IEEE conference proceedings format, and must include the following information, in the order specified:

• full contact information for all organizers of the workshop and main contact person;
• desired length of the workshop (i.e., one or two days);
• desired workshop date(s) and scheduling constraints (workshops can be scheduled before or after the main conference);
• outline of the themes and goals of the workshop, including a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the ICSE 2012 web site;
• concise motivation of the workshop's relevance to the field of software engineering;
• participant solicitation and selection process, including whether the workshop will be open or closed;
• desired minimum and maximum number of workshop participants, expected number of participants, and (in case of previously held workshops) number of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the workshop;
• structure of the workshop and plans for generating and stimulating discussion;
• links to preliminary web site of the workshop and call for papers;
• list of program committee members, including proposed and committed members;
• brief description of each organizer's background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops.

We strongly encourage the organizers to communicate the topic of their workshop to the workshop co-chairs by e-mail as early as possible, so that we can recognize and resolve topic conflicts and overlaps before the proposal submission deadline.

Finally, in preparing their workshop proposals and organizing their event, workshop organizers should keep in mind the following constraints:

• Mandatory deadlines:
  • Paper submissions: February 17, 2012
  • Notification of authors: March 20, 2012
  • Camera-ready copies: March 30, 2012
• Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2012 Format and Submission Guidelines and must have a maximum length of seven (7) pages.
• ICSE 2012 will not pay for registration, travel, or other arrangements for workshop organizers or any of their invited speakers or guests. All participants, including workshop organizers, keynote speakers, and invited guests, must register for the workshop.

Proposals must include the following information, in the order specified:

• full contact information for all organizers of the workshop and main contact person;
• desired length of the workshop (i.e., one or two days);
• desired workshop date(s) and scheduling constraints (workshops can be scheduled before or after the main conference);
• outline of the themes and goals of the workshop, including a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the ICSE 2012 web site;
• concise motivation of the workshop's relevance to the field of software engineering;
• participant solicitation and selection process, including whether the workshop will be open or closed;
• desired minimum and maximum number of workshop participants, expected number of participants, and (in case of previously held workshops) number of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the workshop;
• structure of the workshop and plans for generating and stimulating discussion;
• links to preliminary web site of the workshop and call for papers;
• list of program committee members, including proposed and committed members;
• brief description of each organizer's background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops.

All proposals must conform at time of submission to the ICSE 2012 formatting and submission instructions, and must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices and figures. 

Papers must be submitted electronically by the stated deadline.  

We strongly encourage the organizers to communicate the topic of their workshop to the workshop co-chairs by e-mail as early as possible, so that we can recognize and resolve topic conflicts and overlaps before the proposal submission deadline.

Finally, in preparing their workshop proposals and organizing their event, workshop organizers should keep in mind the following constraints:

• ICSE 2012 will not pay for registration, travel, or other arrangements for workshop organizers or any of their invited speakers or guests.
• All participants, including workshop organizers, keynote speakers, and invited guests, must register for the workshop.
• For all workshops, ICSE 2012 will enforce uniform deadlines for workshop paper submission, notification of authors, and camera-ready copies (see mandatory deadlines in the section on formatting proposals above).

Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and IT Research Center (FZI), Germany

Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany

Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Satish Chandra, IBM Research, USA

Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada

Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada

Sebastian Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina / Imperial College, UK

Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan