All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Computer Society Formatting Guidelines. Please use either the Word Template or the LaTeX package provided by IEEE CS. (In some browsers, an empty page will display when clicking these links. Nevertheless, the documents will download; check your download folder.) Make sure that you use US letter page format (don't use A4!). Submissions must be in PDF format. Author names and affiliations shall not be suppressed on the title page of the paper.

Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories as follows:

Note that camera-ready copies will have the same formatting and size requirements. Thus, your submission should reflect the form that you anticipate your camera-ready copy will take.

Important note for LaTeX users: 1. Make sure that the "compsocconf" option is enabled in your LaTeX document as follows: \documentclass[10pt, conference, compsocconf]{IEEEtran}. 2. Some LaTeX editors (for example, TeXLive 2010) use a version of the IEEEtran class which has the same version number (1.7a) as the one provided by IEEE CS on their website, but different content. In this case, the IEEEtran class provided on the IEEE CS web site shall be used. You can easily test whether you got it right: if LaTeX typsets the title of your paper in 14 pt font, you are fine. If, however, the title is typset in 24 pt font, you are using the wrong version of the IEEEtran class or haven't enabled the "compsocconf" option. Use the template found in the IEEE CS LaTeX package as is and direct your editor to use the IEEEtran class contained in this package.

Submissions that do not comply with the foregoing instructions and size limits will be desk rejected without review.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the ICSE 2012 submission site (see table below).

All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 UTC/GMT - 11 hours (= Pago Pago, American Samoa time). Here you can find your local time for the four ICSE 2012 submission deadlines:
29 Sep 2011 -- 27 Oct 2011 -- 1 Dec 2011 -- 17 Feb 2012.
If you submit no later than on the day of the deadline, 23:59 your local time, you will always be on the safe side: there is no time zone worldwide in which a day ends later than in Pago Pago.

ICSE 2012 uses Precision for managing all submissions except workshop proposals, tutorial / technical briefing proposals, and ACM Student Research Competition submissions, which are managed in EasyChair. Before making a submission, you'll need to create an account first and enter your personal data. (If you already have an account from a previous submission, you can use your existing account. However, please update your personal data before submitting). Not only the submitting author, but also all co-authors should have an account. When you (and your co-authors) have an up-to-date account, log in and submit. In Precision, choose new submissions and then choose the track you want to submit to. In EasyChair, choose New Submission.

Before submitting, please verify that your paper is properly formatted according to the ICSE 2012 formatting instructions stated above. If you are using LaTeX for preparing your paper, particularly make sure that the "compsocconf" option is enabled in your document and that you have used the right IEEEtran class (see "Important note for LaTeX users" above).