Message from the chairs

ICSE 2013, the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering, was held May 18-26, 2013 in San Francisco, California, USA. The main conference of ICSE 2013 is a three-day event with keynotes, multiple tracks, award sessions, and social events. In addition, four days of pre-conference and two days of post-conference meetings include workshops, tutorials, collocated events, a trip to visit some Silicon Valley companies, and a variety of smaller meetings. The Technical Research Paper track provides participants an opportunity to hear and discuss innovative results and evaluations in software engineering research. This year, the track received a record number of 461 submissions, of which five were withdrawn and 10 (2%) were rejected without review due to scope or length issues. In the first phase of reviewing, two members of the 47-member program committee reviewed each of the remaining 446 submissions. Based on these reviews, 223 submissions (48.3%) were promoted to the second phase of reviewing, in which each submission received a third review from a member of the program committee. The international program committee selected 85 papers (18.5%) for publication and presentation at the conference. The Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track provides a dedicated forum for practitioners to share ideas and solutions that address industrial challenges. 100 papers were submitted and reviewed by the SEIP program committee, leading to the acceptance of 20 papers. The Software Engineering in Education (SEE) track presents novel ways to teach software engineering. There are three paper sessions, Teaching Introductory Courses, Advanced Software Engineering Education, and Problem-Based and Studio Learning. There were 49 papers submitted with 13 acceptances, including the Panel, for a 26% acceptance rate. The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track received 162 submissions, from which 147 fit the call for papers. There were 31 papers (22%) selected as part of the - rogram.