BENEVOL (BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution symposium) accepts papers in two categories: position papers (about early research and work in progress where you want some feedback from the community) and publication summaries (overview of research results already published or ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal). Prospective speakers are invited to submit their paper (max 4 pages main text + 2 pages of references), marking explicitly which category it belongs to. Based on these submissions, the organisation will invite the selected papers and devise a program with plenty of discussions. These papers will undergo a mild yet constructive review. We explicitly solicit papers in the early stages of research, which are still rather rough at the edge and would benefit from feedback of the community. Position papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, assessing whether the paper is within the scope of BENEVOL (i.e. software evolution). After reviewing, authors will be asked to improve their papers and submit a camera ready version. These papers will not receive reviews. The organisation committee will assess whether the paper is within the scope of BENEVOL (i.e. software evolution). Particular interest will be for publication summaries who try to provoke discussion, try challenging new avenues. We assign a senior researcher from the community as the opponent who will challenge the paper during the discussion round. This is meant to be a pleasant discussion for both the presenter and the opponent, with a goal that all the starting PhD students understand what scholarly discussion is about. This year, the 16th edition of the BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution symposium (BENEVOL 2017) took place at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. We received 16 position papers and 07 publication summaries for presentation at BENEVOL 2017.
Website http://ansymore.uantwerpen.be/events/benevol2017 Organisation Committee - Serge Demeyer - Ali Parsai - Gulsher Laghari - Brent van Bladel Program Committee