Introduction

Deep learning (DL) is fundamentally intertwined with software engineering (SE). The application of DL to a computational problem represents a new programming paradigm: rather than developing a program in code, a program is “learned” from large-scale datasets. This can be referred to as SE for DL. On the other hand, DL techniques can be used to automate or improve existing SE tasks. This is referred to as DL for SE. In this case, DL systems can be viewed as an inflection point for software development, as they enable new capabilities that cannot be realized cost-effectively through “traditional” software wherein the behavior of a program must be specified analytically. There currently exists an unprecedented amount of software data that is freely available in open-source software repositories. This data spans several software artifacts, from source code and test code, to requirements and issue tracker data. Given the effectiveness by which DL systems are able to learn representations from such largescale data corpora, there is ample opportunity to leverage DL techniques to help automate or improve a wide range of developer tasks. All these new forms of development carry with a new set of challenges that represent several opportunities for novel research.

Due to the rapid pace at which DL techniques have been adopted, we want to know the research's current successes, failures, and opportunities at the intersection of SE & DL. There is research on identifying that the most extensively investigated sub-processes are software testing and maintenance. In such sub-processes, DL models are widely used to process bug reports, malware classification, libraries, and commits recommendations generation. Some solutions are oriented to effort estimation, classifying software requirements, identifying GUI visual elements, identifying code authors, and the similarity of source codes, predicting and classifying defects, and analyzing bug reports in testing and maintenance processes. However, many open issues still remain to be investigated. How do researchers integrate DL into SE problems? Which SE phases are facilitated by DL? Do practitioners benefit from DL? How datasets are used to develop techniques for particular development tasks, and designing DL models that effectively capture the inherent structure present in a wide range of different software artifacts. The answers help practitioners and researchers develop practical DL models for SE tasks. In an effort to bring clarity to this crosscutting area of work, from its modern inception to the present, the goal of this workshop is to outline high-priority areas for crosscutting research that sits at the intersection of DL and SE.

Call for Paper

The topics of interest in the discussion are but not limited to:

• Intersection of DL and SE
• DL techniques used in SE
• DL-based models for software
• NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies for SE
• DL-based recommendation systems in SE
• DL components in software or systems
• Practicability in utilizing DL techniques for SE
• Effectiveness, efficiency, understandability, and testability of DL-based solutions
• DL techniques used to boost performance for various SE tasks
• The impact of DL model selection, optimization, and structure differences on SE
• Employment of neural networks on SE projects
• Best practices for building DL systems
• Software processes supported by DL models
• A set of current challenges remaining to be investigated

submission

We encourage submissions on the topics mentioned above with a page limit of max 8 pages, IEEE format. In addition, we will also allow position papers and short and demonstration papers of two to four pages.

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

Full papers (maximum of 8 pages, including references). Original research in the crosscutting area of SE&DL, either empirical, theoretical, or showing the practical experience of DL for SE, or SE for DL.

Short and demonstration papers (maximum of 4 pages, including references). Work that describes novel techniques, tools, ideas, and positions that have yet to be fully developed; or the potential applicability (or not) of the result in an industrial context.

Position papers (maximum of 2 pages, including references). Contributions that analyze trends in SE&DL and raise issues of importance. Position papers are intended to seed discussion and debate at the workshop, and thus will be reviewed with respect to relevance and their ability to spark discussions.

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Submissions are required in PDF format via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sedl2023.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: December 13, 2022 AoE
• Paper submission deadline: December 31, 2022 AoE
• Notifications: January 15, 2023
• Camera Ready: January 22, 2023
• Submission Page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sedl2023.

Organization

Steering Committee

Prof. Zhi Jin, Peking University, Beijing, China

Prof. Tong Li, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

Organizing Committee

Prof. Xuan Zhang, Yunnan University, Kunming, China ([email protected])

Prof. He Jiang,Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning, China

Prof. Yun Yang, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Prof. Xin Peng, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Program Committee

Dr. Rui Zhu, Yunnan University, Kunming, China ([email protected])

Peng Liang	Wuhan university, Wuhan, China
Lin Liu	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lin Shi	University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China
Xiaohong Chen	East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Rubing Huang	Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, China
Bo Yang	Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Program