Thank you to all IWSC 2023 participants!

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We hope to see all of you as well as new participants at IWSC2024!

Best Paper Award 🎉

Reishi Yokomori and Katsuro Inoue.
An Empirical Analysis of Code Clone Authorship in Apache Projects

People's Choice Award 🎉

Palash Roy, Ajmain Alam, Farouq Al-Omari, Banani Roy, Chanchal Roy and Kevin Schneider.
Unveiling the potential of large language models in generating semantic and cross-language clones

Student Encourgement Award 🎉

Palash Roy
Unveiling the potential of large language models in generating semantic and cross-language clones

Clones Lifetime Achievement Award 🎉

Professor Chanchal K. Roy.


Software clones are often a result of copying and pasting as an act of ad-hoc reuse by programmers. This was often seen at the project-level, however, due to emerging technology stacks, developers and researchers are paying attention to the ecosystem-level. Hence, the software cloning community is extending target topics to include various types of software clones at the ecosystem level, with examples such as project cloning, clones in ecosystems, project similarity and so on.

Clones are not limited to only source code, and can occur at the software system (from simple statement sequences to blocks, methods, classes, source files, subsystems, models, architectures, etc) to the entire software ecosystem (inter-dependent software systems, libraries), and occur in all software artifacts (source code, binaries, configuration build files, models, requirements or architecture documentation, etc ). Software clone research is of high relevance for software engineering research and practice today.

IWSC series of events has provided a common forum for this important research area as it continues to grow in application breadth and technical depth. IWSC aims to bring researchers and practitioners to evaluate the current state of research, discuss common problems and emerging directions. Also, we are interested in discussing and spreading practical applications of clone technologies. Further details about are here on this website IWSC 2023

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

A partial list of the topics is as follows:

  • Techniques and studies of clone detection, search, analysis, and management
  • Cloning at the ecosystem-level
  • Role of clones in software system evolution
  • Tools and systems for detecting software clones
  • Use cases for clones and clone management in the software lifecycle
  • Experiences with clones and clone management in practice
  • Types and nature of clones in software systems
  • Clone evolution and variation
  • Causes and effects of clones
  • Clone and clone pattern visualization
  • System architecture and clones
  • Effect of clones to system complexity and quality
  • Clone analysis in families of similar systems
  • Measures of clone similarity
  • Economic and trade-off models for clone management
  • Evaluation and benchmarking of detection methods
  • Licensing and plagiarism issues
  • Clone-aware software design and development
  • Refactoring through clone analysis
  • Other applications of clone detection and analysis

Latest news

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IWSC2023 will be held in room RGD 005, which is located in the RGD building on campus, also known as Centro Civico.
The bus will pick people up behind the Ibis Hotel and leave for the conference venue at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday. Coffee will be available all day at the conference, and the registration desk opens at 8 a.m.
The bus will take people back to their hotels at 8 p.m. on Sunday, after the joint reception between IWSC, VISSOFT, and SCAM.

Upcoming deadlines

Abstract Deadline: Aug 12 (Sat), 2023 (extended!)
Paper Deadline: Aug 12 (Sat), 2023 (extended!)
Author Notification: Aug 22 (Tue), 2023
Camera Ready Deadline: Aug 26 (Sat), 2023, (Hard deadline)

All dates are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12h)

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