Letter from the SIGSOFT Chair

Dear SIGSOFT Community,

I am happy to announce a new slate of SIGSOFT volunteers:

• Industry Co-Liaison: Nachi Nagappan, Meta, USA and Xin Xia, Huawei Technologies, China
• Conference Sustainability Liaison: Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii, USA
• Social Media Chair: Judith Michael, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Digital Learning Chair: Sridhar Chimalakonda, IIT Tirupati, India and Andrew Begel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• CAPS Co-Chair: Zhiyuan Wan, Zhejiang University, China and Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno, Italy
• Information Director: Yongqiang Tian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing group of volunteers for their outstanding service to the SIGSOFT community:

• Tao Xie, Peking University, China for his role as History Liaison
• Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen’s University, Canada for his role as Industry Liaison
• Shane McIntosh, McGill University, Canada and Venera Arnaoudova, Washington State University for their roles as Digital Learning Co-Chairs
• Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany for his role as Climate Change Liaison
• Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan for his role as Information Director
• Sridhar Chimalakonda, IIT Tirupati, India for his role as Social Media Chair

On a different topic, let me use this opportunity to thank the outstanding teams that organized large conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by SIGSOFT:

FSE’24 (July 2024):

• Marcelo d’Amorim, North Carolina State University, USA (General Chair)
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Conference and Local Organization Chair)
• David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (Program Co-Chair)
• Lin Tan, Purdue University, USA (Program Co-Chair)

ISSTA’24 (September 2024):

• Maria Christakis, TU Wein, Austria (General Chair)
• Michael Pradel, University of Stuttgart, Germany (PC Chair)

MODELS’24 (September 2024):

• Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (General Co-Chair)
• Manuel Wimmer, JKU Linz, Austria (General Co-Chair)
• Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada (Program Co-Chair)
• Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, INRIA, CNRS, IRISA, France (Program Co-Chair)

ASE’24 (October 2024):

• Vladimir Filkov, University of California at Davis, USA (General Chair)
• Baishakhi Ray, Columbia University, New York and AWS AI Lab, USA (Program Co-Chair)
• Minghui Zhou, Peking University, China (Program Co-Chair)

ESEM’24 (October 2024):

• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain (General Chair)
• Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands (Program Co-Chair)
• Silverio Martínez-Fernández, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain (Program Co-Chair)

And of course I look forward to seeing everyone at the ICSE’25 Town Hall in Ottawa.

In terms of the announcements,

ACM Open. Following a strong request from the community, ACM has made a final decision to switch to open access for its Digital Library on January 1, 2026. For more information, please refer to https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/acmopen. TL;DR: to publish in ACM conferences after January 1, 2026, every research paper should either have a contact author whose institution signed an ACM Open agreement or it needs to be accompanied by an APC charge (around 700 US for ACM members). We will discuss the implications of this transition some more at the ICSE’25 Town Hall. Note that currently four conferences, ASE, MODELS, ICSE and ESEM, which are co-sponsored by ACM and IEEE, alternate years between publication in ACM and in IEEE, and the changes directly affect only the years when ACM is the administrative lead.

A conference sustainability initiative. Please refer to https://sigsoft.medium.com/a-conference-sustainability-initiative-a79aec00fbba.

A heads up for a call for summer/winter schools — we will launch a call for 2025–26 summer/winter schools in early 2025. Please keep a look out for further details on SIGSOFT social media channels and SEWORLD. Last year’s call is available at: https://sigsoft.medium.com/2024-25-summer-winter-schools-call-for-proposals-01ce7b1972cd

Thank you!

Marsha Chechik

Chair, SIGSOFT