Travel Support
Program to facilitate Presenting of Papers in International Conferences of
Repute in Software Engineering by Indian Students and Faculty
In order to encourage the R&D
in Software Engineering in India, it is important that papers from India are
also presented in recognized Software Engineering conferences internationally. Besides
a few esteemed institutions like IITs, the research activities in Software
Engineering need to be boosted in other Indian technical universities/institutions.
To motivate the researchers for better quality research and facilitate the
presentation of papers from Indian academia in recognized conferences, SIGSE
has developed a financial support program for faculty and students to go and
present papers in international conferences. Details of the program are given
below.
Program Overview
·
Only
a limited number of travel support fellowships are available. The number will
change from time to time depending on the funds available.
·
It
is open to only SIGSE members, who are either students or faculty members in institutes/colleges/universities
in
·
SIGSE
execom members are not eligible for this support.
·
Support
is partial and will be given only if the applicant has an accepted paper in one of the reputed conferences (see below) and
for the purpose of going to the conference to present the paper (i.e. the
author seeking support must present the paper). Papers accepted for poster
presentation are not eligible.
·
Support
for students will be limited to Rs 75,000, and support for faculty members will
be limited to Rs 100,000 (including travel, registration, and boarding/lodging).
·
A
member can avail of this support at most once in two years, and no more than
three times in all.
Application is to be sent by email
to the Chairman of the executive committee of SIGSE. The title of the email
should be “Application to SIGSE for conference travel support”. The email
should mention the name of the conference, particulars about the applicant including
name, current position and for how long in this position. The email must also have
an attachment a file giving the complete paper including title, abstract, and
complete list of authors with their affiliations (include contact numbers,
email, and mailing addresses). It should also have another pdf
file attachment which is a scanned letter from the parent organization,
supporting the request and specifying how much support the organization is
willing to provide. In addition, the applicant must forward the acceptance
email/letter from conference organizers, including the reviews from the
conference.
Procedure for Intimation and Claiming the funds
·
The
SIGSE executive-committee will take the decision, and this decision will
be final. At the end of each month, the executive committee will consider all
applications. Preference will be given to higher-ranking conferences.
·
Intimation
will be done by email (most of the correspondences will be done by email)
·
All
payments will be made directly by CSI. An advance of 50% of the award amount
may be requested. The balance will be paid after the conference attendance and submitting
the details with production of original receipts.
Only reputed conferences in
Software Engineering and its sub-areas will be considered (workshops will generally
not be considered). Generally the conferences that satisfy the following
criteria will be considered as reputed.
·
It
is sponsored by a major International organization like IEEE or ACM
·
Is
indexed in DBLP
·
Have
been regularly running for at least five years
·
Has
an accept rate of less than 33%
Some
conferences that satisfy these criteria are given below, though the
applications need not be limited to these only.
Rank #1
ICSE: International
Conference on Software Engineering (15%)
FSE Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (17%)
OOPSLA: Object-Oriented
Programming Systems, Languages,
and Applications (17%)
Rank #2
FM/FME: Formal
Methods, World Congress/Europe (23%)
ECOOP: European
Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (16%)
CAV: Computer Aided Verification (29%)
RE: International
Conference on Requirements Engineering (12%)
ASE: International
Conference on Automated Software Engineering (18%)
WWW: International
World Wide Web Conferences (15%)
TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(22%)
AOSD:
International conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (18%)
ESEC: European
Software Engineering Conference (21%)
ISSTA: International
symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (21%)
ICSM: International
Conference on Software Maintenance (21%)
FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (21%)
APSEC:
Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (27%)
CBSE:
International Symposium Component-Based Software Engineering (29%)
MODELS:
International Conference on the Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
(27%)
ISSRE:
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (33%)