Language

Papers are written in French or in English (English translations of title and abstract of papers written in French must be provided).

Audience

C&ESAR is aimed at the following audience of decision makers, practitioners and researchers:

• Decision makers interested in:
  • broad and well constructed overview of a problematic and its solutions;
• “technology scouts” of operational units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of practice (what others in the same domain do),
  • identifying recent mature technologies that may help solving some of their operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of innovation units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of the art in their specialty,
  • knowing more about the operational problems addressed by others in their community,
  • identifying recent to be matured technologies that may help solving some of their operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of research units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of the art in specialties related to their own,
  • identifying operational problems related to their research specialties

Selection criteria

For all types of papers, selection criteria include in particular: fitness for the audience; clarity; pedagogical (didactical) value; and respect of this call for papers topic and guidelines.

For regular papers and short papers, the work described must be unpublished and innovative. Highly specialized technical papers will be appreciated if they contribute to explain and analyze the state of the art or practice and their deficiencies.

For SoK papers, the report of the state of the scientific and industrial literature on the topic addressed must be quite thorough, and a synthesis must accompany this analysis.

For replication papers, the work replicated must be clearly identified and cited. They must bring added value compared to the publications of the original work replicated. This added value can take many different forms, such as: at the clarity level, by providing a better explanation of the work; at the pedagogical level, by providing additional explanations facilitating the replication; at the scientific level, by exploring the limitations of the original work, or by replicating it in a different setting.

For extended abstracts, the original publication must be clearly identified and cited. Moreover, the selection process is more selective, and emphasizes the didactical quality and large audience of the papers.

For practice papers, the work described must be of special interest for the intended audience of C&ESAR. The selection process emphasizes the didactical quality and large audience of the papers.