Pains and Gains of Peer- Reviewing in Software Engineering

ACM SIGSOFT SEN's column on "Pains and Gains of Peer-Reviewing in Software Engineering" aims at fostering an open, constructive, and lively discussion on the peer-reviewing currently adopted by SE venues, e.g., how to further enhance them and make them sustainable on the long run. This fifth editorial introduces a new contribution to the column, which provides a journal-centric perspective on the topic.

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Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ◽

10.1145/3417564.3417568 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 18-18

Author(s):

Robert M. Hierons ◽

Tao Xie

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Peer Reviewing

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Pains and Gains of Peer-Reviewing in Software Engineering (4)

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ◽

10.1145/3437479.3437480 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 8-8

Author(s):

Jacopo Soldani

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Peer Reviewing

The "Pains and Gains of Peer-Reviewing in Software Engineering" column of SEN aims at fostering a constructive and stimulating discussion on peer-reviewing in software engineering venues. This fourth editorial introduces a new contribution to the column, which reports on the recently released ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards for evaluating specific kinds of studies.

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Pains and Gains of Peer-Reviewing in Software Engineering (3)

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ◽

10.1145/3417564.3417567 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 17-17

Author(s):

Jacopo Soldani

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Peer Reviewing

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Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ◽

10.1145/3468744.3468748 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 15-16

Author(s):

Nenad Medvidović

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Associate Editor ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

Track Record ◽

Major Journal ◽

Peer Reviewing ◽

Additional Sign

A young software engineering researcher is invited to be an associate editor (AE) of a major journal in our field. The researcher is very excited. By this point, she has amassed a nice career track-record. She has also been recognized via a number of invitations to serve on our conferences' program committees. But this somehow feels different and more important: there are multiple conferences each year, and all of them have PCs staffed with dozens of members (not uncommonly over 100 in recent years), while there are comparatively fewer journals and, at any point in time, the sizes of their editorial boards are a fraction of a typical conference PC. This is a major additional sign of recognition of the young researcher's expertise and stature in the community. So, the researcher quickly and enthusiastically accepts the invitation.

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Pains and Gains of Peer-Reviewing in Software Engineering (2)

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ◽

10.1145/3402127.3402132 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 15-15

Author(s):

Jacopo Soldani

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Peer Reviewing

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Abstraction: An alternative neurocognitive account of recognition, prediction, and decision making

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003017 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Valerie F. Reyna ◽

David A. Broniatowski

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Software Engineering ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Trace Theory ◽

Fuzzy Trace Theory ◽

Abstract Representations ◽

Technical Systems

Abstract Gilead et al. offer a thoughtful and much-needed treatment of abstraction. However, it fails to build on an extensive literature on abstraction, representational diversity, neurocognition, and psychopathology that provides important constraints and alternative evidence-based conceptions. We draw on conceptions in software engineering, socio-technical systems engineering, and a neurocognitive theory with abstract representations of gist at its core, fuzzy-trace theory.

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