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ase-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an SE journal, and when distinguishing ASE by its automation-centric contribution shape, its tool/technique emphasis, and its AI4SE/SE4AI scope.
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# ASE Topic Selection
Decide the venue before drafting. ASE — the **IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
Software Engineering** — is the home for research that **automates** software-engineering tasks:
the analysis, design, implementation, testing, comprehension, and maintenance of software, and
increasingly the two-way street of AI for SE and SE for AI. Its reviewers read for a **technique or
tool that automates something**, evaluated on real subjects. A paper whose real center is a broad
empirical observation, a testing-theory result, or a pure ML advance is respected and then rejected
as off-center.
## The routing question that matters most
The decisive ASE question is not "is this SE?" but **"is the contribution an *automation* — a
technique or tool that does an SE task a human or a weaker tool did before?"** If the beating heart