ICSME is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order):

• Change and defect management

• Code cloning and provenance

• Concept and feature location

• Continuous integration/deployment

• Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution

• Evolution of non-code artefacts

• Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution

• Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods

• Maintenance and evolution processes

• Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps

• Maintenance versus release process

• Mining software repositories

• Productivity of software engineers

• Release engineering

• Reverse engineering and re-engineering

• Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration

• Service oriented and cloud computing

• Software and system comprehension

• Software migration and renovation

• Software quality assessment

• Software refactoring and restructuring

• Software testing