ICESEA 2020 : International Conference on Empirical Software Engineering and Applications is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Empirical Software Engineering and Applications. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Empirical software engineering
• Advanced empirical software engineering
• Experimentation in software engineering
• Programming languages and formal methods
• Methodologies for collecting valid software engineering data
• Analyzing medium scale software development
• Software process evolution
• Learning organizations and experience factory
• Technical developments and empirical studies
• Personal opinion surveys
• The focus group method as an empirical tool in software engineering
• Simulation methods
• Statistical methods and measurement
• Missing data in software engineering
• Reporting experiments in software engineering
• A practical guide to ethical research involving humans
• Selecting empirical methods for software engineering research
• Building theories in software engineering
• Building theories from multiple evidence sources
• Replication's role in software engineering