Submissions to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. The proceedings  are planned  to  be published in EPTCS (to be confirmed).

Contributions  can be submitted as Short Paper (8 pages) or Full Paper (16 pages).  Position papers (4 pages) are encouraged.    Papers should be written in English a in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org  for details). Submission should be made through the IMPEX 2018 submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/? conf=impex2018), handled by the EasyChair conference management system.

Authors of selected papers from IMPEX 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version for the  journal ISSE Springer . However, such an invitation does not imply acceptance of the paper. All the submissions will be evaluated following the guidelines set by the journal. Only those which satisfy all the criteria will be accepted for publication.