Editorial: How to extend a conference paper to a journal paper
Jeff Offutt · Software Testing Verification and Reliability · 2016
presents a novel semi-supervised learning technique to predict where faults could be in software.(Recommended by Giuliano Antoniol.)Past-Free[ze] reachability analysis: Reaching further with DAG-directed exhaustive state-space analysis, by Ciprian Teodorov, Luka Le Roux, Zoé Drey, and Philippe Dhaussy, presents a new algorithm to perform reachability analysis in model checkers that significantly reduces the state-space explosion problem.(Recommended by Ronald Olsson.)In a previous editorial, I set out STVR's policy on extending conference papers to journal submissions [1].The major requirements are that the journal version must have at least 30% new material, the journal version must include a citation to the conference paper, and the journal version must discuss the conference paper and summarize the new material.Here I suggest some practical guidelines for how to do the extension.The extension should start with four broad changes: