Message from the General Chair and Program Co-Chairs IWSC 2023
2023
Message from the General Chair and Program Co-Chairs IWSC 2023Welcome to the 17 th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC2023).This year, we are colocating with the 39 th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023), and held in Bogota, Colombia.The workshop date is October 1, 2023.Software clone research is a very important area within software engineering research and practice.Software clones are often a result of copying and pasting as an act of ad-hoc reuse by programmers.Clones are not limited to only source code, and can occur at the software system (from simple statement sequences to blocks, methods, classes, source files, subsystems, models, architectures, etc) to the entire software ecosystem (inter-dependent software systems, libraries), and occur in all software artifacts (source code, binaries, configuration build files, models, requirements or architecture documentation, etc).This workshop seeks to discuss new and active results from the research community.As in previous years, we aimed at a combination of full research papers, position papers, and tool papers.Full research papers were expected to present novel research ideas and open issues, significant empirical studies, or important viewpoints on the field.Position papers raise new ideas and issues or describe early research achievements, emphasizing originality and potential to stimulate active discussion at the workshop.Finally, tool papers were to describe clone-related tools and their applications.