- Department of electrical engineering York University in Toronto (Prof. Maleknaz Nayebi)
- École de technologie supérieure (Prof Segla KPODJEDO)
- Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory – University of Calgary (Dr. Guenther
Ruhe)
- Department of computer science – University of Victoria (Prof. Daniel German)
- Washington State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Prof Venera Arnaoudova);
- Department of Computer Science – The University of Texas at Dallas (Prof Andrian
Marcus);
- College of Engineering Computer Science – University of Kentucky (Prof. Jane Huffman
Hayes).
- Department of Computer Science – Kent State University (Prof Jonathan Maletic)
- Computer Science Department – The College of William and Mary (Prof Denys Poshyvanyk)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy (Angelo Susi);
- DISI – Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione – Univesity of Genova, Italy (Prof Filippo Ricca)
- Software Engineering Research Group – University of Sannio, Italy (Prof Massimiano di Penta, Prof Gerardo Canfora, Prof Giuseppe di Lucca)
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio – University of Molise, Italy (Prof Rocco Oliveto)
- Software Engineering Lab – Department of Management and Information Technology – University of Salerno, Italy (Prof Andrea De Lucia)
- The software evolution and architecture lab – University of Zurich, Swiss (Prof. Harald Gall)
- The Software Systems Engineering Group – Department of Computer Science – University College London, UK (Prof. Mark Harman);