3.2 Which of these are most common?
By far the most common kind of ICSE paper reports a new procedure or technique for development or analysis. Models of various degrees of precision and formality were also common, with better success rates for quantitative than for qualitative models. Tools and notations were well represented, usually as auxiliary results in combination with a procedure or technique. Table 4 gives the distribution of submissions to ICSE 2002, based on reading the abstracts (but not the papers), followed by graphs of the counts and distributions in Figures 3 and 4.
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