https://conf.researchr.org/track/ase-2021/ase-2021-nier-track Might be interesting to folks here - The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ASE (Automated software engineering) provides a vibrant forum for forward looking, innovative research in software engineering. The main goal of the NIER track is to accelerate the exposure of the software engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, techniques and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline. The potential types of papers could be: • Visionary forward looking research: exciting new directions or techniques that may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results, but nonetheless supported by strong and well argued scientific intuitions. • Thought provoking reflections: bold and unexpected results and reflections that can help us look at current research directions under a new light, calling for fundamentally new directions of future research.

So this is literally a conference named Nier: Automata. 😆