ACM and IEEE–CS are co-sponsors of the ESEM, the International Symposium on Software Engineering and Measurement. They support the organization of the ESEM conference through their review and approval of the budget for each conference. The ESEM Steering Committee is responsible for constituting and guiding each edition of the conference and for establishing and evaluating practices that are binding upon the organizers of each conference for the continued technical and financial success of ESEM.