[ecoop-info] CfP: CSMR 2007 Tool Demonstrations

[Bart Du Bois]

                          - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -
                  CSMR 2007 TOOL DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS
    11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
         "Software evolution in Complex Software Intensive Systems"
                      http://www.cs.vu.nl/csmr2007

                March 21-23, 2007 Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


The European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), the
premier European conference on the theory and practice of maintenance,
reengineering and evolution of software systems, promotes discussion and
interaction among researchers and practitioners about the development of
maintainable systems, and the evolution, migration and reengineering of
existing ones.

The main theme of CSMR 2007 is "Software Evolution in Complex Software
Intensive Systems": how can we control the growth of software systems? In the
Tool Demonstration track, we wish to refine this theme by focusing on means for
pro-active software evolution control. Which approaches can help us in
preventing software evolution to get out of control?

The Tool Demonstration track provides an opportunity for presenting the current
non-commercialized research tools (and their prototypes) that assist in
controlling software evolution. While technical papers discuss algorithms and
approaches mostly from a theoretic perspective, the Tool Demonstration track
allows researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how
one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice.

The goal of the tool demonstration is to highlight innovative approaches to
issues highly relevant to controlling software evolution. The following list
clarifies the kind of tool demonstration subjects of particular interest to the
conference. However, this list is non-exhaustive. In fact, we stimulate
researchers to propose different topics, as long as the relationship with
software evolution is clear.
+ Software architecture recovery
+ Constraint checking
+ Impact analysis
+ Schema evolution
+ Static and dynamic analysis
+ Analysis of change history
+ Visualization
+ Quality measurement

*Submissions*
Describe your research tool (prototype) in a two page paper adhering to the
conference proceeding format. Briefly sketch the context of the tool's
application, describe the algorithm or approach demonstrated using the tool,
and clarify how the tool contributes to controlling software evolution. We
encourage you to highlight the innovation in your contribution by relating your
tool to existing work.

On a separate page, briefly discuss the scenario that will structure your
demonstration.

Send both the two page paper and separate demonstration scenario description
by mail to the Tool Chair: Bart Du Bois ( bart.dubois at ua.ac.be)

*Review*
A committee of Tool Demonstration reviewers will assess the novelty and
technical merit of your proposal, as well as the clarity in which it is
described and illustrated.

*Presentation*
Accepted two page papers will be published in the proceedings. Their
abstracts, accompanied with a link to the author's webpage, will be published
on the website.

Tools will be demonstrated in tool "fairs" during lunch time slots. These fairs
will be announced to the CSMR attendees during the plenary sessions.

*Important Dates*
Submission deadline:          Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:   Friday, November 17th, 2006
Camera-ready version:         Friday, December 1st, 2006

Kind regards,
-- 
Bart Du Bois
Lab On Reengineering
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Antwerp
Office location: CMI - G.2.22
Office phone: +32 3 265 34 05
URL: http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~bdubois

The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by
an ugly fact
-- Thomas H. Huxley