[ecoop-info] CFP RE4APM - ICSM 2007 Working Session

Wed Jul 4 14:29:45 CEST 2007

CALL FOR  PAPERS

First International Working Session on 

Reverse Engineering techniques for Application Portfolio Management

 (RE4APM 2007)

Paris October 5, 2007

Co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software
Maintenance (ICSM 2007) 

http://icsm07.ai.univ-paris8.fr/

For more  Information:

 http://essere.disco.unimib.it/reverse/re4apm.html

Working Session Description and Goals

The main goal of the working session is to discuss the main issues and
critical problems involved in Application Portfolio Management (APM), which
can be supported through advanced reverse engineering techniques and to
promote interactions among the international community both from
Universities and industry.

APM has been defined by Forrester Research analysts as:

"A set of technologies that reads source code artifacts from across the
enterprises, records the relationships between them in a knowledge base and
augments the knowledge base with business information to develop management
intelligence about applications" (Forrester Research Inc, APM Tools).

>From this definition it is easy to see how the area of reverse engineering
can be of great support at different levels and in different phases of the
transformation cycle performed during APM.

APM plays a strategic role within IT departments. The analysis of millions
of lines of code that make up legacy applications delivers value at many
levels for the IT departments. There is a combination of factors that raises
the issue of how and why large organizations should assess the need of
efficient APM.

The aim of the workshop is to explore and discuss experiences and new ideas
on how techniques, tools and methodologies proposed in reverse engineering
can be used to enhance the different activities involved in APM. These
activities include program comprehension, complexity and quality analysis,
maintenance support, software architecture reconstruction, legacy
modernization and transformation to IT governance, activity planning and
application management and assessment.

The working session aims to discuss how applications operate, what
maintenance effort is required, how to make strategic decisions on the
future of the portfolio, how to evaluate the ROI adopting APM, how to
mitigate coordination and communication problems driven by outsourcing. 

Working session topics: 

.           Evaluation criteria for IT portfolio management

.           Evaluation of metrics collection tools, metrics-based
reengineering

.           Products vs. projects portfolio management

.           Portfolio-based approach in changing decision making

.           Software architecture reconstruction

.           Migrating legacy components towards SOA

.           Application assessment

.           Application outsourcing and business process outsourcing

.           Business/IT alignment

.           APM to support IT governance

.           Metadata profiling

.           Quality of service reverse engineering

.           Process and data mining

.           Ontologies for reverse engineering

.           Data reverse engineering

.           From relational schema to high level conceptual schema

.           Quantitative analysis of long-term evolution of software systems

.           Source code analysis, program comprehension

.           Software quality management

.           Integration and migration issues 

.           Reengineering, refactoring techniques

.           Legacy transformation and modernization

.           Measures for maintenance efforts

.           Quantitative and qualitative analysis of large software systems
and repositories

Working Session Format and Organization

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We actively seek a format which emphasizes fruitful interactions and
discussions. This typically involves brief presentations of position papers
in order to leave more time for discussions on the new ideas, projects and
research directions proposed. To ensure lively discussion and encourage the
exchange of ideas among the participants, a community Wiki has been created
and all the accepted contributions will be made available in advance over
the Web. 

The working session will be a half day meeting and will start with an
invited talk, which aims to introduce some of the main critical issues on
Reverse Engineering techniques for Application Portfolio Management.
Afterwards, the working session will be devoted to the paper presentations
and to the interchange of ideas among participants. The session will end
with a discussion to summarize the open issues as well as to establish new
collaborations between research groups by maintaining the working session
community Wiki.

Information for Authors, Submission & Selection Process 

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We are soliciting research papers, experience reports and position papers
that concisely describe ongoing works, new ideas, tool demonstrations, etc.
Submissions will be evaluated on their relevance to the workshop and on
their potential for fostering new research activities and innovative
approaches on key workshop topics. Papers must not have been previously
presented, published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. 

Submissions can be of two types: position papers of at most 8 pages in PDF
format or very short papers (e.g. 2-4 pages) along with a detailed slides
presentation in PDF format. The first page of each submission must include
the following information: title of the paper; name(s) and affiliation(s) of
the author(s); postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address of
the corresponding author. 

Accepted contributions will be made available on the working session website
in advance (http://essere.disco.unimib.it/re4apm/wiki). Informal proceedings
will be available during the workshop. Best papers and presentations will be
selected for consideration to be published in a special journal issue, after
a review process of the extended version of each selected contribution.
Moreover, a web-based archived e-mailing list will be used to continue
discussions after the workshop, as well as a dedicated forum (or possibly a
website) to share ideas and resources and to maintain a long-term community
Wiki.

Important Dates 

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Submission deadline:  September 10th, 2007

Notification date: 20th September, 2007

Publication of the program: 28th September, 2007

Workshop date: October 5th, 2007

Submission address: 

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re4apm at disco.unimib.it 

Community Wiki: http://essere.disco.unimib.it/re4apm/wiki

Workshop Committee

Tonino Amadori, CSC, Italy

Francesca Arcelli, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Franco Bernasconi, MicroFocus, Italy

Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Masafumi Kotami, IBM Tokyo, Japan

Erald Kulk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Andrea Monti, EDS, Italy

Remo Pareschi, Nexus Global Partners, Italy

Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano, Italy

Claudio Riva, Nokia, Finland

Richard M. Soley, OMG, USA

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