[ecoop-info] Workshop on Software Evolution

[Kim Mens]

Third International ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution (2007)
Friday 5 October 2007, Paris, France
Co-located with ICSM 2007
www.planet-evolution.org/events/evol2007.html

Workshop Objectives

The aim of the third edition of this annual international event of the
ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution is to bring together people
   from academia and industry to identify and discuss recent  
advancements
and emerging trends in the state-of-the-art in research and practice in
the evolution of large and complex software systems. Contributions can
either be fundamental in nature (e.g., what are the laws governing
software evolution), or can be pragmatic (e.g., how can we provide
evolution support through formalisms, languages, techniques and tools
that scale up to industrial-size software applications; what are
industrial best practices w.r.t. software evolution). They can be either
narrow or broad in scope, and can be addressed at a short, medium or
long term.

Tentative workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
     * Application areas of software evolution: embedded systems, real-
time
systems, web services, ultra large scale systems (ULS), software
architectures, mobile and ambient computing, ...
     * Software evolution in different paradigms: aspect-oriented =20
software
development (AOSD), component-based software development (CBSD),
model-driven software engineering (MDE), service-oriented architectures
(SOA), agile software development, agent-oriented programming, ...
     * Technical aspects of software evolution: co-evolution,
inconsistency
management, software configuration management, software versioning and
release histories, impact analysis and change propagation, software
variability, ...
     * Dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration, run-time software =20
evolution
     * The relation between software evolution and software quality:
refactoring and restructuring, software metrics, quality improvement,
verification, validation and testing of evolving software
     * Empirical studies in software evolution, evolution of open source
software
     * Industrial experience (bad practices and best practices) in
software
evolution
     * Managerial aspects of software evolution: evolution processes,  
=20
cost
and effort estimation, risk analysis

General Chair: Tom Mens (Universit=8E de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium & INRIA
Futurs, Lille, France)
Co-organisers: Maja D'Hondt, Kim Mens, Ellen Van Paesschen
Programme committee:
     * Giulio Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montr=8Eeal, Canada
     * Artur Boronat, University of Valencia, Spain
     * Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
     * Bart Du Bois, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
     * Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
     * St=8Eephane Ducasse, Universit=8E=E9 de Savoie, France
     * Jean-Marie Favre, Universit=8E=E9 de Grenoble, France
     * Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
     * Martin Grosse-Rhode, Fraunhofer-ISST, Berlin, Germany
     * Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
     * Patrick Heymans, Universit=8E=E9 de Namur (FUNDP), Belgium
     * Mehdi Jazayeri, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
     * Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
     * Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
     * Salah Sadou, Universit=8E=E9 de Bretagne Sud, France
     * Dalila Tamzalit, Universit=8E=E9 de Nantes, France
     * Tom Tourw=8E=E9, Eindhoven University of Technology, The =
Netherlands
     * Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
     * Roel Wuyts, Universit=8E=E9 Libre de Bruxelles and IMEC, Belgium

Participation

The workshop will be organised as a series of presentations and tool
demonstrations, with plenty of room for discussions. Participation is
free of charge, but is subject to acceptance of a submitted tool
demonstration or position paper of about 10 pages. All submissions will
be reviewed by the programme committee, and accepted contributions will
be collected in the informal workshop proceedings. Revised versions of
selected workshop papers will be published in the open-access journal
Electronic Communications of the EASST (ISSN 1863-2122).

Important dates
     * Submission deadline: Monday 25 June 2007
     * Notification of acceptance: Monday 20 August 2007
     * Workshop date: Friday 5 October 2007

Sponsors
     * FNRC/FRFC Research Center on Structural Software Improvement
     * European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
(ERCIM)
     * Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
(INRIA)

For more information,
consult our website
www.planet-evolution.org/events/evol2007.html