ESEC/FSE'97
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ESEC/FSE'97 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering
Zurich, Friday September 26, 1997
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~famoos/ESEC97/
Version 1.0 -- Latest Revision: May, 14th, 1997
Objective
The ability to reengineer object-oriented legacy systems has
become a vital matter in today's software industry. Early
adopters of the object-oriented programming paradigm are now facing
the problem of transforming their object-oriented "legacy"
systems into full-fledged frameworks. Dealing with programs exceeding
10,000 lines of badly documented code definitely requires support from
tools as well as methodologies.
The Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering wants to
gather people working on solutions for object-oriented legacy
systems. We explicitly solicit experience reports from the software
industry as well as contributions from tool producers and methodology
providers. The workshop itself will be set up as a forum for
exchanging experiences, discussing solutions, and exploring new
ideas.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Experience reports from object-oriented reengineering projects
- Methods and techniques
- Tool-support
- Metrics and evaluation
- Migration to object-oriented frameworks
- Migration from procedural implementations
- Object-oriented schema integration
- Architectural issues
- Object-oriented analysis and design issues
- Design patterns in reengineering practices
ESEC/FSE'97
The Workshop is organised in conjunction with the "Sixth European
Software Engineering Conference / Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering" Conference, to be held in Zurich -
Switzerland from September 22-25, 1997.
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/congress/esec97.html
Intended Audience
The workshop is intended for software engineering professionals
with experience in object-oriented reengineering; either people who
are actively engaged in reengineering projects, or people who develop
methodologies and tools. Similar workshops held at other conferences
(OOPSLA'95, OOPSLA'96, ECOOP'97),
show that it is possible to gather a group of about 10 persons for a
whole day of fruitful discussions.
Preparation
In order to make efficient use of the one day we have at our
disposal, we want to pay special attention to the preparation of the
workshop. We request each participant to submit a position paper in
advance, so that all participants can get acquinted with the ideas
that exist within the group. Each participant is supposed to read all
the submitted material, so that the workshop itself can be devoted to
discussion instead of presentations. Submissions will be made
electronically to facilitate the rapid exchange of information.
The upper limit for the number of participants is 20 and the
particpants will be selected on the basis of the submitted
material. The maximum number of particpants per position paper is
limited to 2.
Important Dates
- Friday, 27.07.97: Submission of position papers due.
- Friday, 15.08.97: Notification of acceptance.
- Monday, 01.09.97: Preliminary Program available.
- Friday, 26.09.97: Workshop on OO Renginerring
Submission Guidelines
- Be standard.
There is lot's of work on re-engineering out there, which gives rise to
some terminology conflicts. We encourage people to use the
re-engineering taxonomy defined in Reverse Engineering and Design
Recovery : A Taxonomy by E.J. Chikofsky and J.H. Cross II -- IEEE
Software, January 1990. Check
http://www.tcse.org/revengr/taxonomy.html for an online summary.
- Be electronic. Submit your position paper in HTML
(preferably), postcript or PDF, so that we can collect all of the
submissions on a web-site. A separate abstract including the e-mail
addresses of the authors and URL's of their home pages MUST be
submitted in HTML.
Submit everything by e-mail to [
demeyer@iam.unibe.ch].
- Be focussed.
Propose only one idea. We all know that you are a quality researcher
with plenty of good ideas. Only, we have limited resources and we must
focus. Please keep all position papers under five pages.
- Be relevant.
Propose an idea that is relevant to object-oriented
re-engineering. Refer to the list of specific areas
of interest.
- Be innovative.
Propose some recent idea that still has some unfinished sides to it. It
is supposed to be a WORKshop, not a mini-conference.
- Be a rebel.
Neglect these guidelines if you feel that your idea needs
a special treatment in some way.
About the Organizers
The organizers of the workshop are from the University of Berne,
Switzerland and the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. Serge
Demeyer, from the University of Berne, is a member of the Software Composition Group
headed by Professor
O. Nierstrasz. Harald Gall, from the Technical University of
Vienna, is a member of the Distributed Systems
Group headed by Professor
M. Jazayeri. Both groups are participating in ESPRIT research
projects concerning reengineering which are FAMOOS and ARES
respectively.
- Serge Demeyer
- Serge Demeyer research focuses primarily on possible
cross-fertilizations between the software engineering and
hypermedia domains. He is currently the co-ordinator of the FAMOOS reengineering
project at the University of Berne. Serge Demeyer co-organised the
'2nd Workshop on
Open Hypermedia Systems' and participated in many other Open
Hypermedia Workshops. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1997)
from the 'Vrije Universiteit
Brussel' - Belgium.
-
demeyer@iam.unibe.ch
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~demeyer/
- Harald Gall
- Harald Gall is currently program committee member of the 1997
Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '97), the 1997
Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC '97) and the ICSE'97
Workshop on Migration Strategies for Legacy Systems. His research interests
include reengineering, software architecture, and object-oriented technologies.
He is currently involved in the architecture recovery tasks of the ARES
project and in the object-oriented re-architecturing project CORET.
He holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technical
University of Vienna.
-
H.Gall@infosys.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/hg/mypage.html
ESEC/FSE'97
| OO Reengineering Workshop
| CFP
| E-mail