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ESEC/FSE'99 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering
Toulouse (France), Monday September 6th, 1999

Version 0.3 -- Latest Revision: June, 31th, 1999

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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 poorly documented code definitely requires support from tools as well as methodologies.

The Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering (WOOR) 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:

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 ESEC (ESEC'97) as well as other conferences (OOPSLA, ECOOP) show that it is possible to gather a group of about 15 researchers and practitioners for a whole day of fruitful discussions.

Submission of Position Papers

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 (<= 10 pages), 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.

Position papers will be collected in a technical report of TUV, so that references too the position papers will be possible.

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.

To submit a position paper, send HTML, pdf of postcript to demeyer@iam.unibe.ch. Send a separate mail with the abstract and the e-mail addresses of the authors and URL's of their home pages in plain ASCII. Submission guidelines at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~famoos/ESEC99/howtosubmit.html.

About the Organizers

Both organizers are participating in ESPRIT research projects concerning reengineering which are FAMOOS and ARES respectively.
Serge Demeyer
Serge Demeyer is a post-doctoral researcher at Software Composition Group (headed by Professor O. Nierstrasz and located in the University of Berne - Switzerland) where he serves as the technical leader of the ESPRIT project FAMOOS. He is active in the international object-oriented and hypermedia research communities. Among others, he is a member of a program committee (Webnet'99), he served twice as a workshop chair (Hypertext'99, ECOOP'98), he is or was involved in the organisation of several workshops (ECOOP'99 Workshop Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution; ESEC/FSE'97 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering; 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems) and he acted as a reviewer for many hypermedia and software engineering related conferences and journals. He completed his M.Sc. in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1996, both at the "Vrije Universiteit Brussel" (Belgium).
             e-mail: demeyer@iam.unibe.ch
Harald Gall
Harald Gall is currently program committee member of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000) and Program Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2000). His research interests are reengineering, software architecture, software maintenance and evolution, and object-oriented technologies. He was involved in the architecture recovery tasks of the ESPRIT project ARES  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, Austria, where he is currently assistant professor in the Distributed Systems Group.
             e-mail: H.Gall@infosys.tuwien.ac.at

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