Message-ID: <33786FED.39A3@iam.unibe.ch.be> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:43:09 +0200 From: Serge Demeyer Organization: University of Berne, Switzerland X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object,comp.software-eng Subject: CFP: Workshop on OO Reengineering Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: zipi.unibe.ch Lines: 156 Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news-zh.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!news.unibe.ch!zipi.unibe.ch Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.c++:261275 comp.lang.ada:67348 comp.lang.beta:11082 comp.lang.eiffel:29774 comp.lang.javascript:36251 comp.lang.smalltalk:61233 comp.object:71504 comp.software-eng:62336 [appologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ESEC/FSE'97 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering Zurich, Friday September 26, 1997 Version 1.0 -- Latest Revision: May, 14th, 1997 http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~famoos/ESEC97/ 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 1. 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. 2. 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]. 3. 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. 4. Be relevant. Propose an idea that is relevant to object-oriented re-engineering. Refer to the list of specific areas of interest. 5. 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. 6. 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://iamwww.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