=========================================================== WOOR 2007 =========================================================== Call for Contributions Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering

10th Anniversary Edition

http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/woor2007/ 30th of July 2007, Berlin, Germany ===========================================================

Hosted at the 21th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2007) http://2007.ecoop.org/ 30th of July-3 of August 2007, Berlin, Germany

Important Dates ---------------

Workshop contribution submission: 13th of May 2007. Notification of acceptance: 31st of May 2007. Publication of the program: 15th of June 2007 Workshop date: 30th of July 2007.

Contributions: Building on Previous Years -----------------------------------------

The very first WOOR workshop was organized in 1997 in conjunction with the ESEC/FSE'97 Conference in Zurich, Switzerland. During these past 10 years, participants to the workshop have been actively contributing to the state-of-the-art on reengineering ofobject-oriented systems. In this special 10th anniversary edition, we want to continue in that tradition. We explicitly solicit position papers that reflect on the past 10 years and--or build a vision of what the future 10 years might bring. Therefore, we welcome contributions from researchers, tool producers, and methodology providers in addition to position papers on the past and next 10 years of OO reengineering:

Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: - Overview papers, reflecting on the history of OO reengineering - Vision papers, predicting what the next 10 years might bring - Experiences on re-engineering large object-oriented systems - Migration towards aspect orientation - Design model extraction - Documentation and re-use of object-oriented systems - Analysis of object-oriented systems re-usability and flexibility - Abstract models of object-oriented systems - Refactoring Operations - Software Evolution - Metrics or heuristics to measure the need improvement - Design patterns in reengineering practices - Tools supporting all of the above activities. - Software evolution analysis and visualization

Schedule of the Workshop ------------------------

As is tradition in WOOR, we actively seek a format which emphasizes fruitful interactions and discussions. This typically involves brief (5 minutes) presentations of position papers; break-up sessions in discussion groups, and plenary meetings to discuss results. Sometimes we ask participants to present and summarize someone else's position paper, a very way pleasant to stimulate discussions.

Intended Audience -----------------

The workshop is intended to software engineering professionals with experience in object-oriented reengineering; either people who are actively engaged in reengineering projects or people who develop or research methodologies and tools. Each participant is requested to submit a position paper in advance and 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 25 and the participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted contribution.

Submission Guidelines ---------------------

BE ELECTRONIC. Submit your position paper in PDF, so that we can collect all of the submissions on the web-site. A separate abstract including the e-mail addresses of the authors and a URL to their home pages MUST be submitted in HTML. Submit everything by e-mail to both of the two following e-mail addresses guehene@iro.umontreal.ca and roel.wuyts@imec.be.

BE SHORT. 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. Perhaps a workshop reader will be organized again this year.

BE INNOVATIVE. It is okay to propose a 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.

Publication and Sponsoring --------------------------

Springer will publish a workshop reader (as in the case of previous ECOOP) that will appear after the workshop and that will contain workshop reports (written by the organizers), not the position papers submitted by the participants. The organizers plan to publish the position papers in a technical report at University of Montreal.

This event is partly sponsored by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), the Région Wallone, the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme via the MoVES (Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software) research project, and the Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective via the Research Center on Structural Software Improvement.

About the Organizers --------------------

Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp (Belgium) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~sdemey Prof. Serge Demeyer is leading a research group investigating "Software Reengineering" (LORE - Lab On REengineering).

Stéphane Ducasse University of Savoie (France) LISTIC http://www.listic.univ-savoie.fr/~ducasse Prof. Stéphane Ducasse, from the University of Savoie, is a former member of the Software Composition Group led by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz at University of Bern (Switzerland).

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Department of Informatics and Operations Research http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~guehene Prof. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc leads the Ptidej project (in research Group on Open, Distributed Systems, Experimental Software Engineering) developing theories, methods, and tools, to evaluate and to improve the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use of idioms, design patterns, and architectural patterns.

Kim Mens Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Department of Computing Science and Engineering http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~km Prof. Kim Mens is one of the originators of the 'reuse contract' technique and of the work on 'intensional views'. He is the spokesperson of the Research Center on Structural Software Improvement and currently conducts research on 'co-evolution' between source code and earlier life-cycle software artifacts, as well as on aspect identification and program transformation.

Roel Wuyts IMEC, Belgium (Belgium) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) http://decomp.ulb.ac.be/roelwuyts/ Prof. Roel Wuyts is Senior Software Engineer at the IMEC Research Centre and former professor of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research interests include software evolution and code restructuring, for which he (co-)developed various tools and techniques such as the SOUL language.

Harald Gall University of Zurich (Switzerland) Department of Informatics http://seal.ifi.unizh.ch/gall/ Prof. Harald Gall's interests are in software engineering with focus on software evolution, software architectures, reengineering, program families, and distributed and mobile software engineering processes.