CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010)
October 13th-16th, 2010 Boston’s North Shore, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/wcre2010/
The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) is the premier research conference on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems. WCRE explores innovative methods of extracting the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system renovation and program understanding.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and the Industry, working in the areas of reverse engineering.
IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: June 14, 2010 Full papers due (firm deadline): June 21, 2010 Tool demos and industrial experience reports: June 30, 2010 Tutorial/workshop proposals: June 30, 2010 Doctoral symposium: July 12, 2010 Conference: October 13-16, 2010
RESEARCH AREAS We invite original, high-quality research papers in all areas of software maintenance, evolution, reengineering, and migration. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:
–Program comprehension –Mining software repositories –Empirical studies in reverse engineering –Concept and feature location –Binary reverse engineering –Redocumenting legacy systems –Model-driven reengineering –User interface reengineering –Wrapping techniques –Preprocessing, parsing and fact extraction –Reverse engineering tool support –Reverse engineering of service-oriented systems –Reengineering to distributed architectures –Software architecture recovery –Visualization techniques and tools –Object and aspect identification –Program analysis and slicing –Reengineering patterns –Program transformation and refactoring –Dynamic analysis –Data reverse engineering –Reverse engineering for security assessment –Education in reverse engineering –Performance re-engineering
RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of reverse engineering. Papers are limited to 10 proceedings pages. Papers must not have been previously published nor have been submitted to, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or other conference. Papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee based on their originality, technical soundness and quality of presentation. Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines. If the paper is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference and to present the paper. WCRE accepted papers
will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Submission due: June 21, 2010
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE REPORTS Experience reports include case studies describing the application of existing reverse engineering/reengineering techniques or lessons learned during a complex reverse engineering/reengineering project or position papers (from industrial point of view) on software analysis, visualization and refactoring tools/techniques needed for successfull option in industry. Both reports on successful stories and failure stories are welcome. Reports must not be longer than 4 pages and conform to the WCRE conference format guidelines. Submission due: June 30, 2010
SPECIAL TRACKS Besides technical papers, WCRE foresees the submission of tool demonstration proposals and PhD dissertation long abstracts. Furthermore, WCRE welcomes the organization of tutorials and workshops. Submission doctoral symposium due: July 12, 2010 Submission tool demos, tutorials, workshops due: 30 June, 2010
Further details on the conference and special track submissions can be found on the WCRE website http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/wcre2010/
SPONSORED BY – The Reengineering Forum – IEEE Computer Society TCSE (pending) – SOCCER Lab, Polytechnic School of Montreal – Delft University of Technology
GENERAL CHAIR Elliot Chikofsky Engineering Management & Integration , USA
PROGRAM CHAIRS Giuliano Antoniol Departement de genie informatique et logiciel, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Martin Pinzger Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ph.D. FORUM CHAIRS James R. Cordy School of Computing, Queen’s University
Susan Elliott Sim University of California, Irvine, USA
WORKSHOP CHAIRS Abram Hindle University of Waterloo, Canada
Andrian Marcus Wayne State University, USA
TOOL DEMO CHAIRS Ali Mesbah Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Nicolas Bettenburg Queen’s University, Canada
FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR Elliot Chikofsky Engineering Management & Integration, USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR Segla Kpodjedo École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
WEBMASTER Ferdaous Boughanmi Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada