10th International Conference on Software Reuse, 25 - 29 May 2008, Beijing China.

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International Conference on Software Reuse - ICSR
May 25-29, 2008     
Beijing, China


 

ICSR is the premier international conference in the field of software reuse. The main goal of ICSR is to present the advances and improvements within the software reuse domain, as well as to promote interaction between researchers and practitioners. The 10th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 2008) will be held on May 25-29, 2008 in Beijing, China. We invite Research Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Symposium Descriptions and Tool Demonstrations to be presented and discussed in the conference.

The theme of this year is “High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems”. A high confidence system is one that behaves in a well-understood and predictable fashion. It must withstand malicious attacks as well as naturally occurring hazards, and must not cause or contribute to accidents or unacceptable losses. Achieving high confidence is becoming more difficult as systems become more complex, especially in large software systems. Today’s trends towards widespread use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, increased integration, continuous evolution, and larger scale are yielding more complex software systems. So, the problem of how to build high confidence complex systems and how to reuse software with a high level of confidence become new attractive problems for research.

On the other hand, high level software asset reuse has been a goal for the last twenty to thirty years, and it can still be considered an unsolved question. Components Based Development, MDA-MDE-MDD, Extreme Programming, and other techniques or methods are promising approaches to software reuse that still need more research.

ICSR 2008 in Beijing will address these new scenarios and their major challenges. We invite authors to submit articles that present results, positioning papers or experiences relevant to software reuse. The suggested topics for paper submissions include, but are not limited to: 

* High Confidence Software Reuse Methods
* Confidence Ensuring and Evaluating Methods
* Best Practice of Software Reuse in Very Large Systems
* Architecture Based Software Reuse
* Reuse in Service-oriented Environment
* Reuse of Service-oriented/SOA Systems
* Reliability and security of OTS components and legal issues
* Documentation of OTS component
* Processes to identify and select OTS components
* Software integration and evolution problems
* Interaction with the developer community, or with the vendor
* Software variability management
* Aspect-oriented software reuse
* Software generators and domain-specific languages
* Software product lines, software product families, and domain engineering
* Component-based software engineering
* Application of MDD
* Asset search and retrieval techniques
* Evolution of component-based software systems
* Lightweight approaches to software reuse
* Managing the transition towards a reuse organization
* Legal, managerial, and economic issues of software development with reuse
* Benefit and risk analysis of reuse investments
* Reuse in the e-commerce context: how to address fast-evolving markets
* Generation of non-code artifacts
* Testing of components and generators
* Quality aspects of reuse, e.g. security and reliability
* Success and failure stories of reuse approaches from industrial context

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software reuse. Case studies, empirical research, and experiments are particularly welcome. We also welcome papers that present leading edge and novel ideas in software reuse. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions should conform to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, and are limited to 5000 words in length, in English. The authors of accepted papers are advised to follow the Springer guidelines in the preparation of the camera ready copy.

 

Submit by January 13, 2008. 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2007
• Notifications of Technical Paper: February 25, 2008
• Final Paper Version due: March 5, 2008
• Conference Starts Sunday: May 25, 2008
• Conference Ends Thursday: May 29, 2008