SCP Special issue on Software Evolution, Adaptability and Variability

Special issue on Software Evolution, Adaptability and Variability Special issue in Science of Computer Programming http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/SoftwareEvolutionSpecialIssue Goal Successful software systems are long-lived systems that are able to keep up with the pace of rapidly changing requirements, technological infrastructures, business processes, legislation, and so on. The research domains of software evolution, adaptability and variability focus on techniques and principles that let software engineers adapt software systems to meet such new and changing requirements. This Elsevier Science of Computer Programming special issue intends to gather high-quality submissions on novel and original research, experience reports and empirical studies in the aforementioned domains. The special issue originates from the 8th Belgian-Netherlands Software Evolution Seminar (BENEVOL), a successful series of seminars bringing together researchers from Belgium, The Netherlands and neighboring countries to identify and discuss important principles, problems, techniques and results related to software evolution research and practice. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Model-driven software evolution: model transformation, evolution and co-evolution of models, verification and validation of evolving models, quality of models and model transformations, modeling evolution, meta-modeling; * Foundations & paradigms: formal languages, semantics and theories for software evolution; * Empirical studies in evolution: empirical results, case studies, experimentation design, measurement, quality models for evolvability; * Tool support for software evolution: tools to assist the evolution process, tools to ensure or to verify quality of the evolution process or of the evolving artifacts; * Data-intensive systems evolution: data evolution, reengineering data-intensive systems and databases; * Process-intensive systems evolution: process evolution, reengineering process-oriented systems; * Software evolution concerns in Model-Driven, Aspect-Oriented, Service-Oriented, Open Source, Software Product Lines; * Managerial aspects and process models for software evolution: software re-engineering and quality improvement, inconsistency management and co-evolution; * Software analysis and visualisation techniques to support software evolution: static and dynamic analysis, change propagation, metrics; * Data and process analysis techniques to support software evolution: data and process analysis, data and process mining; * Dynamic adaptation, composition and reconfiguration of software and services. * Testing of software maintenance, variability and adaptability. Submission Guidelines See http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/SoftwareEvolutionSpecialIssue Papers should be formatted according to the Elsevier Science of Computer Programming guidelines, there is a limit of 20 pages. Please note that any submission to this special issue should contain at least *30% new material* compared to any previously published manuscript on this topic. Important dates * Submission deadline: February 26th, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2010 * Intended publication date: TBA Guest Editors * Johan Brichau, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~jbrichau/ * Andy Zaidman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~zaidman Program Committee * Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium * Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium * Dirk Deridder, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Stephane Ducasse, INRIA Lille, France * Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner Institut Potsdam, Germany * Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Paul Klint, CWI, The Netherlands * Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg * Ralf Laemmel, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France * Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium