WMSWM 2010 - Call for Papers

WMSWM 2010 - 7th Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance (In conjunction with the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality) Belém, PA, Brazil, June 11, 2010 http://www.wmswm2010.ufla.br/ Call for Papers Submission Deadline: April 09, 2010 MOTIVATION Several studies indicate that software maintenance is the most consuming phase of the software life cycle, being responsible for 90% of the total cost and around 60% of the total effort. Software maintenance can be defined as the activity during which one or more software development artifacts are modified in order to keep them available, free of failures, with higher performance or in conformance with new or modified requirements. According to some estimates, around 250 billions of lines of code were in maintenance in 2000. In 1993, around 70 billion dollars were spent in the software maintenance market, only in the USA. Software maintenance occurs due to many reasons, such as: requirements and environment changes, discovery of failures in software code, performance improvement needs, migration to more modern platforms or technologies etc. Despite of being an established area, in accordance with existing revised policies, the adoption of new development paradigms (e.g.: model driven, aspects, components, and service-oriented), new team organizations (e.g.: global software development, eXtreme Programming, and open source), new scope restrictions (e.g.: short deliveries, time-to-market, and variable scope) etc. bring a revival in the area with new challenges. Although there are many software reengineering approaches already proposed, these new software development scenarios emphasize the need of new proposals, allowing to take advantage of business knowledge and development effort of legacy systems in new developments. The high software maintenance effort and these new development scenarios rise the need of new and improved methods, techniques, approaches, metrics, and tools for the area. TOPICS OF INTEREST The Brazilian Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance is a forum dedicated to discuss alternatives to perform software maintenance and software reengineering, in a way that the maintenance process and the final product can be in conformance with software quality requirements. The topics of interest include, being not limited to, are: - Modern maintenance processes - Metrics and maintenance quality - Maintenance of non-traditional systems (web applications, component-based systems, aspect-oriented software, model-driven, product lines, service-oriented etc.) - Tool support and integrated environments for maintenance - Reverse engineering - Static and dynamic analysis - Visualization techniques for program comprehension - Reengineering and system migration - Maintenance education - Experimentation in software maintenance - Model Driven Application and software maintenance - Maintenance management (risks management, configuration management, planning and estimates) - Legacy systems tests - Economic aspects of software maintenance (maintenance cost, previous estimates of effort etc.) SUBMISSION ORIENTATION Submissions must be written in English or Portuguese. All submissions must follow SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) style format (available at SBC - http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads&id=286). All papers will be evaluated by, at least, 3 members of the program committee. There will be three types of submissions: - Technical papers, presenting an interesting result for the advance of the research in the area. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, relevance and technical quality. The work must be considered consistent, clear and original. The maximum paper size is 8 pages. - Experience reports, presenting concrete data, lessons learned or any other fact relevant to the event. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, practical application, presentation consistency, and contributions to the advance of maintenance practice. The maximum paper size is 4 pages. - Challenge reports, presenting real industrial problems concerning maintenance that represent research challenges in the area from the academic point of view. The aim is not to describe hypothetical situations, but real challenges detected in concrete software maintenance environments. The judgment criteria are: workshop scope adequacy, relevance and presentation consistency. The maximum paper size is 2 pages. Evaluation studies are desirable, although this is not a pre-requisite for WMSWM submission. Papers with original, new, and promising ideas are welcome. All papers must present comparisons with related work in the area. Technical papers must emphasize their contribution for software maintenance practice. Papers about practical experiments must describe the employed method and interpretation of the obtained qualitative and quantitative results. All submissions must be electronically sent by JEMS system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br) until the submission deadline. One of the authors must present the paper at the workshop. Finally, authors must respect the final version submission deadline, as well as subscription date for the workshop, in order for the paper to be included in workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be available at the workshop site. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 09, 2010 - Author notification: May 07, 2010 - Camera-ready copy: May 17, 2010 - Workshop: June 11, 2010 COORDINATION - Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA - Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense (CEFET Campos) STEERING COMMITTEE - Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense (CEFET Campos) - Profa. Dra. Cláudia Maria Lima Werner - COPPE/UFRJ - Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA - Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP - Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Masiero - ICMC/USP - Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga - ICMC/USP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense Profa. Dra. Cláudia Maria Lima Werner - UFRJ Prof. Dr. Dalton Dario Serey Guerrero - UFCG Prof. Dr. Delano Medeiros Beder - USP Leste Profa. Dra. Elisa Hatsue Moriya Huzita - UEM Prof. Dr. Guilherme Horta Travassos - UFRJ Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA Prof. Dr. Jorge César Abrantes de Figueiredo - UFCG Prof. Dr. Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta - UFF Prof. Dr. Marcelo de Almeida Maia - UFU Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Pereira Araújo - FMG Prof. Dr. Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente - UFMG Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP Leste Profa. Dra. Maria Istela Cagnin - UFMS Prof. Dr. Nicolas Anquetil - UCB Prof. Dr. Ricardo Argenton Ramos - UNIVASF Prof. Dr. Roberto Bigonha - UFMG Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Quites Reis - UFPA Prof. Dr. Rogério Atem de Carvalho - IF-Fluminense Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga - USP São Carlos Profa. Dra. Rosângela Aparecida Delosso Penteado - UFSCar Prof. Dr. Valter Vieira de Camargo - UFSCar