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Software Evolvability at IEEE ICSM 2006
Second International IEEE Workshop on
Software Evolvability
Program Chairs:
Robert Laddaga (MIT & BBN Technologies)
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)
Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire)
Programme Committee:
the above, and
David Ackley (University of New Mexico, USA)
Kirstie Bellman (Aerospace Corporation, USA)
Ned Chapin (InfoSci Inc)
Joseph Goguen (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Tracy Hall (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Rachel Harrison (Stratton Edge Consulting, UK)
Christopher Landauer (Aerospace Corporation, USA)
Meir M. Lehman (Middlesex University, UK)
Martin Loomes (Middlesex University, UK)
Vaclav Rajlich (Wayne State University, USA)
Juan Ramil (The Open University, UK)
[All accepted papers will be published by IEEE
in the international workshop proceedings]
Software Evolvability and the Scope of the Meeting
Software evolution is now well-established as an area urgently requiring research in
order to understand and manage it.
Evolvability is concerned with the long and very long-term
evolutionary properties and dynamics of
the capacity of lineages of software systems to change in changing contexts.
This workshop is intended to provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners in this area to present their results, current and proposed
research, and reasoned or speculative opinions on how the requirements of a software-
based system and/or the system itself can be evolved or made more evolvable.
The
results of the meeting will help to underpin advances in evolution of systems meeting
those requirements. Our aim is to involve researchers and representatives from
academia and industry to help tackle this important research area.
At ICSM 2005, the first IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability provided a forum
for the presentation and discussion of all aspects of software evolvability. In this
second meeting, we will again consider evolvability in software evolution, and how it
can lead to insights into the design, requirements for, and long-term maintenance and
evolution of software systems. The ability to evolve software over time to meet the
changing needs of its stakeholders is one of the principal challenges currently facing
software engineering.
Potential areas of interest in requirements or software system evolution include, but
are not limited to, the following:
- The use of biological analogies
- Self-adaptive software systems
- Achieving system robustness, adaptability, and flexibility in the face of changing
requirements and environments
- Software architectures and notations for evolvability
- Software processes explicitly supporting evolvability
- Models of system evolution processes
- Theories of software evolution
Submissions and IEEE Publication
We invite the submission of high quality papers describing current proposed research,
or well-informed opinions as to potentially valuable research directions, Submissions,
of up to 6-8 pages (regular papers) in two-column IEEE format, should be sent in Adobe
pdf or postscript format to
P.D.Wernick@herts.ac.uk
All submissions will be peer-reviewed to IEEE standards. Depending on the decisions
of the programme committee, some papers may be accepted for short presentations
with reduced length, or accepted for publication without being presented at the
volume
and be available via IEEE Xplore.
Journal Publication
Authors of the best papers from SE 06 will be
invited to submit extended versions to IEE Proceedings: Software.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 July 2006
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 10 July 2006
Final copy in IEEE format required by: 24 July 2006
Workshop: 24 September 2006
Supported by the
U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems
& IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2006)