<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">5th Workshop on Exception Handling<br>Call for Papers<br>June 9, 2012<br>Zurich, Switzerland <br><a href="http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/weh2012/">www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/weh2012/</a><br>in conjunction with ICSE 2012 <br><a href="http://www.icse2012.org/">http://www.icse2012.org</a><br><br>Following the success of previous workshops held <br>in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, this workshop will provide a forum for <br>presenting and discussing research on exception handling and fault <br>tolerance in all area of software development and use. The workshop <br>aims at covering the whole software life cycle, methodological as well <br>as technical issues, modelling techniques or linguistic mechanisms. <br>In particular, we will be interested in discussing a number of research <br>open questions.<br><br>The workshop is intended to cover a wide range of <br>topics, from theoretical foundations to and empirical software engineering <br>studies of exception handling techniques. Topics of interest include <br>the following (but not limited to):<br><br>- Exceptions in software processes<br>- Exceptions in the software life-cycle: requirements engineering, <br>specifications, architectural design, modelling and programming, <br>predictive models, model transformation, verification, debugging, <br>testing, documentation, refactoring, variability management, static <br>analysis, metrics, quality models, etc.<br>- Exception handling for and with new software artefacts (e.g. aspects, <br>components, features, services, etc)<br>- Exception handling in today’s applications (distributed, ubiquitous, <br>ambient, web-based, cloud, etc)<br>- Exception handling and software fault tolerance<br>- Empirical studies of exception handling<br>- Recommender systems for exception handling code<br>- Design patterns and anti-patterns, architectural styles, and good <br>programming practice.<br><br>Authors are requested to submit a position paper in <br>the PDF format. We invite<br>- traditional position papers (5-7 pages in the Springer LNCS format) <br>- short position papers (1-2 pages in the Springer LNCS format). <br><br>Papers should describe innovative and ongoing works, thoughts, lessons <br>learned, or points of view with respect to one or more workshop topics. <br>Moreover we especially encourage authors to present their experience <br>and/or novel ideas on how to provide a modern software engineering <br>treatment of exception handling (shorter format). The papers chosen for <br>presentation will offer different or novel perspectives on the workshop <br>topics and they must have a high potential for generating issues that will <br>stimulate the discussions. Papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers.<br><br>The EasyChair submission site will be open in mid January 2012. <br>The information will appear on the workshop web site.<br><br>Important dates:<br>17 February 2012 - Workshop paper submissions due<br>19 March 2012 - Notification of workshop paper authors<br>29 March 2012 - Submissions of camera-ready papers<br><br>Workshop chairs:<br>Christophe Dony, Montpellier-II University, France<br>Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil<br>Joerg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada<br>Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK<br><br>Workshop PC (to be extended):<br>William Bail, Mitre, USA <br>Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada <br>Nelio Cacho, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil <br>Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, France <br>Charles Consel, INRIA, France <br>Fernando Filho, Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil <br>Phil Koopman, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA <br>Axel van Lamsweerde, Univ. Cat. Louvain, Belgium <br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; ">Paulo Marques, University of Coimbra, Portugal</span><div>Leon J. Osterweil, University of Massachusetts <br>Cecilia Rubira, University of Campinas, Brazil <br>Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK <br>Anand Tripathi, University of Minneapolis, USA <br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; ">Organisation committee:</span><br><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Christophe Dony, Montpellier-II University, France
Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada
Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle, UK
Eiji Adachi Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil </font></pre>Workshop web site <a href="http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/weh2012/">http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/weh2012/</a><br>
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