[ecoop-info] CALL FOR PAPERS - WMSWM 2011

[Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa]

WMSWM 2011 - 8th Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance
(In conjunction with the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality)
Curitiba, PR, Brazil, June 10, 2011

http://www.pucpr.br/sbqs2011

Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: Apr 15, 2011

The best paper will be invited to publish in the 
Journal Brazilian Computer Science (JBCS).

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MOTIVATION
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Several studies indicate that software maintenance is the most expensive 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, the 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 rise 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.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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:
- 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.)
- Software Evolution

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SUBMISSION ORIENTATION
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Submissions must be written in English or 
Portuguese. All submissions must follow SBC
(Brazilian Computer Society) style format 
(available at SBC - www.sbc.org.br). 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.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Papers submission: Apr 15, 2011
- Authors notification: May 02, 2011
- Camera-ready papers: May 08, 2011
- Workshop realization: Jun 10, 2011

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PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
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All papers selected will be included in the annals of the II CBSoft.
The best paper will be invited to publish in the 
Journal Brazilian Computer Science (JBCS).

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COORDINATION
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Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Pereira Araújo - COPPE/UFRJ
Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA

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STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense (CEFET Campos)
- Prof. Dr. Heitor Augustus Xavier Costa - UFLA
- Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Pereira Araújo - COPPE/UFRJ
- Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP
- Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Masiero - ICMC/USP
- Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga - ICMC/USP

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Profa. Dra. Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos - IF-Fluminense
Profa. Dra. Cláudia Maria Lima Werner - UFRJ
Prof. Dr. Delano Medeiros Beder - USP Leste
Profa. Dra. Elisa Hatsue Moriya Huzita - UEM
Profa. Dra. Fernanda Cláudia Alves Campos - UFJF
Prof. Dr. Glauco Carneiro - UNIFACS
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 ­ COPPE/UFRJ
Prof. Dr. Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente - UFMG
Prof. Dr. Marcos Lordello Chaim - USP Leste
Profa. Dra. Maria Istela Cagnin - UFMS
Prof. Dr. Nabor Mendonça ­ Univ. de Fortaleza
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Anquetil - Université de Lille-1
Profa. Dra. Regina Maria Maciel Braga - UFJF
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Argenton Ramos - UNIVASF
Prof. Dr. Rogério Atem de Carvalho - IF-Fluminense
Profa. Dra. Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga ­ USP São Carlos
Profa. Dra. Rosângela Aparecida Delosso Penteado - UFSCar
Profa. Dra. Simone Vasconcelos Silva - Inst. Fed. Fluminense
Prof. Dr. Valter Vieira de Camargo - UFSCar