4th International Workshop on OO Reengineering
Darmstadt (Germany),
Monday July 21st, 2003

What's Available at this Site

• Workshop Report (HTML)
• Workshop Call For Participation (HTML | ASCII | ASCII wrapped @ 72chars )
• Workshop Program (HTML)
• Preliminary Participant List (HTML)
• Position Paper Rules (HTML)

Objective

The ability to reengineer object-oriented legacy systems has become a vital matter in today's software industry. Early adopters of the object-oriented programming paradigm are now facing the problems of transforming their object-oriented "legacy" systems into full-fledged frameworks.

This Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering wants to gather people working on solutions for object-oriented legacy systems, and will be set up as a forum for exchanging experiences, discussing solutions, and exploring new ideas. We explicitly sollicit experience reports from the software industry as well as contributions from tool produces and methodology providers.

Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

• experiences on re-engineering large OO systems
• design model extraction
• documentation and re-use of OO systems
• analysis of OO systems with respect to re-usability and flexibility
• abstract models of OO systems that help to understand and re-engineer large programs
• methodological support for the transformation of OO systems into frameworks
• refactoring operations
• repositories for code analysis
• metrics or heuristics to measure the need for, the progress of, and improvement to OO design
• design patterns in reengineering practices
• tools supporting all of the above activities

Intended Audience

The workshop is intended for software engineering professionals with experience in OO reengineering; either people who are actively engaged in reengineering projects, or people who develop methodologies and tools.

Important Dates

• Friday,  April 25: Submission of position papers
• Thursday, May 15: Notification of acceptance.
• Sunday,    June 15: Final camera-ready papers and preliminary program
• Monday,    July 21: WOOR'03

About the Organizers

Serge Demeyer

University of Antwerp
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
sdemey(a)ua.ac.be
http://win-www.uia.ac.be/u/sdemey/

Stéphane Ducasse

University of Berne
SCG-IAM
Neubrueckstrasse 10
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/

Kim Mens

Universite catholique de Louvain
Departement d'Ingenierie Informatique
Department of Computing Science and Engineering
Place Sainte Barbe, 2
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
kim.mens(a)info.ucl.ac.be
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/ingidocs/people/km/research/KimResearch.html

The organizers of the workshop are from the University of Berne, Switzerland, the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Prof. Stéphane Ducasse, from the University of Berne, is a member of the Software Composition Group headed by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz.

Prof. Serge Demeyer is leading a research group investigating the theme of "Software Reengineering" (LORE - Lab On REengineering).

They are the authors of the book "Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns" published by Morgan Kaufman.

Prof. Kim Mens is one of the originators of the "reuse contract" technique for automatically detecting conflicts in evolving software and is currently interested in the problem of "co-evolution" between source code and earlier life-cycle software artifacts.