11th International Workshop on Program Comprehension IWPC 2003 May 10-11, 2003 Hilton Portland Hotel Portland, Oregon, USA Co-located at ICSE 2003, the 25nd International Conference on Software Engineering http://www.iwpc2003.uvic.ca/ Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates * Technical Papers due: December 20, 2002 * Working sessions due: January 10, 2003 * Tool demos due: January 10, 2003 * Notification: January 31, 2003 * Camera-ready papers due: February 28, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics Comprehending programs is one of the core software engineering activities from early implementation to long-term software evolution. Software reuse, inspection, reverse engineering, migration, and reengineering of software systems all critically depend on program comprehension. IWPC 2003 will present the latest inventions, achievements and experiences in program comprehension research and practice. We invite you to participate in IWPC 2003 to help us build an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in this ever expanding and critical field of program comprehension. We invite technical papers, tool demos, and working sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Theories, cognitive models, processes, and strategies for software comprehension * Tools facilitating program comprehension * Experiments and case studies with comprehension models, tools, and processes * Reverse engineering strategies and technologies to support program comprehension * Computer supported collaborative understanding * Comprehending and visualizing software artifacts * Comprehension during large scale maintenance, reengineering, and migration * Understanding distributed and network-centric systems * Understanding product line systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Papers Papers should be original work, limited to 10 proceedings pages, and at most 6000 words. Papers must not have been previously published nor have been submitted to, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or conference. Working Sessions We invite proposals for working sessions (90 minutes each) on any of the topic areas mentioned above. Working sessions are designed around a specific theme and should be more interactive and discussion-oriented. Tool Demos We also invite proposals for tool demos on any of the topic areas mentioned above. The proposal should include a description of the tool or environment, its applicability to program comprehension, and a brief description of the proposed type of demonstration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper Submission Submissions to IWPC 2003 will use the ICSE 2003 electronic submission process. Technical papers must conform to the IEEE paper guidelines. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the workshop proceedings. Short papers for accepted working sessions and tool demos will also be included in the proceedings. Authors are expected to present their accepted papers or proposals at IWPC 2003 in Portland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacts General Chair Hausi Müller University of Victoria Department of Computer Science Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/ hausi@cs.uvic.ca Program Chairs Rainer Koschke University of Stuttgart Department of Computer Science 70049 Stuttgart, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ps/rainer/ koschke@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Ken Wong University of Alberta Department of Computing Science Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~kenw/ kenw@cs.ualberta.ca Publicity Chair Arie van Deursen CWI 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands http://www.cwi.nl/~arie/ Arie.van.Deursen@cwi.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steering Committee * Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy * Andrea De Lucia, University of Sannio, Italy * Kostas Kontogiannis, University of Waterloo, Canada * Panagiotis Linos, Butler University, USA * Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA * Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsors IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering