BENEVOL 2008 : The 7th BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution workshop

The 7th edition of the BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution workshop (BENEVOL 2008) took place at Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The two-day workshop hold on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December 2008.

The aim of the workshop is to bring researchers to identify and discuss important principles, problems, techniques and results related to software evolution research and practice. Special theme of BENEVOL 2008 is Ensuring software quality in evolution.

We are very grateful to all participants, speakers and chairs for contributing to the success of BENEVOL 2008.

See you next year in Belgium!

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Important dates

• Deadline for submissions: November 9, 2008 at midnight (Amsterdam-Brussels time).
• Notification: November 14, 2008.
• Final version: November 23, 2008 at midnight (Amsterdam-Brussels time).
• Workshop: December 11-12, 2008.

Submissions

We solicit contributions describing recent results or novel ideas. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Model-driven software evolution: models transformation, evolution and co-evolution of models, verification and validation of evolving models, quality of models and model transformations, modeling evolution, meta-modeling;

• Foundations & paradigms: objects, components, aspects, formal languages, semantics, theories for software evolution;

• Empirical studies in evolution: empirical results, case studies, experimentation design, measurement, quality models for evolvability;

• Tool support for software evolution: tools to assist the evolution process, tools to ensure or to verify quality of the evolution process or of the evolving artifacts;

• Data-intensive systems evolution: data evolution, reengineering data-intensive systems and databases;

• Process-intensive systems evolution: process evolution, reengineering process-oriented systems;

• Software evolution in "emerging" paradigms: Model-Driven, Aspect-Oriented, Service-Oriented, Open Source, Software Product Lines;

• Managerial aspects and process models for software evolution: software re-engineering and quality improvement, inconsistency management and co-evolution;

• Software analysis techniques to support software evolution: static and dynamic analysis, change propagation, metrics;

• Data and process analysis techniques to support software evolution: data and process analysis, data and process mining;

• Embedded, adaptative and context-aware systems;

• Dynamic adaptation, composition and reconfiguration of software and services.

Contributions solicited may either be

• abstracts (a title and a short abstract), or

• short papers 2-4 pages in the LNCS style

The conference language is English. PDF files of the submissions should be send to benevol2008@win.tue.nl . In case of acceptance the authors should submit LaTeX source file(s) for inclusion in the informal proceedings to be distributed during the workshop. Proceedings of BENEVOL 2008 will published as a technical report of Eindhoven University of Technology.

Program

Prof. Ralf Lämmel (University of Koblenz) has cordially accepted our invitation and will give an invited talk entitled Tracking the evolution of grammar-like knowledge in software. The preliminary program can be found in the following document: Program Benevol 2008.pdf.

Venue

The workshop will take place in Academisch Genootschap, Eindhoven. Academisch Genootschap is located in a beautiful neighborhood in the center of Eindhoven, not far from the railway station.

Getting to the Academisch Genootschap

Registration

Workshop participation is free. Register here. After your registration you will receive a confirmation by e-mail.

Registration via the Benevol website is possible until the 7th of December 2008. For registrations after this date, please send an e-mail to benevol2008@win.tue.nl .

Accommodation

The following link to the Tourist Information website provides a list of hotels in the city center of Eindhoven: hotels

It is possible to check availability and rates of hotels on this website. However, we recommend to contact the hotels directly.

Organization

• Mark van den Brand
• Christine van Gils
• Erik Scheffers
• Alexander Serebrenik

Previous events

2007, 2006, 2005, 2005, 2004, 2003.

Acknowledgments

BENEVOL 2008 has been made possible with the generous help of the following institutions:

The workshop is supported by the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution.