RAM-SE09: call for papers (pdf).

The papers of the workshop are now available as an archive. Please read them before the workshop.

RAM-SE past editions: RAM-SE04, RAM-SE05, RAM-SE06, RAM-SE07, and RAM-SE08.

Workshop Schedule

Software evolution and adaptation is a research area in continuous evolution, and offering stimulating challenges for both academic and industrial researchers.

The evolution of software systems, to face unexpected situations or just for improving their features, relies on software engineering techniques and methodologies. Nowadays a similar approach is not applicable in all situations e.g., for evolving nonstopping systems or systems whose code is not available.

Features of reflection such as transparency, separation of concerns, and extensibility seem to be perfect tools to aid the dynamic evolution of running systems. Aspect-oriented programming can simplify code instrumentation whereas techniques that rely on meta-data can be used to inspect the system and to extract the necessary data for designing the heuristic that the reflective and aspect-oriented mechanism use for managing the evolution.

We feel the necessity to investigate the benefits brought by the use of these techniques on the evolution of object-oriented software systems. In particular we would determine how these techniques can be integrated together with more traditional approaches to evolve a system and the benefits we get from their use.

This workshop can be a good meeting-point for people working in the software evolution area, and an occasion to present reflective, aspect-oriented and data mining based solutions to evolutionary problems, and new ideas straddling these areas.

Workshop Topics

Particularly interesting for this workshop are works that focus the static or dynamic evolution of software systems. Techniques may vary to achieve this goal. In particular, they include but are not limited to:

• adaptative software components and evolution as component composition;
• aspect-oriented middleware and environments for software evolution;
• evolution planning and deployment through aspect-oriented and reflective approaches;
• aspect interference and composition for software evolution;
• feature- and subject-oriented adaptation;
• unanticipated software evolution supported by AOSD or reflective techniques;
• MOF, code annotations and other meta-data facilities for software evolution;
• software evolution tangling concerns;
• metrics and other evaluation mechanisms to evaluate the impact of using reflection and/or AOP to get software evolution;
• AOP and reflection based design patterns to get software evolution;
• early aspect evolution, i.e., to design evolution by evolving the design information or the application in its early stages of development;
• techniques for refactoring into AOSD and to get the separation of concerns.

To ensure lively discussion at the workshop, the program committee will choose the contributions on the basis of topic similarity and quality of submitted work that will permit the beginning of new collaborations. To grant an easy dissemination of the proposed ideas and to favor exchanging ideas among the participants, accepted contributions will be available in advance over the Web and an hardcopy of the contributions will be distributed to participants at the workshop.

Program Committee

Workshop Format

The workshop is a full day meeting. The workshop will contain two parts: Part of the workshop will be devoted to presentations from participants, another part will be devoted to panels and to exchange ideas between participants.

The workshop will provide a discussion forum about the evolution of the sector and permit new collaborations with other researchers. The workshop will be particularly useful for young researchers who will be able to compare their ideas with other people working on the field.

Workshop Proceedings

All the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be collected in the workshop proceedings published in the ACM digital libray. The Workshop proceedings will be indexed by the DBLP.

Paper Submission

All submissions must be 5-page long and written in English. Position papers about research ideas should clearly state how they relate to the workshop theme, what particular problems they address, what practical experience was conducted, and why it is relevant to this workshop.

The papers must be submitted, before the 22th of April, 2009 through easychair.

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 8th of May, 2009.

Accepted papers will be made available via the web page devoted to the workshop (delayed until the ACM Library published the papers. All participants are encouraged to read the accepted papers in advance.

Organizing Committee

Important Dates

Sponsors

A special thanks for their sponsorship to the DICo, University of Milano, the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, and the University of York.