Conference Topics

For all types of solicited submissions, the topic should be of direct interest to the maintenance,evolution, migration and reengineering community. A non-limitative list of such topics is given below:

Methods and techniques to assess, enable, improve and certify maintainability and evolvability of software intensive systems.
Techniques and approaches for software analysis, comprehension, and reconstruction.

Software architecture recovery
Program analysis and slicing
Dynamic analysis
Program transformation and refactoring

Tools, formalisms and methods supporting the evolution and reverse engineering of software systems, software architectures and software models.

Visualization techniques and tools
Preprocessing, parsing and fact extraction

Process models for software maintenance, reengineering, and evolution.
Experience reports on maintenance and reengineering of large-scale and distributed systems.
Empirical studies in software reengineering, maintenance, evolution, reverse engineering, and renovation.
Evaluation, assessment and benchmarks of reverse engineering and reengineering tools.

Concept and feature location
Object and aspect identification

Education-related issues to evolution, maintenance, reengineering and reverse engineering.

Model-driven reengineering
User interface reengineering
Performance re-engineering
Data reverse engineering
Binary reverse engineering

Language support for software maintenance and evolution.
Migration and evolution in emerging paradigms (SOA, cloud, AOP, multi-core computing and the like).

Re-documenting legacy systems

Mining software repositories
Wrapping techniques
Reengineering patterns
Reverse engineering for security assessment
Reverse engineering of service-oriented systems