ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and
management.
In the era of the Internet, businesses and end-users have invested in new technologies and small and large
software organisations around the world are looking for Internet related solutions to evolve and maintain
their new Internet software products.
Internet technologies are strongly impacting system architectures and business processes and rules.
In some cases businesses and end-users have been overwhelmed trying to keep up with software development and
evolution processes and practices.
In addition to novel solutions to enable the life-cycle of new web-based software systems,
huge investments are necessary to migrate aging legacy applications to web-enabled contemporary systems.
ICSM 2001 will address these major changes in the software landscape and their impact on
maintenance and evolution.
The focus of the conference will be to explore the new challenges that the Internet,
as a driver for business changes, poses for software maintenance, and the new opportunities it opens
as infrastructure and enabling technology.
The purpose of the conference is to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners.
We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which
could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and the industrial community.
ICSM 2001 will be participatory, with working collaborative sessions and presentations of industry projects.
ICSM 2001 will bring together researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer
experts, and project managers.
The Conference will be held in conjunction with WESS, the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software.
