Euromicro             Reengineering Forum 1998 

   Dept. of Systems and Informatics (DSI),   Faculty of  Engineering, , ,

AICA, DeQualitate, , Jackson

We trust that most of the results produced by the research community have to be shared with those obtained by in the industry. While the concrete experience of the industrial partners is strongly relevant for better understanding the real problems that still exist. In this, a synergic mechanism for making more constructive and well-focused researches can be established for discussing about the most innovative solutions regarding: reverse engineering, system assessment, year 2000, data reengineering, software architecture, tool architecture, program understanding, etc.

The joint conference is pleased to host some selected keynote speakers whose on the basis of  their experience will provide a clear overview and hits about the general problems of software engineering, reengineering and year 2000. The conference will also include the 1998 presentation of the Wayne Stevens Award and the Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods.  This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software development, and the lecture focuses on advances in the use of methods.  Past recipients include Tony Wasserman, David Harel, and Michael Jackson. Presented by the IWCASE industry association.

The conference is based on more than 40 full paper presentations, two open forum sections and some industrial sections. One mainly focussed  on ESSI Projects of European Commission, the other on the so called Reverse Engineering Demonstration Project. It consists in the comparison of several reverse engineering tools and techniques on the basis of a unique problem.

For these reasons the combined conference is the perfect occasion for key people in the reengineering and reverse engineering fields. It provides the a wonderful  opportunity for interaction among industrial, academic, practitioners, system professionals, technology transition experts, project managers, developers and users of tools; who are looking for, or developing, solutions to cope with existing and future problems.

• Maintenance and Reengineering Tools (CARE-Tools),
• Reverse Engineering Tools,
• Support of Reengineering Tasks by CASE-Tools,
• Software Reusability,
• Software Evolution, Migration and Maintenance Strategies,
• Maintainability of Programming Languages (e.g.., OOPLs),
• Maintenance Metrics,
• Maintenance and Reengineering of KBS,
• Design for Maintenance,
• Preventive Maintenance,
• Personnel Aspects of Maintenance (Motivation, Team building),
• Third Party Maintenance,
• Empirical Results about the Maintenance Situation in Businesses,
• Tele-Maintenance (Concepts, Experiences, Use of New Technologies),
• Models and Methods for Error Prediction,
• Measurement of Software Quality,
• Formal Methods,
• Reengineering and Reverse Engineering Concepts,
• Experiences from Redesign and Reengineering Projects,
• Millennium Problem (Year 2000),
• Euro Problem,
• Organizational Framework and Models for "RE"-Projects,
• Version and Configuration Management,
• Legal Aspects and Jurisdiction,
• Organization and Management of Large Maintenance Projects,
• Software Offloading,
• Related Areas such as Software Documentation.

The deadline for CSMR98 submissions is Sept. 15, 1997.
Authors of CSMR98 will be notified of acceptance by Nov.25, 1997.
The camera ready versions of CSMR98 papers have to be send within Jan. 5, 1998.

The joint conference is pleased to host the 1998 presentation of the Wayne Stevens Award and the Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods.  This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software development, and the lecture focuses on advances in the use of methods.  Past recipients include Tony Wasserman, David Harel, and Michael Jackson. Presented by the IWCASE industry association.

This award lecture is named in memory of Wayne Stevens (1944-1993), a highly-respected consultant, author, pioneer, and advocate of the practical application of software methods and tools.  His 1974 article "Structured Design" was the first published on the topic and has been widely reprinted from the IBM Systems Journal.  He was the author of the books Software Design: Concepts and Methods (Prentice-Hall Intl, 1991) and Using Structured Design (Wiley, 1981). His last article "Data Flow Analysis and Design" appears in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (Wiley, 1994).  Stevens was the chief architect of IBM's application
development methodology.
 
The Stevens Lecture is presented by IWCASE, the international association which sponsors the Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP) conference.

For information please contact http://www.reengineer.org/ref98/.

General Time Frame
The conference will run from Sunday 8th to Wednesday 11th.
Registration will start on Sunday 8th at the 16:00 and continues till 18:00.
Conference will start at the 18:00 of Sunday 8th with the official opening.
The registration desk will be also open in the morning from 8:00 to 9:00 of Monday and Tuesday.
The conference will close its activities Wednesday 11th at the 18:00.

Services Provided
Information boards will be placed at the registration area for current news and interparticipant communications.
Lunches and coffee breaks are included in the registration feee and will be served at the conference location.
The conference Dinner is also covered by the registration fee. Partners can buy additional tickets for the dinner and for lunch at the registration desk.
A list of suggested Restaurants with their respective menus will be  available at the registration desk for helping you in selecting place to have your dinner. A direct link with a Travel Agency will be available.

Climate
The weather in Florence in March is very nice, in Marh we are at the beginning of the spring.

Social Program
During the conference the following events are scheduled.
On Tuesday 10th the conference dinner will be organized.
Walking in Florence is an exciting experience. Please Visit WWW pages related to conference location on the conference WWW page.
Travel Agency NewTours will be happy to help you in selecting one of the several opportunities offered by the wonderful Florence (Phone +39-55-33611, Fax: +39-55-3361250, +39-55-3361350).

Local Organization
Paolo Nesi      nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it
Dip. Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Tel: +39-55-4796523, Fax: +39-55-4796363
Alessandro Fantechi      fantechi@dsi.unifi.it
Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Tel: +39-55-4796265, Fax: +39-55-4796363
Fabrizio Fioravanti  fioravan@aguirre.dsi.unifi.it
Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Tel: +39-55-4796425, Fax: +39-55-4796363
 
This page: http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/csmr98.html

Work in Progress 

 Fabrizio Fioravanti  -- Last modified -- 19/1/1998