(17:30-18:00) Opening Conference

(18:00-18:30) Activity Plan

• A Life-Cycle for Legacy Systems,

Prof. Aniello Cimitile, University of Salerno, I

• [C] Variable Classification Technique for Software Maintenance and Application to The Year 2000 Problem (Keiko Kawabe, Akihiko Matsuo, Sanya Uehara - Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. JP -  Akira Ogawa - Fujitsu Ltd. - JP)
• [R*] From "Y2K" to Data Warehouses [and other beneficial impacts of the millennium problem] (Daniel Aebi, Christian Schucan, ETH Zurich - SW)

(11:10-12:50) Session A2: Requirements and Specification Evolution (Chair: Lutz Richter, Institut fuer Informatik - Universitaet Zuerich, SW)

• [C] Requirements Evolution in the Midst of Environmental Change A Managed Approach (Wing Lam, M. Loomes - University of Hertfordshire - UK)
• [C] A Method for Assessing Legacy Systems for Evolution (Jane Ransom, Ian Sommerville, Ian Warren - Lancaster University - UK)
• [C] System Specification Reengineering Using the SpecView Tool (Tereza G. Kirner, Rogeria C. Gratao - Federal University of Sao Carlos - BR)
• [C] A Tool Supporting the Re-Design of Legacy Applications (Katja Cremer - RWTH Aachen- D)

(14:05-15:20) Session A3: Reuse and Object Oriented Techniques (Chair: Juan Antonio de la Puente, Technical University of Madrid, E)

• [C] A Dependence-Based Representation for Concurrent Object-Oriented Software Maintenance (Jianjun Zhao - Fukouka Institute of Technology - Jingde Cheng, Kazuo Ushijima - Kyushu University - JP)
• [C] OOA Metrics for the Unified Modeling Language (Michele Marchesi - Universita' di Cagliari - I)
• [C] Protection Reconfiguration for Reusable Software (Christian Damsgaarg Jensen, D. Hagimont - Universite Joseph Fourier - F)

• [R*] Documentu: A Flexible Architecture for Documentation Production Based on a Reverse Engineering Strategy (Christiano de Oliveira Braga, Arndt von Staa, Julio C.S.P. Leite, PUC-Rio - Brazil)
• [R*] Documentation Multi-Targeting Using ASML (Charles Owen, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, DEVLAB - Dartmouth College, Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College - USA)

(16:30-18:10) Session A5: CSMR98 Open Forum I (Chairs: Alessandro Fantechi, Fabrizio Fioravanti, Univ. Firenze, I)

• [C] Metrics-based Evaluation of Object-Oriented Software development Methods (Reiner R. Dumke - Erik Foltin - University of Magdeburg - D)
• [C] RENAISSANCE, A Method To Migrate From Legacy To Immortal Software System (Marco Battaglia - Giancarlo Savoia - John Favaro - Intecs Sistemi S.p.A. - I)
• [C] Visualization of Differences between Versions of Object-Oriented Sofware (Jochen Seemann, Jurgen Wolff von Gudenberg - Wurzburg University - D)
• [C] Reengineering a Computerized Numerical Control Towards Object-Oriented (F. Butera, B. Fontanella, P. Nesi, M. Perfetti - ELEXA S.r.l. - I)
• [C] Amber Metrics for the Testing & Maintenance of Object-Oriented Designs (Jill Doake, Ishbel Duncan - Anglia Polytechnic University - UK)
• [C] Toward a systematic object-oriented transformation of a Merise analysis (Isabelle Borne, Annya Romanczuk, Frederique Stefani - Ecole des Mines de Nantes - F)
• [C] Object Evolution by Model Evolution (Roland T. Mittermeir, Helfried Pirker, Dominik Rauner-Reithmayer - Universität Klagenfurt - A)

• [R] Evolving Software Practice for Year 2000 and Beyond. Dr. Shawn Bohner,  Program Director, META Group - Software Engineering Strategies, USA

• [C] Architecture and Functions of a Commercial Software Reengineering Workbench (Harry M. Sneed - Software Engineering Service GmbH - D)
• [C] Control Flow Normalization for COBOL/CICS Legacy System (Mark van den Brand, Alex Sellink, Chris Verhoef,  - University of Amsterdam - NL)

(11:10-12:00) Session B2: STEVENS LECTURE ON SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS (1998) (Chair: Elliot Chikofsky, DMR Consulting Group, USA)

• [R] Presentation of the Wayne Stevens Award and the Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods. (see for explanation) (See http://www.reengineer.org/ref98/index.html#stevens)

• [C] Assessing Architectural Complexity (Rick Kazman - Carnege Mellon University - USA - Marcus Burth - University of Mannheim - D)
• [C] Architecture recovery for Software Evolution (Juan C. Duenas, William Lopes, Juan A. de la Puente - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - E)

(14:05-16:10) Session B4: Results of the Reverse Engineering Demonstration Project, I (Chair: Elliot Chikofsky, DMR Consulting Group, USA)

• Companies, research centres, and universities participating in the Reverse Engineering Demonstration Project will present their results on the analysis of a single software system using different tools and techniques. (See http://www.worldpath.com/reproject/)

(16:30-18:10) Session B5: Results of the Reverse Engineering Demonstration Project, II (Chair: Elliot Chikofsky, DMR Consulting Group, USA)

• [R*] A Process for Reverse Engineering of AXE 10 Software (Staffan Haglund, Ericsson Software Technology AB - Sweden)
• [R*] Regenerative Verification and Validation: Moving Forward From Reverse Engineering (Tom Roberts - TASC - Bill Farley - Motorola Inc. - USA)

(12:00-12:50) Session C2: CSMR98 Industrial Track (Chair: Maurizio Campanai, CESVIT, I)

• [C*] Re-engineering Legacy Systems for the Privatised Railway, ESSI Project CARERRAS (David Fox, BR Business Systems, Stooperdale Offices, England)
• [C*] Introduction of a Software Project Management System, in a Steel Industrial Company, ESSI Project PROMASYS (Cristina Ortiz Vicente, Gonvarri Industrial, S.A., Spain)

(14:30-16:10) Session C3: Data Reengineering (Chair:Tereza Kirner, University of Sao Carlos - BR)

• [C] A Generic Approach for Data Reverse Engineering Taking into Account Application Domain Knowledge (Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, H. H. B. Ghezola, F. Kamoun - ENSI (National School for Computer Studies) - Tunisie)
• [C] A strategy for reducing the effort for database schema maintenance (Donatella Castelli - Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione - I)
• [R] Data Reverse Engineering Methods in Practice (Peter Aiken - Virginia Commonwealth University - USA)
• [R*] Database Reengineering for Quality (Elvira Locuratolo - IEI - CNR; Mario Loffredo, Oreste Signore, CNUCE - CNR - I)

(16:30-17:20) Session C4: Logic Programming, Telecommunication (Chair: Paolo Nesi, Universita' di Firenze, I)

• [C] A Metric Suite for Concurrent Logic Programs (Jianjun Zhao - Fukouka Institute of Technology - Jingde Cheng, Kazuo Ushijima - Kyushu University - JP)
• [C] Identifying Fault Prone Modules An Empirical Study in Telecommunication System (Sung-Back Hong, Kapsu Kim - ISDN Call Processing Section, ETRI - KR)

• [C] On Constructing a Tool to Verify Programs for Processors Built in Machines (Tomoya Ohta, Norihiro Matsumara,  Yukihiro Itoh- Shizuoka university - JP)
• [R*] Improving Comprehensibility of Software with Diagramming, Folding, and Coloring (James H. Cross II - Auburn University - USA)

• [C] Continuous Engineering for Industrial Scale Software Systems. Prof. Dr. Herbert Weber, Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Software- und Systemtechnik ISST, Germany

• [C] Modeling Maintenance Effort by means of Dynamic System (F.Calzolari, G. Antoniol, P. Tonella - IRST - I)
• [C] Improving Defect Removal Effectiveness for Software Development (Hareton K. N. Leung - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• [C] The Extract-Transform-Rewrite Cycle A Step Towards metaCARE (J. Ebert, B. Kullbach, A. Panse - University of Koblenz - D)

(11:35-12:50) Session D2: Business Information Technology (Chair: Reiner R. Dumke, University of Magdeburg - D)

• [C] An Organizational Framework for Mass-Customized Business Application (Petra Ludwig, Thomas Kaufmann, Harald Liessmann - Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems - D)
• [R] Driving IT Decisions from Architectural Principles (Elliot Chikofsky - DMR Consulting Group - USA)
• [R*] Architectural Reflection: Bridging the Gap Between a Running System and its Architectural Specification (Walter Cazzola, Andrea Savigni, Andrea Sosio, Francesco Tisato, University of Milano - I)

(14:05-15:20) Session D3: System Assessment (Chair: Stefano Nocentini, IBM, I)

• [C] Towards Mature Measurement Program (Frank Niessink, Hans van Vliet - Universiteit Amsterdam  NL)
• [C] A Tool for Process and Product Assessment of C++ Applications (Fabrizio Fioravanti, Paolo Nesi, Sandro Perlini - University of Florence - I)
• [C] Software Testability Measurement derived from Data Flow Analysis (Pu-Lin Yeh, Jin-Cherng Lin- Tatung Institute of Technology - Taiwan)

• [R*] A Proposed Reverse Engineering Technique to Redocument High-Level Control Structures of Embedded Systems Software (Dan Wilkening - TASC - USA)
• [R*] Current Parsing Techniques in Software Renovation Considered Harmful (Mark van den Brand - CWI - Alex Sellink, Chris Verhoef, University of Amsterdam - NL)

(16:30-18:10) Session D5: CSMR98 Open Forum, II (Chairs: Alessandro Fantechi, Fabrizio Fioravanti, Univ. Firenze, I)

• [C] DBFW A Simple DataBase FrameWork for the Evaluation and Maintenance of Automated Theorem Prover Data (Peter Jakobi, Andreas Wolf - Technische Universitat Munchen D)
• [C] Reengineering of Distributed Systems Using Formal Methods (Stephan Kleuker - University of Oldenburg D)
• [C] Tailoring the Process Model for Maintanance and Reengineering (Sara Stoecklin, Deidre Wiliams  - Florida Agricoltural & Mechanical University - Peter Stoecklin - PCSA Inc. - USA)
• [C] A sound and Practical Approach to the Re-Engineering of Time Critical System (H.Zedan - H. Yang - De Montfort University - UK)
• [C] Software Artifacts Reuse and Maintenance An organizational Framework (Claudine Toffolon, Salem Dakhli - Paris-Dauphine University - F)
• [C] The Task Artifact Cycle: Some Experiences from Reengineering Practice (Sebastian Kutscha, sd&m GmbH und Co KG, D)