Evolution of Large-scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA)

Tuesday, 23 September 2003
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2003)

Sponsored by FWO Scientific Research Network Foundations of Software Evolution and
ESF Research Network Research Links to Explore and Advance Software Evolution (RELEASE).

More information

• Original call for participation
• Flyer [PDF version] [HTML version]
• Tentative schedule
• Participant list

Proceedings

Full papers

• Janet E. Burge, David C. Brown. Rationale support for maintenance of large scale systems.
• Serguei Roubtsov, Ella Roubtsova, Pekka Abrahamsson. Evolutionary product line modelling.
• Filip Van Rysselberghe, Serge Demeyer. Evaluating clone detection techniques.
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• Bart Du Bois, Tom Mens. Describing the impact of refactoring on internal program quality.
• Neil Chaudhuri. J2EE or .NET: A managerial perspective.
• Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, José Luiz Fiadeiro. Using coordination contracts for evolving business rules.
• Cory Kapser, Michael Godfrey. Toward a taxonomy of clones in source code: a case study.
  [PPT presentation] [PDF presentation]
• Daniel German. Using software trails to rebuild the evolution of software.
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• Jean-Marie Favre. Meta-model and model co-evolution within the 3D software space.
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• Michael Fischer, Harald Gall. MDS-Views: Visualizing problem report data of large scale software using multidimensional scaling.

Position papers

• Andrew Mohan, Nicolas Gold. Linking the effect of typographical style to the evolvability of software.
• Stephen Cook, Rachel Harrison, Timothy Millea, Lily Sun. Challenges of highly adaptable information systems.
• Jilles Van Gurp, Jan bosch, Sjaak Brinkkemper. Design Erosion in Evolving Software Products.
• Ben Wilson, Tony Van Der Beken. Observations on automation in cross-platform migration.
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• Herman Tromp, Ghislain Hoffman. Evolution of legacy systems: strategic and technological issues, based on a case study.
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• Kim Mens, Bernard Poll. Supporting software maintenance and evolution with intentional source-code views.
• Isabel Michiels, Dirk Deridder, Herman Tromp, Andy Zaidman. Identifying problems with legacy software: preliminary findings of the ARRIBA project.
• Nazim H. Madhavji, Josée Tassé. A case for establishing evolutionary policies and their support mechanisms, with examples.

Invited talks

• Susan Elliott Sim, University of Toronto, Canada. Benchmarking: The Way Forward for Software Evolution.
  [PDF paper] [PDF presentation] [PPT presentation]

  In her PhD thesis, Susan Elliott Sim developed a theory of benchmarking in software engineering. The theory explains the observed benefits of benchmarking in scientific disciplines, where benchmarking efforts have led to a great leap forward in research and increased consensus on the nature of the problems and approaches used within a research community. The theory predicts that benchmarking can be used to generate greater consensus, and increase the scientific maturity of a research field. Susan has developed two benchmarks, which are now widely used in the reverse engineering community, the xfig structured demonstration for program comprehension tools, and CppETS for C++ fact extractors. Susan also played an instrumental role in the development of GXL (Graph eXchange Language), a data interchange language for reverse engineering tools. GXL has been ratified as the standard exchange format in the reverse engineering and graph transformation communities. Susan has held research fellowships with Sun Microsystems, IBM Canada Centre for Advanced Studies, Telepresence Systems Inc. and the National Research Council (Canada). She has published widely in the reverse engineering community, and has organized a series of workshops and structured demonstrations on comparative evaluation and benchmarking. Her research interests include research methodology, program comprehension, and software process for small business.

• Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen. Towards a software evolution benchmark
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ORGANIZERS

• Tom Mens, Programming Technology Lab, Departement Informatica, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
• Michael Godfrey, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Juan F. Ramil, Computing Department, Faculty of Maths and Computing, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Brian Down, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ontario, Canada

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Guenter Kniesel, University of Bonn, Germany
• Manny Lehman, University of Middlesex, United Kingdom
• Kim Mens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
• Harvey Siy, Lucent Technologies, Illinois, USA
• Arie Van Deursen, CWI, The Netherlands

SPONSORS