Lisbon June 14-19 1999
ECOOP'99
Workshop
Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution
Tuesday June
15th 1999
ABSTRACT:
Software Architecture has become an established area of
study within the software engineering community for a considerable time now.
Recently, Software Architecture has become a topic of interest within the
object-oriented community as well. The quality of an object-oriented
architecture can be described by a set of characteristics, such as modularity,
extensibility, flexibility, adaptability, understandability, testability and
reusability, which are recognized to facilitate the evolution and the
maintenance of software systems. Architecture represents the highest level of
design decisions about a system and evolution aspects have to be considered at
this level. Moreover, the ever-changing world makes evolvability a strong
quality requirement for the majority of software architectures.
The main
objective of this workshop is to establish a working dialogue about the
effective use of techniques, formalisms and tools, as well as their combinations
in order to address the architectural evolution of object oriented software
systems, either in their initial development or in their later redesign. The
workshop also aims to highlight outstanding issues that should form a part of
the forthcoming research agenda in the evolvability of object-oriented software
architectures.
ORGANIZERS:
Isabelle Borne, Ecole des
Mines de Nantes, France
Serge Demeyer, University of Bern, Switzerland
Galal Hassan Galal, University College London, United Kingdom
CONTACT PERSON:
Isabelle.Borne@emn.fr
This workshop is partially sponsored by RENOIR (Requirements Engineering Network
of International cooperating Research groups)
