Evol’08: 4th International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution and Evolvability
15 September 2008 - 16 September 2008
Austria
The 4th International Workshop on Software Evolution and Evolvability, organised by the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution, will take place on 15-16 September 2008 in L’Aquila, Italy, co-located with ASE 2008.
According to Dr Tom Mens, Chair of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution, “The main goal of our Working Group is to understand the phenomenon of software evolution, and to develop well-founded and disciplined tools and techniques to support software developers with the common problems they encounter when evolving large and complex software systems”.
Research in software evolution and evolvability has been thriving in the past years, with a constant stream of new formalisms, tools, techniques, and development methodologies trying at the same time:
- to facilitate the way long-lived successful software systems can be changed in order to cope with demands from users and the increasing complexity and volatility of the contexts in which such systems operate,
- to understand and if possible control the processes by which demand for these changes come about.
Numerous scientific studies of large-scale software systems have shown that most of the effort and cost spent in large software projects goes to the maintenance and evolution of existing software systems as opposed to the development of new systems from scratch. This is mainly due to the fact that software systems need to evolve continually to cope with ever-changing software requirements.
ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from nineteen European countries are members of ERCIM.For further information: www.ercim.org
Website : http://evol08.inria.fr/(opens in new window)
Contact : Michel Wermelinger, The Open University, UK m.a.wermelinger@open.ac.uk
According to Dr Tom Mens, Chair of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution, “The main goal of our Working Group is to understand the phenomenon of software evolution, and to develop well-founded and disciplined tools and techniques to support software developers with the common problems they encounter when evolving large and complex software systems”.
Research in software evolution and evolvability has been thriving in the past years, with a constant stream of new formalisms, tools, techniques, and development methodologies trying at the same time:
- to facilitate the way long-lived successful software systems can be changed in order to cope with demands from users and the increasing complexity and volatility of the contexts in which such systems operate,
- to understand and if possible control the processes by which demand for these changes come about.
Numerous scientific studies of large-scale software systems have shown that most of the effort and cost spent in large software projects goes to the maintenance and evolution of existing software systems as opposed to the development of new systems from scratch. This is mainly due to the fact that software systems need to evolve continually to cope with ever-changing software requirements.
ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from nineteen European countries are members of ERCIM.For further information: www.ercim.org
Website : http://evol08.inria.fr/(opens in new window)
Contact : Michel Wermelinger, The Open University, UK m.a.wermelinger@open.ac.uk