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Background

If you are involved in extracting information, artifacts, architectural components (or anything else of value) from existing systems - then you should be participating in this conference!

The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) is the premier research conference on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing systems. WCRE explores innovative methods of extracting the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information to aid in reengineering, program understanding, system renovation, and related activities.

Since it was first held in 1993, the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) has truly become the center of the reverse engineering community. Reverse engineering has matured and become a part of every practitioner's vocabulary, and student textbook. It now represents a considerable body of knowledge. Increasingly, the industry is formally incorporating reverse engineering tools and techniques into our systems development activities. WCRE plays the leading role in moving this research agenda forward.

WCRE is a juried research conference with a difference: it is truly a "working conference"! It is a joint meeting place of industrial and academic researchers. WCRE is truly a working conference, where discussion is emphasized. By tradition, each paper presentation has a strict 20-minute limit. Following each group of papers on a given topic, there is serious and in-depth discussion of the topic area, the work described in the presentations, and the implications for future research. WCRE attendees are not passive observers; we are active participants in discussing and shaping future directions of the Reverse Engineering and Reengineering fields.

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Topics

We invite original research papers and experience reports in all areas of software maintenance, evolution, reengineering and migration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Software architecture recovery

* Program analysis and slicing

* Decompilation and binary translation

* Program transformation and refactoring

* Requirements Reengineering

* Cluster and concept analysis

* Legacy systems

* User interface reengineering

* Migration to the web

* Web-site reverse engineering

* Transitioning to software product lines

* Documentation generation

* Data reverse engineering

* Formal methods for reverse engineering

* Preprocessing, parsing and fact extraction

* Programming knowledge representations

* Reengineering patterns

* Traceability recovery

* Reengineering to web services

* Dynamic analysis

* Reverse engineering economics

* UML and roundtrip engineering

* Migration to model-driven architectures

* Browsing and querying software systems

* Object and aspect identification

* Software visualization

* Program comprehension

* Reverse engineering tool support

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Submission of Papers

Papers should be in the IEEE proceedings format and sent as a single portable document format (.pdf) or Postscript file conforming to the IEEE Postscript submission guidelines. (LaTeX users should use the standard IEEE proceedings format style file). Contact one of the Program Chairs before sending other file types. All submissions must be viewable and printable with Ghostview, version 1.5.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference. That registration is due with the camera-ready final copy before the paper is printed in the proceedings. By submitting a paper for consideration, you acknowledge and accept these requirements.

The best papers of WCRE 2004 will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper for ACM Journal publication.

Proceedings of the Working Conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Earlier WCRE proceedings are available from IEEE digital library.

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Workshop Proposals

Continuing the successful extension of WCRE with workshops in the last few years, WCRE 2004 offers you the opportunity to organize a workshop devoted to a reverse engineering or reengineering topic. Workshops would be held in coordination with the WCRE schedule. WCRE workshops are characterized by a focused topic, lively discussion, and enthusiastic participants. Typical group size is between 10 and 20 participants.

If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please write a workshop description of at most two pages. This description should include the workshop name, organizers, goals, topics addressed, paper selection criteria and mechanism discussion format, length of the workshop (full day or half day) expected outcomes, expected follow ups, and other issues that could be relevant to the workshop.

Workshop proposals will be judged by the WCRE chairs on originality, relevance to the field of reverse engineering, expected level of interest in the topic, and the organizers' ability to lead a successful workshop.

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Tool Demonstrations

Tool demonstrations will be scheduled during the WCRE main conference. You are requested to bring your own equipment (e.g., laptop) to be used for the demonstration. We are investigating the possibility of providing Internet connections.

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Important Dates

Papers Due: June 14, 2004, 23:59 UTC (strict deadline)

Notification to Authors: July 21, 2004

Workshop Proposals Due: July 21, 2004

Camera-ready Papers Due: August 13, 2004

Tool Description Due: October 13, 2004

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WCRE 2003 Committees

Program Committee

Margaret Ann Storey (Canada) Atif Memon (USA)

Nicolas Anquetil (Brazil) Hausi Mueller (Canada)

Giuliano Antoniol (Italy) Ladan Tahvildari (Canada)

Michael Blaha (USA) Malcolm Munro (UK)

Cornelia Boldyreff (UK) Filippo Lanubile (Italy)

Liz Burd (UK) Liam O'Brien (USA)

Jonathan Cook (USA) Maria Tortorella (Italy)

Jim Cordy (Canada) Ying Zou (Canada)

Saumya Debray (USA) Susan Elliott Sim (USA)

Giuseppe Di Lucca (Italy) Giuseppe Visaggio (Italy)

Jean-Marie Favre (France) Andreas Winter (Germany)

Harald Gall (Switzerland) Kenny Wong (Canada)

Mike Godfrey (Canada) Chris Verhoef (Netherlands)

Ric Holt (Canada) Arie van Deursen (Netherlands)

Jens Jahnke (Canada) Mohammad El Ramly (UK)

Claire Knight (UK) Mark Harman (UK)

Kostas Kontogiannis (Canada) Kathi Hogshead-Davis (USA)

Rainer Koschke (Germany) Gerald Gannod (USA)

Spiros Mancoridis (USA)

General Chair

Leon Moonen

Delft University of Technology

Faculty ITS

P.O. Box 5031

2600 GA Delft

The Netherlands

Phone: +31 15 27 86411

Fax: +31 15 27 86632

Program Co-Chairs

Eleni Stroulia Andrea de Lucia

Department of Computing Science Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica

University of Alberta Università di Salerno

Edmonton, Alberta Via ponte don Melillo

Canada T6G 2E8 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy

Phone: +1 780-492-3520 Phone: +39 089 963315

Fax: +1 780-492-1071 Fax: +39 089 963303

Arrangements Chair

Elliot Chikofsky

Engineering Management & Integration

Burlington MA

USA 01803

Phone: +1 781-272-0049

Fax: +1 781-272-8464

Workshop Chair

Ladan Tahvildari

Department of Elect. & Comp. Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

Canada N2L 3G1

Phone: +1 519 888-4567 X3819

Fax: +1 519 576-7017

Publicity Chair

Claire Knight

Volantis Systems Ltd.

1 Chancellor Court

Occam Road

Surrey Research Park

Guildford, Surrey

GU2 7YT, UK

Electronic Submissions Chair

Ian Bull

Department of Computer Science

University of Victoria

PO Box 3055, STN CSC

Victoria, B.C.

Canada V8W 3P6

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WCRE Sponsors and Hosts

* IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering

* Reengineering Forum

* Delft University of Technology

* Software Evolution Research Laboratory

* Gemeente Delft Tourst Information

* Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta.

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