Workshops
W1 : International Workshop on COmparing Software Retrieval Approaches (CORA)
CORA workshop has been cancelled.
Workshop Short Description
The recent advent of the open source movement and service-oriented architectures has enabled new and interesting solutions for software retrieval. However, since most of these approaches have been developed and evaluated independently of each other, it is hard if not impossible to compare their performance and to provide practitioners with guidance on how to best use them in a given context.
Hence, this workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various communities to collate innovative application scenarios for software search and retrieval and investigate effective ways of evaluating them. We especially welcome contributions that work towards a common baseline for a standard collection of software artifacts and benchmarks that can be used for future evaluation of software retrieval, reuse and evolution approaches.
Important Dates
Planned Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011
Workshop Organizers
Oliver Hummel, University of Mannheim, DE
Werner Janjic, University of Mannheim, DE
To find out more, go to the
CORA 2011 workshop homepage.
W2 : International Workshop on Software Trustworthiness (SoTrust)
Workshop Short Description
With the pervasive of computing facilities in people’s work and daily life, humans run into a revolution in communication and thinking, which brings forward computing thinking and social computing. In the cyber space, being ties, humans are socially blind and unsure. That’s the reason why trustworthiness has been put on the spot these several years. Trustworthiness is presented to answer questions such as: Can computing facilities be trusted? Can information systems be dependable? Can unknown people in the other end be trustworthy?
Extensive reuse of software resources has become an important contributor to trustworthiness among computing facilities. These software resources can be components, services, product lines, patterns, frameworks and etc. How can software reuse approaches contribute to trustworthiness? How can trustworthy systems rely on reused resources?
SoTrust2011 is to bring together software scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, case studies, and ideas in the area of software trustworthiness with respect to reuse approaches.
Important Dates
Planned Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011
Workshop Organizers
Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China
Bing Xie, Peking University, China
To find out more, go to the
SoTrust 2011 workshop homepage.
W3 : International Workshop on Software Reuse and Safety (RESAFE)
RESAFE workshop has been cancelled.
Workshop Short Description
In the software engineering community at large, reuse has long since come of age, and in its various manifestations - component-based development, generative languages, domain engineering and others - it is one of the most popular and important paradigms. But there is one domain in which software reuse is looked upon with suspicion: the domain of safety critical systems. Much of the negative view of reuse is based on the failure of the Therac-25 medical system which resulted in the deaths of several patients. One of the sources of failure is believed to be reusable software carried over from previous versions of the Therac system. The case against reuse in the Ariane 5 system was also made in a report in which the authors stated that, "Reuse without a precise specification mechanism is a disastrous risk." These and other cases led some members of the software reuse community to the belief that it was important to begin addressing the issues surrounding reuse and safety in an organized manner. Since 2004, the RESAFE workshops have tracked and organized issues in software reuse and safety. An emerging awareness of the potential for software reuse in such safety-critical sectors as aerospace and the automobile industry has made this workshop series particularly relevant.
Important Dates
Planned Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011
Workshop Organizers
John Favaro, Intecs S.p.A., Italy
Bill Frakes, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
To find out more, go to the RESAFE 2011 workshop homepage.