16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2009)
October 13th-16th, 2009, Lille, France
http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/wcre2009/

The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) is the premier research conference on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and 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 in system renovation and program understanding.


INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and the Industry, working in the areas of reverse engineering.

RESEARCH AREAS:
We invite original, high-quality research papers in all areas of software maintenance, evolution, reengineering, and migration. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:

--Program comprehension
--Mining software repositories
--Empirical studies in reverse engineering
--Concept and feature location
--Binary reverse engineering
--Redocumenting legacy systems
--Model-driven reengineering
--User interface reengineering
--Wrapping techniques
--Preprocessing, parsing and fact extraction
--Reverse engineering tool support
--Reverse engineering of service-oriented systems
--Reengineering to distributed architectures
--Software architecture recovery
--Visualization techniques and tools
--Object and aspect identification
--Program analysis and slicing
--Reengineering patterns
--Program transformation and refactoring
--Dynamic analysis
--Data reverse engineering
--Reverse engineering for security assessment
--Education in reverse engineering
--Performance re-engineering

PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Technical papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of reverse engineering. Papers are limited to 10 proceedings pages. Papers must not have been previously published nor have been submitted to, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or other conference. Papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee based on their originality, technical soundness and quality of presentation. Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines. If the paper is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference and to present the paper. WCRE accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

Besides technical papers, WCRE foresees the submission of tool demonstration proposals, industry/experience reports and PhD dissertation long abstracts. WCRE welcomes the organization of workshops and tutorials. Further details on special track submissions can be found on the WCRE website at http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/wcre2009/

SPECIAL ISSUE:
A special issue of the Science of Computer Programming (SCP) journal will feature extended, revised versions of the best papers accepted at WCRE 2009.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: June 13, 2009
Full papers due (firm deadline): June 20, 2009
Special tracks submission (Tool, Industry, PhD): June 30, 2009
Submission of workshop/tutorial proposals: June 30, 2009
Conference: October 13-16, 2009

SPONSORED BY:
-- The Reengineering Forum
-- IEEE Computer Society TCSE (pending)
-- SOCCER Lab, Polytechnic School of Montreal
-- Delft University of Technology

GENERAL CHAIR
St?phane Ducasse
INRIA, Lille, France

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Andy Zaidman
Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands

Giuliano Antoniol
D?partement de g?nie informatique et logiciel,
?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Canada


Ph.D. FORUM CHAIRS
Rainer Koschke
University of Bremen, Germany

Spiros Mancoridis
Dept. of Computer Science, Drexel University, USA


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Yann-Gael Gueheneuc
?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Canada

Damien Pollet
University of Lugano, Switzerland

TOOL DEMO CHAIRS
Martin Pinzger
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Bram Adams
Queen?s University, Canada

FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR
Elliot Chikofsky Engineering Management & Integration, USA


PUBLICITY CHAIR
Chanchal K. Roy
Queen?s University, Canada

WEBMASTER
Ferdaous Boughanmi
Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada