Second International IEEE Workshop on

Software Evolvability

at
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
24 September 2006

 

Scientific Programme

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24 September 2006	Presentation Title	Speakers/Author(s)
9:00 - 9:10	Welcome to Software Evolvability 2006	Program Chairs
9:10 - 10:00	Invited Keynote Lecture: Self Adaptive Software - Problems and Projects	Robert Laddaga (BBN Technologies, U.S.A.)
10:00 - 10:25	Session: Biological Analogies in Software Evolvability
	What Software Evolution and Biological Evolution Don't Have in Common	Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Jill Hewitt, Bruce Christianson, and Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15	Session: Evolvability Tools & Methods
	Wrapping Architectures for Long-Term Sustainability	Christopher Landauer (The Aerospace Corporation, U.S.A.)
	A Context-Driven Software Comprehension Process Model	Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Sudhir Mudur (Concordia Univeristy, Canada), & Philippe Charland (Defence Research and Development Canada)
	Software Evolvability by Component-Orientation - A Loosely Coupled Component Model Inspired by Biology	Markus Reitz (University of Kaiserlautern, Germany)
12:15 - 13:50	Lunch
13:50 - 15:30	Session: Practice
	Plus ça Change... But What Changes and What Stays the Same?	Bob Dickerson, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, & Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire, U.K. )
	Toward a Software Maintenance Methodology Using Semantic Web Techniques	David Hyland-Wood (University of Maryland, U.S.A.), David Carrington (University of Queensland, Australia), & Simon Kaplan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
	Software-Change Prediction: Estimated+Actual	Huzefa Kagdi and Jonathan I. Maletic (Kent State University, U.S.A.)
	The Anatomy - An Instrument for Managing Software Evolution and Evolvability	P. Jönsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50	Session: Process and Theory
	Software Evolutionary Dynamics Modelled as the Activity of an Actor-Network	Paul Wernick, Tracy Hall, & Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.)
	Understanding the Dynamics of Product Software Development Using the Concept of Co-Evolution	I. Heitlager (VivaCadena, The Netherlands), S. Jansen, R. Helms, and S. Brinkkemper (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
16:50 - 17:50	Panel Session: How Do We Convince Everybody Else that Evolvability is the Real Problem?	Panelists: To Be Announced
18:00	Symposium Ends Self-Organized Informal Discussion at Dinner

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Homepage of Software Evolvability 2006
Program On-Line: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/EN/SE06_program.html

EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2006)

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