[Final Programme, version of 23 September 2005]

Software Evolvability 2005

at the
21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2005)
in Budapest, Hungary

Program - 26 September 2005

09:00-09:10 Introduction
"Software Evolvability", Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

09:10-10:30 Invited Keynote Paper:
"The Role and Impact of Assumptions in Software Development Maintenance and Evolution"
Meir M. Lehman (Middlesex University, UK)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:45 Regular Papers
  [presentations 25 min., discussions 10 min.]

"A Simulation Model of Self-organising Evolvability in Software Systems"
Stephen Cook, Rachel Harrison (University of Reading, UK) and Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

"The Naming of Systems and Software Evolvability"
Martin J. Loomes, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

"Self Managed Adaptability with Wrappings"
Christopher Landauer and Kirstie L. Bellman (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Paper Presentations

  Regular Papers: 14:30-15:40
  [presentations 25 min., discussions 10 min.]

"Using Program Slicing Metrics to Predict the Evolution of Software"
Tracy Hall and Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

"A Light-Weight Proactive Software Change Impact Analysis Using Use Case Maps"
Jacqueline Hewitt and Juergen Rilling (Concordia University, Canada)

  Short Paper: 15:40-16:00
  [presentation 15 min., discussion 5 min.]

"Distinguishing between Learning, Growth and Evolution"
Nigel Philips and Sue Black (London South Bank University, UK)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Panel and Open Discussion:

Theme: "The Highway to Software Evolvability"
Chair: Paul Wernick
Panelists: Sue Black, Stephen Cook, Tracy Hall, Christopher Landauer, Manny Lehman, Chrystopher Nehaniv

18:30 - Evening Activities

All papers are published in Proc. Software Evolvability 2005 by IEEE Computer Science Press.