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*           18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
*                                        WCRE 2011
*               http://www.cs.wm.edu/semeru/wcre2011/
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*                             October 17 – 20, 2011
*                            Lero, Limerick, Ireland
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*                       *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
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OVERVIEW/SCOPE
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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.

Selected papers  from this track  will be invited  to  a special
issue of the  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Research
and Practice (JSME).

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 reengineering


RESEARCH PAPERS
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Submissions should describe original, unpublished and significant work
in the  research and  practice of reverse  engineering. Papers  can be
either  full papers  limited to  10 proceeding  pages or  short papers
limited to 5 pages. Full  papers should describe significant  research
that  advances  the state-of-the  art  in  reverse engineering.  Short
papers should describe research and cutting-edge ideas in early stages
of development.

*Important Dates*
Abstracts: June 20, 2011
Submissions: June 27, 2011
Notification: August 1, 2011
Camera Ready: August 15, 2011


INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE REPORTS
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We invite  submissions of  reports and  position papers  that describe
successful stories and  failure stories of the  application of reverse
engineering/reengineering techniques in an  industrial context and the
lessons learned from that.

*Important Dates*
Submissions: July 6, 2011
Notification: August 1, 2011
Camera Ready: August 15, 2011


TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS
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Tools are central to research in reverse engineering and proposals for
tool  demonstrations  are very  welcome.  Demonstrations  will have  a
formal presentation,  and will  also be  in an  open session  to allow
individual interaction with the participants.

*Important Dates*
Submissions: July 6, 2011
Notification: August 1, 2011
Camera Ready: August 15, 2011


DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
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The  symposium  offers  a   unique  opportunity  to  present  proposed
research directions, results obtained thus  far, and plans towards the
completion  of  the  PhD studies. We  invite  submissions  from  young
researchers at all stages of their PhD studies.

*Important Dates*
Submissions: July 6, 2011
Notification: July 15, 2011
Camera Ready: August 15, 2011


WORKSHOPS
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WCRE provides the opportunity to  organize full and half day workshops
devoted to a reverse engineering or reengineering topic. Workshops are
characterized by a focused  topic, lively discussion, and enthusiastic
participants. All accepted workshops will be held in coordination with
the research track.

*Important Dates*
Submissions: July 6, 2011
Notification: August 1, 2011


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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*General Chair*
Jim Buckley, University of Limerick, Ireland
Elliot Chikofsky, Engineering Management & Integration, USA

*Program Co-Chairs*
Martin Pinzger, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Denys Poshyvanyk, The College of William and Mary, USA

*Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs*
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Radu Marinescu, University of Timisoara, Romania

*Tool Demonstrations Co-Chairs*
Mircea Lungu, University of Berne, Switzerland
Huzefa Kagdi, Winston-Salem State University, USA

*Workshop Chairs*
Michael Collard, The University of Akron, USA
Jens Knodel, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

*Local Arrangements Chair*
Susan Mitchell, University of Limerick, Ireland

*Publicity Chair*
Michaela Greiler, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

*Webmaster*
Malcom Gethers, The College of William and Mary, USA