<a href="index.php" title="Homepage">Homepage</a> | <a href="index.php?topic=contrib" title="Call for Contributions">Call for Contributions</a> <p class="rightside"><br /> <br /> <p class="rightside"><br /> </p> <p class="rightside"><br /> </p> <h1>Background</h1> <p> Reverse engineering aims at turning implicit or lost knowledge of software systems into explicit knowledge. Reverse engineering methods and techniques are essential to keep systems flexible, to support software maintenance, and to prolong a system's lifetime. 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. </p> <h1>WCRE Topics</h1> <p> We invite original research papers and experience reports in all areas of software maintenance, evolution, reengineering and migration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: </p> <ul> <li>Software architecture recovery</li> <li>Learning from system architecture</li> <li>Binary reverse engineering</li> <li>Decompilation and binary translation</li> <li>Reengineering model-driven architectures</li> <li>Program transformation and refactoring</li> <li>Program comprehension</li> <li>Object and aspect identification</li> <li>Preprocessing, parsing and fact extraction</li> <li>Reverse engineering tool support</li> <li>Reengineering to distributed architectures</li> <li>Visualization techniques and tools</li> <li>Concept analysis</li> <li>Redocumenting legacy systems</li> <li>Program analysis and slicing</li> <li>Reengineering patterns</li> <li>Wrapping techniques</li> <li>Dynamic analysis</li> <li>User interface reengineering</li> <li>Dynamic analysis</li> <li>Data reverse engineering</li> </ul> <h1>Submission of Papers</h1> <p> Papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of reverse engineering. Papers should be 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 must conform to the IEEE paper guidelines. WCRE 2005 will use an electronic submission process. For more details, please visit the submissions section of this <a href="index.php?topic=submission" title="Submission page of WCRE 2005">web site</a> or email the <a href="http://193.206.108.137/email.php?name=ProgChairs" title="E-mail Program Chairs">Program Chairs</a>. </p> <p>