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                             CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
		14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
				WCRE 2007
	October 28 to 31, 2007 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
		http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/wcre2007/
	Theme:   using evolution history for reverse engineering


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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.
We invite original, high-quality research papers in all areas of software maintenance, evolution, reengineering, and migration.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

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:
- Mining software repositories
- Empirical studies in reverse engineering
- Program comprehension 
- 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
- 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




SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Technical 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 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 proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press. WCRE 2007 will use an electronic submission process.  For more details, please visit the WCRE 2007 web site at http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/wcre2007/


SPECIAL TRACKS, WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Besides technical papers, WCRE foresees the submission of tool demonstration proposals, industry/experience reports and PhD dissertation long abstracts. Also, it welcomes the organization of workshops and tutorials. Further details on special track submissions can be found on the WCRE website at the following URL: http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/wcre2007



IMPORTANT DATES

Technical papers:                  
     WCRE paper abstracts due:                                            June 6, 2007
     WCRE full papers due (firm deadline):                      	  June 13, 2007
     Notification to authors:                                             July 20, 2007


Special Tracks:
     Special tracks submission (Tool, Industry, PhD):          		  June 25, 2007
     Special tracks acceptance notification:                              July 20, 2007 


Workshop and Tutorial Proposals:
     Submission of workshop proposals:                                	  June 25, 2007 
     Submission of tutorial proposals:                                    June 25, 2007 
     Workshop and tutorial acceptance:                                	  July 20, 2007 


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


General chairs

	Michael Blaha
	Modelsoft Consulting Corporation - USA

	Serge Vanasse
	Modelsoft Consulting Corporation - USA

Program co-chairs

	Massimiliano Di Penta
	RCOST - University of Sannio, Italy

	Jonathan I. Maletic
	Kent State University - Ohio, USA

PhD forum chairs

	Giuliano Antoniol
	École Polytechnique de Montréal
	Montréal, Québec, Canada

	Eleni Stroulia
	University of Alberta,  Canada

Workshop chairs

	Ahmed Hassan
	University of Victoria - Victoria, BC, Canada

	Jim Whitehead
	University of California - Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Tool demo chairs

	Daniel M.German
	University of Victoria - Victoria, BC, Canada

	Zhenchang Xing
	University of Alberta - Canada

Finance and publication chair

	Elliot Chikofsky	
	Engineering Management & Integration - Burlington, MA, USA

Submission chair

	Michael L.Collard
	Ashland University-Ashland Ohio

Web chair

	Concettina Del Grosso
	RCOST-University of Sannio, Italy

SPONSORS
   - Reengineering Forum
   - IEEE Computer Society TCSE (Pending)
   - ModelSoft Corp
   - RCOST - Research Centre on Software Technology, University of Sannio, Italy
   - University of Sannio
   - Kent State University

A PDF version of this CFP is available at http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/wcre2007/calls/wcre2007cfp.pdf