10th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) – Final Feedback

As I posted before in this blog, last week happened the International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) in Beijing, China. The conference was composed of tutorials, workshops, doctoral symposium, demo tools, and regular papers (see the program here). The key researchers working on the topic were there.

The main discussion during the ICSR involved search and retrieval and its related issues, architectures for reuse, COST, and several aspects of product lines (variability, domain analysis, feature interaction, technologies, and quality). Finally, two points should be highlighted: services starting to be discussed also in software reuse and empirical studies in the area. These two points are important: first, it is interesting to see some work investigating the [real] possibility of services work well in the reuse scenario; second, empirical results indicate that the field is each more becoming more mature with solid evaluations.

By the way, in this conference, the RiSE Labs presented two papers related to model-driven reuse and our repository system. In addiction, the RiSE business unit presented two of our products in the tools session.

The next ICSR will be in 2010. So far, we do not know where the conference will be hosted. When it was known, this blog will announce.

10th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) – Initial Feedback

Yesterday, (May 25, 2008) started the main reuse conference around the world. The initial day started with the Doctoral Symposium. In this symposium, coordinated by Greg Kulczycki (Virginia Tech) with the participation of Bill Frakes (Virginia Tech) and I, three Ph.D. students received feedback from their research related to quality improvement, formal methods and agents. The main issue in this symposium was the lack of the big picture during the presentations. The students had difficulties to explain clearly the main points: the problem, the state-of-the-art, and their proposal. However, I believe that the feedback received will be useful.

In the afternoon, we had the IV RESAFE: International Workshop on Software Reuse and Safety coordinated by Bill Frakes and Jonh Favaro. In this workshop, Bill, John, Dirk Muthig, Greg and I had good discussions about contracts, certification, safety, reliability. John presented his experience with automobile projects in Europe while Bill and Greg discussed their point of views related to Therac accident and contracts respectively. I explained a little about experience with component certification and Dirk showed some directions related to the KobrA approach. After the conference, Bill and John will write a summary about the workshop. By the way, the day was good to meet other researchers such as Ruben-Prieto and Wayne Lim who was presenting his awarded tutorial at RiSS in the ICSR.