GOAL  OF THE WORKSHOP

The level of software reuse has recently been raised to large-scale components, agglomeration of components and even services in SOA. Systematic and large-scale reuse of reusable assets at multiple development levels is improving the efficiency of software development activities significantly in terms of cost and time. New approaches and products keep emerging from research community and industry.

However, previous research in software reuse mainly focused on the functional aspect of a system, and tended to ignore the quality aspects or put them at a trivial place. Modern computing models tend to be globally distributed, pervasive, and dynamically adaptive. These systems, such as SOA, mobile and pervasive computing, and embedded systems, have imposed more rigorous quality requirements on software development technologies including reuse-based paradigms such as component-based development, design patterns, architectural patterns and software product lines. The above situation makes it a challenge to meet the non-functional requirements of a software system and meanwhile enjoy the benefits of substantial software reuse.

Recently, the research community and industry have been aware of the above weakness and much work has been ongoing. In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results, advances and practical experiences under the banner of “quality oriented reuse of software”. The workshop will act as a forum for active discussion, idea stimulation and communication.

THEME AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry for advancing the technology of software reuse which emphasizes meeting strict quality requirements, such as dependability, agility and performance. The workshop seeks new approaches, system architectures and tools that facilitate the quality aspects of software reuse technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Aspect-oriented software reuse;
• Reuse in large modern systems;
• High quality software reuse methods;
• Dependable component-based systems;
• Quality and software product lines;
• Quality aspects of design patterns;
• Reuse in service oriented systems (SOA);
• Internet-based applications;
• Software evolution;
• Software quality metrics and testing;
• Model-driven software engineering;
• Component repository;
• Quality-based COTS product reuse;
• Case studies and experience reports.

PARTICIPANTS

Researchers and practitioners in software reuse, software evolution, emerging software systems such as SOA, mobile computing and embedded software, testing and quality assurance and all other relevant areas. The chairs expect to bring to the workshop researchers and practitioners worldwide from research institutes, universities and industries.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany

Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

William Cheng-Chung Chu, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan.

João M. Fernandes, University of do Minho, Portugal

George Kakarontzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Jingyue Li, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Xiaodong Liu, Napier University, UK

Neil Loughran, Lancaster University, UK

Pornsiri Muenchaisri, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Mikko Raatikainen, SEI, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Salah Sadou, University of South Brittany, France

Guifa Teng, Hebei Agricultural University, China

Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

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IMPORTANT DATES

March 1, 2008

Deadline for paper submission

April 7 2008

Decision notification (electronic)

April 30, 2008

Camera-ready copy and author registration due

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the QUORS 2008 Submission Page. Please follow the instructions posted on the web site. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings, i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF, DOC); Layout Guide (PDF, DOC). The paper should not exceed 4000 words or 6 pages in IEEE paper format including all figures, tables, and references. Any problem, please contact the workshop chair x.liu@napier.ac.uk .

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. We also encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers can be submitted as either regular papers, short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category depends on reviewer feedback.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008) by IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS