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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                           The 12th European Conference on
                        Software Maintenance and Reengineering
                                        (CSMR)

                            Developing Evolvable Systems
                                   April 1-4, 2008
                                   Athens, Greece

This is a call for participation to the upcoming *12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2008)*.
CSMR 2008 will be held on April 1-4, 2008 in downtown Athens,Greece, in the Plaka district at the foothill of Acropolis,
an area which is also known as the Old City of Athens. There, the participants will not only enjoy an exciting conference and
social program, but will also have the opportunity to visit and explore one of the most vibrant European cities.
CSMR is supported by the Reengineering Forum and in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society and the
IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE).

Over the past 11 years, CSMR has been established as one of the premier conferences on the theory and practice of maintenance
and evolution of software systems. CSMR promotes discussion and interaction among researchers and practitioners about the
development of maintainable systems, and the evolution, migration and reengineering of existing ones. Even though CSMR is
branded as a European Conference, in fact it is an International Conference, attracting submissions and participants from all
over the world. This year\u2019s venue is of no exception.

The CSMR 2008 technical program features eight full research paper tracks, two short paper tracks, one industrial experience
paper track, one tool track that includes demonstrations of the latest industrial and research tools, and one doctoral
symposium track where young researchers will present their on-going or recently completed doctoral research.

Areas and topics related to the technical papers, demonstrations and workshops that are planned for CSMR 2008 include tools
and methods for designing and implementing evolvable systems, software architecture evolution, Model Driven and formal
methods to support software evolution and maintenance, experience reports on maintenance and re-engineering of large systems,
software quality and maintainability, evolution of object-oriented frameworks, component based and, network-centric SOA-based
software systems, analysis and re-engineering of multi-language multi-platform systems.

The whole program is enhanced by two keynote presentations, one given by Prof. John Mylopoulos, Fellow Royal Society of
Canada, Division of Applied Sciences and Engineering on \u201cSoftware Maintenance and Reengineering in the Days of Software
Agents\u201d and the other by Prof. Jürgen Ebert Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Koblenz-Landau on \u201cMeta-Model
Taken Seriously: The TGraph Approach\u201d.

Finally, CSMR 2008 also hosts four International co-located workshops that will be conducted on April 1, 2008.
These list of accepted workshops is:

• Workshop 1 (Full Day Workshop) SOAM 2008 Second International Workshop on SOA-Based Systems Maintenance and Evolution

• Workshop 2 (Full Day Workshop) SQM 2008 Second International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability

• Workshop 3 (Half Day Workshop) SASE 2008 First International Workshop on Self-Adaptive Software Engineering

• Workshop 4 (Half Day Workshop) MoDSE2008 Second International Workshop on Model-Driven Software Evolution

In order to find more information on how to register, travel and attend the conference as well as, to browse the technical
program of the venue, please visit the CSMR venue web site at http://www.csmr.eu/ or contact the organizers with any
questions you may have at csmr08@easychair.org

The registration is handled by the Reengineering Forum and can be completed through secure on-line payment. Bank transfers
and Paypal\u2122 using the following URL:
http://reengineer.org/csmr2008/register.php.

The conference and workshop fees and accommodation details and hotel special rates can be found in the Web site of the
conference. The Workshop fees entitle access to all workshops, and access to the coffee breaks and the workshop luncheon.
The full conference fees entitle access to all workshops, to the main conference technical program and include access to the
luncheons, coffee breaks, reception, and the conference banquet.
Please feel free to visit the Web site of the conference for details on this exciting program.

Important Dates:
Early registration deadline: March 21, 2008

CSMR 2008 Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Program Co-Chairs:
Christos Tjortjis, University of Manchester, UK
Andreas Winter, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Chris Verhoef, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs:
Jürgen Ebert, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany
Yiannis Kanellopoulos, University of Manchester, UK

Industrial Track Chair:
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Tool Demonstrations Chair:
Ian Bull, University of Victoria, Canada

Finance Chair:
Elliot Chikofsky, The Reengineering Forum, USA

CSMR Steering Committee

Nicolas Gold (Chair), King's College London, UK
Elliot Chikofsky - Engineering Management & Integration, USA
Jurgen Ebert - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Massimiliano DiPenta \u2013 University of Sannio, Italy
René Krikhaar - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chris Verhoef - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Visaggio - University of Bari, Italy