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Call for Participation

Eighth IEEE International Working Conference
on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
(SCAM 2008)
http://www2008.ieee-scam.org/

28th-29th September 2008,
Beijing, China
Co-located with ICSM 2008

Register on-line at http://reengineer.org/icsm2008/register.php
Early registration discount ends Saturday, August 30, 2008

SCAM brings together researchers and practitioners working on theory,
techniques and applications which concern analysis and/or manipulation
of the source code of computer systems. While much attention in the
wider software engineering community is properly directed towards other
aspects of systems development and evolution, such as specification,
design and requirements engineering, it is the source code that contains
the only precise description of the behaviour of the system. The
analysis and manipulation of source code thus remains a pressing concern.

This year's program is led off by an industrial experience keynote by
Paul Anderson, Vice President of Engineering at Grammatech Inc.,
developers of the CodeSurfer/CodeSonar static analysis platform. Paul's
keynote will be followed by two days of presentations of 23 full papers
and 5 practical tool demonstrations, including original and significant
research and tools in the field of source code analysis and
manipulation, with topics in:

• program transformation
• abstract interpretation
• program slicing
• source level software metrics
• decompilation
• source level testing and verification
• source level optimization
• program comprehension

In keeping with the spirit and format of a working conference, SCAM will
continue its tradition of a highly discursive meeting, with theme-based
discussion tracks aimed at structuring and stimulating discussion.
Authors will have a 15 minute slot to present their work, with 10
minutes (maximum) for talking with 5 minutes (minimum) for questions.
Authors are encouraged not to attempt to present the details of their
paper in this time. Rather, respecting the discussion-centered goal of
SCAM, authors are encouraged to use a few slides to present points,
claims, issues and topics for discussion and to use their time
allocation to attempt to set the agenda for the ensuing discussions.
Each session has a specifically allocated discussion time at the end of
the presentations to allow for this.

General Co-Chairs:
Giuliano Antoniol, Polytechnque de Montr=E9al, Canada
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Program Co-chairs:
James R. Cordy, Queen's University, Canada
Lu Zhang, Peking University, China

More details of SCAM 2008 available at:
http://www2008.ieee-scam.org/