ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management. The main goal of ICSM is to promote interaction between researchers and practitioners. The theme of this year is Moving to Service Oriented Architectures.

Service Oriented Architectures represent a model in which small, loosely coupled pieces of functionality are published, consumed, and combined with other functions over a network. With service oriented architectures, software is used and not owned: functionalities are implemented by searching, composing and executing services, while not physically integrating them in a system. This poses many new challenges to software maintenance. Service oriented architectures' unique features, such as dynamic and ultra-late binding, demolish the concept of system configuration --- central to many maintenance tasks --- as the set of services actually comprised in a system's execution is only known at run time. To users and systems integrators, services are just interfaces and this hinders traditional analysis techniques. In addition, the evolution strategy of services is completely out of control for systems integrators, as the service provider can change the implementation behind the service interface at any moment. Finally, there is a growing need for migrating existing systems to this emerging architectural style.

ICSM 2007 in Paris will address these new scenarios and their major challenges of maintenance and evolution. We thus solicit the submission of research papers for special sessions around this theme.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects of maintenance and evolution:

Methods and theories

Organizational frameworks

Design for maintenance

Internet and distributed systems

User interface evolution

Third party maintenance

Program comprehension

Knowledge based systems

Impact of new software practices

Software reusability

Source code analysis and manipulation

Models and methods for error prediction

Maintenance and/or productivity metrics

Personnel aspects of maintenance

Version and configuration management

Management and organization

Processes and strategies

Life cycle and process control

Tools and environments Multimedia systems

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)

Freeware and open source applications

Software and system visualization

Formal methods

Empirical studies

Programming languages

Testing and regression testing

Measurement of software

Preventive maintenance

Reengineering and reverse engineering

Legal aspects and standards

Research papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software maintenance and evolution. Case studies, empirical research, and experiments are particularly welcome. We also welcome papers that present leading edge and novel ideas in maintenance.

The schedule for submission can be found here and submission instructions here.

Please refer to this page for information about other kinds of possible contributions.

Call for Papers Call for Other Contributions