Seventh International Workshop on Program Comprehension
                                IWPC '99

                            May  5-7, 1999
                          Pittsburgh, PA USA

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

THEME

Comprehending programs is one of the core software engineering activities.
Program comprehension is needed when one maintains, reuses, migrates,
reengineers, inspects, or enhances software systems.

This workshop will gather practitioners and researchers from academia,
industry, and government, to review the current state of the practice,
to report on program understanding experiments, and to present issues and
solutions in the general area of program comprehension.

Papers related, but not limited to, the following topic areas are invited:

Visualization
 -   User interfaces, software visualisation and animation;

Architecture
 -   Recovering system architecture or evaluating system/design compliance
 -   Understanding systems with a view towards product lines

Integration Frameworks
 -   Computer Supported Collaborative Understanding (CSCU);
 -   Understanding systems built using distributed object technology;
 -   Reuse reengineering and concept assignement processes;

Comprehension Strategies
 -   Theories and models for software comprehension;
 -   Cognitive models in program comprehension;
 -   Guidelines for facilitating program comprehension (based on
      observation and experimentation);
 -   Knowledge, program representation forms and repositories for program
     comprehension;
 -   Program comprehension processes and strategies;
 -   Reverse engineering strategies to support comprehension;
 -   Comprehension during large scale maintenance, reengineering, and
     migration;
 -   Tools facilitating software comprehension;
 -   Experiments with comprehension models;

Decomposition
 -   New technologies, methods in system decomposition

Empirical Studies
 -   Case studies in reverse engineering, reengineering, and maintenance
     with focus to program understanding;

Program Analysis
 -   Innovative technologies for reverse engineering;
 -   New technologies, methods in parsing and grammar design or use

Papers should be original work, approximately 10 proceeding pages or 6000
words. Papers must not have been previously published nor have been
submitted to, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or conference.
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Authors are expected to present an accepted paper at the workshop in
Pittsburgh.

WORKING SESSIONS

In addition to the regular paper sessions at the 6th IWPC '99, we will be
continuing the successful 1998 program addition of working sessions.
The working sessions are meant to foster interaction and the free exchange of
ideas among workshop participants. We will be accepting proposals for parallel
working sessions to fall under either of the two major themes of "Current
Activities" or "New Opportunities" until February 23, 1998. 

TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS

Proposals for tool demonstrations should include a 1-2 page description of the
tool or environment, its applicability to program comprehension, a brief
description of the proposed demonstration, the hardware/software platform
required, and any other requirements. Specify the proposal as "Research
Prototype" or "Vendor Tool."

CONFERENCE LOCATION

IWPC '99 will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on the campus of
Carnegie Mellon University, home to one of the most respected engineering and
computer science programs in the USA.  Pittsburgh, a modern and cosmopolitan
city nestled between three mighty rivers, is waiting to welcome you to enjoy
its invigorating spring afternoons where you can enjoy the hospitality of city
neighborhoods that tell their stories with rich ethnic food, customs, cultures
and celebrations.  Pittsburgh boasts one of America's safest downtown
districts, and a magnificent park where three rivers meet: the Golden Triangle.
Pittsburgh has rich cultural attractions with its theaters, synphony, ballet,
museums, and conservatory. In addition it has strong traditions in the major
league sports of football, baseball and hockey. Two Frank Lloyd Wright
masterpieces "Fallingwater" and "Kentuck Knob" are located in the rustic Laurel
Highlands - about a one hour drive from Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania, the "Keystone State", is home of the writing of the Declaration
of Independence and the US Constitution and home to unbelievable history and
some of the best scenery and recreation in the United States. You can see the
Amish in Lancaster County, photograph the elk herd in Cameron, Clinton and Elk
Counties, hike the mountains of Potter County, horseback ride near the Grand
Canyon of Pennsylvania in Tioga County, raft some white water near Somerset
County, fish Lake Erie in Erie County, roam the mountains of Williamsport and
Lycoming County, visit Harrisburg, the state capital in Dauphin County, walk
the battlefield of Gettysburg in Adams County, ride a train in McKean County,
or explore the Poconos of Monroe County.

Pittsburgh International Airport is reached directly by all national and
international airlines. Pittsburgh is located within a 1 and a half hour plane
ride of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, and Chicago. For more
information please consult the conference Web pages.

GENERAL CHAIR

 Dennis Smith
 Software Engineering Institute
 Carnegie Mellon University
 4500 Fifth Ave.
 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
 Phone: +1 412 268 6850
 Fax: +1 412 268 5758

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

 Steven Woods
 Software Engineering Institute
 Carnegie Mellon University
 4500 Fifth Ave.
 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
 Phone: +1 412 268 6753
 Fax: +1 412 268 5758

 Malcolm Munro
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Durham
 South Road,  Durham,  DH1 3LE, UK
 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
 Phone: +44 (0) 191 374 2634
 Fax: +44 (0) 191 374 2560

MEDIA COORDINATOR

 Panagiotis K. Linos  
 Department of Computer Science  
 Tennessee Technological University  
 Box 5101  
 Cookeville, TN 38505-0001, USA  
 E-mail: [log in to unmask]   
 Phone: +1 615 372 6178  
 Fax: +1 615 372 6353

STEERING COMMITTEE
 Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA
 Aniello Cimitile, University of Salerno, Italy
 Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada
 Anneliese von Mayrhauser, Colorado State University, USA
 Panagiotis K. Linos, Tennessee Technological University, USA  
 Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

 Giulio Antoniol, IRST, Italy
 Paul Bailes, University of Queensland, Australia
 Keith Bennett, University of Durham, UK
 Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Durham, UK
 Gerardo Canfora, University of Salerno, Italy
 Ugo De Carlini,  University of Naples, Italy
 Robin Chen, AT&T Research, USA
 Cristina Cifuentes, University of Queensland, Australia
 Aniello Cimitile, University of Salerno, Italy
 Jean-Marc DeBaud, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software 
 Andrea De Lucia, University of Salerno, Italy
 Arie van Deursen, CWI, The Netherlands
 Prem Devanbu, University of California Davis, USA
 Stephen Eick, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, USA
 Harald Gall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 Keith Gallagher, Loyola College in Maryland, USA
 Kostas Kontogiannis, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Bogdan Korel, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
 Panagiotis K. Linos, Tennessee Technological University, USA
 Ettore Merlo, Ecole Polytechnique, Canada
 Hausi Muller, University of Victoria, Canada
 Liam O'Brien, Rho Transformations, Australia
 Alex Quilici, University of Hawaii, USA
 Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA
 Spencer Rugaber, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 Alex Sellink, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 Harry Sneed, Software Engineering Services GmbH, Germany
 Scott Tilley, University of California, Riverside, USA
 Marie Vans, Hewlett-Packard, USA
 Chris Verhoef, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 Giuseppe Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy
 Anneliese von Mayrhauser, Colorado State University, USA
 Linda Wills, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 Hongji Yang, De Montford University, UK

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

-  Papers due:                 December 15, 1999
-  Acceptance notification:    February 22, 1999
-  Camera ready copy due:      March    22, 1999

-  Proposals for tools demonstrations or working sessions 
    due: February 23, 1999 

Submissions will be received electronically to either of the Program Co-Chairs.
Only postscript [ghostview 1.5 should view it without problems] or MS Word. 

WEB SITE:  http://www.sei.cmu.edu/reengineering/iwpc99
           http://www.dur.ac.uk/CSM/iwpc99

                               Sponsored by:

       The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.
                          IEEE Computer Society
    IEEE Computer Society - Technical Council on Software Engineering

                            In cooperation with:

                          Carnegie Mellon University
                        Software Engineering Institute


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