Background
and Objectives
It is an old idea to use and reuse
components to build and to maintain software systems. However, it is today's
growing complexity of these systems that forces us to turn this idea into practice.
So far, there is no agreement on standard technologies for designing and creating
components, nor on methods of composing them. Finding appropriate formal approaches
for describing components, the architectures for composing them, and the methods
for component-based software construction, is correspondingly challenging.
The objective of this workshop is
to bring together researchers in the areas of software engineering and formal
methods to clarify and discuss the issues in component-based software development.
The topics of the workshop include,
but are not limited to:
- Models of components and their
interaction.
- Design and verification methods
for component software.
- Representation of functional and
non-functional attributes of components.
- Requirements analysis for component
software.
- Composing components
- Component software architectures
and their description languages.
- Relations of component software
to object software and UML.
- Deployment of components
- Testing components (off the shelf).
- Experience with components (case
studies)
- Positions and views on component-based
software
Invited
Speakers
- Manfred Broy
(Technical University of Munich,
Germany)
- He Jifeng
(UNU/IIST, Macau)
- Tom Maibaum
(King's College, London University,
UK)
Organisation
The workshop is organised
by UNU/IIST, the International Institute
for Software Technology of the United Nations University.
Organising Committee
- Bernhard K. Aichernig
- Dang Van Hung
- Chris George
- He Jifeng (Chair)
- Zhiming Liu
Technical Support
Sponsors
Program
Committee
- Bernhard K. Aichernig, UNU/IIST,
Macau
- Ralph Back, Abo Akademi University
and Turku Centre, Finland
- Luis S. Barbosa, Univ. of
Minho, Portugal
- Manfred Broy, Technical University
of Munich, Germany
- Dang Van Hung, UNU/IIST, Macau
- Jóse Fiadeiro, Leicester,
UK
- Mathai Joseph, Tata Research Development
and Design Center, Pune, India
- Kung-Kiu Lau, Manchester, UK
- Zhiming Liu, UNU/IIST, Macau (Chair)
- Ugo Montanari, Univ. of Pisa,
Italy
Submission
and Publication
Prospective participants are invited to submit their original papers or
the extended abstracts, not exceeding 10 pages with font size 11pt and
single space format. Submissions should be electronic, in PostScript (PS)
or Portable Document Format (PDF) and sent to:
Z.Liu@mcs.le.ac.uk
The review of the submissions
will be organised by the program committee. The preliminary proceedings will
be published as a UNU/IIST technical report and made available at the workshop.
It is intended that the good papers will be selected and published as an edited
book in the series Component-based Software Development by World Scientific
after the workshop.
Important
Dates
- Deadline for submission: 14 July
2003
- Acceptance notification: 25 July
2003
- Final version ready: 15 August
2003
- Workshop dates: 8-9 September
2003
All queries should be sent to:
Z.Liu@mcs.le.ac.uk,
or
bka@iist.unu.edu