Large and complex software
systems provide the necessary infrastucture in all industries today. In order
to construct such large systems in a systematic manner, the focus in the
development methodologies has switched in the last two decades from functional
issues to structural issues: both data and functions are encapsulated into
software units which are integrated into large systems by means of various
techniques supporting reusability and modifiability. This encapsulation
principle is essential to both the object-oriented and the more recent
component-based sofware engineering paradigms.
The
objective of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practioners in
the areas of software engineering and formal methods to discuss the concepts of
reusability and modifiability in component-based and object-oriented software
systems. This year the above objective will be realized by a concertation meeting of the following European IST projects and network in the
sixth and seventh frameworks:
The symposium is a three days
event organized to provide an atmosphere that fosters collaborative work,
discussions and interaction. Extended abstracts of the contributions will be
published after the symposium in a proceedings of Lecture Notes in Computer
Science by Springer-Verlag.