vcss 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Volatility and Complexity of Software Systems

1st International Workshop on Volatility and Complexity of Software Systems
Official website: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/vcss2012/
TOPICS
Software systems have difficulties at the maintenance and upgrade stage due to their complexity. At the heart of many of the problems is a failure to deal with the "change-proneness" or volatility of the software. Understanding better the driving factors behind software volatility is key to improve the development process and to impose stricter controls on the complexity. Having more efficient ways to identify, represent, visualize and interpret complexity aspects will help software engineers to get a handle on large-scale software systems. The workshop is concerned with approaches to address, measure, and control volatility and complexity in software systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
The definition and evaluation of metrics for assessment of the volatility of a software system
Metrics based on complex systems analysis methods (e.g. network metrics)
Identification of the most change-prone artifacts of a system
Architectural approaches for containing the spread of changes through the system
Probabilistic reasoning about quality and functionality of software systems using software complexity and volatility metrics
Evolution of volatility and complexity of large-scale software systems
Dynamic visualization of the behaviour and evolution of software systems
Visualization supported reasoning about complex software systems
ORGANIZERS
Dr Peter Andras (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK)
Dr Claire Ingram (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK)
Anjan Pakhira (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK)
Dr Steve Riddle (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK)