ICSR 2016 - 15th International Conference on Software Reuse

Software development faces new challenges when applications start to leave desktop computers and single servers to become more “mobile” and pervasive as required e.g. for the Internet of Things and the Cloud. This phenomenon increases the demand for practical software reuse and generative approaches that avoid “re-inventing the wheel” on different platforms over and over again. In this context, non-functional aspects (such as performance and data security) are of special importance to guarantee a satisfying experience for users of cloud-based and other distributed systems.
Amongst the numerous important challenges we identified the following major topics for research focusing on reuse in the context of dynamic and cloud-based systems:
Generative and component/service-based development approaches for dynamic and cloud-based systems
Reference architectures and frameworks for software reuse for highly dynamic and distributed systems
Non-functional properties of dynamic systems based on reusable components, services or product-lines
Beyond those novel challenges for software reuse, we solicit submissions dealing with all aspects of software reuse, including, but not limited to the following ones:
Domain analysis and modelling
Asset search and retrieval
Architecture-centric reuse approaches
Component-based reuse
Service-oriented architectures
COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets
Generative development
Domain-specific languages
Software composition and modularization
Model-driven development
Reengineering for reuse
Software product line techniques
Quality assurance for software reuse, such as testing and verification
Reuse of non-code artifacts (process, experience, etc.)
Economic models of reuse
Benefit and risk analysis, scoping
Legal and managerial aspects of reuse
Transition to software reuse
Industrial experience with reuse
Light-weight reuse approaches
Agile reuse
Software evolution and reuse
Reuse for mobile and ubiquitous applications