VISSOFT 2002
10 Dec 2001, submitted by "Claire Knight" (C.R.Knight at durham.ac.uk)
VISSOFT 2002: WORKSHOP ON VISUALISING SOFTWARE
FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYSIS
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Software visualisation draws on aspects of program comprehension,
reverse engineering, and to some extent information and database
visualisation techniques. Despite the long use of diagrammatic
notations in software development and maintenance the demands
placed upon these notations now far exceed their intended use and
range of expressability. Software is inherently complex through
the number of artefacts in any system and their relationships. It
is also unique in that it has both a static and a dynamic nature.
This can affect the views that are applicable and useful, and even
what constitutes a complete view.
It is important to be able to work towards being able to answer the
question of what is a good representation for a given situation and
or collection of data. It is also necessary to consider the
specialist demands that software places on visualisations that
other visualisations do not have to consider. There is a need to
help support the program comprehension notion of discovering what a
system does as well as how it does it. Visualisation should be
able to help solve these problems and this workshop focuses on such
issues.
Papers submissions on any aspect of software or system visualisation
and related, but not limited, to the following topics are welcome:
· New visualisation (techniques) that scale and handle
complex software
· Novel ideas for visualising software and systems
· Combinations of visualisation with other analysis and
understanding techniques
· Theories and models for software visualisation
· Experiments with software visualisation
· Knowledge, program representation forms, and repositories
for software visualisation
· Tools supporting software visualisation
· Integration of static and dynamic analysis and views
Papers should be original work, limited to 10 proceedings pages, at
most 6000 words. Papers must not have been previously published nor
have been submitted to, or be in consideration for, any journal, book,
or conference. Papers should be in the IEEE proceedings format and sent
to vissoft.2002@durham.ac.uk as a single pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file that
conforms to the IEEE submission guidelines. Contact one of the Program
Chairs before sending other file types. The workshop proceedings will
be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors are expected to
present an accepted paper or proposal at the workshop in Paris.
Contact: vissoft.2002@durham.ac.uk or the organisers
URLs: http://www.dur.ac.uk/vissoft.2002/ and
http://www.csr.uvic.ca/chisel/vissoft2002/
(which may soon move to http://www.csr.uvic.ca/vissoft2002/)
This workshop will be co-located with the IEEE International Workshop
on Program Comprehension (IWPC) 2002 in Paris. Authors are encouraged
to also attend this conference and to make use of the tool demonstration
at IWPC to demonstrate any software visualisation tools they have
developed or use. Authors are also encouraged to consider submitting
papers to IWPC if their work better falls into that scope rather than
this workshop; http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/iwpc02
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due 12th February 2002
Notification of acceptance 15th March 2002
Camera-ready papers 8th April 2002
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Claire Knight, University of Durham, UK
C.R.Knight@durham.ac.uk
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada & MIT, USA
mstorey@mit.edu
Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK
Malcolm.Munro@durham.ac.uk
IMPORTANT NOTE
The running of this workshop is still pending IEEE approval/sponsorship.
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Dr. Claire Knight - Visualisation Research Group
mailto:C.R.Knight@durham.ac.uk http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.r.knight/
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, Durham
DH1 3LE, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 191 374 2554. Fax: +44 (0) 191 374 2560
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