Title: International Workshop on QUality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS)
Primary organizers (Co-chairs of PC):
1) Dr Xiaodong Liu, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Email:
x.liu@napier.ac.uk; 2) Prof. Hongji Yang, School of Computing, De Montfort University, UK. Email:
hyang@dmu.ac.uk . 3) Prof. Kyo Chul Kang, Head of Dept. of Computer Science &Engineering, Pohang
University of Science and Technology, Korea. Email: kck@postech.ac.uk
Proposed duration: 2-3 sessions
Goals
The level of software reuse has recently been raised to large-scale components, agglomeration of components
and even services in SOA. Systematic and large-scale reuse of reusable assets at multiple development levels is
improving the efficiency of software development activities significantly in terms of cost and time. New
approaches and products keep emerging from research community and industry.
However, previous research in software reuse mainly focused on the functional aspect of a system, and tended
to ignore the quality aspects or put them at a trivial place. Modern computing models, such as SOA, mobile and
pervasive computing, and embedded systems, have imposed more rigorous quality requirements on software
development technologies including reuse-based paradigms such as component-based development, design
patterns, architectural patterns and software product lines. The above situation makes it a challenge to meet the
non-functional requirements of a software system and meanwhile enjoy the benefits of substantial software
reuse.
Recently, the software reuse community has been aware of the above weakness and much work has been
ongoing. In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results,
advances and practical experiences under the banner of “quality oriented reuse of software”. The workshop will
act as a forum for active discussion, idea stimulation and communication.
Theme and Scope
The workshop will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry for advancing the
technology of software reuse which emphasizes meeting strict quality requirements, such as dependability,
agility and performance. The workshop seeks new approaches, system architectures and tools that facilitate the
quality aspects of software reuse technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1) Aspect-oriented software reuse; 2) Feature-oriented software reuse; 3) Quality aspects of software reuse; 4)
Dependable component-based systems; 5) Quality features and software product lines; 6) Quality aspects of
design patterns; 7) Reuse in Service Oriented Architecture and Quality of Service; 8) Quality-based component
specification, qualification, adaptation and integration; 8) Evolution of reuse-based software systems; 9)
Quality-based COTS product reuse; 10) Case studies.
Likely Participants: researchers and practitioners in software reuse, software evolution, emerging software
systems such as SOA, mobile computing and embedded software, testing and quality assurance. So far, the
workshop has got the following PC members who agreed to participate:
Program Committee
Co-Chairs:
Xiaodong Liu, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
Hongji Yang, School of Computing, De Montfort University, UK.
Kyo Chul Kang, Dept. of Computer Science, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea.
Members:
Colin Atkinson, Prof, & Chair of Software Technology Lab, University of Mannheim, Germany
Xavier Franch, Associate Prof., Technical University of Catalunya, Spain.
Jerry Gao, Associate Prof., San Jose State University, USA
George Kakarontzas, Prof., Dept of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Neil Loughran, Dept. of Computing, Lancaster University, UK
Mikko Raatikainen, Project manager, SEI, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Salah Sadou, Associate Prof., VALORIA Lab, University of South Brittany, France