Editorial

Next September 22nd to 26th, the IEEE annual International Conference on Software Maintenance is taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

RainCode is sponsoring this event, and will give a talk entitled: "An Industrialized Restructuring Service for Legacy Systems."

This talk will present RainCode Online, the automatic COBOL restructuring service provided through the Internet, and its underlying technology. A number of practical issues and results will be presented as well.

This presentation is programmed on Tuesday 23rd, in the afternoon. If you wish to attend this conference, see the "Call for Participation" below. We will be delighted to meet you there.

Call for Participation

ICSM 2003, the International Conference on Software Maintenance 22-26 September 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. See ICSM 2003 for registration and details.

The ICSM 2003 program includes:

• 3 days (September 24-26) of 14 technical sessions featuring 45 research and empirical papers
• Keynotes by Alexander Rinnooy Kan (member of the Executive Board of ING Group and former Rector Magnificus of the Erasmus University Rotterdam), Charles (Chuck) Howell (Consulting Engineer for Software Assurance at the MITRE Corporation), and Henk Obbink (Principal Scientist at Philips)
• Presentation of the Stevens Award on Software Development Methods (September 25)
• Industrial, tool, and experience sessions (September 23)
• Tutorial "Mining Components for a Software Architecture and a Product Line: the Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR) Method" by Dennis Smith, Liam O'Brien, and John Bergey, Software Engineering Institute (September 23)

Sessions will be held in The Trippenhuis, headquarters of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (www.knaw.nl/contact/contact_eng.html) , an 18th century building in the heart of Amsterdam.

Associated workshops:

ELISA: Evolution of Large scale Industrial Software Applications, 23 September 2003 (prog.vub.ac.be/FFSE/Workshops/ELISA-Workshop.html)

SCAM: Third IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 27 September 2003 (www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstmmh2/scam2003)

Vissoft: Second Annual "DesignFest" on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 22 September 2003 (www.cs.uvic.ca/~mstorey/vissoft2003)

WSE: 5th IEEE International Workshop on Web Site Evolution, 22 September 2003 (www.cs.ualberta.ca/wse2003)

STEP 2003: International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice, September 19-21 2003 (www.step2003.uwaterloo.ca)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) in cooperation with MSDN Academic Alliance (www.msdnaa.net/emea), Software Improvement Group (www.software-improvers.nl), RainCode (www.raincode.com), and The Council of Amsterdam.

ICSM 2003, the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 22-26 September 2003 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, www.cs.vu.nl/icsm2003

CONFERENCE OFFICE ICSM-2003
Attn: ICSM/ELISA/Vissoft/SCAM/WSE
Vrije Universiteit
Faculty of Sciences
Department of Computer Science
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Tel +31 20 444 7718
Fax +31 20 444 7728
Email icsm2003@cs.vu.nl