Fifth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering Estoril Coast (Lisbon area), Portugal 14 to 16, March 2001 Call for Papers CSMR is the premier European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering. Its purpose is to promote both discussion and interaction about maintenance and reengineering. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: . Maintenance and reengineering metrics and economics . Patterns languages for maintenance and reengineering . Experience reports on maintenance and reengineering . Maintenance and reengineering tools . Enabling technologies for maintenance and reengineering . Formal methods to support maintenance and reengineering . Software evolution and architecture recovery . System assessment for reengineering or maintenance . Migration and maintenance issues . Dealing with legacy systems towards new technologies One of the basic intentions of this conference is to offer an European forum for discussion and exchange of experiences among researchers and practitioners. Therefore, besides academics, we kindly invite all those in companies developing maintenance tools, offering reengineering services or going through legacy systems migration experiences to contribute by submitting papers or presenting innovative tools, solutions or experience reports. This conference is not limited to European participants. Authors from outside Europe are especially welcomed. SUBMISSIONS: Two types of submissions will be accepted: full length papers (not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract) and short papers (not exceeding 2000 words in length and including a 75-100 word abstract). All papers should be in English. Authors are requested to submit electronically a PostScript or PDF version of their papers. In addition, they should send a separate file containing the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses, fax and telephone numbers of all authors. We encourage authors to make submissions through the web based submission system that will be available. For submission details please look at the conference web site. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the CSMRí2001 Proceedings. Full papers exceeding 10 pages (4 pages for short papers) will be charged for pages in excess. Authors of accepted papers must sign the IEEE copyright form. At least one author of each accepted submission should register and present the paper at the conference. The official language will be English. IMPORTANT DATES: DEADLINE for submissions - Friday, September 15, 2000 Author's notification - Monday, November 20, 2000 DEADLINE for camera-ready of accepted papers - Friday, December 15, 2000 SPECIAL SESSIONS: Sessions of special interest proposed by delegates will be welcomed. Please send suggestions to the program chair before the submissions closing date. Program Chair: Pedro Sousa Lisbon Technical University (IST) & Link Av. D. vila 23, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal. Phone: +351-21-3100124 Fax: +351-21-3100079 Email: pedro.sousa@link.pt Program Co-Chair: Jürgen Ebert Institut für Softwaretechnik University of Koblenz-Landau Rheinau 1, D-56076 Koblenz, Germany Phone: +49-261-287-2722 Fax: +49-261-287-2721 Email: ebert@uni-koblenz.de General Chair: Fernando Brito e Abreu Lisbon New University (FCT) & INESC R Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal. Phone: +351-21-3100263 Fax: +351-21-3145843 Email: fba@inesc.pt Web Chair: Miguel Goulão Lisbon New University (FCT) & INESC R Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal. Phone: +351-21-3100263 Fax: +351-21-3145843 Email: miguel.goulao@di.fct.unl.pt Sponsor Chair: Mendes dos Santos Instituto de Informática (Min. Finan as) Email: mendes.santos@inst-informatica.pt Finance Chair: Paulo Gomes EUROCIBER Email: pagomes@eurociber.pt Local Arrangements Chair: Judite Delgado APESI Email: apesi@treal.pt CSMR Steering Committee: Lutz Richter, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Chair) Elliot Chikofsky, META Group, USA Franz Lehner, University of Regensburg, Germany Paolo Nesi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Harry Sneed, SES Software Engineering Services GmbH, Germany Chris Verhoef, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jürgen Ebert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.esw.inesc.pt/csmr2001 Sponsored by: Reengineering Forum Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Inesc IEEE Computer Society