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Workshops and Symposia

Below a list of workshops and meetings, that were organised sponsored or supported by the research network, is given. Consortium participants that wish to attend such a workshop should have a look at the refund policy that has been proposed by the steering committee.

March 13, 2001: International Session on Formal Foundations of Software Evolution. Organised by Tom Mens and Michel Wermelinger. Co-located with the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2001). Centro de Congressos do IST, Lisboa, Portugal.
June 18, 2001: Workshop on Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution. Organised by Tom mens and Galal Hassan Galal galal. Co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2001). University Eštvšs Lor‡nd, Budapest, Hungary.
June 11, 2002: Workshop on Unanticipated Software Evolution. Co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2002). Malaga, Spain.
September 23, 2002: Workshop on Declarative Meta Programming to Support Software Development. Organised by Kris De Volder, Kim mens, Tom Mens, and Roel Wuyts. Co-located with the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2002). Edinburgh, UK.
October 7-8, 2002: Workshop on Graph-Based Tools. Organised by Tom Mens, Andy Schürr, and Gabriele Taentzer. Co-located with the International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2002). Barcelona, Spain.
October 11-12, 2002: Workshop on Software Evolution Through Transformations: Towards uniform support throughout the software life-cycle. Organised by Reiko Heckel, Tom Mens, Michel Wermelinger. Co-located with the International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2002). Barcelona, Spain.
February 23-28, 2003: Dagstuhl Seminar 03091: Program Analysis for Object-Oriented Evolution. International Conference and Research Centre for Computer Science. Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.

Workshop specifically targeted to foster cross-fertilization between the program analysis and the refactoring research communities.
April 5-6, 2003: Workshop on Unanticipated Software Evolution (USE). Co-located with ETAPS 2003. Warsaw, Poland.
April 24-25, 2003: Smalltalk Tool Builders Workshop. University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Special workshop devoted to building bridges between the different tools that have been developped by the various research groups. One day will be organized as a pair programming event, where several researchers will jointly program in Smalltalk to extend existing tools. The other day will be a workshop, where tool builders will explain inner architectures of existing tools, in order to seek for possible bridges between avaiable tools.
June 16-?, 2003: International Worskhop on Model-Based Software Evolution. Special topic session of the Seventh Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT 2003). Bejing, China.
July 21, 2003: Workshop on Object-Oriented re-engineering (WOOR 2003). Organised by Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse and Kim Mens. Co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2003). Darmstadt, Germany.
September 1-2, 2003: International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE). Co-located with the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC 2003). Helsinki, Finland.
September 23, 2003: Evolution of Large-Scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA). Co-located with the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2003). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
March 28, 2004: Workshop on Foundations of Unanticipated Software Evolution (FUSE). Co-located with ETAPS 2004. Barcelona, Spain.
October 1-2, 2004: SETra 2004: Second international workshop on Software Evolution through Transformations. Organised by Reiko Heckel, Tom Mens. Co-located with ICGT 2004. Rome, Italy.
May 3, 2004: Belgian Symposium and Contact Day on Software Evolution and Aspect-Oriented Programming (EVA). Gent, Belgium.
January 6, 2005: Symposium on Software Restructuring, Gent, Belgium.
June 15, 2005: Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering (WOOR 2004). Organised by Serge Demeyer, Kim Mens, Roel Wuyts, Stéphane Ducasse. Co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2004). Oslo, Norway.
April 12-13, 2005: ChaSE 2005: International workshop on Challenges in Software Evolution, Berne, Switzerland. Organised by Stéphane Ducasse, Tom Mens, Radu Marinescu.
26 July 26, 2005: Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering (WOOR 2005). Organised by Serge Demeyer, Kim Mens, Roel Wuyts, Stéphane Ducasse. Co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005). Glasgow, United Kingdom.
September 5-6, 2005: International Workshop on Principles Of Software Evolution (IWPSE2005). Participated in the organisation: Serge Demeyer, Mehdi Jazayeri, Harald Gall. Co-located with the European Conference on Software Engineering g/Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2005). Lisbon, Portugal.
September 25, 2005: International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOF 2005). Participated in the organisation: Michele Lanza, Stéphane Ducasse. Colocoated with International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2005). Budapest, Hungary.

Steering Committee Meetings

Below a list of steering committee meetings, that were organised sponsored in order to improve collaborations.

VUB, Brussel, 18 januari 2001. Official meeting of steering committee (Serge Demeyer, Theo D'Hondt, Dirk Janssens, Tom Mens, Eric Steegmans).
UA, Antwerpen, 27 juni 2001. Informal meeting to find a practical way of closer collaboration (Serge Demeyer, Dirk Janssens, Tom Mens).
UGent, Gent, 25 juli 2001. Consortium follow-up meeting (Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, Tom Mens).
VUB, Brussel, 18 januari 2002. Official meeting of steering committee.
TUV, Vienna (Austria), 20 september 2002. Official meeting of steering committee
24-25 april 2003: Smalltalk Tool Builders Workshop. Organised by Serge Demeyer. University of Antwerp, Belgium
UGent, Gent, Belgie, 3 mei, 2004: Belgian Symposium and Contact Day on Software Evolution and Aspect-Oriented Programming (EVA).
UGent, Gent, Belgie, 6 Januari, 2005. Symposium on Software Restructuring.

Note that after starting up the RELEASE network, some WOG-Evol events wore organised in a broader context:

Antwerp, Belgium, October 24, 2002. First official RELEASE coordination committee meeting.
Strasbourg, France, March 7-8, 2003. RELEASE technical coordination committee meeting.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23, 2003. RELEASE coordination committee meeting. Co-located with the ELISA 2003 workshop.
Strasbourg, France, February 5-6, 2004. RELEASE technical coordination committee meeting.
Bern, Switzerland, April 12, 2005. Last official RELEASE coordination committee meeting. Co-located with the ChaSE 2005 workshop.

Research Visits

Below a list of research visits undertaken by participants of the research network is given. Consortium participants that wish to make a research visit should have a look at the refund policy that has been proposed by the steering committee.

????? 2004. Short Research Visit of Kim Mens (INGI/UCL, Belgium) and Andy Kellens (PROG/VUB, Belgium) to the Software Composition Group (SCG) in Bern, Switzerland.
January 2001. Research visit of Tom Mens (Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) to Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland.
February 2001. Research visit of Michel Wermelinger (Laboratorio de Modelos e Arquitecturas Computacionais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) to Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
March 2001. Research visit of Tom Mens (Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) to Departamento de Informatica, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
May 2001. Research visit of Kim Mens (Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) to Departamento de Informatica, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
July 2001. Research visit of Stéphane Ducasse (Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland) to Lab on Re-Engineering, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
December 2001. Research visit of Serge Demeyer (Lab on Re-Engineering, University of Antwerp, Belgium) to Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland.
January 2002. Research visit of Michel Wermelinger (Portugal) to VUB (Brussels) and UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve).
February 2002. Research visit of Tom Mens (Belgium) to SCG (University of Bern, Switzerland).
May 2002: One week research visit of Tom Mens (Belgium) to Fachbereich Mathematik - Informatik, University of Paderborn, Germany.
May 2002: Two day research visit of Serge Demeyer (Belgium) to Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland.
July 2002: Research visit of Kim Mens (Belgium) to SCG (University of Bern, Switzerland).
February 2003: Research visit of Serge Demeyer (Belgium) to Department of Computer Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
May 2003: Mehdi Jazayeri (TU Vienna, Austria) to University of Bern, Switzerland, May 2003. Expenses covered by ESF-RELEASE network.
May 2003: Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerp, Belgium) to University of Bern, Switzerland.
August 2003: Stéphane Ducasse (University of Bern, Switzerland) to Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
December 2003: Theo Dirk Meijler (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) to University of Antwerp, Belgium.
June 2004: Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerp, Belgium), one week research visit to University of Bern, Switzerland.
June 2005: Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerp, Belgium), two day research visit to University of Bern, Switzerland.

PhD Defenses

May 30, 2003 at 16:15. Michele Lanza of the University of Bern will defend his Ph.D. thesis Object-Oriented Reverse Engineering - Coarse-grained, Fine-grained, and Evolutionary Software Visualization
Directions to reach the defense venue.
February 14, 2003 at 16:00. Jilles van Gurp of the RijksUniversiteit Groningen will defend his Ph. D. thesis "On the design & preservation of software systems"

Changes in affiliations

2001: Kim Mens - professor - Universite catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2002: Andy Schürr - Hoofd Realtime Systems Lab (FG Echtzeitsysteme) - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
2003: Tom Mens - professor - Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
2003: Roel Wuyts - professor - Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium
2003: Reiko Heckel - professor - University of Leicester, UK
2004: Harald Gall - professor - University of Zurich, Switzerland
2004: Mehdi Jazayeri - decaan - University of Lugano, Switzerland
2004: Michele Lanza - professor - University of Lugano, Switzerland
2004: Michel Wermelinger - professor - Open University, UK
2005: Stéphane Ducasse - professor - Université de Savoie, France

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