Three types of submissions are possible:

* short position papers (up to 5 pages) describing work in progress or speculative ideas you wish to share with the community;
* tool demonstrations (3 to 5 pages) describing tools supporting software evolution that have been developed in academia or industry;
* full papers (up to 10 pages) describing novel and original research. These full papers will undergo peer-reviewing to assess if they are of sufficient quality for publication in an associated journal. (We are currently applying for either a special issue of the ECEASST online open access journal, or a special issue of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming).

All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system [LINK WILL BE ADDED LATER]. Submitted papers should adhere to the following format [MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW LATER].
Important Dates

* Deadline for submissions: November 13, 2009
* Notification of accepted presentations: November 27, 2009
* Deadline for final submission of full papers: November 30, 2009
* Registration deadline: November 30, 2009
* (optional) FNRS Contact Day: December 16, 2009
* BENEVOL Seminar: December 17-18, 2009
* Notification of acceptance of full papers for journal inclusion: January 20, 2010

Theme and Topics

The special theme of BENEVOL 2009 will be Software Adaptability and Software Variability, though submissions on any other topic related to software evolution are heartily welcomed as well. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* Model-driven software evolution: models transformation, evolution and co-evolution of models, verification and validation of evolving models, quality of models and model transformations, modeling evolution, meta-modeling;
* Foundations & paradigms: objects, components, aspects, formal languages, semantics, theories for software evolution;
* Empirical studies in evolution: empirical results, case studies, experimentation design, measurement, quality models for evolvability;
* Tool support for software evolution: tools to assist the evolution process, tools to ensure or to verify quality of the evolution process or of the evolving artifacts;
* Data-intensive systems evolution: data evolution, reengineering data-intensive systems and databases;
* Process-intensive systems evolution: process evolution, reengineering process-oriented systems;
* Software evolution in “emerging” paradigms: Model-Driven, Aspect-Oriented, Service-Oriented, Open Source, Software Product Lines;
* Managerial aspects and process models for software evolution: software re-engineering and quality improvement, inconsistency management and co-evolution;
* Software analysis and visualisation techniques to support software evolution: static and dynamic analysis, change propagation, metrics;
* Data and process analysis techniques to support software evolution: data and process analysis, data and process mining;
* Embedded, adaptative and context-aware systems;
* Dynamic adaptation, composition and reconfiguration of software and services.

Program Commitee

* Mark van den Brand, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium
* Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
* Stephane Ducasse, INRIA Lille, France
* Pieter van Gorp, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner Institut Potsdam, Germany
* Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Paul Klint, CWI, The Netherlands
* Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg
* Ralf Laemmel, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France
* Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Andy Zaidman, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands