Topics 

Contributions are solicited from both academia and industry about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: 

- Open source software engineering 
- Design of software ecosystems 
- Infrastructures and services for software ecosystems 
- Formal analysis of component systems 
- Component composition, configuration, and adaptation techniques 
- Verification, validation, and testing techniques 
- Predictability of component upgrade, installation, and removal 
- Constraint programming and constraint solvers applied to component systems 
- Model-driven techniques and metamodels for describing component systems 
- Components systems and generative approaches 
- Exploration and visualization techniques for complex software systems 
- Global measurement, prediction, and monitoring of distributed and service components 
- Industrial experience using open source and component-based software development 
- Components in open source software distributions (eg. GNU/Linux packages, Eclipse plugins, ...)