Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 18th International ACM Sigsoft Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering -- CBSE'15. This year's symposium continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports in component technology. The general theme for CBSE'15 is "Components for physical services", motivated by the fact that software systems increasingly control processes that reside outside traditional computing environments. The call for papers attracted 42 submissions from around the globe: America (Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, USA), Asia (India, Pakistan), Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom), and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), highlighting the international appeal of the event. The papers in these proceedings are included based on a formal peer-reviewing process on full papers. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent members of the Program Committee. After an extensive discussion, the Program Committee decided to accept 14 papers (9 regular papers and 5 short papers). It is very pleasing to see that the accepted papers cover a variety of topics, including Component Composition and Reuse, Adaptable Components, Components for Wireless and Realtime systems, Component Analysis and Design, and Components in Model-based Engineering. To a certain degree, this reflects on the progress component technologies have made over the past years. We hope that the CBSE'15 proceedings will serve as a reference for academic researchers and practitioners working in the area of Component-Based Software Engineering.