Message from the general chair

Abstract

The second reason is that since 2008 INRIA has established a new research laboratory at Lille: INRIA Lille Nord Europe. INRIA is (one of) the top research institutes in applied mathematics and computer science in France. Within the INRIA Lille Nord Europe laboratory, INRIA supported the creation of the RMoD Team (remodularization and modular software). The RMoD team is one of the too few teams in France working on reverse engineering and reengineering. Our team is working in two areas: reengineering and new dynamic languages (traits, for example, which are used in SUN Microsystem’s Fortress new scientific high performance language and may also be included in the next Javascript standard). We are contributing to a new open-source and modular object-oriented language named Pharo (http://www.pharo-project.org), descendant of Smalltalk. On the reengineering side we are continuously improving the Moose open-source reengineering environment, whose development started in 1996 and of which we rebuilt a large part last year (http://moose.unibe.ch/).