Call for Papers

The VEM is a forum dedicated to discuss and reflect on alternatives to perform visualization, evolution and maintenance systems.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: To be defined
• Authors Notification: To be defined
• Final version of the Papers (camera-ready): To be define
• Workshop: 09/28/2014

With the steady growth of software projects, along with the vast processing power of computers, new research has been developed to allow a better understanding of the structure, behavior and evolution of software process and product. This research makes use of visualization tools and techniques applied in the context of software, encouraging the rise of the software visualization field.

Software visualization uses visual abstractions to represent various properties of software systems, in order to reveal patterns and behaviors that otherwise would remain hidden. For this reason, the design and use of visual resources are very important for software engineering.

It is noteworthy that software visualization is an area of direct or indirect interest of to a large part of the software community. Some software engineering areas, such as testing, configuration management, architecture, development environments, among others, are potential users of techniques for visualizing software.

Software visualization is a specialization of information visualization. The synergy with the information visualization community is a successful strategy for using resources already established in the latter. For this reason, issues related to information visualization are also included in the workshop topics of interest. Topics of Interest

VEM topics of interest include, amongst others:

• Modern processes of maintenance and evolution of software
• Metrics and quality for the maintenance and evolution of software
• Maintenance and evolution of “unconventional” systems, such as Web applications, aspect-oriented programs, based on models, lines of software products and applications in the cloud
• Tools and environments for the maintenance and evolution of software
• Reverse engineering, reengineering and system migration
• Static analysis and dynamic analysis software
• Visualization techniques to the understanding and support of programs
• Teaching display, maintenance or evolution of software
• Experimentation in visualization, maintenance or evolution of software management software (risk management, configuration management, planning and estimates)
• Legacy systems test
• Economic aspects of the maintenance and evolution of software (cost of maintenance previous estimate of effort, etc.).
• Static and dynamic source code view
• Viewing aspects of software evolution
• View software engineering activities, such as engineering requirements, testing and maintenance
• View workflow and business processes
• Viewing software development environments
• View databases
• Flow visualization of networks
• 3D visualization software