Reverse Variability Engineering

Topics

We will encourage submissions that push the state of the art and practice in the following topics (but not limited to):
- Refactoring theories and techniques for SPLE
- Feature and concept location techniques applied in the variability context
- Clone detection techniques for identifying code and model similarities
- Literature reviews on evolution and reverse engineering of software product lines
- Case studies and benchmark examples for reverse engineering tools
- Mining variability from software repositories
- Program analysis for reverse variability engineering
- Reverse engineering of feature models
- Reverse engineering of derivation templates for code generation
- Reverse engineering of variability management related enriched models for model instances derivation
- Product Line Architecture reengineering
- Tacit knowledge and collaboration during re-engineering process