It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering -- CBSE'14. Although component-based development is stabilizing as a more mature field, in academia as well as in industry, it is still an active and expanding research domain with plenty of challenges remaining, both in terms of fundamentals and concerning how to efficiently apply the concepts in practice. Recently, component-based approaches have also gained momentum in the domains of embedded and cyber-physical systems, where resource limitations and safety concerns give rise to new challenges. Reflecting this, the special theme for 2014 is "Dependable and Predictable Components".
The call for papers attracted 62 submissions from Europe (France, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Cyprus); Asia (India, Pakistan, Lebanon and Korea); America (Brazil, United States, Canada and Colombia); Africa (Algeria and Tunisia); and Australia. Each paper was assigned three reviewers, and after extensive discussions the Program Committee decided to accept 21 papers (14 regular papers and 7 short papers). The topics of the accepted papers range from testing and monitoring, over connector classification, to formal reasoning and model checking. A clear trend among the accepted papers this year is that many of them address different aspects of reconfigurable and adaptive component-based systems.
CBSE 2014 is part of the federated event CompArch 2014 together with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA) and the 19th International Doctoral Symposium on Components and Architecture (WCOP). We thank the CompArch general chair Lionel Seinturier and the CompArch organization team for coordinating and setting up the various events.
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