Message from the Chairs

The 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) is a working conference and particularly encourages and welcomes papers that stir discussion and which touch upon non-traditional topics. Past venues of WCRE have shown that WCRE attendees want to learn about the exciting and up-coming research opportunities in reverse engineering, not only the past innovative results. We are proud to announce that this year´s WCRE received a record number of 138 submissions making the task of selecting papers very challenging. All submissions went through a rigorous review process: each paper was reviewed in detail by at least three Program Committee members from Industry and Academia. All decisions were open for discussion by the entire Program Committee before finalizing them. In the end, we have selected 43 full papers and 3 short papers, originating from 30 countries. The authors of the best papers from WCRE´12 will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, to be published by Wiley. The conference program of WCRE 2012 features industrial experience paper and talks reporting on success stories and challenges in applying reverse engineering techniques in industry. Furthermore, the program hosts a Doctoral Symposium, in which two promising young reverse engineering scientists will present and discuss their work. Finally, there will be four tool demonstrations featuring state-of-the-art tools in the field. These tools represent important contributions to research reverse engineering and re-engineering and we are looking forward to the demonstrations.