Welcome from the European Projects Chair

This European Projects Track is aimed to create an opportunity for researchers to disseminate objectives, deliverables or outcomes of European projects they are involved in, within the field of software maintenance and reengineering. This track does also enable CSMR attendees to get a better overview of research projects that are carried out in Europe. This article introduces the three projects presented as part of this track at CSMR 2012. For the last four years, the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) includes a European (EU) Projects Track, which aims to create an opportunity for researchers to disseminate objectives, deliverables or outcomes of European projects they are involved in, within the field of software maintenance and reengineering. This track does also enable CSMR attendees to get a better overview of research projects that are carried out in Europe, related to software maintenance and reengineering. EU projects track papers have the same length as short research papers but they are organized in a different manner. In their four-page submissions authors were invited to specify the qualifying aspects of their projects: • Name (and acronym) of the project; • Source and amount of funding; • List of participants involved in the project; • Status and duration of the project; • Description of goals of the project; • Description of the achievements or outcomes of the project (for projects already in a sufficiently advanced state to have such deliverables); • Detailed explanation of the relevance of the project to the themes of the CSMR conference; • References to related work or related projects.