Moves Newsletter

Dear Reader, You are holding the first edition of the MoVES newsletter in your hand. MoVES is an acronym for "Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software" and is a research project addressing fundamental issues in Software Engineering. The project is sponsored by the Belgian government (belspo, with its IAP/PAI programme) and consequently the project consortium brings together all software engineering research groups in Belgium. The project itself is running towards its end. In the last year and a half we intend to release a newsletter every other month presenting the major results of the project. In that respect, this month’s issue focuses on the work of work package 2 (Modelling Languages & Restructuring), which are explicit results of the project. However, we use the opportunity to also present related research that is conducted by one of the participating institutes, in this issue the University of Antwerp. This newsletter contains contributions by Hubaux et al. on Textual Variability Languages, Degrandsart et al. on Model-driven Solutions for Dynamic Context Adaptation, Vanhooff et al. on Loosely Coupled Transformation Chains, and Wagelaar on Managing Platform Variability through Platform Models, as well as, contributions introducing the AnSyMo and ADReM research groups at the University of Antwerp, Schippers et al. on delMDSOC, Vangheluwe, et al. on AToM, and Demeyer et al. on Mining for Test Co-Evolution and Bug Tracking Databases. But as a starter, we list all forthcoming events that we are aware of; many of them satellite events of the Automated Software Engineering – ASE 2010 conference that will be in Antwerp coming September. Enjoy reading! Serge Demeyer and Anne Keller