Uwe Assmann , Elke Pulvermueller , Isabelle Borne , Noury Bouraqadi

SC 2003: Workshop on Software Composition Affiliated with ETAPS 2003 Warsaw, Poland, April 6th, 2003 This volume contains the Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software Composition (SC 2003). The Workshop has been held in Warsaw, Poland on April 6th, 2003, as a satellite event of ETAPS 2003. The aim of the SC Workshop is to collect different approaches and experiences in the domain of software composition. Component-based approaches to produce software from smaller units attract increasing attention of both research and industry. The rational behind this trend is in the promise of reuse. This is the idea to produce software by ”plug & play” components which already exist or are produced by different external vendors. Components and software composition are considered to be a new way to overcome the remaining problems (e.g. reusability, deal with complexity) still not solved by the object-oriented paradigm. In this context, the SC workshop collects different approaches and experiences to explore and overcome the gap between promise and reality. The goal is to demystify these new approaches based on components and instead elaborate the real advantages, problems and challenges. The papers in this issue have been reviewed by the following Program Committee Members: Uwe Assmann, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden, http://www.ida.liu.se/ ̃uweas Elke Pulvermueller, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Isabelle Borne, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France Noury Bouraqadi, Ecole des Mines de Douai, France Pierre Cointe, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Zoltan Laslo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary http://www.fsz.bme.hu/staff/laszlo/ Welf Loewe, Växjö Universitet, Sweden http://www.masda.vxu.se/ ̃wlo/index ̇en.htm M. Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/marash Benedikt Schulz, Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany Mario Suedholdt, École des Mines de Nantes, France http://www.emn.fr/sudholt/ Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands 1571-0661/$ – see front matter c © 10.1016/S1571-0661(05)80743-1 174