3 – 5 October 2011
Natural Science Museum of Turin
Turin, Italy

Large and complex software systems provide the necessary infrastucture in all industries today. In order to construct such large systems in a systematic manner, the focus in the development methodologies has switched in the last two decades from functional issues to structural issues: both data and functions are encapsulated into software units which are integrated into large systems by means of various techniques supporting reusability and modifiability. This encapsulation principle is essential to both the object-oriented and the more recent component-based software engineering paradigms.

The objective of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practioners in the areas of software engineering and formal methods to discuss the concepts of reusability and modifiability in component-based and object-oriented software systems.

In 2011, FMCO will have a focus on software for multi-core systems, cloud computing, and adaptable and evolving software. This year's participating projects include:

  • EternalS, an FP7 coordination action on trustworthy eternal systems via evolving software, data and knowledge; its participating projects are the FP7 FET projects LivingKnowledge, HATS, Connect, SecureChange
  • ParaPhrase, an FP7-STREP project on parallel patterns for adaptive heterogeneous multicore systems
  • PRO3D, an FP7-IP project on programming for future 3D architectures with many cores
  • ASCENS, an FP7-IP project on autonomic service-component ensembles
  • ESF Cost Action IC0701, a European scientific cooperation on formal verification of object-oriented software
  • ESF Cost Action IC0901 "Rich-Model Toolkit", a European scientific cooperation on an infrastructure for reliable computer systems

The symposium is a two-and-a-half day event organized to provide an atmosphere that fosters collaborative work, discussions and interaction. As every year, we plan to publish the contributions of the speakers after the symposium in volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag.

FMCO 2011 is co-located with FoVeOOS 2011, with a half-day overlap.