Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering, First International Symposium, GCSE’99, Erfurt, Germany, September 28–30, 1999, Revised Papers

In the past two years, the Smalltalk and Java in Industry and
Education Conference (STJA) featured a special track on generative
programming, which was organized by the working group "Generative and
Component-Based Software Engineering" of the "Gesellschaft fur
Informatik" FG2.1.9 "Object-Oriented Software Engineering"."This track
covered a wide range of related topics from domain analysis, software
system family engineering, and software product lines, to extendible
compilers and active libraries. The talks and keynotes directed
towards this new software engineering paradigm received much attention
and interest from the STJA audience. Hence the STJA organizers
suggested enlarging thistrack, making it more visible and open to
wider, international participation. This is how the GCSE symposium was
born.

The first GCSE symposium attracted 39 submissions from all over the
world. This impressive number demonstrates the international interest
in generative programming and related fields. After a careful review
by the program committee, fifteen papers were selected for
presentation. We are very grateful to the members of the program
committee, all of them renowned experts, for their dedication in
preparing thorough reviews of the submissions. Special thanks go to
ElkePulvermuller and Andreas Speck, who proposed and organized a
special conference event, the Young Researches Workshop(YRW). This
workshop provided a unique opportunity for young scientists and Ph.D.
students to present their ideas and visions of generative programming
and related topics and to receive thorough critique and feedback from
senior experts in the field.

We are also indebted to the keynote speakers and tutorial presenters,
Don Batory, IraBaxter, JimCoplien, and BradCox, for their contribution
to GCSE'99. Finally, we wish to thank all who put in their efforts and
helped to make this first symposium happen, especially the authors and
the STJA organizers. We hope you will enjoy reading the GCSE'99
contributions!