Introduction

In modern era software development faces new challenges due to the fact that software applications become more mobile and pervasive because of technological advancements such as mobile computing, the Internet of Things or Cloud computing. The need for practical software reuse is nowadays even more pressing, while new and more complicated reuse problems arise. Innovative formal and generative approaches are needed to avoid re-designing and re-implementing software solutions, features, patterns, components, designs, tests, etc.
Special care should be taken for the non-functional properties of the new generations of software systems, such as performance or security, in case of intensive reuse. The above reuse areas have been the topic of the recently held International Conference on Software Reuse 2015, http://icsr2015.ipd.kit.edu/

The JSS special issue on Software Reuse calls for scientific contributions, and practical or industrial experience reports in any of the following areas (indicatively):

COTS / Component / Service based reuse
Domain analysis and modeling
Asset search and retrieval
Reuse quality assurance
Software product lines
Reuse in mobile / ubiquitous / cloud computing
Open source software
Lightweight / agile reuse
Reuse of software artifacts beyond software code
Business / legal / economic issues in reuse

AGENDA
15 May 2015: Full paper submission deadline (extended to 15 June 2015)
31 July 2015: Authors notification
30 September 2015: Authors revisions
15 December 2016: Final notification
15 January 2016: Final manuscript

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submitted papers should adhere to the general principles of the Journal of Systems and Software articles. Submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors in http://ees.elsevier.com/jss/. Authors should select SI: ICSR, from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process. Submitted papers must be original, must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. In case a paper has been already presented at a conference, it should be extended by at least 30% new material, before submitted for this special issue. Authors must provide any previously published material relevant to their submission and describe the additions made. Please note that a number of papers from ICSR 2015 will be exclusively invited for this special issue.

GUEST EDITORS
- Ina Schaefer, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, i.schaefer@tu-braunschweig.de
- Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, stamelos@csd.auth.gr