Are you eager to leverage your research into a game-changing industrial breakthrough? Join us for a day of insightful exchange with practitioners, exposing the challenges they encounter daily. Brainstorm actual solutions exploiting your research and findings with them. Learn to communicate what you bring to the table efficiently thanks to the tried and tested Value Proposition canvas.
The day will be split into two parts. In the morning, researchers will attend a training session introducing the Value Proposition Canvas. This training session aims to help them think about the potential and impact of their research from the angle of short-term industrialization.
In the afternoon, a world café will bring together researchers and industry stakeholders who have come to discuss current software engineering and evolution challenges encountered in their day-to-day business. The aim of this meeting? To generate innovative ideas, identify new leads for scientific research, uncover new developments to be tested in the field, and, above all, open avenues for collaboration between research and industry people.
The IMPACT! Day initiative is supported by the GRASCOMP doctoral school. Participants will be awarded one transversal course ECTS credit (Art. 14, Annex 4, RDUN).
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November, 2024
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| 09:45 - 10:00 | Opening |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Keynote: Anthony Simonofski Theory - Bridging the gap between Research and Practice |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Keynote: Corentin Burnay Training - Applying the Value Proposition Canvas to your Research |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Hands on Session - Build your Value Proposition Canvas |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Introductory Panel by Industrial Guests |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | World Café – Bringing Forces Together to Address Current Challenges |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Debrief all Together |
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The goal of BENEVOL is to bring together researchers who are working in the field of software evolution and maintenance. BENEVOL offers an informal forum to meet and discuss new ideas, relevant problems, and fresh research results.
Technical Research Papers (TECH). Full-length technical papers present original research empirically or formally validated. We also welcome papers in the early stages of their development that would benefit from feedback from the community.
New Ideas and Controversial Perspectives (NICE). We welcome position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives. Such papers may not have an evaluation, though illustrative examples and cases are welcome.
Replicated or Invalidated Papers (RIP). The growing complexity and size of software systems combined with the rise of machine learning for maintenance and evolution tasks makes replicability challenging. We invite replication efforts of existing papers, describing successes (replicated) or difficulties (invalidated). This category extends to new negative results, which are key to narrowing down hypotheses.
Presentation Abstracts (ABS). Presentation abstracts reports on research results without inclusion in the proceedings. Presentation abstracts cover research that has already been published or is ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal.
At least three programme committee members will review TECH, NICE, and RIP papers. They will assess the adherence to the workshop's scope (maintenance and evolution) and the above categories. Accepted papers will be part of the proceedings. ABS papers will only be reviewed for relevance and will be made available on the workshop's website. BENEVOL follows the single-blind reviewing model.
All submissions must conform to the new CEUR-ART style. One can use the LaTeX template directly on Overleaf or download an offline version with the style files (including DOCX template files). All submissions should use the single-column template.
We allow using AI tools for writing assistance (grammar checkers, rephrasing). Of course, we explicitly forbid LLM-generated papers as it may lead to plagiarism and may be regarded as unethical. Therefore, such tools cannot be credited as authors. Please check the CEUR-WS Policy on AI assisting tools for more information.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Please mark the category it belongs to. You can upload incremental versions of your paper, so do not wait until the last minute to submit it.
We will ask the authors to improve their paper and submit a camera-ready version according to the reviews. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.
Below, you can find the imortant dates. Please note that all dates are in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE, 23h59) calendar designation.
Thanks to the support of our sponsors, participation is free! Register to BENEVOL 2024 via https://www.billetweb.fr/benevol-2024. If, unfortunately, you must cancel your participation, please let us know as soon as possible (via e-mail to secretariat.info@unamur.be) to avoid any waste.
The BENEVOL 2024 venue is located at the University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, in the building of the Faculty of Science. You can use this map to find the venue, but also suggestions for accomodations in Namur.
To receive a discount, please inform the hotel reception that you are visiting for the University of Namur. This offer is valid at the following hotels: Grand Hôtel de Flandre, Ibis Namur Centre, Hotel des Tanneurs, and B&B Hotel Namur. Additionally, for the B&B Hotel Namur, you may use the following promotional code: 31046578. The discount can be redeemed by selecting the coupon icon on the registration website https://www.hotel-bb.com/en/be.
The venue can be easily reached by bike, bus, train, and car. You can use the website Belgium Mobility to find information about local trains and buses, including timetables, fares and up-to-date information.
Buses: TEC offers bus services throughout Wallonia. On their website, you can find information regarding routes, timetables and nearby bus stations.
Trains: SNCB is the train company of Belgium. On their website, you can plan your journey (international included) and buy tickets.
Airports: The 2 closest airports are the Brussels Zaventem Airport (55 minutes from venue) and the Brussels Charleroi Airport (30 minutes from venue).
Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you want to sponsor BENEVOL 2024! ;-)
