This special section presents two extended papers from the Eighth International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE’09), which was held October 4-5, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. GPCE has become the premier venue for research in generative and component-oriented programming. GPCE’09 attracted 62 submissions, of which 19 were accepted, a 31% acceptance rate.
For this special section, we invited the authors of the highest ranked papers to submit revised and extended versions of their conference contributions to this JOT special section, and received three submissions. After an additional round of reviewing, two of them were accepted, and we are proud to publish them here.
We would like to thank the authors and reviewers, of both the conference and this special section, for their efforts, and hope you enjoy the results.
Bernd Fischer (Guest Editor)
Oscar Nierstrasz (Editor-in-Chief)