Proceedings of the 4th European GCSE Young Researchers Workshop 2002. In conjunction with Net.ObjectDays 2002

The 2002 GCSE Young Researchers Workshop is the fourth in a series of Workshops supporting young researchers in the areas of component based software engineering, product line Engineering, generative programming and separation of concerns. After the great success of the 3rd GCSE Young Researchers Workshop this workshop which is traditionally held in conjunction with the NetObjectDays again aimed at providing a platform for young researchers to present their work. The topics of the workshop were: Component-based software engineering: Reuse, distributed platforms, distributed systems, evolution, analysis and design patterns, development methods, formal methods Product line engineering: Architectures, scoping, domain analysis, product line implementation and testing, variability Generative programming: Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and multi-level languages Runtime code generation, compilation, active libraries, synthesis from specifications, development methods, generation of non-code artifacts, formal methods, reflection Separation of Concerns: Aspect-oriented programming, intentional programming, and multi-dimensional separation of concerns Integration of generative and component-based approaches Domain engineering, analysis, and languages.