We, the workshop organisers, are grateful to the members of the program committee and the reviewers. We also would like to thank the organisers of ASE 2010, in particular Tom Mens and Tevfik Bultan, the workshops chairs, for their support and the opportunity to hold LWI 2010 in conjunction with this conference.
In software engineering, there has long been a recognition that inconsistency is a fact of life. Evolving descriptions of software artifacts are frequently inconsistent, and tolerating this inconsistency is important if flexible collaborative working is to be supported.
The workshop follows on two previous successful iterations at ICSE-97 and ICSE-01. The new iteration is motivated by the recognition of the growing importance that inconsistency management has acquired over the last few years.
Many excellent research papers have recently appeared in multiple and dispersed venues which denotes a rekindled interest in the area. Thus we want to capitalize on this renewed interest and provide a venue for researchers and practitioners to gather and exchange ideas.
We want to thank Tom Mens for giving the keynote entitled Approaches to Software Model Inconsistency Management.
This research was partially funded by the Austrian FWF under agreement P21321-N15 and Marie Curie Actions -Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) project number 254965.