ICSR includes software reuse researchers, practitioners, and managers.
The conference provides an archival source for important reuse papers.
The conference is also meant to provide reuse information and education to practitioners, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer.
The conference consists of technical presentations, parallel working groups, plenary sessions, demonstrations, and tutorials.
Topics include reuse metrics, case studies and experiments, copyright and legal issues, current issues in reuse libraries, distributed components, formal methods, design and validation of components, domain analysis and engineering, generators, and Integration frameworks.