[AISWorld] IWSSA 2011 - CFP

[Kawtar Benghazi]

                (Apologies for cross-posting)

9th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM/SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES (IWSSA'11)

http://www.ugr.es/~iwssa/

co-located with 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information
System Engineering (CAiSE’11)

http://www.caise2011.com/

20-24th June, 2011, London, England
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THEME

Diverse interacting information and software systems are needed by cities
conducting large-scale events such as the Olympics, Worldcup Football, and
the like. Some of these systems monitor and control utilities required for
hosting the events including electricity, water supply, gas supply, and
the like, while others are used to monitor and control systems with wider
geographic spread such as air traffic, sea and river traffic, and highway
transportation systems. However, all these systems must be designed to
operate collaboratively so that event organizers receive latest scenarios
of the environment of the games and take appropriate actions which may
include change of venue, postponement, or even cancellation of events.
This is particularly relevant in view of threats to life and society in
modern times. However, diverse information systems that monitor and
control critical infrastructures do not collaborate by accident:
collaboration, interoperability, reliability, and security need to be
designed into such systems. Since architecture development is usually the
first step in system or software design, designers need to address these
non-functional requirements, which are sometimes conflicting or
synergistic, in the architectures themselves. In particular,
non-functional and development requirements, and constraints take special
relevance due to the new environments in which the systems themselves have
to operate, i.e., some kind of combination of internet and pervasive
systems. In this workshop, contributions addressing the explicit
connection between requirements and architecture models through innovative
techniques, methodologies and processes will be presented and discussed.
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TOPICS

The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements
in specific domains, include but are not limited to:

• architecting critical systems for diversity and collaborative
operationality
• roles of enterprise/system architectures
• requirements and software architectures for specific application
domains and case studies, especially, complex systems that use technology
in organizational and social contexts
• architectural models in model-driven approaches
• traceability of requirements in architectures
• engineering quality in architectures to include non-functional
requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability,
responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing
ability, performance, usability, safety, etc.
• methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of
high-quality system/software architectures
• models and design theories for software architectures
• software architecture maintenance, evolution and management
• validation of requirements and verification techniques of properties
in architectural design
• metrics and architectures
• service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented /
agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software
architecture development
• COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-Based development for
architectures
• ontology Driven Architectures

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PAPERS

Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances
in the areas of architectures, requirements and development. Papers
submitted to IWSSA’11 must not have been accepted for publication
elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All
papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers in
English are invited from academia and industry:

• Short paper: maximum 6 pages (according to workshop instructions) for
position paper or work-in-progress
• Full paper: maximum 12 pages (according to workshop instructions) for
research results or experience

Accepted papers will be published in a LNBIP Proceedings Volume by
Springer Verlag. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference
automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Camera Ready papers
must comply with the Springer formatting rules. Further authoring
instructions are available at:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

After each workshop edition, IWSSA chairs have edited a special issue in a
Software Engineering journal with significantly improved and extended
versions of papers accepted. Previous special issues related to IWSSA have
been published in the Journal of Science of Computer Programming (four
special issues), the Journal of Systems Architecture, Computer Standards &
Interfaces and the Journal of Systems and Software.

This time again, authors of selected quality papers, from those presented
at IWSSA'11, will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to
the review process for a special issue of an International Journal,
agreement in course with the journal publisher.

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DEADLINES

Abstract Submission Deadline: 2nd of February, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: 9th of February, 2011
Acceptance Notification: 9th of March, 2011
Camera Ready Due: 23rd April, 2011
CAiSE Conference: 20th – 24th June 2011

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas (USA), chung at utdallas.edu
Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler (USA),
nsubramanian at uttyler.edu
Manuel Noguera, University of Granada (Spain), mnoguera at ugr.es (contact
co-chair)
Kawtar Benghazi, University of Granada (Spain), benghazi at ugr.es (contact
co-chair)

For more information, please send an e-mail to both contact co-chairs.