[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS: Variability @ ER 2011

[Iris Reinhartz-Berger]

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Variability @ ER 2011*


One-Day Workshop on Software Variability Management

Part of the 30^th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
ER 2011, 31 October – 3 November, 2011, Brussels, Belgium

URL: http://www.domainengineering.org/Variability@ER11/

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*_IMPORTANT DATES_*

Intent to Submit:April 25, 2011

Paper Submission:May 2, 2011

Notification:June 13, 2011

Camera Ready:July 1, 2011

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*_GOALS_*

As software requirements constantly increase in size and complexity, the 
need for methods, formalisms, techniques, tools and languages for 
managing and evolving software artifacts become crucial. One way to 
manage variability when dealing with a rapidly growing variety of 
software products is through developing and maintaining families of 
software products rather than individual products. /Variability 
management/ is concerned with controlling the versions and the possible 
variants of software systems. Variability management gained a special 
interest in various software-related areas in different phases of the 
software development lifecycle. These areas include conceptual modeling, 
product-line engineering, feature analysis, software reuse, 
configuration management, generative programming and programming 
language design. The purpose of this workshop is to promote the theme of 
variability management from different perspectives. In particular, it 
aims at providing a venue for researchers and practitioners interested 
in software variability management, in order to identify possible points 
of synergy, common problems and solutions, and visions for the future of 
the area.

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*_SCOPE_*

The workshop thus solicits papers in topics including, but not limited to:

- Conceptual foundations of variability management;

- Methods and techniques to support variability management;

- Theoretical and empirical evaluation of variability management techniques;

- Formal approaches for variability specification, modeling and analysis;

- Techniques and solutions to avoid, detect or resolve conflicts between 
variants;

- Application of variability management utilities;

- Case studies and practice reports related to variability management;

- Integration of variability management with existing development 
approaches;

- Development tools and language support for software variability;

- Managing dynamic variability;

- Comparing or classifying different variability management approaches.

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*_PAPER SUBMISSION_*

All submitted papers will be reviewed by three program committee 
members. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently 
submitted elsewhere. Any duplicate submissions will be rejected without 
review. Research-in-progress and position papers will be considered as well.


Papers must not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS format which is 
available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions should be made through EasyChair at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=variabilityer11.

A pre-submission on EasyChair of title and abstract is required 
(intention to submit) one week before the actual paper submission date.

*_PUBLICATION_*

Paper acceptance will be based upon its relevance to the main workshop 
topics, on its quality and on its potential to stimulate discussion in 
the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS 
workshop proceedings.

All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop.

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*_PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS_*

- Iris Reinhartz-BergerUniversity of Haifa, Israel

- Arnon SturmBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

-Kim Mens Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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*_PROGRAM COMMITTEE_*

- Felix Bachmann, SEI, USA

- David Benavides, University of Seville, Spain

- Jan Bosch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

- Paul Clements, SEI, USA

- Anthony Cleve, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium

- Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

- Ulrich Eisenecker, Leipzig University, Germany

- Øystein Haugen, University of Oslo, Norway

- Brice Morin, University of Oslo, Norway

- Linda Northrop, SEI, USA

- Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium

- Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands


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