[AISWorld] CFP: VaMoS'11 -- Fifth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems

[Germain Saval]

Call for Papers

VaMoS'11 -- Fifth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems

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** Variability Modelling And Beyond **
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Namur, Belgium — January 27-29, 2011

Submission: November 10, 2010
Notification: December 10, 2010

Featuring keynote by Markus Völter (itemis AG)

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http://www.vamos-workshop.net
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Managing variability is a major issue in the development, maintenance and evolution of software-intensive systems. To be managed effectively and efficiently, variability must be explicitly modelled. The upcoming workshop goes beyond its predecessors by addressing variability more widely, including variability in requirements, architecture, implementation, validation and verification as well as evolution of variability - just to name the most important of the related issues.

The aim of the VaMoS workshop series is to bring together researchers from various areas dedicated to mastering variability to discuss advantages, drawbacks and complementarities of various approaches and to present new results for mastering variability throughout the whole lifecycle of systems, system families, and product lines.

The workshop will feature an invited keynote by Markus Voelter (itemis AG) as well as peer-reviewed paper presentations.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: November 10th, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 10th, 2010
VaMoS'11 in Namur: January 27th-29th, 2011

Workshop Format
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VaMoS 2011, like the four previous VaMoS workshops, will be a highly interactive event. Each session will be organized in a way to stimulate discussions among presenters of papers, discussants and other participants. Each paper presentation will be first discussed by pre-assigned discussants, followed by an open discussion with all participants. Each session will end with a general discussion of all papers presented in the session.

The workshop language is English. Attendance is open to authors of accepted papers, invited speakers, organisers, PC members, and to guest visitors who commit to become assigned as discussants of papers.


Topics (non-exclusive)
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- Modelling variability in functional, quality and economics requirements
- Modelling variability in architecture and non-code artifacts
- Evolution of variability
- Analyzing and debugging variability
- Reverse engineering of variability from legacy
- Implementing variability in all artifacts of software development and maintenance
- Variability in open systems, e.g., dynamic reconfiguration, plugins
- Testing, analyzing, and debugging of software with variability
- Feature oriented software development
- Visualization of variability
- Formal reasoning and automated analysis on variability
- Configuration in variability management
- Applications, e.g., embedded systems, information systems, service-based systems
- Variability and its management in non-software related fields
- Tool support

Submissions
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We look forward to receive the following types of submissions:
- Research papers describing novel contributions to the field of variability.
- Problem statements describing open issues of theoretical or practical nature.
- Experience reports which report on positive or negative experiences.
- Surveys and comparative studies that investigate pros, cons and complementarities of existing approaches to master variability.
- Research in progress including research results at an early stage.
- Vision papers stating where the research in the field should be heading.
- Tool demonstrations describing the variability-related features of CASE tools.

The length of the submitted papers should be between 4 and 10 pages in IEEE CS proceedings format. Details on how to submit will be available on the VaMoS web site: http://www.vamos-workshop.net.

Publication
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The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a research report. VaMoS proceedings are indexed in the DBLP database.

Steering Committee
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Ulrich Eisenecker, University of Leipzig, Germany
Patrick Heymans, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

General Chair
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Patrick Heymans, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium

Program co-chairs
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Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ulrich W. Eisenecker, University of Leipzig, Germany

Organising Committee
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Patrick Heymans, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium
Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
Kim Mens, University of Louvain, Belgium
Germain Saval, University of Namur, Belgium

Program Committee
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Vander Alves, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Sven Apel, University of Passau, Germany
Uwe Assmann, University of Dresden, Germany
Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA
David Benavides, University of Seville, Spain
Danilo Beuche, Pure::Systems, Germany
Goetz Botterweck, LERO, Ireland
Dave Clarke, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Oscar Diaz, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Laurence Duchien, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
Alessandro Fantechi, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Stefania Gnesi, National Research Council, Italy
Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
Oystein Haugen, University of Oslo & SINTEF, Norway
Jaakko Jarvi, Texas A&M University, USA
Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore
Jean-Marc Jezequel, INRIA, Rennes, France
Tomoji Kishi, Waseda University, Japan
Philippe Lahire, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France
Axel Legay, INRIA, Rennes, France
Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
Tomi Mannisto, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Hong Mei, Beijing University , China
Vicente Pelechano, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Rick Rabiser, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Camille Salinesi, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, France
Ina Schaefer, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Sibylle Schupp, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Steffen Thiel, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Matthias Weber, Carmeq GmbH, Germany
Jules White, Virginia Tech, USA

Contact
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If you have any further requests, please address your e-mails
to vamos at sse.uni-due.de