(sigemb-info 152) SPLC2007 - Call for papers, workshop, tutorial, demos and doctorial symposium

[Kentaro YOSHIMURA <kentaro.yoshimura.jr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
W O R K S H O P
T U T O R I A L
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
D O C T O R I A L S Y M P O S I U M

11th International
Software Product Line Conference

S P L C 2 0 0 7

Kyoto (Japan), 10 - 14 September 2007
http://sec.ipa.go.jp/SPLC2007/


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Submission Deadlines:

Paper submission (firm!) Feb 28, 2007
Author notification Apr 19, 2007
Camera ready paper deadline (firm!) Apr 30, 2007
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With SPLC 2007, *the* premier forum for practitioners,
researchers and educators to present and discuss the
most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences,
and concerns in the area software product lines and
software product family engineering comes to Asia for
the first time .
The objective is to continue the dialogue between software
product line practitioners and researchers on the benefits,
obstacles, and weaknesses of applying software product line
principles, techniques, methods, processes, and tools in
an industrial or organizational setting.
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Scope:

Topics of interest of SPLC 2007 include, but are definitely
not restricted to:
* Industrial experiences in product line engineering
* Techniques and tools for product line engineering
* Evolution of product line assets
* Business issues for product lines
* Organizational and process issues for product lines
* Product line life-cycle issues

We invite three classes of original, unpublished
submissions:
(1) RESEARCH PAPERS describe original research
contribution (theoretical, conceptual) to the field
of software product line engineering. A research paper
should clearly describe the problem that has been
tackled, the state of the art with respect to the
problem, the solution that is suggested and the
potential -- or even better the evaluated -- benefits
of the contribution.
We also call for short research papers, which are
intended to report ideas in their early stages,
and are not required to show complete/evaluated result.

(2) EXPERIENCE PAPERS describe the history of a
software product line accompanied by a critical review
of experience within one or more development phases
within family and/or application engineering. An
experience report describes lessons learned in domains
of specific industries like automobile, mobile communication,
embedded controller, or enterprise SW
We also call for short experience papers: Short experience
papers are intended to report their useful and informative
experiences briefly, and highlight their main interesting
points.

(3) POSTERS describes research result or on-going research
projects. They are displayed in a dedicated poster area
at the conference, and presented in poster sessions.
Poster papers will appear in a separate proceedings.

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Review Process:

At least three members of the SPLC 2007 program
committee will review each submission. The reviews
will be the basis for making final decisions about which
submissions to accept for presentation at the
conference.
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Accepted Submissions:

Each accepted paper submission will be allotted a maximum of
ten pages (full papers) or six pages (short papers)
in the conference proceedings. The final
version of accepted papers must conform to the
proceedings publication format.
Authors are required to present their work in a technical
session.

Each accepted poster submission will allotted two pages
in the separate proceedings. Poster format will be
announced to accepted authors.
Authors are required to present their work in poster
sessions.

PC members will vote for the best paper from full papers,
but no paper may be selected if there is no agreement on
the best paper.

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Submission Guidelines:

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results
described must be unpublished and should not be under
review elsewhere.
Submitted papers must conform to the IEEE proceeding
8.5x11-inche, Two-Column Format (*), and should not exceed
ten pages (including all text, figures, references and
appendices).

(*) http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS -> Formatting

Short research/experience papers are also conform the
same format, and should not exceed six pages.

Poster papers are also conform the same format, and
should not exceed two pages.

The submission deadline is firm! If you are unable to submit
a paper electronically, please contact one of the two chairs
at least two weeks prior to the submission deadline.
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Contact:

For more information about submissions, feel free to
contact Tomoji Kishi (tkishi at jaist.ac.jp) and
Dirk Muthig (dirk.muthig at iese.fraunhofer.de).
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Important Dates:

Workshop Proposal Submission: February 28, 2007
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: March 26, 2007
CR Workshop Position Papers: August 15, 2007
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The Organizing Committee of SPLC invites submissions for workshop
proposals.

Following the tradition of the series of SPLC conferences, this
edition will host a number of workshops. The purpose of the
workshop program is to provide a platform for bringing together
people from industry, academia, and research institutions to
present and discuss recent proposals and practices around
software product line development.

To encourage participation from industry, workshops that address
the needs of specific industries including automobile, mobile
communication, embedded controller, and enterprise SW are
especially welcome.

Workshop position papers will be published in a second volume
of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN.

Workshops should last one full day; they will probably be
allocated to the first day of the conference, September 10, 2007
(check the SPLC web site for information about the program).

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Proposals for workshops (max. three pages) should contain:

- The title of the workshop and a brief description (10-15 lines)
of its objectives in the context of the conference.

- Intended audience, ideas for advertisement, preliminary Call
for Papers. A preliminary schedule for the workshop.

- Names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and a
short bio of the workshop organizers. In case of multiple
organizers please indicate one contact person.

- References to previous workshops (web sites, proceedings, ...)
of the organizers.

- Technical requirements (beamer, whiteboards etc.)

Please email workshop proposals to Peter Knauber
(p.knauber at hs-mannheim.de), SPLC 2007 Workshop Chair,
by February 28, 2007.

If you intend to submit a workshop proposal, we encourage you
to send an early proposition (only a title/description and
names of organizers) before the deadline!

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Contact:

Peter Knauber (p.knauber at hs-mannheim.de)
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Important Dates:

Email tutorial proposals to ckrueger at biglever.com: May 1, 2007.
Notification by: June 1, 2007.
Camera-ready description for proceedings due: June 15, 2007.
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Tutorials provide a valuable opportunity for conference
participants to expand their product line knowledge and skills.
Tutorials may focus on introductory product line topics, such
as how to introduce a product line approach into an organization,
or on more advanced applied topics, such as industrial product
line engineering practices.

Tutorials will be held on the first two days of the conference
in half-day sessions.

A tutorial proposal consists of approximately two pages
describing the topic, the plan for conducting the tutorial,
and the background of the presenter(s) and the tutorial.

- The Topic section should include the tutorial's title, goals,
and intended audience. The topic should be described in detail,
stressing its importance and timeliness.

- The Plan section should include
a preliminary schedule of events including estimated times,
a detailed description of what the tutorial will cover,
a justification of the tutorial for a product line audience, and
an explanation of how the tutorial will be conducted, including
sample materials to be included in the tutorial notes.

- The Presenters' Backgrounds section should include relevant
biographical information, as well as summaries of the presenters'
technical, presentation, and tutorial experience.

- The Tutorial Background section should include a description
of where and when the tutorial has been offered previously
and any evaluations that were done.

Presenters of accepted tutorials will have 2-page description
published in conference proceedings.

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Contact:

Charles W. Krueger
BigLever Software
SPLC 2007 Tutorials Chair
ckrueger at biglever.com
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Important Dates:

Submit your proposal: May 1, 2007
Notification: June 1, 2007
Send 2 page camera-ready paper describing
your demo for publication in proceedings: June 15, 2007.
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We seek proposals for demonstration of tools related to the many
aspects of the Product Line approach such as analysis (modeling),
design of Product line architectures, derivation of Product Line
members, handling variability, testing, documentation, etc.
Authors of accepted demos will have 2-page papers published in
conference proceedings.

Please e-mail your proposal in free format, maximum 2 pages to:
Stan Jarzabek (stan at comp.nus.edu.sg) and Charles Krueger
(ckrueger at biglever.com)

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Contact:
Stan Jarzabek (stan at comp.nus.edu.sg)
Charles Krueger (ckrueger at biglever.com)
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Important Dates:

Submission deadline: June 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2007
Camera ready version: August 1, 2007
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The SPLC doctoral symposium provides a platform for young
researchers in the area of Software Product Lines to present
their work to an international audience and discuss it with
each other and with experts in the field. Experienced
researchers will comment on the presented work and give
feedback for further development, research goals, methods,
and results to provide useful guidance in completion of the
dissertation research. This event is a unique opportunity
for the presenting young researchers and doctoral students
to receive invaluable expert feedback, make contact with
other researchers in the field, professionally present their
work, and become familiar with other approaches and future
research topics.

The doctoral symposium addresses research activities in the
field of software product lines (SPLs). The peculiarity of
this doctoral symposium is that it is addressed specifically
to young researchers with original ideas and initiatives in
the SPL field. Although it addresses mainly PhD work in progress,
we also encourage the submission of other work in progress
such as master¨s degree or diploma theses.

Topics of Interest include all aspects of the software product
lines, their development phases, management, evaluation, reuse,
and maintenance.

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Paper Submission:

To participate, students should send position papers describing
their research work by email to the following address:

splc.ds at gmail.com

Position papers should be 7-10 pages (submitted papers must
conform to the IEEE proceeding 8.5x11-inche, Two-Column Format).
and submitted as PDF-file.

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Selection Process:

Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance,
originality, and feasibility of the work. We will have no blind
reviews, meaning each young researcher will be assigned one or
two panelists who will review his/her submission and whose name
will be disclosed as part of the review report. This provides a
unique opportunity for the participating young researchers to
get in contact with their reviewers and to receive valuable
input for their work and presentation even before the actual
symposium day.

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Symposium Proceedings:

SPLC 2007 proceedings will be published in two volumes and the
doctorial symposium proceedings will be included in the addendum
of the conference proceedings.

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Symposium Organization:

The symposium is a one-day symposium in conjunction with
SPLC 2007. Each participant gets the chance to present his/her
work and will get feedback from all panelists and from the
audience.

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Contact:

splc.ds at gmail.com
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Organization:

GENERAL CHAIR
Kyo Kang, POSTECH, Korea

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Tomoji Kishi, JAIST, Japan
Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Peter Knauber, Mannheim University of Applied Science, Germany

TUTORIAL CHAIR
Charles Krueger, BigLever Software Inc., USA

PANEL CHAIR
Jim Dager, Cummins Inc., USA

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS:
Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Charles W. Krueger, Biglever, USA

DOCTORIAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Jaejoon Lee, IESE, Fraunhofer, Germany

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Gary Chastek, SEI, USA
Paul Clements, SEI,USA
Sholom Cohen, SEI, USA
Krysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University, USA
Masayuki Hirayama, IPA/SEC, Japan
Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRSIA, France
Isabel John, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Michael Kircher, Siemens, Germany
Charles W. Krueger, Biglever, USA
Kwanwoo Lee, Hansung University, South Korea
John D. McGregor, Clemson University, USA
Natsuko, Noda, NEC Corp. / JAIST, Japan
Sooyong Park, SOGANG University, South Korea
Klaus Pohl, University of Limerick, Ireland and
SSE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Andre van der Hoek, University of California, USA
Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands
Rob van Ommering, Philips, The Netherlands
Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
Martin Verlage, Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste, Germany
David M. Weiss, Avaya, USA
Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Europe, France

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Kentaro YOSHIMURA
Researcher
Automotive R&D Laboratory
Hitachi Europe

Mail : kentaro.yoshimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web : http://www.hitachi-eu.com
Tel : +33 1 34 63 05 40
Mobile : +33 6 82 99 74 01
Fax : +33 1 30 70 60 36
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