CfP Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering (PLEASE) at ICSE 2012

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Call For Papers
3rd International Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software
Engineering (PLEASE)
June 4, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
http://please2012.haifa.il.ibm.com/
co-located with 34rd International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2012)
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Submission deadline: February 17, 2012


PDF version of the Call for Papers available at:
http://please2012.haifa.il.ibm.com/papers/PLEASE2012-cfp.pdf

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INTRODUCTION

Numerous companies develop and maintain families of related products.
These products share a common set of features and a defined set of
variations on those features that satisfy the specific needs of a
particular market segment and are often referred to as software product
lines.

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) practices promote systematic
software reuse by identifying and managing commonalities and variability
across the whole product portfolio. By adopting SPLE practices
organizations are able to achieve significant improvement in
time-to-market and quality, reduce engineering and maintenance costs,
portfolio size, and more. However, despite the proven benefits of SPLE,
it is still in the early adopter stage. Impediments to SPLE adoption
vary from organizational, governmental, and process issues to issues
related to engineering tools, design and testing methodologies, and others.

To promote SPLE adoption in practice, the workshop aims to identify
real-life industrial problems in the area of SPLE and establish ongoing
interactions among software engineering practitioners and researchers
from industry and academia. Our goal is to couple real-life industrial
problems with concrete solutions developed by the SPLE community. As
such, we seek concrete and well-illustrated descriptions of realistic
problems, as well as concrete and exemplified solutions developed by the
community. We also hope to encourage continued progress in
collaborations that exemplify widespread adoption of SPLE.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
* Transforming software families into product lines; migration
strategies towards product lines; extracting product line
representations from legacy software artifacts.
* Design and implementation of sustainable software by applying product
line techniques for strategic reuse.
* Sustainable long-term approaches for product lines; product line
evolution and software configuration management.
* Non-functional properties and quality attributes in product line
engineering.
* Product line engineering for very large, complex systems and
system-of-systems.
* The application of domain specific languages in the production of
products in the product line.
* Multi product lines; product lines of product lines.
* Software ecosystems and supply chains based on product lines;
inter-organizational approaches to product lines.
* Intra-organizational approaches, practices, stimuli and measures of
product portfolio development.
* Incremental and distributed development of product lines.
* Validation of product lines.

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WORKSHOP FORMAT

We will hold three sequential sessions during the workshop:
* 10 minutes introduction of each participant, both industrial and
researchers (~1.5 hours)
* A "speed-dating" session, in which each industrial participant is
engaged in a short time-limited discussion with each of the research
participants (~ 3-4 hours)
* A brief wrap-up and launch session (~1 hours), which focusses on
long-term collaboration based on the matches made in the speed-dating
session

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SUBMISSION

We invite papers (2-4 pages) that present either a concrete real-life
industrial problem or a tangible solution for a concrete problem that
relate to the adaption of SPLE. This potentially includes problem cases
and solutions that have been published earlier, if they support the
workshop objectives and answer the questions provided below. Papers
should be in English and conform to the ICSE 2012 Guidelines available
at http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/icse2012/how-to-submit/.

Papers should be submitted electronically at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=please2012. Accepted papers
will be published in the ICSE 2012 electronic proceedings collection
(handed out to participants at the conference) and on the workshop
website (to allow preparation for the workshop and identification of
potential “dates”). At least one author of each accepted paper is
required to register and present the work at the workshop for the paper
to be included in the workshop proceedings.

Submissions will be selected based on their relevance to the workshop
topics and objectives. Specifically, submission should address the
following questions:

FOR INDUSTRIAL CASES AND CHALLENGES:
* What is the problem/challenge that you are trying to solve?
* Demonstrate it on a concrete example.
* When would you consider the challenge resolved?
* How could the success be evaluated? Is there some key indicator which
allows to asses the success?

FOR SOLUTIONS:
* What is the problem/challenge that you solve?
* Demonstrate the solution on a concrete example.
* What are the solution’s benefits and limitations?
* Who could benefit from your approach?
* Was your approach evaluated? How?
* Is your approach based on a certain technology or scientific concept
(e.g., model checking)? Please provide references.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: February 17, 2012
Notification: March 19, 2012
Camera-ready: March 27, 2012
Workshop: June 4, 2012

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ORGANIZATION

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* Martin Becker, Fraunhofer, Germany
* David Benavides, University of Seville, Spain
* Danilo Beuche, pure-systems, Germany
* Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
* Eduardo Almeida, Federal Universidad da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
* Paul Clements, BigLever Software, USA
* Christoph Elsner, Siemens, Germany
* Paul Grünbacher, JKU Linz, Austria
* Øystein Haugen, SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway
* Kyo-Chul Kang, POSTECH, South Korea
* Steve Livengood, Samsung Information System America, USA
* Dirk Muthig, Lufthansa Systems, Germany
* Klaus Pohl, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Andreas Rummler, SAP Research, Germany
* Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig, Germany
* Doug Schmidt, SEI, USA
* Tim Trew, NDS, UK
* Markus Voelter, independent / itemis, Germany
...and the workshop organizers.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
* Julia Rubin, IBM Research - Haifa, Israel
* Goetz Botterweck, Lero, Ireland
* Andreas Pleuss, Lero, Ireland
* David M. Weiss, Iowa State University, USA

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