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| Objective |
| The objective of the workshop
is to bring together people from industry and academia to investigate the
proposals and the practices that pertain to the following conceptual and
technical questions: |
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Are product lines just an outdated research topic? Is there still something
to be researched? Can they be really useful?
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Product lines introduce extra complexity in software development but offer
high returns: what are the tradeoffs and when should software firms decide
to go for a product line approach? What are appropriate business cases?
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In which subdomains does investment in product lines pay most? Who can
publish concrete numbers about the (positive and negative) effects of product
line introduction?
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How can customers be convinced to buy products from a product line? How
can customer requirements be directed towards functionality already supported
by the product line?
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What are the specific architectural issues in a product line? How can the
products of a product line share a common architecture?
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How can software product lines be designed and managed together with corresponding
hardware product lines, that is, in an embedded systems context? How can
the costs for changes to the software be quantified in a similar way as
for the hardware?
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How do product lines affect the organization of a software firm?
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What are the right product line concepts for small and mid-sized companies?
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How can existing tools support the product line activities such as characterizing,
scoping, modeling, architecting, coding, and testing the products in the
line?
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Are there the space, the need, and the technology for new tools?
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How can traceability be achieved over the product line engineering phases?
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session of the previous workshop, these questions have been identified
as being some of the most important challenges that software product line
research has to address. The presentation and discussion of the achievements
of the last twelve months of work on these issues will be the basis for
this third workshop. |
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| Style of the Workshop |
The workshop is aimed at being
an opportunity for discussion on one of the hottest topics of software
engineering.
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In order to participate in the workshop, people interested will have to
submit a position statement addressing (at least) one of the topics listed
in the "Objective of the workshop" section above.
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The workshop will have one or two invited speakers and four to six presentations
based on submission of position papers.
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The workshop organizers will cluster submitted position papers around their
main topics addressed into four sessions. The session papers will then
be distributed to all authors involved in the respective sessions in order
to facilitate discussion among the workshop participants even before the
workshop.
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As introduction to each session, one or two talks will be given as introduction
to the session topic. One or two of these talks will be given by renown
invited speakers, the others will be based on selected position papers.
Then there will be between 45 and 60 minutes left for discussion on the
respective topic among the participants. Per session, one of the workshop
participants will be asked to moderate the discussion in such a way that
a publishable result is achieved. The organizers will urge the workshop
participants to document and communicate this result to interested parties.
As a basis for these dissemination activities, minutes will be taken during
the discussions.
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The final session is dedicated to define directions for future research
and other activities on software product lines. Based on the experience
exchanged during the day, it should give input to the definition of topics
for similar events in the future.
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As for the first and second edition of this workshop, the organizers will
publish the proceedings in form of a publicly available Fraunhofer IESE
Technical Report. The best papers of the proceedings of the workshop will
be submitted to a major journal or publisher.
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| Submissions |
| To participate, authors should
send position papers relevant to one or more of the topics mentioned in
the Objective section.
Submission guidelines: |
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| The organizers intend to publish the best
papers of the workshop in a book they would edit and are in contact with
a publisher for that purpose. In case that book is accepted, authors of
accepted papers will be required to adhere to the respective camera ready
copy guidelines and to sign the suitable camera ready copy. Otherwise the
papers presented will be published as referrable Fraunhofer IESE Technical
Report. |
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| Important Dates |
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March 1st: Deadline for submissions to the workshop.
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April 1st: Notification of acceptance.
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May 1st: Full program for the workshop available.
Nomination of the two invited speakers.
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May 21st: Workshop day at ICSE
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| Attendance |
| Attendance of the workshop
is restricted to authors of accepted position papers, members of the organization
committee, and invited guest speakers. |
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| Workshop Organizing Committee |
| Peter
Knauber, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Giancarlo
Succi, Free University of Bozen, Italy |
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| Luigi
Benedicenti, University of Regina, Italy |
| Jan
Bosch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| Jorge
Diaz-Herrera, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA |
| Frank
Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada |
| Maurizio
Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy State University, USA |
| Nader
Nada, George Mason University, USA |
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| Results, Papers, and Slides from third
Workshop |
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| Proceedings from first Workshop |
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| Proceedings from second Workshop |
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