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System/Software
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THEME
Development of software systems that help support social systems is of vital concern to industry, society, and government. However, software systems that help achieve the goal of a deferential integration of natural, human and material resources will be possible only when their architectures are designed to accommodate this requirement in the first place. Designing such software architectures requires that high-level picture be taken into account wherein the scenarios of usage for systems that employ the developed software are actively considered. Needless to say, in order to meet requirements and their constraints, innovative techniques need to be adopted to develop such software architectures. In this workshop papers that address specifically the techniques, methodologies and processes to develop software architectures for socio-technical systems will be presented and discussed.
WORKSHOP
This will be the 7th workshop in the series - the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd International Workshops on System/Software Architectures respectively were held in the 2007-2003 years in the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP series), and the 1st Workshop as a session on Adaptable Software Architectures in 2002 as part of SERP'02. All received excellent responses and the top papers were published not only in the conference proceedings but also in special journal issues.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements in specific domains, include but are not limited to:
- roles of enterprise/system architectures;
- Requirements and software architectures for specific application domains and case studies, especially, complex systems that use technology in organizational and social contexts;
- Architectural models in model-driven approaches;
- Traceability of requirements in architectures ;
- Engineering quality in architectures to include non-functional requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability, responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing ability, performance, usability, safety, etc;
- Methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of high-quality system/software architectures ;
- Models and design theories for software architectures;
- Software architecture maintenance, evolution and management;
- Validation of requirements and verification techniques of properties in architectural design;
- Metrics and architectures;
- Service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented / agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software architecture development;
- COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-Based development for architectures;
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of architectures, requirements and development. Papers submitted to IWSSA’08 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers in English are invited from academia and industry:
- Short paper: maximum 5 pages for position paper or work-in-progress
- Full paper: maximum 10 pages for research results or experience
Accepted papers will be published in a LNCS Proceedings Volume by Springer Verlag. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Submissions should be in PDF format according to the detailed formatting instructions at:
The paper submission site is located at:
This time again, authors of selected quality papers, from those presented at IWSSA'08, will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to the review process for a special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), agreement in course with the journal publisher.
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
- Lawrence
Chung
University of Texas at Dallas
USA
Email: chung at utdallas dot edu - José
Luis Garrido(contact co-chair)
University of Granada
Spain
Email: jgarrido at ugr dot es - Nary
Subramanian
University of Texas at Tyler
USA
Email: nsubramanian at uttyler dot edu - Manuel
Noguera(contact co-chair)
University of Granada
Spain
Email: mnoguera at ugr dot es
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Philippe Aniorte, LIUPPA IUT de Bayonne, France
- Hernán Astudillo, Federico Sta. María Technical University, Chile
- Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
- Jaelson Castro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil
- Roger Champagne, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
- Francois Coallier, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
- Kendra Cooper, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Rafael Corchuelo, University of Sevilla, Spain
- Lirong Dai, Seattle University, USA
- Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
- Jing Dong, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Jesús Favela, CICESE, Mexico
- Juan Fernández-Ramil, Open University, UK and University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
- Paul Gruenbacher, University of Linz, Austria
- Lars Grunske, University of Queensland, Australia
- Fred Harris, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Michael Hinchey, NASA, USA
- María V. Hurtado, University of Granada, Spain
- Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Li Jiang, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
- Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii and SEI/CMU, USA
- Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
- María D. Lozano, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Chung-Horng Lung, Carleton University, Canada
- Stephen J. Mellor, Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics, USA
- Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Masaki Murakami, Okayama University, Japan
- Sergio F. Ochoa, University of Chile, Chile
- Patricia Paderewski, University of Granada, Spain
- Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea
- Óscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Juan Pavón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- María Luisa Rodríguez, University of Granada, Spain
- Gustavo Rossi, University of La Plata, Argentina
- Vespe Savikko, Elektrobit, Finland
- Michael Shin, Texas Technical University, USA
- Yeong Tae Song, Towson University, USA
- Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College London, UK
- Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK