VAMOS 2009

-            Call   for   Papers -

Fourth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems "Celebrating 20 Years of Feature Models" Pohang, South Korea - January 27-29, 2010 with Keynotes by Prof. K. Kang and Prof. K. Czarnecki

http://www.vamos-workshop.net

Call for Papers
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. Numerous variability modelling techniques have been proposed both by academia and industry. The aim of the VaMoS workshop series is to bring together researchers from various areas of variability modelling to discuss advantages, drawbacks and complementarities of various approaches and to present new results for variability modelling and management.

Workshop Format
VaMoS 2010, like the three previous VaMoS workshops, will be a highly interactive event. Each session will be organized such that discussions among presenters of papers, discussants and other participants are stimulated. Typically, after a paper is  presented, it is immediately discussed by pre-assigned discussants, after which a free discussion involving all participants follows. Each session is closed by a general discussion of all papers presented in the session. The workshop language is English. Attendance is restricted to authors of accepted papers, invited speakers, organisers and PC members.

Topics (non-exclusive)
-Modelling variability in functional, quality and economics requirements -Modelling variability in the architecture -Separation of Concerns -Feature oriented software development -Visualization of variability -Handling complexity -Formal reasoning and automated analysis on variability -Configuration in variability management -Application (e.g., embedded systems, information systems, service-based systems) -Tool support

Submissions
We look forward to receiving the following types of submissions: 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 variability modelling approaches. -Research in progress including research results at a premature stage. -Vision papers stating where the research in the field should be heading towards. -Tool demonstrations describing the variability-related features of CASE tools. The length of the submitted papers should be between 4 and 8 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
The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a Research Report of  the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) of   the University of Duisburg-Essen (ISSN 1860-2770). Last editions of VaMoS are indexed in the DBLP repository: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/vamos/index.html

Important Dates
Submission deadline:   November 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance:    December 10, 2009 VaMoS workshop:       January 27-29, 2010

Venue
VaMoS will be hosted by the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea.

Steering Committee 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 Kyo-Chul Kang      Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea General Chair Kyo-Chul Kang      Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea Program co-chairs Don Batory         University of Texas, USA David Benavides    University of Seville, Spain Organising Committee Kim Lauenroth      University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Kwanwoo Lee        Hansung University, Korea Program Committee Vander Alves          University of Brasilia, Brasil Sven Apel             University of Passau, Germany Danilo Beuche         Pure::Systems, Germany Jürgen Börstler       Umeå University, Sweden Manfred Broy          TU Munich, Germany Goetz Botterweck      LERO, Ireland Oscar Díaz            Universidad del País Vasco, Spain Alessandro Fantechi   Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Stefania Gnesi        ISTI-CNR, Italy Anirüddhā Gokhālé     Vanderbilt University, USA Paul Gruenbacher      Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria Øystein Haugen        University of Oslo & SINTEF, Norway Mei Hong              Beijing University, China Tomoji Kishi          Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Stan Jarzabek         National University of Singapore Roberto Lopez-Herrejon Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria Tomi Männistö         Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Vicente Pelechano     Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Antonio Ruiz-Cortés   Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Camille Salinesi      University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, France Klaus Schmid          University of Hildesheim, Germany Doug Schmidt          Vanderbilt University, USA Steffen Thiel         Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany Pim van den Broek     University of Twente, The Netherlands Frank van der Linden  Philips, The Netherlands Matthias Weber        Carmeq GmbH, Germany Jules White           Vanderbilt University, USA This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP