SPLC 2009

=13th Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2009)=
 * Location: San Francisco, California, USA
 * Date: August 24-28, 2009
 * Submission Deadline: February 20, 2009
 * See also http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2009/

Product line engineering aims at optimal processes and practices in organizations to produce and maintain their products. It is massively based on reuse of artifacts that have been defined strategically and built for reuse proactively. The success of product line approaches is thus depending on the overall organizational contexts and goals in addition to the implementation of adequate product line practices or technologies. This strong interrelationship between organizational concerns and engineering practices makes working and researching in the field of product line engineering as interesting as challenging.

Reports on concrete implementations, as well as methodological frameworks, are often very simliar to a certain level of abstraction but quite different in their details. After seeing a dozen product line conferences pass, it is time for the product line community to collect and understand similarities and differences of practical implementations and research results more systematically and explicitily.

The 13th Software Product Line Conference in 2009 thus seeks for contributions from diverse perspectives along two dimensions ...

... from practice to research,

support
 * Practice perspectives capture the identified needs or the selected solutions relative to a unique organizational context and its associated constraints
 * Research perspectives drive product line technologies forward by improving its processes, the underlying technologies, or provided tool

.., from retrospective to vision.

line engineering ranging from postulating new ways for engineering product lines to pointing out open hypotheses that must be validated by the product line community
 * Retrospectives summarizes existing work or experiences and derive lessons learned for product line researchers or practitioners
 * Visions motivate and outline work to be done in the field of product

Within those perspectives we expect the following questions to be of particular interest to the product line community:
 * How to manage "Safety" (or any other quality attribute) in a product

line context systematically ?
 * How to engineer product lines in a complex organizatinal network of OEMs and suppliers including COTS or open source components?
 * How to center a product line approach around a given reference architecture in a certain domain (e.g. AUTOSAR for the automotive industry)
 * How to combine agile approaches with product line engineering?
 * How to combine service orientation with product line engineering?

We ask you to present your perspective to the product line community and discuss it at SPLC 20009, the premium forum for product line researchers and practitioners. Please submit your contributions as research or experience papers, tutorials, workshop proposals, demonstrations, or poster presentations. Additionally, we strongly encourage young researchers to participate in the Doctoral Symposium. Please visit the conference website for all details on deadlines, formats, etc. (see www.splc.net)

We invite you to be part of SPLC 2009. For more information about the venue, details on organization, paper evaluation criteria etc. please visit the conference homepage at www.splc.net.

Submission Deadline (for papers, workshops, tutorials, ... )


 * February 20, 2009

Committees

 * General Chair
 * has general chair::Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany


 * Program Chair
 * has general chair::John McGregor, Clemson University, USA


 * Industry Track
 * has industry track chair::Paul Jensen, Overwatch, USA
 * has industry track chair::Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi, Japan
 * has industry track chair::Michael Schumpelt, ETAS, Germany


 * Workshops
 * has workshop chair::Jaejoon Lee, Lancaster University, UK


 * Demonstrations & Posters
 * has demo chair::Ronny Kolb, Honeywell, Switzerland


 * Tutorials
 * has tutorial chair::Gary Chastek, Software Engineering Institute, USA


 * Doctorial Symposium
 * has doctorial symposium chair::Eduardo Santana de Almeida, C.E.S.A.R., Brazil


 * Publicity
 * has publicity chair::Pat Donohoe, Software Engineering Institute, USA

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Muhammad Ali Babar, Lero, University of Limerick
 * has PC member::David Benavides, University of Seville
 * has PC member::Jan Bosch, Intuit, USA
 * has PC member::Manfred Broy, TU Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA
 * has PC member::Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
 * has PC member::Stuart Faulk, University of Orgeon, USA
 * has PC member::Xavier Franch, Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Birgit Geppert, Avaya Labs, USA
 * has PC member::Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Oystein Haugen, SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway
 * has PC member::Patrick Heymans, University of Namur - FUNDP, Belgium
 * has PC member::Isabel John, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
 * has PC member::Kyo Kang, University Pohang, Korea
 * has PC member::Tomoji Kishi, JAIST, Japan
 * has PC member::Peter Knauber, HS Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Philipp Kutter, Montages, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Patricia Lago, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Robyn Lutz, Iowa State University & Jet Propulsion Lab, USA
 * has PC member::Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
 * has PC member::Maurizio Moriso, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
 * has PC member::Eila Niemela, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
 * has PC member::Liam O'Brien, NICTA, Australia
 * has PC member::Rob van Ommering, Philips, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Robert Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA
 * has PC member::Daniel Paulish, Siemens, USA
 * has PC member::Juha Savolainen, Nokia, Finland
 * has PC member::Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
 * has PC member::Steffen Thiel, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland
 * has PC member::Tim Trew, NXP, The Netherlands