<div dir="ltr">***CALL FOR PAPERS***<br><br>Fourth International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture <br>In conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), June 2014<br>
<br><a href="http://re.cs.depaul.edu/twinpeaks" target="_blank">http://re.cs.depaul.edu/twinpeaks</a><br><br><br>WORKSHOP OVERVIEW<br>======================<br>Separating
requirements engineering and architecture design is neither feasible
nor reasonable as requirements and architecture impact each other. The
Twin Peaks draws attention to this synergistic relationship between
requirements and architectural design. It emphasizes the need to
progressively discover and specify requirements while concurrently
exploring alternative architectural decisions. <br>
Bridging requirements engineering and software architecture has been
explored in the requirements and architecture communities, but mostly
independently. Thus, TwinPeaks 2014 provides a forum for practitioners
and researchers from both communities to jointly explore the issues and
challenges related to the interplay between requirements and
architecture across all phases of the software development lifecycle.
These challenges are particularly evident in agile and lean development
environments, or when new requirements are introduced into existing and
well-established architectures. The workshop will explore techniques for
specifying architecturally significant requirements, for creating, and
assessing architectures, and for managing and visualizing the interplay
between requirements and architectures. It will also identify open
research challenges for delivering robust and effective architectures
that satisfy stakeholders concerns, at continually increasing levels of
scale, complexity, and delivery speed.<br>
<br><br>TOPICS<br>================<br>The TwinPeaks@ICSE 2014 seeks for
contributions on any topic that addresses the intersection of
requirements and architectural design. Examples might include:<br>- Eliciting, specifying, or managing architecturally significant requirements;<br>
- Modeling of requirements and architecture using common paradigms and metamodels;<br>- Capturing, representing and using architectural knowledge as it interacts with requirements knowledge;<br>- Assessment techniques and metrics for measuring compliance of architecture against requirements;<br>
- Processes that support a "twin peaks" co-evolvement of requirements and architecture;<br>- Traceability between requirements, architectural solutions and implementation;<br>- Relating patterns and best practices to the Twin Peaks model;<br>
- Transforming requirements into architectures in model-driven engineering processes;<br>-
Tool-support to the various informational and processing needs (e.g.,
visualization of interactions among - architectural and requirements
knowledge);<br>
- Twin Peak practices in specific domains and/or environments, e.g. safety-critical, complex, agile;<br>- Industrial studies and empirical studies on relating requirements engineering and architectural design.<br><br><br>
PAPER CATEGORIES<br>===============<br>- Position papers (2-4 pages)<br>- Full papers (6-8 pages)<br>- Industrial papers (4-6 pages)<br>- Experience reports (4-6 pages)<br>- Education and training papers (4-6 pages)<br> <br>
<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>=================<br>- Paper submission: January 24th 2014<br>- Notification: February 24th 2014<br>- Camera-ready: March 14th 2014<br>- Workshop: TDB<br> <br><br>SUBMISSIONS AND ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS<br>
==============================<div dir="ltr">========<br>Submissions are required to be uploaded electronically in pdf form at the Easychair workshop submission site, <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twinpeaks2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twinpeaks2014</a>. Submissions must be formatted according to ICSE 2014 guidelines (see <a href="http://2014.icse-conferences.org/format" target="_blank">http://2014.icse-conferences.org/format</a>
for instructions and templates). All accepted contributions will be
published in the ICSE companion and in the ACM Digital Library.<br>
<br><br>COMMITTEES<br>=============<br><br>General Chair<br>------------------<br><br>Jane Cleland-Huang, Depaul University, Chicago, US <br><br>Program Board<br>-------------------<br><br>Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands <br>
Janet E. Burge, Miami University, Oxford, US <br>Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain <br>Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (Program board co-chair) <br>
Mehdi Mirakhorli, Depaul University, Chicago, US (Program board co-chair) <br>Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, Seattle, US <br><br>Program Committee (to be completed)<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>Len Bass, Software Engineering Institute, USA <br>Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada <br>Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands <br>Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany <br>Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany <br>
Patrick Maeder, Johannes Kepler University, Austria <br>Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA <br>Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA <br>Ipek Ozkaya, Software Engineering Institute, USA <br>Eltjo Poort, CGI, Netherlands <br>
Prabhakar Tadinada, IITK, India <br>Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA <br>Eoin Woods, Artechra, UK</div></div>