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<p class="MsoNormal">***CALL FOR PAPERS***</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Third International Workshop on Variability in Software
Architecture </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In conjunction with the 11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on
Software Architecture (WICSA), April 8, 2014</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/varsa2014/">https://sites.google.com/site/varsa2014/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WORKSHOP OVERVIEW</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Variability is the ability of a software system or artifact
to be adapted for specific contexts in a preplanned manner. Many of today's
software systems are built with variability in mind, e.g., product lines and families,
self-adaptive systems, open platforms, or service-based systems with dynamic
runtime composition of web services. Variability is reflected in and
facilitated through the software architecture. Also, as the software
architecture is a reference point for many development activities and for
achieving quality attributes, variability should be treated as a first-class
and cross-cutting concern in software architecture. VARSA 2014 aims at
progressing the state-of-the-art on variability in software architecture. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop aims at exploring current and emerging methods,
languages, notations, technologies and tools to handle (including modeling,
implementing, and managing) variability in the software architecture. We are
particularly interested in industrial practice and experience. Therefore, the
goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers, practitioners and
educators from various areas of software architecture interested in a)
variability as it occurs in software architectures (types of variability,
evolution of variability, etc.), particularly in relation to the topics of
interest listed below, b) current approaches to handle variability at the
software architecture level, c) gaps that exist in current approaches and what
is currently missing in approaches to handle variability at the software
architecture level.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TOPICS</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Variability in quality attributes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Variability at runtime and in self-adapting systems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Variability in embedded software systems.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For each of these three topics we are interested in (but not
restricted to) the following aspects:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Modeling variability in different architecture model types
(e.g., information models or development models) rather than merely annotating
component-and-connector models or feature models.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Mechanisms to realize variability, from design time to
runtime.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Consistency management and traceability of variability
from <span style> </span>requirements to architecture to
implementation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Separation of concerns (e.g., architecture viewpoints and
views) to handle variability.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Reference architectures, architecture patterns, styles,
tactics and tools for variability in the software architecture.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Training of students and practitioners.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PAPER CATEGORIES</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Future, position, vision papers (~4 pages)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Full papers (~6 pages)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Industrial papers (~6 pages)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Education, training papers (~6 pages)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT DATES</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Paper submission: January 12, 2014 (EXTENDED)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Notification: January 24, 2014</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Camera-ready: February 9, 2014 (WICSA deadline)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Workshop: April 8, 2014</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SUBMISSIONS AND ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions are required to be uploaded electronically in
pdf form at the Easychair workshop submission site,
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=varsa2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=varsa2014</a>. Submissions must follow
the ACM conference proceedings format
(<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>). All accepted
contributions will be published in the ACM Digital Library.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">COMMITTEES</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop chairs</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Matthias Galster (U of Canterbury, NZ)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Danny Weyns (Linnaeus U, SE)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paris Avgeriou (U of Groningen, NL)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tomi Männistö (U of Helsinki, FI)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Program committee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia and RiSE,
Brazil</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Len Bass, NICTA, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Benavides, University of Seville, Spain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University, United States</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Iris Groher, University of Linz, Austria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rich Hilliard, Consulting Software Architect, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kai Koskimies, Tampere University of Technology, Finland</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerrit Muller, Buskerud University College, Norway</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Claus Pahl, City University Dublin, Ireland</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria</p>
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