<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The deadlines for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">SPLC</span>'14 are fast approaching! <br>
</div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Around three weeks for sending a full, short or vision paper in research and industry tracks. </div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
You'll then get a chance to visit the very nice city of Florence (Italy) as well as to attend the premier forum dedicated to software product lines. </div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Do not hesitate to widespread the call for papers to all your colleagues, PhD students, post-docs! </div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">More details are enclosed below or available online: <a href="http://www.splc2014.net/calls.html" target="_blank">http://www.splc2014.net/calls.<u></u>html</a></div>
<div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<br></div></span></div><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="" style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">SPLC</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the area of software product lines and software product family engineering. </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">SPLC</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">'14 will have two main tracks:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">RESEARCH TRACK: Papers on original results of conceptual, theoretical, empirical and experimental research; emerging technical and business directions, future trends and outstanding challenges.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">INDUSTRY TRACK: Papers on experiences of adopting and applying product line methods in practice; strategic, business and organizational aspects of product line engineering.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Patrick Heymans (PReCISE, Belgium)</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Julia Rubin (IBM Research, Israel)</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results in all areas related to software product line engineering.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The topics include but are not limited to:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Product line design and variability management</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Product line evolution and life-cycle</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Validation and verification</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Business, organizational, and process issues</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Non-functional aspects of product line development</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Multi product lines, product lines of product lines</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Open source systems</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Software ecosystems and supply chains</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Incremental development of product lines</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Non-traditional applications of product line concepts</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIRS</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Krzysztof Czarnecki (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Deepak Dhungana (Siemens AG, Austria)</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS - INDUSTRY TRACK</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Industrial participation is and has always been a strong aspect of </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">SPLC</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> and the upcoming event will be no exception to this tradition. So we invite your contributions to discuss challenges, innovations and solutions to concrete industrial applications of software product line engineering tools and methodologies.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The topics include but are not limited to:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Introducing PLE to an organization</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Business ecosystems around product line engineering</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Process issues, e.g. combining PLE with agile processes</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Scoping of product/solution portfolios and assets</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Product line architectures, design, validation and assessment</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Variability implementation techniques</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Variability management in and between all stages of the life-cycle</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Guidance and governance product line engineering tools and methods</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Product line testing</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Version and configuration management</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">SUBMISSIONS</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">For both tracks, we invite the following two categories of contributions:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1. Full papers describing original results of conceptual, theoretical, empirical, or experimental research. The papers in this category must rely on theoretical and/or empirical evaluation.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">2. Short/Vision papers describing emerging technical or business directions, future trends, emerging ideas or outstanding challenges along with possible approaches for resolving them.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Page limit is 10 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short/vision papers. All submissions must be in English and follow the ACM SIGS proceedings format (see </span><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.acm.org/sigs/<u></u>publications/proceedings-<u></u>templates</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">). Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the respective </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">SPLC</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> 2014 program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-ICPS.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please submit your paper electronically in the PDF format: </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splc14" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://www.easychair.org/<u></u>conferences/?conf=splc14</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submission of a paper implies a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present the work in case the paper is accepted.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Abstracts Submission: April 4, 2014</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper Submission: April 11, 2014</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Notification: June 6, 2014</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Camera-Ready Copy: June 30, 2014</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Workshops, Tutorials, Panels, Tools and Demonstrations, Doctoral Symposium, Nominations for the Hall of Fame.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The various calls for proposals will follow shortly.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information please visit the conference page at: </span><a href="http://www.splc2014.net/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.splc2014.net/</a><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Dr. Mathieu ACHER, Associate Professor<br>INRIA / University of Rennes I, France (DiverSE team)<br><a href="http://www.mathieuacher.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mathieuacher.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Dr. Mathieu ACHER, Associate Professor<br>INRIA / University of Rennes I, France (DiverSE team)<br><a href="http://www.mathieuacher.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mathieuacher.com/</a></div>
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