[ecoop-info] Call for Papers: SPLC 2015 Vision Track

[Danny Weyns]

                 SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE CONFERENCE
                                      SPLC 2015
                             CALL FOR VISION PAPERS

                           July 20-24, Nashville, TN USA

                        http://www.splc2015.net/index.html

GOALS
The goal of the SPLC Vision Track 2015 is to look to the future of software
and
system product lines, discussing trends, emerging directions, and synergies
with
fields outside traditional software and system product line communities.
The
Vision Track encourages discussion of radical new directions and
potentially
disruptive software and system engineering innovations. To support that
goal,
the Vision Track will publish three kinds of papers:

1. Reaching out principles and practices from software product lines to
other
fields, such as:
- Core assets + variability = the fabric of self-adaptive systems
- Runtime variability as a first-class citizen to manage uncertainty
- Variant binding and binding time as key principles to manage the blurring
boundaries between development time and run time
- Strategic reuse applied to fields such as mobile systems, cloud, big
data,
and Web 2.0
- Software product line principles and practices as development paradigm
for
systems of systems, cyber physical systems, multi-agent systems, smart
ecosystems, IoT, etc.

2. Uptake of principles from other fields to software product lines, such
as:
- Self-adaptation to push product configuration/adaptation into the runtime
- Context-awareness to adapt variant binding based on concrete context of
use
- Models at runtime to reason about late variant binding
- Self-organization as a principle to enable self-configuration
- Meta-variability to cope with software product line evolution

3. Reflections on the past and visions for the future:
- Papers that call existing views into questions and suggest to change
perspectives
- Results that disregard established results and call for fundamentally new
directions
- Interdisciplinary efforts with potential unusual synergies
- Software ecosystems
- Dynamic software product lines: hype or the future?

Vision Track submissions must clearly motivate and illustrate a rationale
for
changing current practice and/or research in software product lines
engineering
or related fields. We solicit long papers (up to 10 pages) and short papers
(up to 5 pages). Long papers for the Vision Track require supporting
evidence
for the claims made; short papers do not require evaluation results but can
optionally be presented.


SCOPE
The SPLC Vision Track provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking
directions in software and system product lines aiming to accelerate the
exposure of the community to promising and potentially inspiring research
and
engineering efforts. Contributions should provide novel, soundly motivated
research and engineering directions and emerging results.


OUT OF SCOPE
A Vision Track submission should not be a position statement or an SPLC
research submission that lacks sufficient evaluation. Vision Track papers
are fundamentally different in nature, focusing on future trends and
directions.


EVALUATION
All papers will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria.
* Value: the problem is worth exploring;
* Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice;
* Originality: of the paper's insight;
* Synergy: the paper appropriately connects a set of things that were
previously treated separately;
* Validity: soundness of the rationale;
* Scholarship: appropriate consideration of relevant literature;
* Quality: overall paper quality;
* Surprise: startling and unexpected findings.


HOW TO SUBMIT
In the submission form, authors must explicitly categorize their papers
into
one of the following categories:
* Reaching out principles from software product lines to other fields;
* Uptake of principles from other fields to software product lines;
* Reflections on the past and visions for the future.

A Vision Track submission must conform to the ACM SIGS proceedings format
and must not exceed 10 pages for long papers and 5 pages for short papers,
including text, references and figures. Submissions will be reviewed by at
least three members of the SPLC 2015 Vision Track program committee. Papers
must be submitted electronically via easychair by the submission deadline.
Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits may be
rejected without review.

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splc15 - select Vision
Papers

At least one author of accepted papers will present the work at the
conference.


IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts: March 27, 2015
Full papers: April 3, 2015
Notifications: May 21, 2015
SPLC 2015: July 20-24, 2015


VISION TRACK CHAIRS
Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University Sweden
David C. Sharp, The Boeing Company
Further enquiries can be made to the chairs: vision-chairs at splc2015.net



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Danny Weyns, PhD
Professor of Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Linnaeus University
SE-351 95 Växjö
Sweden

AdaptWise: http://lnu.se/adaptwise
Homepage: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/daweaa/index.htm
Email: danny.weyns at lnu.se
Skype: danny.weyns
Tel. +46 70 230 38 26
Fax. +46 470 840 04
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