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New deadlines are:<br>
<b>Paper submission: June 8, 2015</b><br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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VAQUITA 2015 - 1st International Workshop on Variability for
Qualities in
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Software Architecture
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.vaquita-workshop.org/">http://www.vaquita-workshop.org/</a>
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September 7, Dubrovnik/Cavtat, Croatia
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* VAQUITA Workshop *
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: June 8, 2015
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Notification: June 19, 2015
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Camera ready: June 29, 2015
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Workshop: September 7, 2015
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WORKSHOP THEME
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Many software systems are designed to support variability, either at
design time
<br>
or at runtime. Hence, variability is a key factor of most systems.
Variability
<br>
itself covers two dimensions: functional variability and variability
in
<br>
software qualities. While there are many works covering variability
in
<br>
functionality, there is a research gap regarding variability in
software
<br>
qualities. Obviously, this is an imbalance between the importance of
variability
<br>
in the context of quality attributes, and the intensity of research
in this
<br>
area. To improve this situation, the Workshop on Variability for
Qualities in
<br>
Software Architecture (VAQUITA) aims at investigating and
stimulating the
<br>
discourse about the matter of variability, qualities, and software
<br>
architectures. VAQUITA offers researchers and practitioners a
platform for
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exchanging ideas and experiences, analyzing research challenges,
discussing open
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problems, and proposing promising solutions.
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VAQUITA will be run as a one-day workshop, and consists of an
keynote talk,
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paper presentations and discussions, and a roadmap building session.
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The roadmap will be published as thought-provoking impulse and
contribution to
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the software architecture community.
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=== TOPICS ================================================
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Topics addressed by VAQUITA are those which will promote discussion
about
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advancing variability consideration for software qualities in
software
<br>
architecture. These include, but are not excluded to:
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-Modeling variability in the software architecture
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-Variability in quality attributes
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-Architectural patterns, styles, and tactics for variability
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-Identification of variability in quality attributes at the
architecture level
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-Linking requirements engineering and software architectures in the
context of
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variability and quality
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-Variability in qualities for reconfigurable and self-adaptive
architectures
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-Use of aspect-oriented architectures for quality-based variability
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-Detecting and resolving conflicts among variants, especially
regarding
<br>
qualities
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-Interaction analysis for software product lines with respect to
quality
<br>
attributes
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-Managing interactions between design decisions and quality-based
variability
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in the software architecture
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-Variability in quality attributes and optimization
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-Quality-centered evolution and variability
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-Variability across the software lifecycle with regard to qualities
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=== SUBMISSION ================================================
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All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of
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submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. For details and
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templates see:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>
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Authors are invited to submit either research or position papers on
the
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workshop topics. For research papers, VAQUITA accepts papers with
six pages of
<br>
content at maximum. One additional page is granted for the
bibliography only,
<br>
making it seven pages total for a research paper. For position
papers, VAQUITA
<br>
accepts four pages at maximum. The papers for the workshop will be
selected
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from all submissions in a double blind review. Workshop papers must
follow the
<br>
ACM format and submission guidelines
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(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>).
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Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least
one author of
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an accepted paper has to register for the VAQUITA workshop and
attend it.
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Abstracts and papers are expected to be submitted using the
easychair submission
<br>
system (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vaquita2015">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vaquita2015</a>).
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=== ORGANIZATION
COMMITTEE====================================================
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Michael Goedicke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Maritta Heisel (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Uwe Zdun (University of Vienna)
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Azadeh Alebrahim (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Stephan Faßbender (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Martin Filipczyk (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Main contact:
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Stephan Faßbender
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Working group Software Engineering
<br>
Department of Computational and Cognitive Science
<br>
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:stephan.fassbender@uni-due.de">stephan.fassbender@uni-due.de</a>
<br>
Oststr. 99
<br>
47057 Duisburg
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=== PROGRAM
COMMITTEE====================================================
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David Ameller (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
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Kristian Beckers (ITESYS)
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Amel Bennaceur (The Open University)
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Goetz Botterweck (Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research
Centre)
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Zoya Durdik (ABB Corporate Research)
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Frank Frey
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Nazila Gol Mohammadi (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Volker Gruhn (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Neil Harrison (Utah Valley University)
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Wilhelm Hasselbring (University of Kiel)
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Denis Hatebur (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Uwe van Heesch (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen)
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Sebastian Herold (Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research
Centre)
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Meiko Jensen (Independent Centre for Privacy Protection
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Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel)
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Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Christian Kreiner (Graz University of Technology)
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Kim Lauenroth (adesso AG)
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Andreas Metzger (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Klaus Pohl (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Christopher Preschern (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik)
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Ralf Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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Riccardo Scandariato (Chalmers University of Technology)
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Klaus Schmid (University of Hildesheim)
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Holger Schmidt (TÜV)
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Amir Molzam Sharifloo (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Thein Than Tun (The Open University)
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Dipl.-Wirt. Inform. Stephan Faßbender
University Duisburg-Essen
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science
Work Group Software Engineering
Room BB 918, Oststrasse 99, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)203/379-1075
Fax: +49-(0)203/379-4490
eMail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephan.fassbender@uni-duisburg-essen.de">stephan.fassbender@uni-duisburg-essen.de</a></pre>
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