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--------------- IWSSA 2011 - Deadline Extension-----------------------
9th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM/SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES (IWSSA'11) http://www.ugr.es/~iwssa/ 20-21th June, 2011, London, England (pre-conference workshop of CAiSE 2011) __________________________ THEME Diverse interacting information and software systems are needed by cities conducting large-scale events such as the Olympics, Worldcup Football, and the like. Some of these systems monitor and control utilities required for hosting the events including electricity, water supply, gas supply, and the like, while others are used to monitor and control systems with wider geographic spread such as air traffic, sea and river traffic, and highway transportation systems. However, all these systems must be designed to operate collaboratively so that event organizers receive latest scenarios of the environment of the games and take appropriate actions which may include change of venue, postponement, or even cancellation of events. This is particularly relevant in view of threats to life and society in modern times. However, diverse information systems that monitor and control critical infrastructures do not collaborate by accident: collaboration, interoperability, reliability, and security need to be designed into such systems. Since architecture development is usually the first step in system or software design, designers need to address these non-functional requirements, which are sometimes conflicting or synergistic, in the architectures themselves. In particular, non-functional and development requirements, and constraints take special relevance due to the new environments in which the systems themselves have to operate, i.e., some kind of combination of internet and pervasive systems. In this workshop, contributions addressing the explicit connection between requirements and architecture models through innovative techniques, methodologies and processes will be presented and discussed. ________________________________________ TOPICS The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements in specific domains, include but are not limited to: • architecting critical systems for diversity and collaborative operationality • roles of enterprise/system architectures • requirements and software architectures for specific application domains and case studies, especially, complex systems that use technology in organizational and social contexts • architectural models in model-driven approaches • traceability of requirements in architectures • engineering quality in architectures to include non-functional requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability, responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing ability, performance, usability, safety, etc. • methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of high-quality system/software architectures • models and design theories for software architectures • software architecture maintenance, evolution and management • validation of requirements and verification techniques of properties in architectural design • metrics and architectures • service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented / agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software architecture development • COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-Based development for architectures • Ontology Driven Architectures ________________________________________ PAPERS Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of architectures, requirements and development. Papers submitted to IWSSA’11 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers in English are invited from academia and industry: • Short paper: maximum 6 pages (according to workshop instructions) for position paper or work-in-progress • Full paper: maximum 12 pages (according to workshop instructions) for research results or experience Accepted papers will be published in a LNBIP Proceedings Volume by Springer Verlag. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Camera Ready papers must comply with the Springer formatting rules. Further authoring instructions are available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0 After each workshop edition, IWSSA chairs have edited a special issue in a Software Engineering journal with significantly improved and extended versions of papers accepted. Previous special issues related to IWSSA have been published in the Journal of Science of Computer Programming (four special issues), the Journal of Systems Architecture, Computer Standards& Interfaces and the Journal of Systems and Software. This time again, authors of selected quality papers, from those presented at IWSSA'11, will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to the review process for a special issue of an International Journal, agreement in course with the journal publisher. ________________________________________ DEADLINES Paper Submission Deadline: 23th of February, 2011 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: 16th of March, 2011 Camera Ready Due: 23rd March, 2011 IWSSA workshop: 20th – 21th June 2011 ________________________________________ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas (USA), chung@utdallas.edu Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler (USA), nsubramanian@uttyler.edu Manuel Noguera, University of Granada (Spain), mnoguera@ugr.es (contact co-chair) Kawtar Benghazi, University of Granada (Spain), benghazi@ugr.es (contact co-chair) |
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