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Call for Papers
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Fourth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

"Celebrating 20 Years of Feature Models"

Pohang, South Korea - January 27-29, 2010

with Keynotes by Prof. K. Kang and Prof. K. Czarnecki

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http://www.vamos-workshop.net
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== Call for Papers ==

Managing variability is a major issue in the development, maintenance and evolution
of software-intensive systems. To be managed effectively and efficiently,
variability must be explicitly modelled. Numerous variability modelling techniques
have been proposed both by academia and industry.

The aim of the VaMoS workshop series is to bring together researchers from various
areas of variability modelling to discuss advantages, drawbacks and complementarities
of various approaches and to present new results for variability modelling and
management.

== Workshop Format ==

VaMoS 2010, like the three previous VaMoS workshops, will be a highly interactive
event. Each session will be organized such that discussions among presenters of papers,
discussants and other participants are stimulated. Typically, after a paper is
presented, it is immediately discussed by pre-assigned discussants, after which a free
discussion involving all participants follows. Each session is closed by a general
discussion of all papers presented in the session.
The workshop language is English.
Attendance is restricted to authors of accepted papers, invited speakers, organisers
and PC members.

== Topics (non-exclusive) ==

-Modelling variability in functional, quality and economics requirements
-Modelling variability in the architecture
-Separation of Concerns
-Feature oriented software development
-Visualization of variability
-Handling complexity
-Formal reasoning and automated analysis on variability
-Configuration in variability management
-Application (e.g., embedded systems, information systems, service-based systems)
-Tool support

== Submissions ==

We look forward to receiving the following types of submissions:
Problem statements describing open issues of theoretical or practical nature.
-Experience reports which report on positive or negative experiences.
-Surveys and comparative studies that investigate pros, cons and complementarities of
existing variability modelling approaches.
-Research in progress including research results at a premature stage.
-Vision papers stating where the research in the field should be heading towards.
-Tool demonstrations describing the variability-related features of CASE tools.

The length of the submitted papers should be between 4 and 8 pages in IEEE CS
proceedings format. Details on how to submit will be available on the VaMoS web site:
http://www.vamos-workshop.net

== Publication ==

The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a Research Report of
the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) of
the University of Duisburg-Essen (ISSN 1860-2770). Last editions of VaMoS are indexed
in the DBLP repository: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/vamos/index.html


== Important Dates ==

Submission deadline: November 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2009
VaMoS workshop: January 27-29, 2010

== Venue ==

VaMoS will be hosted by the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea.


Steering Committee

Ulrich Eisenecker University of Leipzig, Germany
Patrick Heymans PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium
Andreas Metzger University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Kyo-Chul Kang Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea

General Chair

Kyo-Chul Kang Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea

Program co-chairs

Don Batory University of Texas, USA
David Benavides University of Seville, Spain

Organising Committee

Kim Lauenroth University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Kwanwoo Lee Hansung University, Korea

Program Committee

Vander Alves University of Brasilia, Brasil
Sven Apel University of Passau, Germany
Danilo Beuche Pure::Systems, Germany
Jürgen Börstler Umeå University, Sweden
Manfred Broy TU Munich, Germany
Goetz Botterweck LERO, Ireland
Oscar Díaz Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Alessandro Fantechi Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Italy
Anirüddhā Gokhālé Vanderbilt University, USA
Paul Gruenbacher Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
Øystein Haugen University of Oslo & SINTEF, Norway
Mei Hong Beijing University , China
Tomoji Kishi Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Stan Jarzabek National University of Singapore
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
Tomi Männistö Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Vicente Pelechano Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Antonio Ruiz-Cortés Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Camille Salinesi University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, France
Klaus Schmid University of Hildesheim, Germany
Doug Schmidt Vanderbilt University, USA
Steffen Thiel Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pim van den Broek University of Twente, The Netherlands
Frank van der Linden Philips, The Netherlands
Matthias Weber Carmeq GmbH, Germany
Jules White Vanderbilt University, USA