The workshop will be divided into sessions which will address the various workshop topics. During sessions, authors will have 15 minutes to present their work, followed by a 20 minute panel discussion, and 20 minutes for questions from the floor. Authors
will sit on two panels, one of which will be during their own session.
A short, open brainstorming session will conclude the workshop to encourage a free exchange of ideas.
A keynote talk will be given by Professor Joost Breuker who, with Bob Wielinga, founded the CommonKADS methodology for developing knowledge-based systems, and this experience has allowed Professor Breuker to gain significant understanding of problem abstractions and problem-solving methods.

Problem-Oriented Development(POD) is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of Software Engineering(SE) approaches that focus explicitly on the modelling and analysis of business problems(as opposed to their solutions). POD approaches facilitate formalisation and analysis of problems, provide effective tool
support for problem elicitation and analysis, and support the automated derivation
of requirements and solutions from problem models.
Past examples of POD research include empirical and scientific approaches to describing software problems or patterns to support knowledge reuse during problem analysis. Other approaches might, for example, focus on understanding why the current system does not meet organisational goals, on finding appropriate graphical representations for SE problems, or on identifying specific classes of SE problems.
POD approaches are, themselves, typically domain-independent, although they may
be geared towards certain classes of problem. For example, an approach may be
geared towards modelling problems involving transactional business processes, but
without considering the application domain of the processes themselves. Instead a
framework may be provided for formalising domain knowledge which may then be
incorporated into the approach.
POD 2009 will address topics related to POD including (but not limited to):
• Analysis of the fundamental structures of SE problems;
• Pattern languages and libraries to support problem analysis;
• Approaches, techniques and formalisms for modelling SE problems;
• Tool support for problem analysis;
• Mappings between problem patterns and design patterns;
• Techniques for transforming problem models to solution models;
• Future challenges facing POD.
We are interested in position papers arguing in favour of specific stances in relation
to workshop topics, vision papers arguing for research to take a specific direction, problem statements and experience reports. Papers may discuss both mature research and preliminary results or work in progress.

Check our website at http://poc-workshop.eu for further details.