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1st International Workshop on Variability Support in
Information Systems (VarIS 2013)
http://www.pros.upv.es/varis2013

in conjunction with the

25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems
Engineering (CAiSE’13)
http://www.pros.upv.es/caise2013
Valencia, Spain, 17-21 June 2013
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The VarIS workshop will focus on variability issues in IS not
from an isolated point of view, but as an integrated part of a
development project. The overall goal of the workshop is to look
at variability issues in a wider perspective, trying to understand
not just the techniques and languages that allow capturing and
representing IS variability, but also to understand IS variability
including, for example, its drivers and economic implications.
VarIS will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry
needs, future trends, and practical experiences.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Feb 28, 2013: Paper Submission
Mar 25, 2013: Notification
Apr 08, 2013: Camera-ready
Jun 17, 2013: Workshop


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Managing variability in IS lifecycle:
- Requirements engineering for variability in IS
- Variability modelling (e.g., software and BP models, data models,
IS handbooks)
- Configuring IS artefacts to a particular application context
- Run-time adaptation of IS artefacts
- Evolution of IS artefacts
- Analysing and mining IS artefacts showing variability
- Merging IS artefacts to a configurable artefact

Understanding IS variability:
- Drivers of variability in IS (variability knowledge management)
- Economic impact of variability in IS
- Traceability of variability across different IS artefacts (e.g.,
requirements and software specifications, process models, test cases,
system documentation)
- Visualizing IS artefacts showing variability
- Impact of Variability on IS architectures

Variability in Industrial Practice:
- Case studies and experiments
- Experiences with actual implementations
- Tool and method support to enable variability in IS
- Understandability, maintainability, scalability, and usability of
IS modelling artefacts dealing with variability


PUBLISHING
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Accepted papers of VarIS workshop will be published in the joint
Springer LNBIP proceedings.


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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- Félix García (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
- Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm)
- Victoria Torres (Universitat Politècnica de València)


PC MEMBERS
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- Danilo Caivano, University of Bari, Italy
- Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Martin Eigner, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Joan Fons, Universidad Politécnica de Valenica, Spain
- Alena Hallerbach, Daimler TSS, Germany
- Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Jaejoon Lee, Lancaster University
- Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Mathias Lohrmann, KPMG, Germany
- Raúl Mazo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
- Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria
- Jürgen Münch, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Selmin Nurcan, Sorbonne Graduate Business School, France
- Vicente Pelechano, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Francisco Ruiz, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, University of Seville, Spain
- Lucineia Thom, University of Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Matthias Weske, University of Postdam, Germany