GOALS & SCOPE
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In the frame of the CompArch 2014 conference, WCOP is organised as a
Doctoral Symposium for young researchers in the area of component
based software engineering, software architecture and software quality.
The doctoral symposium is aimed to give feedback from established
researchers to promising new ideas in the field of component-based
software engineering, software architecture and software quality to
young researchers in all phases of their Phd career. Therefore we
intentionally encourage PhD students, young Post-Doc researchers, and
junior academics to submit their proposal statements with potentially
unfinished and not yet validated ideas.


CompArch YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
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Each year, the CompArch Young Investigator Award may be given to an
outstanding paper accepted for WCOP and written by a PhD student(s).
The award includes a free registration to CompArch and the presentation
of the paper during the main CompArch program.


TOPICS
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Areas of interest are component based software engineering, software
architecture and software quality in general. More specifically, this
includes:
* software-services (as deployed components),
* specification and analysis of quality of service properties,
* predictable assembly of components / compositional reasoning,
* component-oriented development processes,
* traceability between architecture, components and code,
* components as a means to implement architectures,
* mobile and ubiquitous components for pervasive computer
applications,
* security and privacy of component based architectures,
* performance/efficiency and reliability of component-based systems,
* specification and analysis of component-based architectures,
* deployment attribution / constraints,
* COP and Model-driven Development (MDA),
* addressing variability requirements in component-based solutions,
* system design for independent extensibility,
* maintainability and evolution of component based systems,
* component versus application evolution,
* management of component based systems,
* domain-specific (vertical) standards,
* organizational and business aspects of components and software
architectures.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Submitted research proposals should not be longer than 6 pages in
double column ACM format. The submitted research proposal should
address motivation, idea, benefits and planned next steps as well as
related work and potential ideas of validation. It is well admitted,
if a proposal primarily aims at discussion than at the presentation
of solutions. Papers are to be submitted via the EasyChair conference
system.


PROCEEDINGS:
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Accepted proposals will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The
acceptance of a paper requires at least one author to register,
present and to participate during the discussions of the workshop.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA
Wolfgang Weck, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Eduardo Almeida (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
Steffen Becker (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Tomas Bures (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Jan Carlson (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Ian Gorton (Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA)
Lars Grunske (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jan Kofron (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Grace A. Lewis (Software Engineering Institute, USA)
John D. McGregor (Clemson University, USA)
Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Sven Overhage (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Heinz Schmidt (RMIT University, Australia)
Judith Stafford (Tufts University, USA)


MORE INFORMATION:
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http://wcop.ipd.kit.edu/wcop2014
http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/events/WCOP2014
http://www.comparch2014.eu